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 Derek Bailey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Derek Bailey (January 29, 1930 - December 25, 2005) was a free improvising avant garde guitarist.
Bailey argued that his approach to music making was actually far more orthodox than performers such as Keith Rowe of the improvising collective AMM, who treats the guitar purely as a 'sound source' rather than as a musical instrument.
For listeners unfamiliar with experimental musics, Bailey's distinctive style can be initally quite difficult.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Bailey   (1365 words)

  
 Derek Bailey; guitarist and master of improvisation; 75 The San Diego Union-Tribune
Derek Bailey; guitarist and master of improvisation; 75
Derek Bailey; guitarist and master of improvisation; 75
Bailey's most celebrated albums were made in the last decade for Avant and Tzadik, the New York saxophonist John Zorn& labels.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051231/news_1m31bailey.html   (784 words)

  
 Derek Bailey
And Bailey takes pains in the liner notes to point out that this is not music made to dance to but a collaboration of partners bobbing and weaving together.
But that'd be a bit too glib a description of the man who's done for (and to) the guitar what jazz giant Cecil Taylor did for piano.
In the mid '60s, well into a career as an in-demand session player, Bailey loosened the shackles of tonality, time, texture, and tune to begin an exclusive relationship with freely improvised music, establishing a beautiful barnyard vocabulary of his own.
http://www.worcesterphoenix.com/archive/music/97/07/18/DEREK_BAILEY.html   (719 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation: Books
Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance-band and record-session guitarist when, in the early 60s he began playing an uncompromisingly abstract music.
Bailey's distrust of recorded music is genuinely provocative.
Derek Bailey & the Story of Free Improvisation lifts the lid on an artistic ferment, which has defied every known law of the music business.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844670031   (864 words)

  
 CMT.com : Derek Bailey : Biography
Also that year, Bailey started (with Parker and Oxley) the Incus record label, for which he would continue to record into the '90s.
Bailey's guitar is much like John Cage's prepared piano; both innovations enhanced the respective instrument's percussive possibilities.
As a youngster living in Sheffield in the '40s, Bailey studied music with C.H.C. Biltcliffe and guitar with George Wing and John Duarte.
http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/bailey_derek/bio.jhtml   (662 words)

  
 SFBG Arts and Entertainment
Derek Bailey -- who's made an enormous contribution to improvised music -- is still focused on the road ahead.
Bailey wasn't drawn to his own "free" music by any of its sociopolitical ramifications.
Bailey holds the audience captive for an hour with just his acoustic guitar.
http://www.sfbg.com/AandE/31/19/feature3.html   (1228 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Obituaries Derek Bailey
Bailey once described his friend John Zorn, the American avant-garde composer and improviser, as "a Diaghilev of contemporary music" for his catalytic influence.
Yet for all that raw-noise energy, Bailey continued to be a delicate acoustic improviser, often unaccompanied or in duets.
Singlemindedly devoted to unpremeditated improvisation, Bailey published a book on the subject in 1980 called Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1674695,00.html   (1225 words)

  
 Derek Bailey : Features : One Final Note
Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation is invaluable for the way in which Watson situates Bailey's conception and musicality within the worldwide jazz, classical, and pop scenes of the past 40-odd years.
Bailey's sometime perverse music and Free Improvisation itself are precious and memorable for another reason.
Bailey recorded and released the resulting either spectacular or disappointing admixtures on Incus.
http://www.onefinalnote.com/features/2004/bailey   (1785 words)

  
 Derek Bailey - Banter: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com
Bailey, of course, is fine to listen to in almost any context, and one has the sneaking suspicion that he sometimes doesn't particularly care who his partners are (if they're not offering much resistance, anyway) and happily proceeds to play in an accommodating manner if not an inspired one.
Derek Bailey - Banter: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
Derek Bailey - Banter: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
http://www.music.com/release/banter/1   (352 words)

