No Wave (album)

No Wave
Studio album by
Music Revelation Ensemble
Released1980
RecordedJune 1980
StudioStudio 57, Düsseldorf, West Germany
GenreJazz
Length36:27
LabelMoers Music
momu 01072
ProducerBurkhard Hennen
Music Revelation Ensemble chronology
No Wave
(1980) 		Music Revelation Ensemble
(1988)
James Blood Ulmer chronology
Are You Glad to Be in America?
(1980) 		No Wave
(1980) 		Free Lancing
(1981)

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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Robert ChristgauB+[5]

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."[6] Trouser Press deemed it "Ulmer's most inaccessible work and his least focused."[7] 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."[5]

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

References

  1. ^ James Blood Ulmer discography accessed January 12, 2018
  2. ^ Moers Music catalog Archived 2009-02-20 at the Wayback Machine accessed January 12, 2018
  3. ^ David Murray Sessionography: 1980-1984, accessed January 12, 2018
  4. ^ Music Revelation Ensemble – No Wave > Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 12, 2018.
  5. ^ a b "Music Revelation Ensemble". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  6. ^ Palmer, Robert (4 Oct 1981). "A Very Special Guitarist". The New York Times. p. A29.
  7. ^ "James Blood Ulmer". Trouser Press. Retrieved 14 November 2023.