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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- ISBN
- 9781844670031
- Book Title
- Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Music, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Jazz
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 464 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1844670031
ISBN-13
9781844670031
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30253608
Product Key Features
Book Title
Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
Number of Pages
464 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Jazz
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Music, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2004-003582
Reviews
"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 ... I feel profoundly unqualified to promote a text about which I have no specialist knowledge, and for which I have no innate sympathy--being left with unfocused support for the ongoing ever-fecund Watson project. His attack, his singularity. His indecent decency."--Iain Sinclair 'The most renowned member of the British free-form jazz movement.' Independent 'A towering giant of the guitar. Singular, unique.' David Sylvian 'One of the most original and idiosyncratic musicians I have ever known.' Gavin Bryars 'The ideal biographer of Derek Bailey.' John Fordham, Guardian , 'eoeI 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 ... I feel profoundly unqualified to promote a text about which I have no specialist knowledge, and for which I have no innate sympathy - being left with unfocused support for the ongoing ever-fecund Watson project. His attack, his singularity. His indecent decency.'e�
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
787.87165
Synopsis
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. As the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, with bassist Gavin Bryars and drummer Tony Oxley, Bailey forged a musical syntax which has since operated as an international counter to the banality of commercialism. Refusing to be labeled a 'jazz' guitarist, Bailey has collaborated with performance artists, electronic experimentalists, classical musicians, Zen dancers, tap dancers, rock stars, jazzers, poets, weirdos and an endless stream of fiercely individual musicians. 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 amongst his admirers. Derek Bailey & the Story of Free Improvisation lifts the lid on an artistic ferment, which has defied every known law of the music business. Telling the story via taped interviews with Bailey and his cohorts, gig reports and album reviews (including an exhaustive discography of Bailey's vast and hard-to-track output), Ben Watson's spiky, partisan, and often very funny biography, This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player makes you forget everything you think you know 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 music. As the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, with bassist Gavin Bryars and drummer Tony Oxley, Bailey forged a musical syntax which has since operated as an international counter to the banality of commercialism. Refusing to be labeled a .jazz. guitarist, Bailey has collaborated with performance artists, electronic experimentalists, classical musicians, Zen dancers, tap dancers, rock stars, jazzers, poets, weirdos and an endless stream of fiercely individual musicians. 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 amongst his admirers. Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation lifts the lid on an artistic ferment which has defied every known law of the music business. Telling the story via taped interviews with Bailey and his cohorts, gig reports and album reviews (including an exhaustive discography of Bailey.s vast and hard-to-track output), Ben Watson.s spiky, partisan and often very funny biography argues that anyone who thought the avant-garde was dead simply forgot to listen.
LC Classification Number
ML419.B13W38 2004
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