  
 Night After Night: Derek Bailey, 1930-2005.
Bailey combined a workmanlike ethic honed in British dance bands with a cussed revolutionary streak; the music he and early peers such as John Stevens, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Gavin Bryars created was the sound of spontaneous creation, unregulated by notions of structure or genre.
Bailey's final decade of recording presented evidence of a renewed appreciation of formal structure, certainly in a solo setting -- Drop Me Off at 96th (Scatter, 1995, out of print), for me the greatest of Bailey's solo albums, is as deftly balanced in terms of its weights and valences as any through-composed symphony.
A substantial portion of Bailey's activity, and that of his peers, was documented by Incus, the hardy little cottage label he founded with Parker and Oxley (of which he later became sole proprietor); many of those aforementioned later encounters, equally important, were captured on John Zorn's labels Avant and Tzadik.
http://nightafternight.blogs.com/night_after_night/2005/12/derek_bailey_19.html   (1518 words)

  
 Habits of Waste - On the Other Hand: Derek Bailey
There Bailey's range of interest is reflected in his interviews with musicians about the role of improvisation not only in free improvisation, but in straight jazz, Indian classical music, rock, flamenco, baroque and classical church organ music.
Bailey's been committed to playing his style of music for over 35 years, with back catalog of at least 100 releases.
After all, Bailey points out, the first music produced anywhere in the world would necessarily have to be improvised, a raw musical impulse that precedes the later development of conventions and genres.
http://www.habitsofwaste.wwu.edu/issues/1/iss1art5.shtml   (3042 words)

  
 Derek Bailey: Squidco
Derek Bailey is one of the most enigmatic figures free improvisation has produced.
As is the case with many of his releases, Bailey consistently amazes the listener both with his extraordinary ability to coax sounds from his guitar that may have never before been heard or imagined and, more importantly, his unerring sense of exactly when to utilize those sounds.
A first meeting with Bailey, in London in February 2001, opened the doors to a new conception of improvisation and allowed him to discover a musical scene that was incredibly diverse and open.
http://www.squidco.com/c.cgi?c=BAILEY   (1847 words)

  
 Derek Bailey
A third generation musician, Derek Bailey began his study of music and the guitar at the age of ten.
In 1966 Bailey moved to London and kept busy throughout the remainder of the decade with several different improvisational collectives, including The Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Tony Oxley's sextet.
In 1952 he began his career as a professional musician - primarily in the context of commercial music, performing sessions for recorded media, television, radio and as an orchestra member.
http://www.nndb.com/people/023/000044888   (295 words)

  
 BBC - Experimental Review - Derek Bailey, New Sights, Old Sounds Solo Live
Bailey has finally acquired the rights to release them, having been trying for at least a decade, which may be an indication of how he feels about this music.
Last Autumn, when I interviewed Derek Bailey, he told me that he thought solo guitar playing was a second rate activity compared to playing with people, and that he preferred releasing newly recorded music to stuff from the archives.
They provide an interesting contrast, one that goes beyond his using acoustic guitar in the studio and electric guitar live.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/reviews/baileyderek_newsights.shtml   (554 words)

  
 Dacapo Books
Derek Bailey’s Improvisation, originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new interviews and photographs, is the first book to deal with the nature of improvisation in all its forms—Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music, rock, jazz, contemporary, and ”free” music.
Like Bailey’s music, Improvisation is suggestive and contingent rather than a statement of certainties.
Because of its breadth, it is essential reading not only for listeners and players of improvised music, but for aficionados of all types of music.&;
http://www.perseusbooksgroup.com/dacapo/book_detail.jsp?isbn=0306805286   (243 words)

  
 <bd> Derek Bailey - Ballads
Derek Bailey is a master of creating sound from a guitar.
Bailey says, “It was Zorn’s idea.” John Zorn and his Tzadik record label deserve much credit then.
They are part of an evolving music placing no more relative value on any particular forms.
http://www.bluedark.com/reviews/Derek_Bailey--Ballads.htm   (472 words)

