''Harmolodic Guitar with Strings'' is an album by American guitarist

James Blood Ulmer James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 8, 1940) 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 "ragge ...

recorded in 1993 and released on the Japanese DIW label.James Blood Ulmer discography
accessed July 16, 2010 The album features Ulmer on guitar with the Indigo

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performing compositions which expand on

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's theory of

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Reception

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4½ stars, and stated, "Throughout the disc there are surprises and long passages of breathtaking beauty. Ulmer's sound and his approach to notational composition are in line with the most inventive of modern composers. His methodology and musical system may be different and uninterested in academic squabbling about harmony and rhythm, but that's ok — he learned a long time ago that if you don't like the way something works musically all you have to do is make up your own musical system. The European academes have nothing on the soulful, sophisticated musicality presented here".Jurek, T.

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accessed July 16, 2010

Track listing

:''All compositions by James Blood Ulmer'' # "Opening" - 1:02 # "Arena: Church" - 2:29 # "Arena: Seven Gates" - 0:43 # "Arena: Arena" - 3:38 # "Arena: Lights Out" - 1:43 # "Arena: Church II" - 2:24 # "Arena: Arena II" - 3:03 # "Page One: In the Name of..." - 2:42 # "Page One: Page One" - 1:42 # "Page One: Blood and John" - 3:11 # "Page One: Page One II" - 0:39 # "Page One: Grand Finale" - 1:35 # "Maya" - 10:35 # "Black Sheep: Prologue" - 0:33 # "Black Sheep: By-Pass" - 1:53 # "Black Sheep: Caretaker" - 1:54 # "Black Sheep: Lost One" - 1:41 # "Black Sheep: Black Sheep" - 1:03 # "Black Sheep: Epilogue" - 0:42 # "Theme From Captain Black" - 7:57 :*Recorded at Eastside Sound, NYC on June, 29, July 9 and July 18, 1993

Personnel

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

* Gayle Dixon -

first violin The concertmaster (from the German ''Konzertmeister''), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (or clarinet in a concert band). After the conductor, the concertmaster is the second-most signifi ...

* John Blake - second violin * Ron Lawrence -

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

* Akua Dixon Turre -

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

References

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