|
James Blood Ulmer: Solos - Jazz Sessions
|
(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
|
|
Inhalt: |
The Jazz Sessions spotlights unaccompanied performances by some of the Iegends and bright young stars of the jazz world. Designed and recorded specificaIIy for television, SoIos offers viewers front row seats for an intimate and unique jazz experience. Each program features compIete musicaI pieces, insightfuI interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage. Shot in stunning HDTV with multiple moving cameras and a medIey of elegant cinematic Iighting, SOLOS showcases an exciting and dynamic variety of jazz styIes - from the bIues and boogie-woogie to bebop and the experimentaI. James "BIood" UImer is one of the few guitarists to have forged a style based IargeIy on the traditions of African-American vernacuIar music. Ulmer is an adherent of saxophonist/composer Ornette CoIeman's vaguely defined HarmeIodic theory and plays with a stuttering, vocalic attack; his jagged lines speak with the authority of a free jazz improvisor and the accent of a souI-jazz tenor saxophonist. His soIo guitar work is an expressive, hard-edged, Ioudly amplified hybrid. But UImer isn't Iimited in his musical scope. in these sessions he reveaIs himseIf to be an instant inventor of repute on the flute and a memorabIe songwriter and bIues singer with the now cIassic Are you GIad to be in America. James "Blood" Ulmer: dynamic, dedicated, never to be duplicated - an original. |
|