  
 Corti 10
Many if not most of Derek Bailey's fans (I was going to write "hardcore fans," but aren't we all?) will be surprised at the existence of these extremely early solo recordings, originally issued by Incus back in 1973.
Indeed, it is quite a leap from the small, pointillistic "miniatures" heard on Derek's first solo record, Incus 2 (1971), (revolutionary as that record was and is), to the full-throttle tours de force of continuous invention unleashed here, two years later.
This long-overdue reissue of the Incus TAPS onto CD fills a major hole in the recorded catalogue of Derek's work and captures (now forever) a sadly under documented early period in the development of one of the most original, total reinventions of a major musical instrument of this century.
http://www.cortical.org/spores/Corti10.html   (370 words)

  
 Derek Bailey : Duos, London 2001 - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
As for Bailey, if his playing is supposedly about not listening and not reacting to the other guy, he then can be said to be doing a brilliant imitation of listening and reacting here.
"With Julian Kytasty" is the sole track where Bailey takes out his acoustic guitar, and it is a performance of great beauty.
Kytasty's playing recalls the twisted yet distinctly stringy creations of improvisers on "prepared" guitar, cello, piano, and so forth, so the resulting vocabulary can hardly be considered far afield from the normal sounds of improvised music, if such a description can be taken seriously.
http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,1726053,00.html   (934 words)

  
 John Cage - "Cheap Imitation" / Derek Bailey - "Improvisation" / Fernando Grillo - "Fluvine"
Derek Bailey - "Improvisation" (Ampersand 2000, ampere2, originally released 1975 on Cramps Records)
In fact, while Cage, Bailey, and Grillo are all part of a musical avant-garde, Grillo's music is the most experimental, his goal seemingly to create far more than just music.
But then, having found one quite boring (Cage) and the others quite beautiful and even riveting (Bailey and Grillo), I decided that this could well be the classic example of the ultimately subjective experience of listening to music (or viewing art for that matter).
http://www.aural-innovations.com/issues/issue17/ampere01.html   (739 words)

  
 Derek Bailey - Ballads: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more Music.com
The pure sound he elicits from his acoustic guitar is mouthwatering, so reverberant and alive.
Derek Bailey - Ballads: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
Derek Bailey - Ballads: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more
http://www.music.com/release/ballads/45   (357 words)

  
 village voice > books > Ben Watson's Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation by Richard Gehr
While Bailey's solo albums are small wonders of spring-wound nerve and microeconomic muscle memory, he believes that improvising, much like conversation, is most fruitfully practiced in the company of others.
Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
After Holbrooke he worked both solo and with collaborators such as pianist Anthony Braxton and saxophonist Steve Lacy, and for two years with the Music Improvising Company.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0434/gehr.php   (632 words)

  
 Derek Bailey - Ballads - Stylus Magazine
Each of these songs is characterized by Bailey’s clear, precise acoustic guitar—each note chimes beautifully as he wanders his way into the heart of the song he’s covering.
The crystal-clear recording reveals each sound of fingers on the strings, and the occasional tap as Bailey, in his fervor, hits the guitar body as well.
This is an essential album in Bailey’s massive catalog—a work of beauty, depth, and incredible ingenuity.
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=129   (519 words)

  
 EMANEM 4013: DEREK BAILEY
For the LACE concert, Derek played his 1936 Epiphone Triumph acoustic, using a cello pickup strapped to the belly of the instrument for some added body-resonance, the amplifying of which he controlled with a volume pedal.
Bailey waltzes crabwise across the scales, each interval so persistently surprising you suspect he must have developed a seven-fingered hand.
This recording is one of the most impressive Derek Bailey performances I've heard.
http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4013.html   (983 words)

  
 Don’t Explain » Blog Archive » Derek Bailey (1930-2005)
Playbacks isn’t a terribly good album but Bailey’s monologue on his fondness for the name George there is a classic example of this side of his music.
Bailey slowly made his way up the aisle playing, and pausing long enough at each row so that everyone could reach into the bag that hung from his guitar and withdraw a leaflet that advertised his recordings.
I suppose one reason why I feel such a personal connection to Bailey is that he was very much a ironical speaking presence on his own albums, as he often recorded monologues to the accompaniment of his guitar.
http://www.ndorward.com/blog?p=82   (596 words)

