Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
Derek Baileywas an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth29 January 1930
thinking player fine
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
thinking play absence
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
play listening records
If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
player methodology adapted
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
people facts use
In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
thinking people solo
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
sides cottages industry
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
pieces sometimes used
Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard.
music degrees intimacy
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.
music diversity identity
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.
thinking want way
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
playing-music theory music-is
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
player young middle
Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music.
song duos
I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.