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Derek Bailey & Company: Klinker
by Roger Farbey
Derek Bailey and Will Gaines had already recorded together on Rappin' & Tappin' (Incus, 1994) and on the video Will (1995), so this archival session, captured live on Thursday 24 August 2000, at The Klinker in London, presents a further opportunity to hear this odd couple. Gaines was 72 at the time of this concert and the old hoofer, originally from Baltimore, had shared stages in the '50s with the likes of Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton, Cab Calloway, Django Reinhardt ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey // Three Presences at Cafe Oto
by John Eyles
Simon H. Fell, Mark Wastell, Alex WardDerek Bailey // Three Presences Cafe OtoLondon March 2, 2018 Many people will have done a double-take upon seeing this evening in the Café Oto programme. Over twelve years after the much-loved guitarist Derek Bailey died on Christmas Day 2005, he seemed to be listed as appearing at the venue. On reading the small print, it became clear that the trio IST (bassist Simon H. Fell, cellist Mark ...
Continue ReadingCraft Beer and Jazz
by Thad Aerts
As I type these words, I'm sitting here sipping on an Apricot Peach Orange Whip Mimosa Gose while listening to Derek Bailey's Improvisation LP. If you aren't aware of Bailey's work, he was a British guitarist who championed the European “free" style. All improv, all the time-with no structure to speak of. Many have argued that Bailey and his angular screech and skronk have no place in anything labeled jazz, or even music for that matter. Purists. Apricot ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey
by John Eyles
Guitarist Derek Bailey was one of the more prominent and influential musicians from the “first generation of free improvisation" that developed in London in the mid-sixties and gradually promoted the music around the world. Although several members of that generation were leaders, Bailey often seemed the de facto leader of the group. Partly, this was a consequence of his being slightly older than others, Bailey having been born in 1930, compared to Tony Oxley (1938), Trevor Watts (1939), John Stevens ...
Continue ReadingVarious Brits: Just Not Cricket!
by Mark Corroto
In the 1972 Monty Python Flying Circus skit “Are You Embarrassed," the announcer reads the lines, “Are you embarrassed easily? I am. But it's nothing to worry about; it's all part of growing up and being British." The announcer goes on to describe embarrassing words like “Shoe" ..... “Megaphone" ..... “Grunties," to test the listener's discomfort level. Somehow, even though the words spoken (in English) by the troupe were in a common language, the humor was quite alien to American ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey: Concert in Milwaukee
by AAJ Italy Staff
Da quando Karen Brookman, compagna di Derek Bailey per più di vent'anni, si è messa a rovistare tra bobine e scatoloni, sono successe solo cose meravigliose. Prima la ristampa in CD del leggendario Lot 74, che nel 2009 ha sancito il ritorno in pista della Incus dopo il lungo silenzio seguito alla scomparsa di Bailey (il giorno di Natale del 2005); poi l'idea delle Barcelona Chronicles, audio e video racconto degli ultimi anni di vita del chitarrista di Sheffield (spesi ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey: Lot 74
by AAJ Italy Staff
L'anno è il 1974. Derek Bailey sta cullando l'idea di registrare una lunga improvvisazione che occupi un intero lato del suo secondo album in solo da pubblicare per la Incus (il primo, Solo Guitar, risale al '71). Il problema è che nel suo appartamento londinese Bailey non è sicuro di riuscire a isolarsi per più di venti minuti senza interruzioni o rumori molesti. E così chiede aiuto all'amico Martin Davidson (già, proprio lui, il signor Emanem), che lo invita ad ...
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