  
 EMANEM 4027: DEREK BAILEY
Bailey's musical language remains purely his own despite frequent imitation; it's a purely improvised and technically rigorous vocabulary of hacks, squeaks, scratches, sproings, and hums deployed using a resolutely non-melodic, non-repetitive syntax whose inexorable yet non-intuitive organisational logic will put your jaw on the floor and use it for a dustpan.
It turns out to be an excellent overview of Bailey's art, from the early amplified pieces to improvisations from his middle period when he renounced the electric guitar and played only acoustic instruments, to 1998's Post Postscript, recorded digitally at his home.
They have all the hallmarks of Bailey's style, using on this occasion a single volume pedal separated from the acoustic sound in the stereo field.
http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4027.html   (2496 words)

  
 Adventures In Sound: Four Derek Bailey Albums
As a big Bailey fan (but hey, aren't we all?) I really dig this album: it has a very laid back, calm feel and so is Derek Bailey.
But hey, I do not forget that is difficult to maintain your own style when playing with Bailey (remember the duo album with Keiji Haino, even this very atypical guitar player went along with Derek Bailey's style).
Conclusion: if you are a big fan, go for it, but this album is not suited for those who occasionally buy records by Bailey.
http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/adventures/reviews/bailey1.htm   (566 words)

  
 Derek Bailey MP3 Downloads - Derek Bailey Music Downloads - Derek Bailey Music Videos
As indicated by the title of Derek Bailey's latest solo album...
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http://www.mp3.com/derek-bailey/artists/5197/summary.html   (195 words)

  
 eBay - derek bailey, CDs, Records items on eBay.com
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http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=derek+bailey&newu=1&krd=1   (405 words)

  
 Derek Bailey, Amy Denio & Dennis Palmer: The Gospel Record: Pitchfork Review
Bailey is almost buried by the frenzy, though his guitar's overtones punctuate the brief silences in between electro-squelches.
If Bailey, Denio and Palmer have subversive aims, this music succeeds in spite of itself.
On The Gospel Record, he joins American composer/vocalist Amy Denio (Science Group, EC Nudes, Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet) and synth/sampler improviser Dennis Palmer for a short set of old-time gospel-- as in, the kind featured on Smithsonian anthologies or Coen brothers movies-- and in the process, exposes music ripe for the interpretive plucking.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/bailey_derek/gospel-record.shtml   (600 words)

  
 Derek Bailey: Ballads: Pitchfork Review
And it's not as if Bailey ever really fit in with jazzbos in the first place, what with the whole idea of 'spontaneous' music and improvising with no preconceived set of parameters, much less precedents.
And he's outlasted all but the most shamelessly devoted to the biz by playing an improvised sound so idiosyncratic it effectively defies analytical criticism.
Johnny Burke's "What's New" is born out of the improvisation from "Laura," passing by so quickly you might miss the melody.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/bailey_derek/ballads.shtml   (699 words)

  
 Ballads : Derek Bailey : CD Reviews : One Final Note
Bailey's guitar takes on neo-Classical overtones, languishing on the plush cushion of what is arguably the most familiar of jazz melodies before sprouting spines and drawing blood.
Recruiting what he terms a "guitar that was totally inappropriate for playing standards", Bailey wastes no time in retooling the tunes under his knife-sharp plectrum.
The disc's graphics echo the absurdity, depicting the seductive gaze of what appears to be a Fifties pin-up model in full amorous glow.
http://www.onefinalnote.com/reviews/b/bailey-derek/ballads.asp   (498 words)

  
 BBC - Experimental Review - Derek Bailey, BIDS
Bailey has grasped the essence of the guitar and pursued it obsessively for thirty years: its a nasty, noise-making machine.
The first time I saw Derek Bailey play guitar he reminded me of John Lee Hooker.
This album, recorded at a Festival in Norway is probably the closest he's ever come to stadium rock.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/experimental/reviews/baileyderek_bids.shtml   (471 words)

