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Derek Bailey: Barcelona Chronicles
by John Eyles
Barcelona Chronicles is the collective title for two Incus DVDs and one CD which document guitarist Derek Bailey playing on three occasions in Barcelona between February 2004 and May 2005. Bailey had moved there from Hackney, London, in 2003. During the spring of 2004, he began experiencing muscular difficulties; in June 2004 he dropped his plectrum during a solo performance. He was initially wrongly diagnosed as having Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. In August 2005, he was diagnosed as having Motor Neuron ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey: Standards
by Stuart Broomer
In 2002 Bailey released one of his most unusual CDs, Ballads (Tzadik), a solo performance with him freely improvising on standards. This is a second installment, though this recording actually precedes Ballads. Liner notes by Karen Brookman-Bailey and John Zorn recall Christmas 2001: The Baileys--Derek in New York to pick up a “new guitar--invited Zorn and Ikue Mori to their suite for dinner. During the evening, Bailey took out the vintage Epiphone Emperor (an oversized acoustic archtop designed for big ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey: Standards
by Mark Corroto
The world is a bit lonelier now that guitarist Derek Bailey has passed away. The freedom his music allowed is, or should be, a model to every musician and listener interested in the creative process.
This signature album, Standards, follows the 2002 Tzadik Records release of the infamous Ballads sessions, but was in fact recorded before those tracks. The liner notes reveal that these seven standards were made at the request of fellow musician and label head John Zorn after ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey: Standards
by AAJ Italy Staff
Natale, sempre Natale. Con il Derek Bailey degli ultimi anni non c'è verso di sfuggire a questa ricorrenza, nel bene e nel male. Il ricordo va al Natale 2005, quello che se l'è portato via [ma una volta Babbo Natale non si accontentava di latte e biscotti?], ma se ci spingiamo qualche anno più addietro, nel 2001, il quadretto è assai meno sconfortante. Immaginatevi - se vi riesce - una cena natalizia a New York, con Derek e Karen Bailey ...
Continue ReadingJoseph Holbrooke Trio: The Moat Recordings
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il trio composto dal chitarrista Derek Bailey con Gavin Bryars al contrabbasso e Tony Oxley alla batteria è uno dei grandi “miti" dell'improvvisazione, mito che affonda le sue radici negli anni Sessanta, quando i tre musicisti fecero evolvere la propria musica da un jazz armonico/modale verso forme di improvvisazione più libera. Di quegli anni ci resta di registrato davvero poco o niente [ma sia nel libretto di questo CD che nel celebre libro di Bailey L'improvvisazione si trovano pagine interessanti ...
Continue ReadingTony Oxley - Derek Bailey: The Advocate
by AAJ Italy Staff
Derek Bailey. Uno spirito, una biografia, un suono assolutamente unici. Di più, fondamentali per l’evoluzione della musica improvvisata. Di più, essenziali per il pensiero stesso che la musica improvvisata ha rivolto a se stessa. Derek Bailey è mancato. Derek Bailey ci manca. Manca il suo corpo, manco il suo suono, manca il suo senso. Rimane l’eco distorta del suo messaggio. Per quanti avvertono quel certo fremito nell’ascoltare. Non delude questo The Advocate. Non delude pur essendo poco più di una ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey, Keiji Haino, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny, Carlos Santana: Five Gentlemen of the Guitar
by John Eyles
This looks like a cheaply produced bootleg—shoddy black and white cover, with no information other than personnel, track titles and the enigmatic line, “Turin, 2000. But—and it's a big but—the music is well recorded and sounds genuine; it sounds like these five were actually playing together, something that's hard to fake, no matter how good the editing.It is easy to speculate how this meeting came about. Derek Bailey had played with Keiji Haino before and also recorded with ...
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