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Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
And the Story of Free Improvisation
- 480 pages
- English
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About this book
This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 1960s, he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract form of music. Today his anti-idiom of "Free Improvisation" has become the lingua franca of the "avant" scene, with Pat Metheny, John Zorn, David Sylvian and Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore among his admirers.
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Music BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Introduction: On Freedom
- A Textual Note
- 1 Child and Teenager, 1930–1951
- 2 Working Guitarist, 1950–1963
- 3 Joseph Holbrooke Trio, 1963–1966
- 4 Soloism and Freedom, 1966–1977
- 5 Company Weeks, 1977–1994
- 6 Improv International
- Conclusion: On Improvisation
- Appendix 1: A Derek Bailey Discography
- Appendix 2: An Incus Discography
- Appendix 3: Derek Bailey’s Complete Invisible Jukebox
- Books Cited
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