No Wave (album) explained

No Wave
Type:Album
Artist:Music Revelation Ensemble
Cover:No Wave (album).jpg
Released:1980
Recorded:June 1980
Studio:Studio 57, Düsseldorf, West Germany
Genre:Jazz
Length:36:27
Label:Moers Music
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Producer:Burkhard Hennen
Chronology:Music Revelation Ensemble
Next Title:Music Revelation Ensemble
Next Year:1988

No Wave is the debut album by James Blood Ulmer's Music Revelation Ensemble, featuring saxophonist David Murray, bassist Amin Ali and drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, recorded in 1980 and released on the German Moers Music label.[1] [2] [3]

Critical reception

The New York Times called the album "more a free-form jam session than a program of tightly arranged compositions and is the least successful of the guitarist's recordings."[4] Trouser Press deemed it "Ulmer's most inaccessible work and his least focused."[5] Robert Christgau noted that, "when David Murray starts to blow on the one they call 'Baby Talk', and not even over one of Jackson-Ali's funkier beats, it's fun, and a revelation."

Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer

  1. "Time Table" – 10:00
  2. "Big Tree" – 8:45
  3. "Baby Talk" – 9:36
  4. "Sound Check" – 8:06

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.geocities.ws/rstubenrauch/Ulmer/Disko-ulmer.htm#14 James Blood Ulmer discography
  2. http://www.moers-music.com/catalog/overview.html Moers Music catalog
  3. http://go54321.tripod.com/dm/session2.html David Murray Sessionography: 1980-1984
  4. News: Palmer . Robert . A Very Special Guitarist . The New York Times . 4 Oct 1981 . A29.
  5. Web site: James Blood Ulmer . Trouser Press . 14 November 2023.