I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
Derek Bailey Quotes
Personally, I've found one of the more stimulating ways of playing in recent times has been to kind of move outside the free improvised area and work with people who are probably improvisers but they have a particular way of working.
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| Birth: | 29th January, 1930 |
| Death: | 25th December, 2005 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Guitarist |
About
Derek Bailey was born in Sheffield, England. He was an English avant-garde guitarist and leading figure in the free improvisation movement. As an adult he worked as a guitarist and session musician in clubs, radio, dance hall bands, and so on, playing with many performers including Morecambe and Wise, Gracie Fields, Bob Monkhouse and Kathy Kirby, and on television programs such as Opportunity Knocks. In 1980, he wrote the book Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice.
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