Results for "Derek Bailey"

Derek Bailey

Born: January 29, 1932

Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. A third generation musician, he began playing the guitar at the age of ten, going on to study with John Duarte among others. As an adult he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, and so on, playing with many performers including Gracie Fields, Bob Monkhouse and Kathy Kirby, and on television programs such as 'Opportunity Knocks'. Bailey was also part of a Sheffield based trio founded in 1963 with Tony Oxley and Gavin Bryars called 'Joseph Holbrooke' (named after the composer, whose work they never actually played)

Uncharted Harmonies

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Whispered Echoes; Melodic Dissonance; Harmonic Revolutions; Silent Conversations; My Funny Frankenstein; Euripides You Pay for These; Old Man River; When Smoke Gets in Your Nostrils.

Perry Como with Derek Bailey: Uncharted Harmonies

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2024

Imagine, if you will, the musical equivalent of a black-tie gala crashing into an abstract art exhibit. This is Uncharted Harmonies, where Perry Como, the man whose voice could soothe a charging bull, meets Derek Bailey, a guitarist who thinks musical notes are too mainstream. Together, they have created an album that is as unlikely as ...

The Complete Obscure Records Collection 1975-1978

by Chris May
January 23, 2024

The first ever CD box set gathering the complete 10-album catalogue of Brian Eno's Obscure Records has been released by Italian-based label Dialogo. In the mid to late 1970s, Obscure gave a platform to some of the most significant young British composers of experimental music, together with a few Americans. In a quiet way spectacularly successful, ...

Frode Gjerstad with Matthew Shipp: We Speak

by John Sharpe
January 14, 2024

While the combination of reedman Frode Gjerstad--the godfather of Norwegian free jazz who dwells about as far from the so-called Nordic sound as you can get--and pianist Matthew Shipp -whose lineage can be traced back through what he terms The Black Mystery School, which takes in Thelonious Monk, Mal Waldron and Randy Weston among others--might seem ...

Remembering Tony Oxley: Combination

by Ian Patterson
December 30, 2023

The sad news of the passing of free-spirited English drummer/percussionist Tony Oxley on December 26, 2023, is tempered by the knowledge that his was a life well lived, and his musical legacy a lasting one. As a member of Ronnie Scott's house band in the latter half of the 1960s, Yorkshireman Oxley played with some of ...

Pat Thomas / Chris Sharkey / Luke Reddin-Williams: Know: Delirium Atom Paths

by John Sharpe
December 29, 2023

Anyone wondering what a mash up between Sun Ra and Krautrock pioneers like Tangerine Dream might sound like? Delirium Atom Paths supplies one possible answer. The product of an encounter between the esteemed veteran Pat Thomas on keyboards and two representatives of a younger generation in guitarist Chris Sharkey and drummer Luke Reddin-Williams, the unbroken 44-minute ...

Bengt "Frippe" Nordström: Vinyl Box

by Mark Corroto
December 27, 2023

Sometimes an artist can tilt the axis of a genre. Tilt it by just a degree or two. The effects might not be felt as such in the moment, but after decades their imprint is profound. Peter Brötzmann was one example, as was Derek Bailey. Add to that list, the Swedish saxophonist Bengt “Frippe" Nordström (1936 ...

Peter Brotzmann / Sabu Toyozumi: Triangle – Live at OHM, 1987

by Mark Corroto
October 30, 2023

Triangle--Live At OHM, 1987 is a recording of Peter Brotzmann in Japan. Here he is performing with master free jazz drummer Sabu Toyozumi. This is not the musicians first meeting. The pair have released a couple nearly impossible to find discs such as Live In Japan 1982 (Improvised Company, 1999) and Live In Okayama 1987 (Improvised ...

Yuji Takahashi / Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane

by John Sharpe
October 1, 2023

Unlike most drum and piano duets, where the keyboard gets all the best lines, Sabu Toyozumi and Yuji Takahashi craft a truly egalitarian meeting of minds on The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane. Recorded in 1998, it represents another bulletin from the vital Japanese free scene of the period issued by the Lithuanian NoBusiness imprint ...