Celebrating Willie James “Blood” Ulmer (February 8, 1940), an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist born in St. Matthews, South Carolina. His guitar sound has been described as “jagged” and “stinging”. He played with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Joe Henderson, Paul Bley, and toured extensively with Ornette Coleman.
I'm an expatriate Memphis musician and an instructor at a private music college in Minnesota. I find a greater clarity in my appreciation for music from Memphis and the Mississippi Delta region, now that I've lived away from it for decades, than when I was growing up in the midst of it.
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