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Cross Fire (album)

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Released
  
1997

Artist
  
Music Revelation Ensemble

Label
  
DIW Records

Length
  
53:03

Release date
  
1997

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
December 17 & 18, 1996 Avatar Studios, New York City

Producer
  
James Blood Ulmer & Kazunori Sugiyama

Similar
  
Knights of Power, Music Revelation Ensemble, In the Name of, After Dark

Cross Fire is an album by James Blood Ulmer's Music Revelation Ensemble, with guest saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and John Zorn, recorded in 1996 and released on the Japanese DIW label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Don Snowden awarded the album 4 stars stating "Music Revelation Ensemble seems to be the context that Blood Ulmer reserves his strongest melodies for, and he plays with the kind of fire and invention that made him a major figure. Cross Fire probably isn't the best place to plunge in and explore the music, but it's a very worthy addition to the catalog".

Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer

  1. "Law" – 5:36
  2. "Suspect" – 7:10
  3. "Devotion" – 4:30
  4. "Sweet" – 5:18
  5. "Proof" – 6:36
  6. "My Prayer" – 9:14
  7. "Evidence" – 7:59
  8. "Backbeat" – 6:40

Personnel

  • James Blood Ulmer – guitar
  • Calvin "Hassan Truth" Jones – acoustic bass
  • Cornell Rochester – drums
  • John Zorn – alto saxophone (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 8)
  • Pharoah Sanders – tenor saxophone (tracks 2, 4, 6 & 7)

    • Songs

    1Law5:36
    2Suspect7:10
    3Devotion4:30

    References

    Cross Fire (album) Wikipedia
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