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Original Title:	Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music
ISBN:	0306805286 (ISBN13: 9780306805288)
Edition Language:	English

Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music

Derek Bailey

Paperback | Pages: 160 pages

Rating: 4.18 | 636 Users | 38 Reviews

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Title	:	Improvisation: Its Nature And Practice In Music
Author	:	Derek Bailey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 160 pages
Published	:	August 22nd 1993 by Da Capo Press (first published 1980)
Categories	:	Music. Nonfiction. Art. Jazz

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Derek Bailey's Improvisation, originally published in 1980, and here updated and extended with new interviews and photographs, is the first book to deal with the nature of improvisation in all its forms--Indian music, flamenco, baroque, organ music, rock, jazz, contemporary, and "free" music. By drawing on conversations with some of today's seminal improvisers--including John Zorn, Jerry Garcia, Steve Howe, Steve Lacy, Lionel Salter, Earle Brown, Paco Peña, Max Roach, Evan Parker, and Ronnie Scott--Bailey offers a clear-eyed view of the breathtaking spectrum of possibilities inherent in improvisational practice, while underpinning its importance as the basis for all music-making.

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One of the absolute best books on music ever written.

maybe it's because I'm a musician and am picky about reading about music, but I don't like to be expert-splained (read: mansplained!) at at length... no doubt music/creativity/improvisation are ineffable but it's like a lot of breath in each section toward whatever "je ne sais quoi" which hip-smart-poetic people sometimes throw around in whatever dutiful deference to whatever mystical thing that just runs through them. I'm tired of this kinda off-the-cuff philosophizing! like people getting

A very well considered and wide-reaching book on improvisation; perhaps the most prestigious and with good reason. As a huge Bailey fan my interest was piqued in the latter chapters in which the iconoclastic guitarist analyses his own music and projects. The earlier chapters on the differences, similarities and impact of improvisation across different cultures and points in history are as engaging as the reader's own interest in the topics in question.

what an incredible detail of improvisation in all forms of music. From Baroque to Free Jazz Mr. Bailey knows what he is talking about.

this book by derek bailey has been on my shelf for quite some time, but i finally got around to reading it. it's a wonderful book for people who want to expand their knowledge of musicians' (and his) views on improvisation in *many* genres. thus, much of the book is a set of questions and interviews posed by bailey to a group of improvisers, composers, and non-improvisers. he covers the guru model of improvisation in indian music, the authenticity of improvisation in flamenco, patterned practice

I absolutely loved this book. Based around a series of interviews with practitioners across all the major musical idioms and with a good helping of personal anecdotes, Derek Bailey explores improvisation in a humble, wise and warm book. This book is a very satisfying read, and one that I find myself coming back to every few years.

An eye-opening book, insightful and deliberate. It's also one of those books where the author is so invested in his subject it becomes infectious.