Derek Bailey and the Story of Free Improvisation
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| Management number | 231743044 | Release Date | 2026/06/18 | List Price | US$8.40 | Model Number | 231743044 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1781681058 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1781682401 |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Dimensions | 6 x 1.24 x 9.2 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.24 pounds |
| Print length | 459 pages |
| Publication date | July 2, 2013 |
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