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
thinking want way
I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing.
moving people way
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
way company stills
For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.
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.
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.
play listening records
If you could only play a record once, imagine the intensity you’d have to bring into the listening.
player methodology adapted
But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.
people facts use
In fact its 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.
thinking people solo
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
sides cottages industry
I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.