DEREK BAILEY & TONY COE : Time

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Format: 2LP [HJRLP208]
Shipping Weight: 0.52lbs
Label: Honest Jon's

4,054円

' Honest Jon's Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey and Tony Coe's Time, originally released on Incus in 1979. Multi-reedist Tony Coe was born in 1934, four years after guitarist Derek Bailey. He cut his teeth as a career jazzman with Humphrey Lyttleton, before an extended stint with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band. On this rare 1979 duo outing, he sticks to clarinet. And though that instrument has an illustrious jazz pedigree, Coe's playing here is something else. It's worth noting that the clarinetist has also played under the baton of arch-modernist Pierre Boulez, the kind of composer Derek Bailey enjoyed taking to task in his book Improvisation. You might think the Frenchman's uncompromising serialism and the free playing Bailey defended with such passion all his life would have little in common, yet both men were hugely influenced by Anton Webern. It's an influence you can hear right through Bailey's career in his obsessive exploration of tight parcels of registrally-fixed pitches, notably those trademark ringing harmonics. Meanwhile, Coe's meandering semitones and sinuous arabesques here recall both Boulez's clarinet writing in Domaines, and the harmonic world of Boulez's own teacher Olivier Messiaen. Still, no traditional classical musical notation could ever render the extraordinary rhythmic subtlety and timbral complexity of this music. It's at one and the same time dazzlingly virtuosic -- Coe and Bailey are on stellar form throughout, and have enough sense to, yes, accompany each other where needs be -- and supremely lyrical and spacious. An absolute delight.'

Tracklist
A1 Kuru 2:23
A2 Sugu 1:25
A3 Itsu 3:01
A4 Koko 2:18
A5 Ima 2:04
A6 Sarinu 2:13
A7 Omoidasu 6:04
B1 Chiku 4:03
B2 Taku 4:33
B3 Toki 13:20
C1 Burgundy 4:56
C2 Bourbon 6:31
C3 Dumaine 5:30
C4 Chartres 5:01
D1 Lafitte 5:15
D2 South Rampart 6:23
D3 Basin 15:01

Credits
Artwork [Original] ? Nicolette Amette
Clarinet [In C] ? Tony Coe
Design ? Sandhya Ellis
Guitar ? Derek Bailey
Photography By [Inner Sleeves] ? Jak Kilby
Recorded By ? Antony David (tracks: A1 to B3)

Notes
Side A+B recorded ... at Riverside Studios London on April 23th + 24th, 1979.
Side C+D recorded at the BBC in London on April 4th & May 11th, 1979, for the Jazz in Britain radio programme presented by Charles Fox.
Side C+D are previously unreleased. Times per physical recording.
Original reels were transferred at Abbey Road, mastering by D&M and manufacturing by PALLAS in Germany.