Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026) #Jazz #Blues #JazzSky #VinylRecords

Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026) I also have a signed copy of “Are You Glad to Be in America” #Jazz #SkyJazz #VinylRecord @discogsofficial.bsky.social

Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026) I also have a signed copy of “Are You Glad to Be in America” #Jazz #SkyJazz #VinylRecord @discogsofficial.bsky.social

'bout time the Oakland Museum recognized the greatness of Mildred Howard. I said for decades that she deserves a retrospective there. If they do one for Oliver Jackson next they will have really turned over a new leaf. I've had the honor of visiting her studio when it was in Berkeley many years ago.

Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026) #Jazz #Blues #JazzSky #VinylRecords

Have you seen this before? It's from Manhattan Magazine Vol. 1 No. 1: A Night-Club Map of Harlem, a cartoon map that provides a nightlife guide to Harlem, from January 18, 1933 by Elmer Simms Campbell. It's from the National Museum of African American History & Culture nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...

Okay, you’ve got my attention 😎 #Harlem #cinema #Film

James Blood Ulmer (8 February 1940–3 June 2026) The US jazz, blues, rock and funk guitarist has died aged 86. As a tribute we have made Steve Holtje’s May 1998 interview and profile from The Wire 171 free to read in our online archive. www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/t...

Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026) ..still ruminating about Blood's unique musical journey. Steeped in gospel, organ trios, funk, harmolodic free improv, delta blues...His guitar sound resting somewhere between Wes Montgomery & Hendrix but birthed after both. So amazing.

Blasting this one out in Blood's honour

Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026)

RIP James Blood Ulmer He is one of my musical heroes. My first published article was about him and his work. Check it out here: oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

This blew my mind. Some of the largest data centers can require up to 5 million gallons of water per day, equivalent to the water use of 50,000 people. Why are we selling out the survival of our planet to enrich a handful of Big Tech CEOs?

Excellent article on the late great guitar genius James Blood Ulmer. Written by @melvingibbs.bsky.social in 2019 the title cuts to the chase about what initially attracted me to Blood in the early 80s…its “…internal African logic…” #Jazz #Blues #Afriscape

#JamesBloodUlmer #JazzSky Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026)

My favorite guitarist! I seen him perform live 4 times. The first time was the year that "Freelancing" and "Black Rock" was released. I shot this photograph at the second concert that I heard him perform at in Berkeley California. I just found out that he joined the ancestors on June 3rd,2026. 😥

Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026)

Juma's Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society "AMS" from "Whispers From The Archive" (Porter 2012) Bass, Percussion – Juma Sultan GUITAR – JAMES "BLOOD" ULMER Oboe – Ali Abuwi Percussion – Harold E. Smith Piano – Kasa Allah Saxophone – Art Bennett Live NYC Feb 1978 www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopt...

#JamesBloodUlmer #JazzSky Willie James "Blood" Ulmer (February 8, 1940 – June 3, 2026)

My favorite guitarist! I seen him perform live 4 times. The first time was the year that "Freelancing" and "Black Rock" was released. I shot this photograph at the second concert that I heard him perform at in Berkeley California. I just found out that he joined the ancestors on June 3rd,2026. 😥

'bout time the Oakland Museum recognized the greatness of Mildred Howard. I said for decades that she deserves a retrospective there. If they do one for Oliver Jackson next they will have really turned over a new leaf. I've had the honor of visiting her studio when it was in Berkeley many years ago.

I buy vinyl records for different reasons. Sometimes I’m just fascinated by the images on the cover. There’s a certain period when the photo lithography on some album covers was uniquely vibrant and beautiful. This is one from 1959 in remarkably good condition. #JazzSky #Jazz #VinylRecord

I buy vinyl records for different reasons. Sometimes I’m just fascinated by the images on the cover. There’s a certain period when the photo lithography on some album covers was uniquely vibrant and beautiful. This is one from 1959 in remarkably good condition. #JazzSky #Jazz #VinylRecord

good morning... elmo & bertha hope YESTERDAYS youtu.be/o6gThBtFJww?...

sonny rollins interview with ben sidran on his come up... youtu.be/s6qIzZmOw_g?...

Trilogue (Albert Mangelsdorff, Jaco Pastorius, Alphonse Mouzon) - Live at Berlin Jazz Days, Berlin Philharmonie, 6 November 1976 www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3i4...

Beautiful solo and duet piano session by Elmo and Bertha Hope released on the Riverside label in 1962. #JazzSky #Piano #VinylRecord #Jazz

Beautiful solo and duet piano session by Elmo and Bertha Hope released on the Riverside label in 1962. #JazzSky #Piano #VinylRecord #Jazz

My photograph of Miles Davis at the Concord Pavilion, Concord California. Saturday, August 16th 1986 @milestones-archive.bsky.social #JazzSkye #Miles100

#Art #VisualCulture #Afriscape

#Jazz #VinylRecord

“Sweet Love,Bitter” a 1971 reissue LP of the 1967 soundtrack album by Mal Waldron on the Impulse label. On the turntable now. Masterful atmospheric hardbop from an extremely versatile and subtle composer/pianist. #JazzSky #VinylRecord #Jazz

Sublime recording. My copy is the OG pressed in Holland. It’s the only version with this alternate photo of Cannonball by Chuck Stewart on the cover. #VinylRecord #JazzSky #Jazz

Sublime recording. My copy is the OG pressed in Holland. It’s the only version with this alternate photo of Cannonball by Chuck Stewart on the cover. #VinylRecord #JazzSky #Jazz

Grachan Moncur III was born on this day June 3, 1937. The trombonist's two remarkable 1960s Blue Note albums move between post-bop & the avant-garde yet exist in a realm of their own. "Evolution" bluenote.lnk.to/GrachanMoncu... "Some Other Stuff" bluenote.lnk.to/GrachanMoncu...

Born on this day in 1972. Happy 54th birthday to the great Christian McBride! open.substack.com/pub/allthing...

Let us not forget that this perennially ingenious grand dame of hoodoo aesthetics will have graced us with a century of her presence here on this physical plane in approximately one month on July 30th, 2026. Her art is rare and refined in ways that defy words. Can't wait to celebrate her in July!

I still think that "Soldier" starring Kurt Russell may be one of the greatest B movies of all time. Russell utters less than a page of dialogue throughout the entire movie, yet "Soldier" delivers a gut punch of social commentary about the military industrial complex. #BMovieManiacs

All the real headz need to read Melvin Gibbs new book and pay attention to the discourse surrounding what he says therein. The tension that Amiri Baraka described in his iconoclastic 1963 essay "Jazz and the White Critic" is still in affect to this day. #jazz #JazzSky

All the real headz need to read Melvin Gibbs new book and pay attention to the discourse surrounding what he says therein. The tension that Amiri Baraka described in his iconoclastic 1963 essay "Jazz and the White Critic" is still in affect to this day. #jazz #JazzSky

I still think that "Soldier" starring Kurt Russell may be one of the greatest B movies of all time. Russell utters less than a page of dialogue throughout the entire movie, yet "Soldier" delivers a gut punch of social commentary about the military industrial complex. #BMovieManiacs

The elegance of Milt Jackson with Quincy Jones circa 1959. #jazzSky #Jazz #VinylRecord

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The mural project honouring the Black cultural heritage of Rio de Janeiro – photo essay www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #Blacksky

Red man, 1981 https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5031

Let us not forget that this perennially ingenious grand dame of hoodoo aesthetics will have graced us with a century of her presence here on this physical plane in approximately one month on July 30th, 2026. Her art is rare and refined in ways that defy words. Can't wait to celebrate her in July!