Standards
by Derek Bailey
- Type: Album
- Released: June 2007
- Label: Tzadik
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 52:44
- Community rating: 3.99/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Released posthumously, this recording captures the legendary avant-garde guitarist playfully dismantling classic jazz and pop standards. Stripping recognizable melodies down to abstract, disjointed acoustic plucks and scrapes, the session highlights Bailey's uncompromising dedication to spontaneous invention.
Genres
Descriptors: acoustic, unaccompanied-solo, improvisation, instrumental, avant-garde, improvised, guitars, minimal, atonal
Tracklist
- Nothing New (8:26)
- Frankly My Dear I Don't Give A Damn (9:36)
- When Your Liver Has Gone (7:33)
- Please Send Me Sweet Chariot (11:00)
- Don't Talk About Me (4:23)
- Pentup Serenade (6:38)
- Head (5:08)
Credits
- Derek Bailey - primary artist, acoustic guitar
- Heung-Heung Chin - design
- Kazunori Sugiyama - executive-producer [associate producer]
- Karen Brookman - liner notes
- Scott Hull - mastered by
- John Zorn - producer, liner notes
- Jim Anderson - recorded by