flw wrote:james blood ulmer - tales of captain black, black rock
think he even played with o. coleman in the 70s
Blood Ulmer can be great.
Odyssey and Are You Glad to Be in America? are my two favorites of his records. Odyssey is really great. Wonderful, soulful record.
Music Revelation Ensemble's No Wave is good. Haven't heard the other MRE records.
He played w/Ornette, but he didn't record with him much--some live stuff and Tales of Capt. Black is about it, I think.
Ulmer made a couple records w/Arthur Blythe, including Lenox Avenue Breakdown, which is very good.
I would like to hear some of his newer stuff sometime.
I haven't gone wrong w/Keiji Haino, incidentally, as mentioned by A. Jung. I haven't bought one of his records for years, but that is b/c I have maybe ten records with his playing on them, and that seems like enough. The double-live Fushitsusha on PSF seems to be the accepted gold standard of Japanese psych-rock, though it's beyond being 'psych-rock' anyway.
I don't know if it's 'free' exactly, but Pete Cosey's guitar playing on Miles Davis' Agharta is where it's at for stun guitar on a nominally jazz record.
I have mentioned this before, but there's 30s of mounting wah shit on side 1 of Agharta that is my favorite electric guitar of all times. It is godlike.