Home » Search Center » Results: Derek Bailey
Results for "Derek Bailey"
Duck Baker: Breakdown Lane: Free Solos & Duos 1976-1998
by Mark Corroto
This release is a great introduction to the music of Duck Baker and, maybe more importantly, a reminder of why the musician's sound is so vital. Baker, a finger-style acoustic guitarist, is a folk music omnivore. Besides Scottish and Irish fiddle music, he is at home with bebop, blues, free jazz and free improvisation. Let that ...
Derek Bailey Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness
by John Sharpe
English guitarist Derek Bailey was a regular visitor to Japan, where he was particularly appreciated. Audiences were such that after his first tour in 1978, he reportedly brought home the money to buy a car. As a consequence, he encountered many of the major figures on the country's free improvisation scene, as releases such as Duo ...
Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2
by Artur Moral
Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...
Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974 - 2016
by Chris May
The British drummer and bandleader Tony Oxley passed in 2023, aged 85, after a career which began in the mid 1960s as the drummer in the house band at Ronnie Scott's club. From this prestigious but relatively codified platform, Oxley soon steered into less travelled waters. In 1969 he was in the quartet which recorded John ...
Brilliant ECM Luminessence Series Shines New Light On Classic Vinyl
by Joshua Weiner
Blue Note. Verve. Impulse! ESP-Disk. Just saying the name of such storied jazz record labels immediately conjures up each one's distinct aesthetic, from the music to the cover art. By the close of the 1960s, jazz was undergoing a period of intense change, with an unprecedented mixing and matching of styles and influences--both musical and political--that ...
Peter Brötzmann / Toshinori Kondo / Sabu Toyozumi: Complete Link
by Mark Corroto
As the liner notes to Complete Link by Yoshiaki Kinno state, “In the 1960s, each of them [saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and drummer Sabu Toyozumi] was inspired by free jazz, practiced it themselves and met each other in the process of overcoming free jazz." That is indeed a bold statement. Did he mean to ...
John Butcher / Eddie Prevost: Higher Lever Levitations Vol 1 Unearthed
by John Sharpe
Enduring connections. UK free music veterans, drummer Eddie Prėvost and saxophonist John Butcher first shared a stage in 1990, as part of guitarist Derek Bailey's famed Company weeks, but they still find plenty of worthwhile things to say to each other on Unearthed. Their encounters have been many over the intervening years, including several previous duo ...
Derek Bailey, Sabu Toyozumi: Breath Awareness
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Derek Bailey never compromised his approach to music, but was he influenced and his sound affected by set, setting, and playing partners? Those new to Bailey's working method may posit his approach was inflexible and unaccommodating, while long-time listeners can identify how a playing partner can affect the guitarist's sound. With the force ...
Elliott Sharp - Sally Gates - Tashi Dorji: Ere Guitar
by Mark Corroto
There is an art to arranging the guests at a dinner party or wedding reception. One wants to foster interesting conversations, sometimes between strangers, and create new friendships. The same can be said of Ere Guitar, a party organized by Downtown legend Elliott Sharp. The guitarist had previously released Err Guitar (Intakt, 2017) with his colleagues ...
Dave Rempis / Tashi Dorji: Gnash
by Mark Corroto
The correct response to Jeopardy gameshow answer Gnash is, “what is KUZU minus one"? The established trio (KUZU) of saxophonist Dave Rempis, guitarist Tashi Dorji, and drummer Tyler Damon have toured extensively and released five discs since their formation in 2018. Here, Damon stepped aside to allow Rempis and Dorji to tour as a duo in ...
