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Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

By Ben Watson

By Ben Watson

By Ben Watson

By Ben Watson

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Jul 02, 2013 | ISBN 9781781681053

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Jul 02, 2013 | ISBN 9781781682401

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    About Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

    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.

    About Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

    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.

    Product Details

    Category: Music | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs

    Paperback | $26.95
    Published by Verso
    Jul 02, 2013 | 480 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781781681053

    Category: Music | Arts & Entertainment Biographies & Memoirs

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Verso
    Jul 02, 2013 | 480 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9781781682401
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    “The ideal biographer of Derek Bailey.”—John Fordham, Guardian

    “I am an enthusiast for the Watson method and I’m prepared to follow him, even to places where I wouldn’t under other circumstances go … His attack, his singularity. His indecent decency.”—Iain Sinclair

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