derek bailey

yeah...it won't be a sell out unless there's enough space for only 15 ppl.

''perhaps they will say "allo julio"''

bad mark...so you haven't phoned ep to 'cinfirm' seat availability.

The idea of Derek Bailey sharing vocals with Phil Collins on "Easy Lover" -- and especially appearing in the video -- disturbs my tender soul.

Actually, wld someone be so gd as to post full address etc. (I didn't buy the Wire this month... I know I'll be drummed out of the B. Coley School for ageing improv lovers for admitting that, but hey ho)

http://www.ukgameshows.com/atoz/programmes/m/mr_and_mrs/batey_assistant.jpg

I'll be waiting outside the gallery. I'll have an orange t-shirt, black trousers and a black puma bag.

It's in Yorkton Road, E2. Not near a tube unfortunately (Cambridge Heath BR is a bit of a walk) but quite near Homerton Hospital and bang next to Haggerston City Farm. Most Hackney-bound buses stop there.

also the organisers started it at 8:40pm not at 8pm which I really ddin't like.

Marcello: where were you?

But i met mark s. The first ILM-er from London I've emt and it was very good indeed.

well never mind...hopefully we can meet soon.

hmm i just noticed you mentioned yorkton road upthread => the entrance we were gathered at is off the carpark which you enter straight off hackney road itself

oh bah, how miserable for you

of course i really enjoyed it but i feel bad about that now as andrew AND marcello AND julio all missed it!!

dr c there were more beards than you could throw a stick at, but *also* more girls than i would have predicted, and a table of middle-aged laydeeZoRs behind me who said aloud that the tri before E/D was "mesmerising" so :P

Middle-aged laydeeZoRs!! I imagine a table of chain smoking Diana Rigg-alikes. k-HornXOR!

Graham - gremlins alert!!

The geography of East London never fails to bamboozle me. Once past the Old Street roundabout I am a truly lost soul.

''The geography of East London never fails to bamboozle me''

heh. I had to ask around when I got out of bethnal green station but it was easy really.

''dr c there were more beards than you could throw a stick at, but *also* more girls than i would have predicted, and a table of middle-aged laydeeZoRs behind me who said aloud that the tri before E/D was "mesmerising" so :P''

is that what they said? I heard soemthing from them but I didn't know what they said.

the crowd was a mixture and it was sold out as there were ppl sitting ont he floor (which is nice, I've seen improv when I was among 3 ppl).

''of course i really enjoyed it but i feel bad about that now as andrew AND marcello AND julio all missed it!!''

yeah...derek doesn't play often in London. I wouldn't mind getting a collection of night buses home and getting back at 1am but my mum doesn't sleep until I get home if I'm out late dammit (in toronto I could stay as late as I liked and it was fine of course).

Hopefully there will be other improv gigs (in slightly - ahem - more convenient locations) which will attract a sizeable ilx group AND coachloads of chain-smoking Diana Rigg lookalikes...with beards.

but would it have been worth missing Oz for i wonder?

''but would it have been worth missing Oz for i wonder?''

Bob what do you think of taping things and watching them later?

Derek Bailey on the front cover of The Wire September 2004

That will make Julio happy !

About time there was one.

x-post: first time ever in abt 3 years I've been buying the thing.

http://www.serious.org.uk/event_info.cfm?ref=238
Cecil Taylor/ Bill Dixon/ Tony Oxley
Anthony Braxton Quintet

now, if derek bailey were on the cover of mojo...

replace "bill dixon" with "girls aloud" in that line-up and i'll be first in the queue!

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Its a very gd issue and i can confidently say its the best in a while even if I haven't read everything - and I also must mention a lovely epiphany by geeta - the chemistry/music : father/son/daughter undercurrent in both of the pieces was something I couldn't miss.

Super looking forward to this:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IPxA%2BzitL.jpg

I just bought a copy of his Improvisation book the other day. I'm looking forward to reading it but haven't cracked it open yet because I'm still working through Blues People.

watson bk came out before, didn't it? i guess this is a revised version.

crüt, you can watch the accompanying tv series here: http://www.ubu.com/film/bailey.html

(although, frustratingly, the link for part 4 is actually part 3)

oh yeah, forgot about that. I suspect this is more of a reissue than a revision.

xp

Details of the book Launch

This event has been organised by the AMM (Association of Musical Marxists)

That acronym...such a coincidence ;-)

yeah I've watched the film series. Great stuff.

iirc Part 4 was on youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow-YPRq-t8A

"Playing for friends" is all rather too cosy but he's often actual funny and then hes asking for the time at the end in a "have I entertained these buggers for long enough already" so its all ok.

i saw Bailey at Tonic with Zorn, Joey Baron and Reggie Workman, and though seeing him live was a treat and a great show, i didn't really 'get' anything that didn't come across on record before. if you can't stand his playing after making the best attempt to acquire a taste for it, you're probably fUx0red.

I was at this gig too, having interviewed Bailey for a feature in Jazziz, of all magazines, earlier that day. I also remember there being a duo performance (with Susie Ibarra, maybe?) that was much better than the quartet set.

Anyway, there's a fantastic looking new 4CD box set out - Topographie Parisienne, 3 1/2 hours or so of live material from 1981 with Bailey, Evan Parker, and Han Bennink performing in various combinations (trio, different duos, and some Parker solo - no Bailey solo stuff, though). I just ordered one from Squidco.

Here's the full track listing:

CD1
1. DB-HB-EP Trio 41:53
2. DB-EP Duet 12:10

CD2
1. DB-HB-EP Trio 46:01
2. EP Solo 11:51

CD3
1. DB-EP Duet 27:56
2. EP Solo 10:16
3. HB-EP Duet 17:19

CD4
1. DB-HB Duet 39:35
2. HB-EP Duet 12:11

Listening to Webern lately and given that Bailey spoke about him often I shouldn't have been surprised, but op 18 and 19 are amazing because they sound like Bailey is in the ensemble as a featured soloist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXqpeoYSGdY