DEREK BAILEY
Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Related Improv/Composition • United Kingdom
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At first glance, Derek Bailey possesses almost none of the qualities one expects from a jazz musician -- his music does not swing in any appreciable way, it lacks a discernible sense of blues feeling -- yet there's a strong connection between his amelodic, arhythmic, atonal, uncategorizable, free-improvisatory style, and much free jazz of the post-Coltrane era. His music draws upon a vast array of resources, including indeterminany, rock & roll, and various world musics. Indeed, this catholic acceptance of any and all musical influences is arguably what sets Bailey's art outside the strict bounds of "jazz." The essential element of his work, however, is the type of spontaneous musical interrelation that evolved from the '60s jazz avant-garde. Sound, not ideology, is Bailey's medium. He differs in approach to almost any other guitarist who preceded him. Bailey uses the guitar as a sound-making, rather than a "music"-making, device, meaning, he
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Lot 74
Avant-Garde Jazz
1974
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Solo
Avant-Garde Jazz
1978
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Notes
Avant-Garde Jazz
1985
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Chats
Avant-Garde Jazz
2001
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Ballads
Avant-Garde Jazz
2002
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Filmed
Avant-Garde Jazz
2003
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Limescale
Avant-Garde Jazz
2003
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Howdy
Avant-Garde Jazz
2004
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Standards
Avant-Garde Jazz
2007
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More 74
Avant-Garde Jazz
2010
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Aida
Avant-Garde Jazz
1980
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Han
Avant-Garde Jazz
1982
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Lace
Avant-Garde Jazz
1996
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In Church
Avant-Garde Jazz
2002
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South
Avant-Garde Jazz
2002
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Then
Avant-Garde Jazz
2004
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