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Derek Bailey (29 January 1930 – 25 December 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and an important figure in the free improvisation movement. [1] Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found in jazz, exploring atonality, noise, and whatever unusual sounds he could produce with the guitar.
Aug 26, 2023 · Guitarist Derek Bailey had forged himself a successful career as a musician, working with the likes of Shirley Bassey and Morecambe and Wise, when he turned his back on mainstream music to...
Derek Bailey, the English guitarist who helped to form a fractured style and a cohesive philosophy for European free improvisation, died at his home in London on Sunday. He was 75. The cause...
Jan 12, 2016 · A1 Improvisation 4A2 Improvisation 5A3 Improvisation 6A4 Improvisation 7B1 Where Is The Police?B2 Christiani EddyB3 The Squirrel And The Ricketty-Racketty Br...
Derek Bailey was one of the most influential and adventurous experimental guitarist to come from England, evolving out of the trad-jazz scene of the fifties into the avant/jazz scene in '60s London.
Oct 12, 2021 · There is the preconception that music like Derek Bailey’s – which strives to escape genre and predictability – is difficult, but this perception occludes the fact that in Bailey there is much in the way of simple pleasures: the attack, sustain, decay of a guitar string; the play between memory and melody.
Aug 10, 2023 · Heritage Quay’s latest exhibition explores the life and work of Derek Bailey (1930-2005), a guitarist who was a major force in the development of Free Improvisation. Bailey’s remarkable musical journey began in Sheffield, with a young lad entranced by the music he heard on his uncle’s radio, and fascinated by the guitar.
