Our friend @culturaloffering breaks the sad news that pioneering guitarist James Blood Ulmer died.
If you were tuned into the emerging music scene of the 70’s and 80’s when the future of music appeared to be an exhilarating combination of funk, pioneering hip hop like that from DJ Kool Herc and Africa Bombaataa; and unconventional jazz, Ulmer’s name was one you passed around like a secret passcode to the club. Sorta like dropping Big Star into a conversation a block or two away from this scene.
I hadn’t thought of Ulmer for years and I’m kinda embarrassed to admit that. He left some good stuff behind. Dig in.
