Carpal Tunnel
Released: Jul 26, 2005
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Released: Jul 26, 2005
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It's a bit difficult to understand how, after more than four decades of playing guitar, Derek Bailey developed a debilitating case of carpal tunnel syndrome. It's not like holding a pick was...
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Soshin
Released: May 14, 2003
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Released: May 14, 2003
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Derek Bailey accumulates collaborations, always eager to discourse with young improvisers through his guitar. Some of his choices may be disputable, but he sure had his ears in the right place when...
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Pieces for Guitar
Released: Aug 27, 2002
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Released: Aug 27, 2002
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What an unexpected treasure trove this turned out to be! Derek Bailey's earliest extant recordings, all solo guitar, none previously heard. Although still very much under the influence of Webern,...
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Ballads
Released: Apr 23, 2002
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Released: Apr 23, 2002
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It's not as though Derek Bailey hadn't given a hint or two before. On his wonderful Drop Me Off at 96th (on Scatter), he tantalized listeners with a couple of bars of "I Didn't Know What Time It...
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Close to the Kitchen (London Guitar Duos August 96)
Released: Sep 4, 2001
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Released: Sep 4, 2001
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This album was first released in a limited-edition LP by the French label Rectangle in 1996. The Chicago-based Blue Chopsticks reissued it on CD in the summer of 2001 and we should thank this...
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Mirakle
Released: Mar 28, 2000
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Released: Mar 28, 2000
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In one of the most unlikely groupings in music history, avant-skronk guitar godfather Derek Bailey teams up with the harmolodic, free funk rhythm section of Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Weston....
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Arch Duo
Released: May 11, 1999
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Released: May 11, 1999
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So named for the famed Berkeley recording studio where this session took place, Arch Duo finds longtime cohorts Derek Bailey and Evan Parker engaging in a 70-minute conversation. In the next few...
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Play Backs
Released: Nov 24, 1998
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Released: Nov 24, 1998
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In the mid-'90s, Derek Bailey mentioned that he had gotten into the habit of practicing guitar while listening to a pirate drum'n'bass radio station. Soon thereafter, John Zorn induced him to...
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Viper
Released: Jun 16, 1998
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Released: Jun 16, 1998
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Min Xiao-Fen is a master player of the pipa, a four-stringed Chinese lute. In addition to recordings of traditional material (for example, the stunning Spring, River, Flower, Moon, Night, a solo...
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