KAORU ABE / DEREK BAILEY / TOSHINORI KONDO / MOTOHARU YOSHIZAWA
Aida's Call
(Starlight Furniture Company - *9) CD $40.00 (Out-of-stock) (Out-of-print)
Wake up jazzbo, the free-train is leaving the station, and it won't be coming back. A limited edition of 500, once-in-a-lifetime, mysterious and previously cassette-only document of this 30-year old meeting between guitar-improv locomotive Bailey and Japanese heavyweights Yoshizawa (bass), Kondo (trumpet), and the legendary Abe (alto sax). A forty-minute improvisational rail splitting recorded live on May 3, 1978, during Bailey's tour of Japan, brought about via his meeting with Japanese "svengali" Aquirax Aida.
DEREK BAILEY / TONY BEVAN / PAUL HESSION / YOSHIHIDE OTOMO
Good Cop, Bad Cop
(No-Fi) CD $15.00 (Out-of-stock)
This incredible document unites four legendary performers in some outstanding musical freedom, recorded at the Frakture Festival in Liverpool, 2003. Bailey and Otomo have famously sent shockwaves through international notions of improvisation over the years, while Bevan and Hession are rightly regarded as part of the very backbone of British free music. Sleeve designed by John Wiese.
DEREK BAILEY / ANDREW CLARE / THURSTON MOORE / THE THIRTEEN GHOSTS
Legend Of The Blood Yeti
(Infinite Chug) Used LP $10.00
Unhinged improvisational soundtracks for the blackness enveloping lonely holy nights from 1997 by Alex Ward on clarinet and sax, and percussionist Switch, collaborating with guitarists.
DEREK BAILEY / DENNIS PALMER / BOB STAGNER
Live At Lamar’s March 1999
(Shaking Ray) Used CD $10.00 (Out-of-stock)
“Free improvisation that goes in some surprising directions,” declares Gino Robair about this brief collaboration by the UK guitar legend and the Shaking Ray Levis released in 2002. “Prog elements implied!” Jazzword elaborates: “distorted oscillations,” “distended reverb washes,” “stuttering rhythm guitar chording,” “Bailey … using delay to transform himself into a flat-picking guitar army as Palmer lays on the organ chords,” “spinning massed drone,” “atmospheric rocket launching suggestions and burbling space tones,” “buzzing feedback, complementing similar wavering aural data from the keys, and completing the rhythmic thump.”
Pieces For Guitar
(Tzadik) Used CD $12.00
The earliest known solo recordings of this guitar innovator, dating from 1966 (possibly 1965), originally recorded for personal study during a transitional period. The only instances of Bailey performing his own written compositions reveal an influence of the music of Anton Webern on the variety of techniques he uses to formalize his unique approach to music in general and the guitar in particular. Sealed