Music Revelation Ensemble

Burghausen 2003 - James "Blood" Ulmer g, v; Pharoah Sanders ts; Calvin Jones b; Cornel Rochester d

Review found at

http://www.jazzzeitung.de/jazz/2003/06/berichte-burghausen.shtml

[Zum Teil sehr unprofessionell verlief hingegen der Auftritt von James Blood Ulmers „Music Revelation Ensemble mit dem Gast-Saxophonisten Pharoah Sanders. Denn jedesmal wenn der Blues-Gitarrist Ulmer den Versuch unternimmt, Free Jazz zu spielen, wird es unangenehm und in der Wackerhalle wurde es besonders unangenehm. Laut, harmonisch einfallslos und mit seinem grob verzerrten Röhrenverstärker-Sound und seinen nicht exakt gegriffenen Akkorden immer irgendwo knapp daneben produzierte er sich in den ersten Nummern. Da war es schon fast eine Erlösung, als sein Verstärker den Geist aufgab und man Pharoah Sanders Virtuositäten, das variantenreiche Bassspiel von Calvin Jones sowie den treibenden Groove des Drummers Cornel Rochester für kurze Zeit ungestört genießen konnte. Der Meinung schienen auch große Teile des Publikums gewesen zu sein, denn die Halle leerte sich angesichts Ulmers Free-Jazz-Aktivitäten zunehmend. Dann aber, als James Blood Ulmer „Little Red Rooster auf der Gitarre und mit seiner schaurig schön dreckigen Bluesstimme zu intonieren begann, dann ging wieder die Sonne auf in der Wackerhalle. Hier war der Gitarrist in seinem Element und hier bewies er, warum er zu den Bekannteren seines Genre gerechnet wird.]

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[Partially very unprofessionally however the appearance ran of James Blood Ulmers „Music Revelation ensemble with the guest saxophonists Pharoah of Sanders. Because every time the Blues guitarist Ulmer undertakes the attempt to play Free jazz it becomes unpleasant - and in became particularly unpleasant it upright-resounds. Loud, harmoniously unimaginatively and with its roughly distorted sound of tube amplifier and its not accurately seized chords scarcely beside it he produced himself always somewhere in the first numbers. There it was already nearly a release, when its amplifier gave the spirit and one to Pharoah up of Sanders Virtuositäten, which could enjoy variant-rich bass play of Calvin Jones as well as the driving Groove of the Drummers Cornel smelling ester for short time unimpaired. The opinion seemed also large parts of the public to have been, because resounded emptied in view of Ulmers to Free jazz activities increasingly. Then however, when James Blood Ulmer „Little talk Rooster on the guitar and with its schaurig beautifully dirty Bluesstimme to intonieren began, then again the sun went on in upright-resounds. Here the guitarist was in his element and proved here he, why he is counted to the more well-known ones its category.]

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[tonyfreejazz20]

Yeah...Pharoah still has it :-)

[MalesCantMarryMales]

im probably gonna get hated on here but i just never could get jazz. i mean to me it just seems way way way too off beat. it seems like he almost has some good licks trying to get out but...i dont know its just to weird for me.

[corprob]

now is he playing in standard tuning here? cause it doesnt sound like his unison tuning

[meckerschorsch]

Jazz is the teacher, funk is the preacher

Music speaks louder than words

[mrmctom]

WOW. This is great... thanks for posting!

[BibilicaCriminalul]

excellent stuff

[arttu321]

"Loud, harmoniously unimaginatively and with its roughly distorted sound of tube amplifier and..." - haha! :D