Released 1981 Genre Jazz Free Lancing
(1981) Black Rock
(1982) | Recorded 1981 Label Columbia | |
Producer Jim Fishel, Roger Trilling & James "Blood" Ulmer | ||
Free Lancing is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer recorded in 1981 and released on the Columbia label. It was Ulmer's first of three albums recorded for a major label.
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Reception
The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick awarded the album 4 stars and states "it's Ulmer's stinging guitar lines — rough-hewn, corrosive, and scrabbling — throughout this recording that make it one of his finest".
Trouser Press described both Free Lancing and the subsequent Black Rock 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)."
Track listing
All compositions by James Blood Ulmer- "Timeless" - 4:22
- "Pleasure Control" - 5:00
- "Night Lover" - 5:22
- "Where Did All the Girls Come From?" - 4:38
- "High Time" - 4:00
- "Hijack" -
- "Free Lancing" - 4:42
- "Stand Up to Yourself" - 4:37
- "Rush Hour" - 5:32
- "Happy Time" - 5:11