Ballads

by Derek Bailey

Ballads cover art

In a startling departure from his notoriously abstract, anti-melodic career, the pioneering avant-garde guitarist tackles a collection of classic jazz standards. Released on John Zorn's Tzadik label, Bailey's fractured, atonal fingerpicking completely deconstructs familiar melodies into deeply melancholic acoustic sketches.

Genres

  • Free Improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Laura
  2. What's New
  3. When Your Lover Has Gone
  4. Stella By Starlight
  5. My Melancholy Baby
  6. My Buddy
  7. Gone With The Wind
  8. Rockin' Chair
  9. Body And Soul
  10. Gone With The Wind
  11. Rockin' Chair
  12. You Go To My Head
  13. Georgia On My Mind
  14. Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone