James Blood Ulmer - Solos: The Jazz Sessions

James Blood Ulmer is one of the few guitarists to have forged a style based largely on the traditions of African-American vernacular music.

Ulmer is an adherent of saxophonist/composer Ornette Coleman's vaguely defined Harmelodic theory and plays with a stuttering, vocalic attack; his jagged lines speak with the authority of a free jazz improviser and the accent of a soul-jazz tenor...