  
 Recommended Listening : Derek Bailey
I do listen to recordings with Derek Bailey or Evan Parker the most often.
I suspect that I have spent just about as much time listening to Derek Bailey CDs and LPs as anyone else.
I don't listen that much to free improvisation recordings for pleasure - maybe just 2 or 3 times per week or about 15% of my total listening time.
http://www.henrykaiser.net/recs/Bailey.html   (189 words)

  
 EMANEM 4006: ANTHONY BRAXTON & DEREK BAILEY
Note that for most of the concert, Bailey played a normal electro-acoustic six-string guitar augmented by stereo amplification, with the sound coming out of the two speakers controlled by two volume pedals.
It was also one of the first concerts of improvised music to take place in the Wigmore Hall.
Each half or set of the concert was to consist of a (different) sequence of six predetermined areas to improvise in.
http://www.emanemdisc.com/E4006.html   (1136 words)

  
 Buy.com - Aida - Derek Bailey - CD
As with all Bailey recordings, AIDA's most surprising quality is the musician's sincere, mordant English wit.
Like any great improviser, Bailey has his own language.
Buy.com - Aida - Derek Bailey - CD My Account
http://www.buy.com/prod/Aida/q/loc/109/63939588.html   (403 words)

  
 Derek Bailey by BandSpace.com
The soulful album features 16 songs produced by Bailey.
Bailey cites Howard Hewitt, Earth Wind and Fire, Stevie Wonder, New Edition and Take 6 as his major influences.
Now he is releasing his debut album titled the Escape.
http://www.bandspace.com/bands/23853   (267 words)

  
 * Dusted Reviews - Frode Gjerstad & Derek Bailey *
As such it’s not always a pleasant listening experience, but for those who don’t mind a little dissonant pain with their music it’s usually a rewarding one.
The pair first collaborated on a handful of concerts back in 1992, the last of which was recorded and found release as Hello, Goodbye, also on Emanem.
Nearly a D continues the story at Bailey’s London flat this past summer, minus the presence of now-deceased drummer John Stevens.
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/787   (644 words)

  
 Tower Records - Playbacks - Derek Bailey
PLAYBACKS challenges Bailey to apply his improvisational intuition to rhythmic tracks contributed by a selection of producers and musicians.
PLAYBACKS showcases Bailey as an unpredictable, effortlessly hip improv paragon.
Derek Bailey improvises over tracks by Darryl Moore, Henry Kaiser, Casey Rice, John Herndon, Tied & Tickle Trio, Bundy K. Brown, John French, Ko Thein Htay, Sasha Frere-Jones, John Oswald, Jim O'Rourke, and Loren Mazzacane Conners.
http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=1509511   (305 words)

  
 INCUS RECORDS OFFICIAL HOMEPAGE
51 minute, NTSC all-region DVD Playing for Friends on 5th Street catches free-improv guitar legend Derek Bailey in an intimate concert for about 40 friends and fans on December 29, 2001.
The friends - fixtures on the downtown scene - include guitarist Alan Licht, poets Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo, DMG proprietors Bruce Lee Gallanter and Manny Maris, and Stephanie and the late Irving Stone, to whom Bailey dedicated the video release.
Recorded in concert London 8th November 1998 and studio
http://www.incusrecords.force9.co.uk   (229 words)

  
 Derek Bailey Interview: September 2001
Both feature lo-fi, home taped pieces that mix guitar and speech from Bailey, often recorded as audio letters to friends and associates.
In Bailey's hallway and elsewhere throughout his home, there are stacks of boxes containing CDs ready to be mailed out if required.
It is virtually impossible to imagine what this music would be like without the influence he has exerted over the past 35 years.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16595   (7629 words)

  
 DEREK BAILEY
Rare early tape only releases from Incus, now available on cd from Organ of Corti label (through Incus).
There is also a secret track of a spoken word piece by Derek (track 10)
http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/ian.simpson/ian.simpson/taps.htm   (50 words)

