To be honest, I've been dreading tonight's "Grey's Anatomy" since the promo aired after last week's episode. For lack of a better term, the idea of waking up in the middle of invasive surgery... freaks me out. Luckily, that part...
All About Jazz is celebrating Derek Bailey's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Derek BaileyBailey was born in Sheffield, England. A third generation musician, he began playing the guitar at the age of ten, going on to study with John Duarte among others. As an adult he found work as a guitarist and session musician in clubs... more...
"Cows have excellent memories. They can keep at least fifty bovine faces and ten human faces in mind for several years. They can also tell people apart, relying mostly on visual cues such as clothing, colors, faces, and height. They...
Julius Vasylenko has earthy charisma. Because of his accent, people who come into his purlieu immediately assume an association with elite British improvisers. "Did he hang with Derek Bailey ?" they wonder...I could say Vasylenko, a multi-reed and saxophone player now based in Boston, was John Butcher 's and Evan Parker 's kid brother...
hands up everyone who’s read les champs magnétiques. yes, you at the back. see, this is what i’m thinking about untuning into, through and out of this. what’s lubing up my brain sac and fingering my neurons is the correlations squiggling between this record and automatism. you know, the expressive technique used by the surrealists. [...]
Guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil continues to push beyond the outer reaches of the guitar universe, building on the work of pioneers like Derek Bailey and Fred Frith . His career trajectory takes him ever farther from the jazz mother lode, and his last outing--on Totem> 's Solar Forge (ESP, 2008)--stretched the boundaries of the guitar power trio to breaking point. Before that he had a series of fine releases...
UK readers may be interested to know that Stewart Lee, comedian, improv fan and sometime contributor to The Wire , was on the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind the other day, answering questions on Derek Bailey. You can still view the programme (in the UK at least) on the BBC's iplayer service. .
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No, I'm not here, but... For the next week you can watch on the BBC i-Player the greatest stand-up of his generation, Stewart Lee , taking Derek Bailey as his specialist subject on Celebrity Mastermind . This sounds like the product of a random Thompson's Bank Cultural Phenomenon Generator, but on this occasion I promise it's really not. Also, a superb, barnstorming post from Lyn Gardner at the Guardian...
Hi All Tonight (Monday 4th) on Celebrity Mastermind (BBC1, 7.00.p.m.) comedian Stewart Lee answers questions on his specialist subject...Derek Bailey! Russell
Stuart Broomer Contributor: All About Jazz-New York; Musicworks; Point of Departure; Signal to Noise; Toronto Life. SIXTEEN FAVORITE NEW RECORDINGS OF 2009 Derek Bailey & Agusti Fernandez A Silent Dance (Incus) Samuel Blaser Quartet Pieces of Old Sky, Clean Feed (CF 151) Anthony Braxton/ Maral Yakshieva Improvisations (duo) 2008 (SLYD Records) John Butcher Group somethingtobesaid (Weight of Wax)...
For those only familiar with his work in {{Pat Metheny = 9350}} Group, drummer Paul Wertico's extracurricular career will be something of a shock. He may have been all light cymbal work and gentle pulses with PMG, but on albums like Sign of Four (Knitting Factory, 1997)--a freewheeling session with Metheny in a "beyond"-Song X (Nonesuch, 1985) mood, uber-free guitarist {{Derek Bailey = 3572}}...
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