Rent Jazz Sessions: James Blood Ulmer (2010)

Part of the 39-part Jazz Sessions music profile/performance television series, this episode focuses on the work of American jazz/blues guitarist James 'Blood' Ulmer. One of the few guitarists to have forged a style based primarily on the traditions of African-American vernacular music, Ulmer's solo guitar work is an expressive, hard-edged and resolutely original hybrid. But Ulmer is not limited to the constraints of the guitar; in this programme he also reveals himself to be a talented flautist as well as a memorable songwriter and blues vocalist.