Saturday, August 24th
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Don Cherry (1936-1995, pocket trumpet), James “Blood” Ulmer (1940-, guitar), Rashied Ali (1933-2009, drums), New York, published 2008
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2024
Friday, August 16th
like nobody else
James Blood Ulmer (guitar, vocals) with Amin Ali (bass), Cornell Rochester (drums), live Berlin, 1981
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2012
Saturday, 4/28/12
James Blood Ulmer, “Are You Glad to Be in America?”
Live, 2008
Imagine this with bass and drums. Can’t? Me, neither. That’s one sign of a great solo performance: accompaniment is unimaginable.
2012
Friday, 3/9/12
Happy (82nd) Birthday, Ornette!
Ornette Coleman Quartet with guests Joshua Redman (tenor saxophone), James Blood Ulmer (guitar), Charlie Haden (bass), live, Netherlands (North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam), 2010
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radio
WKCR-FM (Columbia University): all Ornette, all day.
2011
Monday, 4/11/11
energy + delicacy = kinetic beauty
Rashied Ali, drums
Don Cherry, pocket trumpet
James Blood Ulmer, guitar
Live (TV broadcast, Sweden), 1978
Vodpod videos no longer available.
More Don Cherry? Here.
I interviewed Rashied in 2008 just before he died, and he showed me this clip on his Mac. He was psyched that it was up on YouTube.
—YouTube comment
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Paul Cezanne, Study of Trees (c. 1904)
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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