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Derek Bailey
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(1930 – 2005)
Derek Bailey (January 29, 1930 – December 25, 2005) was a free improvising avant-garde guitarist. For listeners unfamiliar with experimental music, Bailey’s distinctive style can be initally quite difficult. Its most noticeable feature is what appears to be its extreme discontinuity, often from note to note: there may be enormous intervals between consecutive notes, and rather than aspiring to the consistency of timbre typical of most guitar-playing… , Bailey interrupts it as much as possible: four consecutive notes, for instance, may be played on an open string, a fretted string, via harmonics, and using a nonstandard technique such as scraping the string with the pick or plucking below the bridge.
Many of the key features of his music –radical discontinuity, the self-contained brevity of each gesture, an attraction to wide intervals– owe much to Bailey’s early fascination with Anton Webern, an influence most audible on Bailey’s earliest available recordings, Pieces for Guitar (1966-67, issued on Tzadik).
Playing both acoustic and electric guitars (although more usually the former), Bailey was able to extend the possibilities of the instrument in radical ways, obtaining a far wider array of sounds than are usually heard. He explored the full vocabulary of the instrument, producing timbres and tones ranging from the most delicate tinklings to fierce noise attacks. (The sounds he produced have been compared to those made by John Cage’s prepared piano.)
Many of the key features of his music –radical discontinuity, the self-contained brevity of each gesture, an attraction to wide intervals– owe much to Bailey’s early fascination with Anton Webern, an influence most audible on Bailey’s earliest available recordings, Pieces for Guitar (1966-67, issued on Tzadik).
Playing both acoustic and electric guitars (although more usually the former), Bailey was able to extend the possibilities of the instrument in radical ways, obtaining a far wider array of sounds than are usually heard. He explored the full vocabulary of the instrument, producing timbres and tones ranging from the most delicate tinklings to fierce noise attacks. (The sounds he produced have been compared to those made by John Cage’s prepared piano.)
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What's New
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Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
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Stella By Starlight
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You Go To My Head
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My Buddy
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Shoutbox
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dante_portinari wrote:
His improvisation is so authentic.
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secretpassage wrote:
and the hardy harest of them too
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hajjabuu wrote:
I think it should be mentioned that Derek Bailey did have a thriving career as a jazz musician before he started working in improvisation and the avant-garde. A lot of people don't seem to understand that he can play very well, and upon heavier listening of any of Derek's work it shows. To new listeners who are interested I would recommend Listening to "Ballads" and "Standards," which are still the two albums that inspire me the most musically to this day. I really want to hear his carpal tunnel album as well, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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trombipulation wrote:
Currently reading his book "Improvisation." Y'all should read it too.
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busysignalbeats wrote:
i like this
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Treason_is_bad wrote:
Anyone actually meet the guy? I heard he was the least pretentious out of all his peers in the free Improvisation movement, and the hardy harest of them too.
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krautimogen wrote:
doimperove
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MavonBarksfield wrote:
lol guitar drums and bass sounds exactly like youd expect it to sound and it just doesnt work at all. i still kind of like it tho
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gbgermano wrote:
best album to start?
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gamboda wrote:
http://www.lastfm.ru/music/third+view/negative+premonition some free music from russia sibiria very intresting
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phillip360 wrote:
did he and bryars work together after the the Joseph Holbrooke trio?
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Barjomet wrote:
міцний вуйко!
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pizzasummer2k4 wrote:
great artist or GREATEST ARTIST?
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momopiras wrote:
un mito il piu grande improvvisatore ma anche come melodia
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pfetsch wrote:
If you are into Derek's music you should check out Paul Metzger's improvisations for modified banjo and guitar.
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armitage_cake wrote:
ding ding ding dog
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vodenapushka wrote:
Elowson if you don't have nothing smart to write, then don't write this bullshit..
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adamcooleyisdea wrote:
Up there with Fahey and Jandek as the best guitarist ever!
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AntiWarhol wrote:
this shoutbox is mean
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ColonelSlog wrote:
strum
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