Hi Andrew, Wednesday, January 14, 2004, 5:22:13 PM, you wrote: SAM> James Blood Ulmer - just wondering what the Zorn listers think of him. SAM> What I've heard hasn't really grabbed me. SAM> I have him on a Big John Patton album. Really quite boring. Really? I think that Big John Patton was overlooked. Thanks Zorn that he helped Patton during his last years. I had a chance to see the man live just once and it was incredible. (Too bad I didn't know about his probably last sets ever in Smoke which is in one block from the place I lived at that time.) Anyway, I don't think that his albums with Ulmer are the greatest but definitely not boring. SAM> I had a friend who saw him live & he said it was just crap, people were SAM> walking out. Well, if you believe that I guess you don't need to look for his music. In fact the majority of people all over the world would walk out from the shows people on this list might consider as the great ones. So what? SAM> He wasn't doing noise either, it was 'jazz/blues'. Was it recently? Ulmer plays blues these days. And, believe me, he does it very well to say the least. SAM> I'd much rather listen to Grant Green, Wes Montgomery, Ribot, etc.... I don't get it. If you'd rather listen to somebody else, why do you ask? Are you looking for a confirmation that Ulmer's music is crap? SAM> what does everyone think? I don't care so much for his harmolodic stuff, but the newest two blues albums with Vernon Reid are very strong. The first one (Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions) even got a Grammy. I'm not sure though that it is better than No Escape From The Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions. -- All the best, Peter Gannushkin URL: http://downtownmusic.net/