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Derek Bailey
guitar
United Kingdom • 1930-01-29 – 2005-12-25
Derek Bailey is credited on 332 releases across 123 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1968–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
332
Pressings credited
123
Albums
7
Decades active
27
In collections
Biography
Derek Bailey (29 January 1930 – 25 December 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and an important figure in the free improvisation movement. Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found in jazz, exploring atonality, noise, and whatever unusual sounds he could produce with the guitar. Much of his work was released on his own label Incus Records. In addition to solo work, Bailey collaborated frequently with other musicians and recorded with collectives such as Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Company.
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Credited work
332 releases · 123 albums · active 1968–2025
- Performance · 496
- Other credits · 68
- Production · 16
- Engineering · 6
Studios: Moat Studio · Institute Of Contemporary Arts · Wigmore Hall · San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Blemish
2003
The Sinking Of The Titanic
1975
The Big Gundown
1986
The Good Son Vs The Only Daughter (The Blemish Remixes)
2005
The Complete Obscure Records Collection
2023
To Play (The Blemish Sessions)
2006
Legend Of The Blood Yeti
1997
Close To The Kitchen
1996
The Last Wave
1996
Yankees
1983
Music and Dance
1981
Worlds Within Worlds
1971
Hamburg '74
1979
The Topography Of The Lungs
1970
Frequent collaborators
- Company (2)
- Various
- Spontaneous Music Ensemble
- Anthony Braxton
- Steve Lacy
- David Sylvian
- The Music Improvisation Company
- Tony Oxley
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