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Derek Bailey: To Play - The Blemish Sessions
by AAJ Italy Staff
Cosa c'è ancora da dire su Derek Bailey, ora che ci approssimiamo ad un Natale primo anniversario della scomparsa del grande chitarrista inglese? Nulla, in realtà. È la musica di Bailey a parlare a chi la sa/vuole ascoltare e forse ancora di più a chi non la sa né la vuole sentire. Il suo pensiero, la sua capacità di essere se stesso con chiunque e di cercare con forza tanti “chiunque" per essere ogni volta un nuovo se stesso. In ...
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by Nenad Georgievski
Much has been discussed and said about improvisation in every form. In its search for freedom from conventional and standard forms, improvised music has gone into all kinds of directions. The results cannot be described in conventional terms, since musicians headed this direction have done everything they can to subvert and discard the principles of music theory. While free jazz, which has been associated with free improv, has often remained anchored by using licks to structure the improvised material, free ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey: Carpal Tunnel
by AAJ Italy Staff
E così, come talvolta accade, un gesto casuale, un capitolo, magari un'impressione fallace - con il tragico senno di poi la si scorge - diventano qualcosa di definitivo, come quando si ripensa alle ultime parole di una persona che abbiamo amato e che magari ci ha lasciati, parole che nel flusso di una vita potevano scivolare via e invece rimangono, le ripetiamo, ne scaviamo le interiora quasi a vedere se proprio in queste, così casuali, è rimasto nascosto qualcosa che ...
Continue ReadingDerek Bailey / Evan Parker: The London Concert
by AAJ Staff
By Ken Waxman
The London Concert, recorded in the mid-'70s, is a historical document which preserves mature manifestations of Bailey's sound, which continues to shape British improv. The Psi reissue adds thirty-odd minutes to the previously released 1975 LP version on the Incus label, boosting its length to more than 69 minutes. Still in their honeymoon period, Bailey and Evan Parker offered both solo and duo material, with the reedman playing soprano and tenor saxophones and Bailey playing a stereo ...
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by Kurt Gottschalk
In 1977, suffering complications from a stroke that paralyzed the left side of his body, Rahsaan Roland Kirk made his way to Regent Sound Studios in New York to record what would become his final album, Boogie Woogie String Along For Real. Having long since devised a way to play saxophone with one hand (the technique he used to play three or more at once), Kirk had been able to find a way to play again, despite the limitations of ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
"I suoni che produce volano come farfalle"... (Min Tanaka). La creativita' di Derek Bailey pare meglio rappresentata dalle parole di un noto danzatore butoh - che con il chitarrista ha condiviso brevi, ma significativi, tratti del suo percorso terreno in ambito performativo - piuttosto che da uno dei tanti ricordi post - mortem. Testimonianza ancor piu' esemplare della sua vitalita' e' la ristampa (con ben mezz'ora in piu') del concerto tenuto con Evan Parker al Wigmore Hall di Londra nel ...
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by John Eyles
"Historic" is a very overused word in many contexts, so much so that it is devalued and I am loath to use it here. Nonetheless, it fits this release perfectly. Consider the facts: Derek Bailey and Evan Parker are without doubt the two most prolific, influential, and renowned improv players in the history of the music. They first came together at the birth of improv in the SME in 1967, together set up Incus records (along with Tony Oxley) in ...
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