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.James Blood Ulmer discography accessed January 12, 2018Moers Music catalog accessed January 12, 2018David Murray Sessionography: 1980-1984, accessed January 12, 2018
Critical reception
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." Trouser Press deemed it "Ulmer's most inaccessible work and his least focused." 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."
Track listing All compositions by James Blood Ulmer "Time Table" – 10:00 "Big Tree" – 8:45 "Baby Talk" – 9:36 "Sound Check" – 8:06
Personnel James Blood Ulmer – guitar David Murray – tenor saxophone Amin Ali – electric bass Ronald Shannon Jackson – drums, percussion
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