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    Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

Ben Watson
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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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Watson EAN: 9781781681053 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Verso Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-07-02 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz WIDTH: 139 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Jazz, Pop music, Rock, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Popular music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment

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      Ben Watson is a writer on music and culture. He is the author of numerous books including Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, Art, Class & Cleavage and Adorno for Revolutionaries.
      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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Watson EAN: 9781781681053 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 567 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Verso Books DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-07-02 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz WIDTH: 139 cm SPINE:

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      Jazz, Pop music, Rock, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Popular music, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment

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      Ben Watson is a writer on music and culture. He is the author of numerous books including Frank Zappa: The Negative Dialectics of Poodle Play, Art, Class & Cleavage and Adorno for Revolutionaries.

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