Black Rock
Studio album by
James Blood Ulmer
Released1982
Recorded1982
GenreJazz
LabelColumbia
ProducerJames Blood Ulmer
James Blood Ulmer chronology
Free Lancing
(1981)		 Black Rock
(1982)		 Odyssey
(1983)

Black Rock is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer, recorded in 1982 and released on the Columbia label.[1] It was Ulmer's second of three albums recorded for a major label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated: "Black Rock is among Blood's strongest records. As tough as Are You Glad to Be in America? and the Music Revelation Ensemble's No Wave, yet more accessible than either. This is a fitting introduction to Blood Ulmer's unique, knotty, and truly original guitar and composition style. Black Rock is all funk, rock, jazz, and punk, indivisible and under a one world groove".[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

Trouser Press described both Black Rock and the previous Free Lancing as "technical masterpieces, making up in precision what they lack in emotion (as compared to Are You Glad to Be in America?). Working to expand his audience, Ulmer concentrates more on electric guitar flash, and actual melodies can be discerned from the improvised song structures (improvisation being one of the keys to harmolodics)."[4]

Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer except as indicated
  1. "Open House" – 5:21
  2. "Black Rock" – 3:23
  3. "Moonbeam" – 5:11
  4. "Family Affair" (Ulmer, Irene Datcher) – 7:26
  5. "More Blood" – 4:43
  6. "Love Have Two Faces" – 5:29
  7. "Overnight" – 3:26
  8. "Fun House" (Ulmer, Grant Calvin Weston) – 4:53
  9. "We Bop" – 2:58

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ James Blood Ulmer discography Archived 2009-11-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed July 12, 2010
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. AllMusic Review accessed July 12, 2010
  3. ↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 197. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ↑ Margasak, Peter; Graham Flashner (2007). "James Blood Ulmer". Trouser Press. Trouser Press LLC. Retrieved July 28, 2010.
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