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Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ben WatsonPublish date:2013-07-02Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681053ISBN-10:1781681058UPC:9781781681053Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, Genres & StylesBook Topic:Rock, JazzSize:8.25 x 5.59 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.261Product ID:SCNF0MZB40
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 recordsession 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781781681053ISBN-10:1781681058UPC:9781781681053Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, MusicBook Subcategory:Music, Genres & StylesBook Topic:Rock, JazzSize:8.25 x 5.59 x 1.06 inchesWeight:1.261Product ID:SCNF0MZB40
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.
Publisher: Verso

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Revised Edition

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Ben Watson

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