- Odyssey the Band
Odyssey the Band (Corporate Name)
- Earlier heading: Odyssey Band
- Odyssey (Jazz group)
Reunion, p1998: label (Odyssey the band: Charlie Burnham, electric violin ; James Blood Ulmer, guitars and vocals ; Warren Benbrow [sic], drums)
Odyssey the Band. Back in time, p2005: label (Odyssey the Band) insert (Charlie Burnham, violin ; James "Blood" Ulmer, electric guitar and vocals ; Warren Benbow, drums)
Oxford music online, January 14, 2015: New Grove dict. of jazz, 2nd ed. (under Ulmer: from around 1983 he led Odyssey, a trio consisting of violin, electric guitar, and drums; under Burnham: James "Blood" Ulmer's trio Odyssey; Burnham remained with Odyssey until it disbanded in the late 1980s; in 1997 he instigated a reunion of Odyssey, which performed and recorded as a cooperative; under Benbow: James "Blood" Ulmer's group Odyssey, with which he recorded the albums Odyssey (1983) and Live at the Caravan of Dreams (1986); later he toured in a re-formed version of the group (1998))
OCLC database, January 14, 2015 (access points: Odyssey the band; Odyssey the Band; Live at the Caravan of Dreams comprises the three musicians named above, not identified as Odyssey, with Amin Ali, bass)
Pop Matters WWW site, January 14, 2015: article by Will Layman, March 5, 2006 (In 1983, electric guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer made an album for Columbia, Odyssey; the music of the Odyssey Band (Ulmer now calls it Odyssey the Band))
James Blood Ulmer WWW site, January 14, 2015: discography (Odyssey the Band: Odyssey (Columbia, 1981 [sic]); Part time live (Rough Trade, 1983); Reunion (Knitting Factory, 1997); Back in time (Pi Recordings, 2005); Blues Odyssey (A.R.M. unreleased)) projects (Odyssey: James Blood Ulmer, guitar, vocals; Charles Burnham, violin; Warren Benbow, drums)
TJD-Online, January 14, 2015 (under Ulmer: Odyssey the Band (Back in time); Odyssey and Part time list only the individual musicians)
AllMusic, January 14, 2015 (Odyssey Band; for albums Reunion and Back in time; usage: Odyssey the Band)