{"title":"Derek Bailey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerek Bailey was one of the most influential and adventurous experimental guitarists to come from England. He evolved from the trad-jazz scene of the fifties into the avant\/jazz scene in '60s London. As a member of various groups, including Joseph Holbrooke Trio, Spontaneous Music Ensemble, and Music Improvisation Company (later known as Company), he played a pivotal role in shaping the British free-jazz scene. In the early seventies, Derek and Evan Parker started their own record label called Incus Records, one of the first artist-run outfits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, Derek collaborated with renowned musicians from around the world. He formed relationships with European players like Han Bennink and Peter Brötzmann, Japanese free players such as Abe Kaoru and Toshinori Kondo, as well as American improvisers like Anthony Braxton, George Lewis, and John Zorn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his musical contributions, Derek organized an annual festival called Company Week in the 80's \u0026amp; 90's. This festival brought together a unique group of international improvisers from diverse backgrounds.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"at-sound-323","title":"At Sound 323","description":"\u003cp\u003eDerek Bailey – guitar. Simon H. Fell - double bass. Recorded at Sound 323, London by Tim Fletcher on 15 August 2001 Remastered by Rupert Clervaux, September 2023. \"Both Bailey and Fell are master musicians who improvise together at an intense and challenging level. This set bristles with focused energy. Both instruments sound closely mic'd so that we can hear each scrape, pluck and bow. At times, it seems as if Mr. Bailey is on the verge of exploding and then things calm do a bit only to flare up again. Mr. Fell sounds as if he is using a peg or wooden object on his bass at times and coaxing brittle percussive sounds. I found this set to be quite exciting, that edge-of-your-seat dynamic! Pretty incredible throughout!\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Confront Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Black LP.","offer_id":50399086117195,"sku":"2173173","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_09ee0ad8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726501410"},{"product_id":"lot-74","title":"Lot 74","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis iconic LP was originally released by \u003cem\u003eIncus\u003c\/em\u003e in 1974. Recorded at a private house in Catford, south-east London, the side-long title track is a masterwork: a twenty-two-minute, starkly personal, freely expressive, itchily searching re-casting of orders of rhythm and sound into a new, quicksilver kind of affective and musical polyphony.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNever mind the guitarist’s championing of ‘non-idiomatic improvisation’, the poet Peter Riley gets the ball rolling in his identification of the various hauntings of \u003cstrong\u003eBailey’s\u003c\/strong\u003e playing at this time: ‘mandolins \u0026amp; balalaikas strumming in the distance, George Formby’s banjo, Leadbelly’s steel 12-string, koto, lute, classical guitar… and others quite outside the field of the plucked string.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe five pieces on side two were recorded back home in Hackney around the same time — with the exception of \u003cem\u003eImprovisation 104(b)\u003c\/em\u003e, from the year before (and issued by \u003cem\u003eIncus\u003c\/em\u003e in its TAPS series of mini reel-to-reel tapes) — opening with ventriloquised guitar feedback, and taking in some cod banter about colleagues like Mervyn Parker, Siegfried Brotzmann and Harry Bentink. Crucial.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honest Jons","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50479951970635,"sku":"1123023","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/139f652f-b231-40d4-9700-19e2effb1776_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727513839"},{"product_id":"the-topography-of-the-lungs","title":"The Topography Of The Lungs","description":"\u003cp\u003e2023 repress of the OTOROKU re-issue of the legendary English free improvisation LP 'The Topography of The Lungs' by Evan Parker, Derek Bailey and Han Bennink. This was Evan Parker’s first recording as a \"leader\" and was the first release on Incus, the label Parker founded with guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley. This re-issue has been produced from an original vinyl pressing from Evan's archives - carefully transcribed and restored by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx in Berlin and features the original liner notes from Parker along with updated notes penned in 2014. \"To talk further of the music we play is difficult. It’s criteria for success exist, but are elusive and indefinable beyond the intuitive level. We operate without rules (pre-composed material) or welldefined code of behaviour (fixed tempi, tonalities, serial structures etc.), and yet are able to distinguish success from failure.\" - From Evan Parker’s original liner notes (1970).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Otoroku","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50521353519435,"sku":"2170962","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Evan_Parker_Derek_Bailey_Han_Bennink__The_Topography_O_279e35af_thumbnail_40.jpg?v=1727990974"},{"product_id":"company-1983","title":"Company 1983","description":"\u003cp\u003eWonderful, previously unreleased recordings by Derek Bailey and his guests at Company Week in 1983. What's remarkable throughout this album is the respect and affection the musicians show for each other, exemplifying the dictionary definition of 'company' as 'the fact or condition of being with another or others, especially in a way that provides friendship and enjoyment.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt starts with Landslide, a brilliant, spiky, spluttering, twanging reunion of Music Improvisation Company members Evan Parker (tenor sax), Hugh Davies (electronics) and Jamie Muir (percussion). Next up, Seconde Choix, with Joëlle Léandre's close-miked prepared bass and Bailey's acoustic guitar seemingly heading in different directions before coming together miraculously in just four minutes. The opening of First Choice, a duet between Bailey and Muir, is a revelation for those who moan that the guitarist plays too many notes. His patient and truly exquisite exploration of harmonics is beautifully counterpointed by Muir's metallic percussion. On Pile Ou Face (Heads Or Tails) Davies concentrates on his high register oscillators, carefully shadowed by Parker's soprano until Léandre's deft, springy pizzicato lures them into the playground. JD In Paradise is a surprisingly delicate wind quartet, with John Corbett's trumpet, fragile and Don Cherry-like, punctuating the sinuous interplay between Peter Brötzmann and J.D.Parran (on sopranos, flutes and clarinet), while trombonist Vinko Globokar growls approvingly in the background. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIgor Stravinsky's magnificent definition of music as the jeu de notes comes to mind listening to Bailey's duet with cellist Ernst Reijseger (executing fiendish double-stopped harmonics with staggering ease). Technical virtuosity has never sounded so effortless – it is, as its title Een Plezierig Stukje simply states, a fun piece. On the closing La Horda Bailey and Reijseger team up with the horns for what on paper looks like it could be rough and rowdy sextet but which turns out once more to be a thoughtful, spacious exchange of ideas, shapes and colours. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDerek Bailey, Evan Parker, Jamie Muir, Joelle Leandre, Hugh Davies, Ernst Reijseger, John Corbett, JD Parran, Vinko Globokar, Peter Brotzmann.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Honest Jons","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50526650564939,"sku":"1085876","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9b1639f2-c456-4064-a9ac-f13e0355c569_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728046448"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_e899abd7_thumbnail_4096_25c98956-7da9-43b9-a2ff-0a8f8f4e2d0f.jpg?v=1726501390","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/derek-bailey.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}