Re: derek bailey

[John McIntyre <mcintyre@pa.msu.edu>]

ditch wrestler wrote:

> It's a great book and highly recommended for anybody that is 
> interested in non-idiomatic playing.  (That's Derek's term for his 
> style of playing - he didn't like the term 'free jazz'.  I don't much 
> care for the term either but it's the term that most people recognize...)
>  

For a while I was using the phrase "Free jazz?  No, we prefer getting 
paid", but then I heard someone describe their music as "free range 
jazz" which I think is better.

John McIntyre
mcintyre@pa.msu.edu