Elec. Jazz | ||||
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Studio album by Music Revelation Ensemble | ||||
Released | 1990 | |||
Recorded | March 12 & 13, 1990 | |||
Studio | A&R Recording, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 50:16 | |||
Label | DIW DIW 839 | |||
Producer | James Blood Ulmer & Kazunori Sugiyama | |||
Music Revelation Ensemble chronology | ||||
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James Blood Ulmer chronology | ||||
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Elec. Jazz is an album by James Blood Ulmer's Music Revelation Ensemble recorded in 1990 and released on the Japanese DIW label featuring performances by Ulmer with David Murray, Amin Ali and Cornell Rochester. [1] [2] [3]
James "Blood" Ulmer is an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging". His singing has been called "raggedly soulful".
DIW Records is a Japanese record label specializing in avant-garde jazz. It is a subsidiary of Disk Union. Kazunori Sugiyama was an executive producer for the label before starting Tzadik Records with John Zorn.
David Murray is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s.
The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick states, "Essentially James "Blood" Ulmer's band, the Music Revelation Ensemble both harks back to his early recorded history with saxophonist David Murray and seeks to update the guitarist's unique fusion of funk, out jazz, and hardcore blues... Ulmer, of course, is sui generis, and his playing here, in all its raggedness, grit, and clarity, is arguably some of the best he ever put to disc. Forget the insipid album title. Elec. Jazz contains some fine, tough music and is well-worth seeking out". [4]
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All compositions by James Blood Ulmer
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