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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. Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found in jazz , exploring atonality , noise , and whatever unusual sounds he could produce with the guitar.
Aug 26, 2023 · BBC News. 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 ...
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. By the late sixties he was a member of the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Music Improvisation Company which later became the ...
Dec. 30, 2005. 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.
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Oct 12, 2021 · Derek Bailey – ‘Where Is The Police’ from Solo Guitar Volume 1 (1971) Those expecting Bailey’s free improvisation to be unlistenable or directionless would do best to start with his solo recordings, especially the tracks with titles on Solo Guitar Volume 1 , such as my personal favourite, ‘Where Is The Police’.
On Christmas Day 2005, Derek Bailey died, aged 75, from complications arising from motor neurone disease. David Toop charts his determinedly nonidiomatic approach to guitar playing through a career that spanned television showbands backing comedians like Morecambe & Wise, the birth of European free improvisation, and the founding of the pioneering independent record label Incus.
