Re: Improvising vs. composing books

["Emile Tobenfeld (a.k.a Dr. T)" <emile@foryourhead.com>]

The Bailey book is great. I'd recommend even more highly

Free Play, by Stephen Nachmanovitch  published by Tarcher


At 12:45 PM -0600 2/1/04, Rick Williamson wrote:
>The best advice I could give would be to suggest the book by Derek 
>Bailey, "Improvisation- Its Nature and Practice in Music"
>ISBN 0-306-80528-6
>British Library 0 7123 0506 8
>
>If you haven't encountered this text yet, you should take the time. 
>Nice and open ended without a lot of hard opinions to swallow. A 
>thinking persons guide to music making.
>


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