Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

by Watson, Ben
ISBN: 9781781681053
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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.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Watson, Ben
  • ISBN: 9781781681053
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 8.25 x 1.06
  • Number Of Pages: 480
  • Publication Year: 2013
Language: English