Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation Paperback / softback
by Ben Watson
Paperback / softback
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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 record-session 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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Verso Books
- Publication Date:02/07/2013
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- ISBN:9781781681053
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:480 pages
- Publisher:Verso Books
- Publication Date:02/07/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781781681053