''Part Time'' is a live album by the guitarist

James Blood Ulmer James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 8, 1940) is an American jazz, free funk and blues music, blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer plays a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging". His singing has been ...

with the violinist Charlie Burnham and the drummer Warren Benbrow, recorded at the

Montreux Jazz Festival The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline. It is the second-largest annu ...

in 1983 and released on the Rough Trade label.James Blood Ulmer discography
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Reception

Robert Christgau Robert Thomas Christgau ( ; born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist. Among the most influential music critics, he began his career in the late 1960s as one of the earliest professional rock critics and later became a ...

wrote: "Cut at Montreux around the time of ''Odyssey'', Ulmer's strongest LP, this repeats four titles and is close to his weakest. The live recording dulls his sonic concept ... Which isn't to say he doesn't still outrock Pat Metheny"Christgau, R
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Track listing

All compositions by James Blood Ulmer # "Part Time" – 4:55 # "Little Red House" – 5:40 # "Love Dance" – 6:39 # "Encore" – 2:59 # "Are You Glad to Be in America?" – 3:38 # "Swings & Things" – 3:27 # "Mr. Tight Hat" – 5:03

Personnel

– guitar, vocals * Charles Burnham – violin * Warren Benbow – drums

References

{{authority control 1984 live albums Rough Trade Records live albums James Blood Ulmer live albums