Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Ben Watson, "Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1781681058 | EPUB | pages: 459 | 5.9 mb
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1781681058 | EPUB | pages: 459 | 5.9 mb
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 recordsession 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.