Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation

by Ben Watson

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781681058
• ISBN13: 9781781681053
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"