Solo Guitar (Derek Bailey album)

Solo Guitar
Studio album by Derek Bailey
Released 1971
Recorded February 1971
Genre Free jazz
Label Incus 2
Derek Bailey chronology
Improvisations for Cello and Guitar
(1970)		 Solo Guitar
(1971)		 Derek Bailey & Han Bennink
(1972)
Solo cover

Solo Guitar (later referred to as Volume 1) is a solo album by guitarist Derek Bailey which was recorded in London on July 13, 1970 and became the second release on the Incus label.[1] A revised version of this album, with alternative improvisations, was released as Solo in 1978 and in 1995 a CD version, incorporating improvisations from the original and revised LPs was released.[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

The Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick called it "required listening for any self-respecting Derek Bailey fan and a fascinating, complex, and ultimately delicious disc on its own merits... one of the landmark early albums of English free improvisation" and states "No one, absolutely no one, was playing guitar like this in 1971. ...Bailey occupied a universe of his own, freely improvising with little reference to the jazz tradition (including free jazz), sending splinters of notes into the ether and summoning ringing feedback from the deep innards of his ax".[3]

Track listing

All compositions by Derek Bailey except as indicated

  1. "Improvisation 4" - 2:02
  2. "Improvisation 5" - 7:43
  3. "Improvisation 6" - 5:29
  4. "Improvisation 7" - 3:10
  5. "Where Is the Police?" (Misha Mengelberg) - 8:25
  6. "Christiani Eddy" (Willem Breuker) - 5:50
  7. "The Squirrel and the Ricketty-Racketty Bridge" (Gavin Bryars) - 6:31
  8. "Improvisation 3" - 2:41 Bonus track on CD reissue
  9. "Improvisation 8" - 4:19 Bonus track on CD reissue
  10. "Improvisation 9" - 1:52 Bonus track on CD reissue
  11. "Improvisation 10" - 3:04 Bonus track on CD reissue
  12. "Improvisation 11" - 2:16 Bonus track on CD reissue
  13. "Improvisation 12" - 3:46 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Shapiro, R. Sessionography of Derek Bailey accessed May 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Incus LP discography accessed May 5, 2016
  3. 1 2 Olewnick, Brian. Solo Guitar, Vol. 1 – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
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