No Wave (album)
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| Released | 1980 | |||
| Recorded | June 1980 | |||
| Studio | Studio 57, Düsseldorf, West Germany | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde jazz | |||
| Length | 36:27 | |||
| Label | Moers Music momu 01072 | |||
| Producer | Burkhard Hennen | |||
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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]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| Robert Christgau | B+[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]