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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...
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.
In September of 1987 I went to see a solo concert by Derek Bailey in Chicago, part of a series at the space Links Hall curated by percussionist Michael Zerang. I was 20 at the time, and I probably had one or two records by the British guitarist, but I certainly hadn’t invested a lot of time in them and my ears hadn’t experienced much free ...
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.
Derek Bailey remembered. A full collection of tributes to the late musician, including a number of pieces which were not published in the magazine. On Christmas Day 2005, Derek Bailey died, aged 75, from complications arising from motor neurone disease.
