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Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

By Ben Watson

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2013
ISBN
1781681058, 9781781681053
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6154273 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
480\0
Time added
2014-05-02 17:49:54

Description

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.

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