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Free Lancing is an album by American guitarist James Blood Ulmer, recorded in 1981 and released on the Columbia label. It was Ulmer's first of three albums recorded for a major label.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Brian Olewnick stated that "it's Ulmer's stinging guitar lines — rough-hewn, corrosive, and scrabbling — throughout this recording that make it one of his finest".

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide

Trouser Press described both Free Lancing and the subsequent Black Rock as "technical masterpieces, making up in precision what they lack in emotion (as compared to Are You Glad to Be in America?). Working to expand his audience, Ulmer concentrates more on electric guitar flash, and actual melodies can be discerned from the improvised song structures (improvisation being one of the keys to harmolodics)."

Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer

"Timeless" – 4:22
"Pleasure Control" – 5:00
"Night Lover" – 5:22
"Where Did All the Girls Come From?" – 4:38
"High Time" – 4:00
"Hijack" –
"Free Lancing" – 4:42
"Stand Up to Yourself" – 4:37
"Rush Hour" – 5:32
"Happy Time" – 5:11

Personnel

James Blood Ulmer – electric guitar; vocals (tracks 2, 4 & 8)
Amin Ali – electric bass
G. Calvin Weston – drums
Ronnie Drayton – second guitar (2, 4 & 8)
Diane Wilson, Irene Datcher, Zenobia Konkerite – background vocals (2, 4 & 8)
David Murray – tenor saxophone (5, 6 & 9)
Oliver Lake – alto saxophone (5, 6 & 9)
Olu Dara – trumpet (5, 6 & 9)

References

James Blood Ulmer discography accessed January 12, 2018
^ Olewnick, B. AllMusic Review accessed July 9, 2010
Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 197. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
Margasak, Peter; Graham Flashner (2007). "James Blood Ulmer". Trouser Press. Trouser Press LLC. Retrieved July 28, 2010.

v t e James Blood Ulmer
Albums	Tales of Captain Black (1979) Are You Glad to Be in America? (1980) Free Lancing (1981) Black Rock (1982) Odyssey (1983) Part Time (1984) Live at the Caravan of Dreams (1986) America – Do You Remember the Love? (1987) Blues Allnight (1990) Revealing (1990) Black and Blues (1991) Blues Preacher (1993) Live at the Bayerischer Hof (1994) Music Speaks Louder than Words (1995) Harmolodic Guitar with Strings (1997) Reunion (1997) Forbidden Blues (1998) Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions (2001) Blue Blood (2001) No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions (2003) Back in Time (2005) Birthright (2005) Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions (2007) In and Out (2009)
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James Blood Ulmer

Albums

Tales of Captain Black (1979)
Are You Glad to Be in America? (1980)
Free Lancing (1981)
Black Rock (1982)
Odyssey (1983)
Part Time (1984)
Live at the Caravan of Dreams (1986)
America – Do You Remember the Love? (1987)
Blues Allnight (1990)
Revealing (1990)
Black and Blues (1991)
Blues Preacher (1993)
Live at the Bayerischer Hof (1994)
Music Speaks Louder than Words (1995)
Harmolodic Guitar with Strings (1997)
Reunion (1997)
Forbidden Blues (1998)
Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions (2001)
Blue Blood (2001)
No Escape from the Blues: The Electric Lady Sessions (2003)
Back in Time (2005)
Birthright (2005)
Bad Blood in the City: The Piety Street Sessions (2007)
In and Out (2009)

Phalanx

v t e David Murray
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release.
As leader or co-leader	Low Class Conspiracy (1976) Flowers for Albert (1976) Live at the Lower Manhattan Ocean Club (1977) Let the Music Take You (1978) Last of the Hipman (1978) Interboogieology (1978) 3D Family (1978) Sweet Lovely (1979) Solo Live (1980) Ming (1980) Home (1981) Murray's Steps (1982) Morning Song (1983) Live at Sweet Basil Volume 1 (1984) Live at Sweet Basil Volume 2 (1984) Children (1984) Sketches of Tokyo (with John Hicks, 1985) New Life (1985) I Want to Talk About You (1986) Recording N.Y.C. 1986 (1986) In Our Style (with Jack DeJohnette, 1986) The Hill (1986) Hope Scope (1987) The Healers (with Randy Weston, 1987) Lovers (1988) Deep River (1988) Ballads (1988) Spirituals (1988) Tenors (1988) Ming's Samba (1988) Lucky Four (1988) Daybreak (with Dave Burrell, 1989) Special Quartet (1990) Remembrances (1990) Shakill's Warrior (1991) David Murray Big Band (1991) David Murray/James Newton Quintet (1991) Black & Black (1991) In Concert (with Dave Burrell, 1991) Fast Life (1991) Ballads for Bass Clarinet (1991) Death of a Sideman (1991) Real Deal (1991) A Sanctuary Within (1991) South of the Border (1992) Picasso (1992) MX (1992) Body and Soul (1993) Brother to Brother (with Dave Burrell, 1993) Jazzosaurus Rex (1993) Saxmen (1993) For Aunt Louise (1993) Love and Sorrow (1993) Shakill's II (1993) Windward Passages (Black Saint) (with Dave Burrell, 1993) David Murray Quintet (1994) The Tip (1994) Jug-A-Lug (1994) Flowers Around Cleveland (1995) Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead (1996) Long Goodbye: A Tribute to Don Pullen (1996) Fo Deuk Revue (1996) Creole (1997) Speaking in Tongues (1997) Seasons (1998) Octet Plays Trane (1999) Like a Kiss that Never Ends (2000) Yonn-Dé (2001) Silence (with Mal Waldron, 2001) Now Is Another Time (2001–2) Waltz Again (2002) Gwotet (2003) Sacred Ground (2006) Plays Nat King Cole en Español (2010) Be My Monster Love (2012)
With James Blood Ulmer/ Music Revelation Ensemble	Are You Glad to Be in America? (1980) Free Lancing (1981) Music Revelation Ensemble (1988) Elec. Jazz (MRE, 1990) After Dark (MRE, 1991)
With the World Saxophone Quartet	Point of No Return (1977) Steppin' (1978) Live in Zurich (1981) W.S.Q. (1981) Revue (1982) Live at Brooklyn Academy of Music (1985) Plays Duke Ellington (1986) Dances and Ballads (1987) Rhythm and Blues (1988) Metamorphosis (1990) Breath of Life (1992) Moving Right Along (1993) Four Now (1995) Takin' It 2 the Next Level (1996) Selim Sivad: A Tribute to Miles Davis (1998) Requiem for Julius (1999) 25th Anniversary: The New Chapter (2000) Experience (2003) Political Blues (2006)
With others	Cold Sweat Plays J. B. (Craig Harris, 1988) Special Edition (Jack DeJohnette, 1979) Album Album (Jack DeJohnette, 1984) Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge (James Carter, 2001) The Jazzpar Prize (Pierre Dørge's New Jungle Orchestra, 1991) Love Outside of Dreams (Kahil El'Zabar, 1997) One World Family (Kahil El'Zabar, 2000) We Is (Kahil El'Zabar, 2000) Blues for Coltrane: A Tribute to John Coltrane (McCoy Tyner, 1984) 44th Street Suite (McCoy Tyner, 1991)
Soundtracks	Kansas City (1996)
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