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I knew....

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In Reply to: RE: Also try..... posted by Cosmic Closet on May 10, 2008 at 21:46:23

....Derek Bailey far better than any of the others, including Gavin.

I met Derek in the middle '80's when we - a partner and I - were introduced by Davey Williams (Trans Duo. Curlew; actually Davey also played with Johnny Shines!). We invited Derek to play at a festival we produced at Howard Finster's Paradise Garden.

Sorry to throw all this stuff at you but these are very interesting artists/musicians. Also I'm hesitant to go into repetitive detail because I've said a good bit about this here before.

Derek came to the US to play for us and in turn issued an invitation to Company Week in London. It was there that we met Gavin, Coxhill, Steve Beresford, Han Bennick and so many others of that free improvising community. Derek is the one who told the tales about how as young men they earned a living as players in the post war dance halls. Of course, their more serious interests paid them nothing or little.

We worked with Derek and literally hundreds of the others from Europe and the US, also Japan, Africa, and Tibet of all places, for all those years up to his death. The work still goes on but I left concert production in late '90's.

Gavin was known to me as a free improviser first. It was later that I learned of his deeper "classical" work. He was a quiet, gentlemanly person who showed no flash in his manner in any respect that I saw.

Their music astonished me. Very out stuff. Truly NEW music. As I said their work is still to be fully understood and placed in its qualitative historical context. There are some giants among them.

You will be surprised at many of the modern players - jazz, rock, you name it - who point to this realm of players as influence and inspiration.

I'd love to share more if you like. Feel free to contact me directly.

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