James Blood Ulmer Odyssey Trio at Blue LLama Jazz Club

James Blood Ulmer Odyssey stands as James Blood Ulmer’s signature masterpiece, the purest and most accessible showcase for his bold, genre-clashing guitar vision. With minimal trio accompaniment Ulmer’s guitar is always the meat of the ensemble, especially since his unique tuning allows him to cover bass parts as well as guitar leads. James Blood Ulmer´s Odyssey presents the myriad musical directions that its iconoclastic leader has pursued over the past half-century. A wide spectrum of free jazz, country-blues, psychedelic rock, slippery soul and sanctified funk, sometimes leading into sounds which even heavy metal fans would appreciate...

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James Blood Ulmer Odyssey stands as James Blood Ulmer’s signature masterpiece, the purest and most accessible showcase for his bold, genre-clashing guitar vision. With minimal trio accompaniment Ulmer’s guitar is always the meat of the ensemble, especially since his unique tuning allows him to cover bass parts as well as guitar leads. James Blood Ulmer´s Odyssey presents the myriad musical directions that its iconoclastic leader has pursued over the past half-century. A wide spectrum of free jazz, country-blues, psychedelic rock, slippery soul and sanctified funk, sometimes leading into sounds which even heavy metal fans would appreciate. James Blood Ulmer created a kind of universal language from the various dialects of music, a technical innovator and a sui generis genius he is.

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