Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey (1930 to 2005) was one of the most influential and adventurous experimental guitarists England produced, and the man who gave free improvisation its guiding philosophy. He came out of the dance-band and jazz work of the 1950s and by the late 1960s was a member of the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and the Music Improvisation Company, later the ever-changing Company, whose week-long festivals threw unlikely musicians together on stage. His playing abandoned pulse, key and idiom for a language of intervals, harmonics and abrupt silences that was instantly his own.
Derek Bailey (1930 to 2005) was one of the most influential and adventurous experimental guitarists England produced, and the man who gave free improvisation its guiding philosophy. He came out of the dance-band and jazz work of the 1950s and by the late 1960s was a member of the Joseph Holbrooke Trio, the Spontaneous Music Ensemble and the Music Improvisation Company, later the ever-changing Company, whose week-long festivals threw unlikely musicians together on stage. His playing abandoned pulse, key and idiom for a language of intervals, harmonics and abrupt silences that was instantly his own.
