Ensemble Anomaly: The Music Of Derek Bailey And Paul Rutherford at La Peg

Participating Artists Continued:
Dan Nosheny
Ello Shertzer
Nick Millivoi

About Derek Bailey

Guitarist/composer Derek Bailey (1930-2005) was one of the towering figures of the English avant-garde and a leading pioneer of free improvisation. In mid-1960s London, Bailey began working with fellow jazz experimentalists like Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland and John Stevens. He co-founded Incus, the first musician-owned independent record label in the UK, with Parker, Tony Oxley and Michael Walters. Bailey’s long-running Company Week festival convened a wide range of improvisers annually for nearly 20 years, including, at various times, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink and Buckethead....

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Participating Artists Continued:
Dan Nosheny
Ello Shertzer
Nick Millivoi

About Derek Bailey

Guitarist/composer Derek Bailey (1930-2005) was one of the towering figures of the English avant-garde and a leading pioneer of free improvisation. In mid-1960s London, Bailey began working with fellow jazz experimentalists like Evan Parker, Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland and John Stevens. He co-founded Incus, the first musician-owned independent record label in the UK, with Parker, Tony Oxley and Michael Walters. Bailey’s long-running Company Week festival convened a wide range of improvisers annually for nearly 20 years, including, at various times, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Steve Lacy, Fred Frith, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink and Buckethead.

About Paul Rutherford

Trombonist/composer Paul Rutherford (1940-2007) was playing in a Dixieland band when he met drummer John Stevens and saxophonist Trevor Watts in 1958, laying the foundation for European free improvisation through the trio’s experiments with American jazz. He was a member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble, Barry Guy’s London Jazz Composers’ Orchestra, Globe Unity Orchestra and Keith Tippett’s Centipede during his long career, as well as playing occasional gigs with the likes of Soft Machine. He founded the group Iskra 1903, originally with Barry Guy and Derek Bailey though the line-up changed throughout the years.

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