Bailey, Derek

Bailey, Derek
▪ 2006

      British guitarist (b. Jan. 29, 1930, Sheffield, Eng.—d. Dec. 25, 2005, London, Eng.), was the guru of free improvisation, a technique of creating arhythmic music without preset forms or melodies. Although he was first a pop and jazz musician who liked to accompany singers, he was influenced by Anton Webern and John Cage and developed an original, highly influential atonal style that combined spaced fragments of sound into coherent lines. Bailey went on to free-improvise solos and musical conversations with jazz, classical, rock, flamenco, Indian, Japanese, Latin American, and other musicians and dancers. His Incus label recorded dozens of improvisations by himself and other performers, and for his annual Company Weeks (1976–94) in London, he brought together a changing cast of 8–12 musicians from many international traditions to improvise. In his book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music (1980) and the television series On the Edge (1989–91), Bailey described how improvisers around the world create their music.

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