Derek Bailey
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(1930 – 2005)
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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Ballads
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Guitar, Drums 'n' Bass
Derek Bailey
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Mirakle
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Pieces for Guitar
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Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone
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What's New
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Rockin' Chair
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Laura
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When Your Lover Has Gone
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Body and soul
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You Go To My Head
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Gone With The Wind
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Stella By Starlight
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My Buddy
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Georgia on My Mind
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M 5
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