Derek Bailey George Lewis Duo

Well, that was a well spent 3 minutes 50 seconds in my day. I'm ready for anything now.

Picasso is supposed to have met an American serviceman who was very unimpressed with all abstract art and wasn't shy about expressing his opinion. Rather than argue with him, the artist turned the conversation to the American's life back home.Learning that the young man was engaged, Picasso asked to see had a picture of his fiancee'. When the photo was put before him, Picasso lept up in mock horror: "My God, man! You're not going to marry a woman that small?"

Wow this is really cool. Thanks for posting. What struck me first about Derek Bailey is his impeccable time.

Music is one of the most abstract forms of art, you could even say it doesn' exist; it is just waves in the air. Taliking about physics in music, is something that I personally think is limiting in music. Who are certain persons to say what's music/art and what's not? It is up to the listener. If even one person thinks this is music/art, it is. That's my opinion.

you could say even WE don't exist; we are just waves in the air

Are you kidding me?
Try and transcribe this and see how far you get. Start with the time signature lol

but that doesn't necessarily make it "good", just to be complex. this is amazing though

can someone explain to me the appeal of this music? is it what youd call free jazz.... im not critisizing it im just curious to hear your opinions about what makes it good?

behaves no idioms, has no paradigm. directly creative? stuff like that..

bailey himself has admitted that his music was ideomatic after all. There is a common asthetic in a lot of free improvisation and it has become genre. It happens to be a genre that i enjoy imensley.