  
 Derek Bailey Discography at CD Universe
Personnel: Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones); Derek Bailey (acoustic & electric guitars).
Personnel: Derek Bailey (guitar); Jamaaladeen Tacuma (bass); Calvin Weston (drums).
Features private recordings from 1965-1966 of composed, solo pieces, written under the influence of serial composer Anton Webern.
http://cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/artist/Bailey,+Derek/a/Derek+Bailey.htm   (154 words)

  
 Derek Bailey
Improvising guitarist Derek Bailey prides himself on defying the rules of guitar vocabulary, but I swear I hear some near-flamenco licks in the first two pieces on this album.
If you're a lover of guitar music and you're not hip to Bailey's brand of brain expansion, it's time to feed your head.
A few words about Bailey the artist: this Brit counterpart to Cecil Taylor remains one of the most aggressive guitarists around even as he ages into his late 60s.
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/98/08/13/OTR/DEREK_BAILEY.html   (253 words)

  
 Derek Bailey : Aida - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Throughout his career, Bailey has championed what he calls "non-idiomatic improvisation," an attempt to improvise without reference to any pre-existing musical styles.
Derek Bailey : Aida - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Aida, consisting of two live recordings from 1980, captures Derek Bailey on the cusp between his early-career thorny and more drastic explorations of the outer limits of guitar playing and the subtler, softer (though no less idiosyncratic) approaches he would often employ later on.
http://www.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,47214,00.html   (309 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pieces for Guitar: Music
Thankfully John Zorn treated this CD with kid gloves via- sound restoration, and reflective notes from Derek about the music.
Every recording Derek Bailey put's out is an adventure, so how about releasing some of his earliest private work??
And this is correct as Derek notes that these recordings were made at his London flat in the 60's with no intention of being released.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006BXG1?v=glance   (358 words)

  
 * Dusted Reviews - Derek Bailey & Milo Fine *
One begins to wonder what exactly the point is of yet another release of this nature and what it is that Bailey is still trying so desperately hard to pursue or demonstrate.
Whereas on his recent Ballads or archival Pieces For Guitar, there were genuine moments of shimmering beauty, due fundamentally to the context into which the author places himself — jazz standards and written composition, respectively — Scale Points On The Fever Curve demonstrate Bailey’s playing at its most, dare I say, conservative.
This time out he is joined by one man band, Milo Fine, writer and long time stalwart of the North American free music scene who, on this occasion, limits himself to clarinets (B-flat and E-flat), electronic keyboard and drums.
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1412   (339 words)

  
 Derek Bailey music on CD
Derek Bailey music on CD Begin your search for music by:
I was glad to leave that country and come back to my dear native land, where
There was a loving pride of Derek Bailey about this person's way of
http://www.geocities.com/douoriten/Derek_Bailey.html   (66 words)

  
 Bagatellen: Derek Bailey 1930-2005
Derek’s question: “What do you look at when you listen to a record, the speakers?” Two levels split: you don’t need records/you maybe should not look.
Spin the records backward, slow them down, route speaker wire through voltage converter then to a light-bulb: silent crackly pulsations.
But reject what then records offer as model.
http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/001106.html   (448 words)

  
 cityofsound: Derek Bailey RIP
Published on December 30, 2005 at 11:07 PM Filed in Music
With alt-rock Zelig Jim O'Rourke at the helm, and the brilliant Nels Cline joining the touring group, is there a better rock band around at the moment?
Oddly, the last time I saw Bailey was in Barcelona, playing Abaixadors Deu with the percussionist Susie Ibarra.
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2005/12/derek_bailey_ri.html   (1431 words)

  
 Derek Bailey: Playing For Friends on 5th Street
Bailey's solo unamplified guitar recital from late December 2001, captured here, is a fascinating document, allowing those who wonder about Bailey's unique style a chance to see it up close.
Making it even more surreal is the portion where Bailey describes his first job at a London music store in the '60s while continuing his fractured music as a soundtrack.
To make it more than just a man playing guitar, video effects are added that, while quaint, are slightly bizarre and distracting.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=16377   (363 words)

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