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James Blood Ulmer: Ace, Brixton, London

Mick Brown, The Guardian, 9 July 1983

A PROTÉGÉ of Ornette Coleman and disciple of Coleman's theory of harmolodics — a musical system of such devious complexity that possible only Coleman and he understand it — James "Blood" Ulmer began this performance in characteristically bemusing fashion.

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