Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music

by Derek Bailey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306805286
• ISBN13: 9780306805288
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

erudite, throughly engorssing

Contexualizes the concept of instantaneous composition better than anything else I've ever read.