Derek Bailey
Derek Bailey
Derek Baileywas an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth29 January 1930
english-musician found people using
I found that you couldn't use the same people anyway; there weren't that many people, so you'd be using the same ones over and over again.
english-musician except familiar internal method shock
I don't think it is any different from what it was, except that the method is now familiar so you can't set up some internal shock situation.
musicians playing
I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.
music degrees intimacy
Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.
music diversity identity
Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.
playing-music theory music-is
Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
music children skills
Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.
effect english-musician liked somebody
I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.
english-musician
For me, playing is about playing with other people.
english-musician method people
In fact it's quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.
although company concert english-musician knew quartet single together
The first Company concert was a single concert with a quartet who all knew each other, although they didn't play together regularly.
destroy difficult good matter quality recording
It's difficult to destroy a good concert. The quality of the recording doesn't matter if it's a really good concert.
thinking player fine
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
thinking play absence
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.