derek bailey

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!

x-post

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pnvbj

seems odd that it's more than five years since he died.

wish that i was better at sitting, and listening to music, and not doing other things, while i do those two things.

except, maybe, other minor activities, like breathing and drinking tea.

plinky plink plinky

aweeaweeaweeawee

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