# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-blood-ulmer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:52:17.013Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-blood-ulmer"
name: "James Blood Ulmer"
slug: "james-blood-ulmer"
description: "Willie James \"Blood\" Ulmer was an American jazz, free funk and blues guitarist and singer. He played a Gibson Byrdland guitar. His guitar sound has been described as \"jagged\" and \"stinging\". An article by journalists Peter Margasak and Graham Flashner called Ulmer's singing \"raggedly soulful\"."
tagline: "American jazz and blues guitarist and singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Blood_Ulmer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1940-02-08"
deathDate: "2026-06-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           61.54
  momentum:             10
  historical:           14.993476
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1379365/"
    handle:    "nm1379365"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jamesbloodulmer.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B3_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "چيمس بلود ولمير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "جیمز بلاد اولمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ulmer"
    title: "James Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%A8%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1"
    title: "جیمز بلاد اولمر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%AB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ジェイムス・ブラッド・ウルマー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%81"
    title: "Алмер, Джеймс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blood_Ulmer"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a5209546-b1e8-449f-8b74-04ff88255f84"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q644768"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2719614"
    title: "James Blood Ulmer"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump