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    —— Bom in Shield Derk Bailey ied muncwth CHC and gia th, amongst ates, George Wing and Jon Doar. Throughout 19505 Iheworkedasaguitarisinevery kind of mascalsitntion- clas conceals ‘adi, TV and reordag sudox He became intssngy interested in the Posts of fey improvid misc and bythe mid-e was devoting himself excel oti Bel. He as performed lo concn allt moe cites of Bacope, Japan and Nor Americ played wth os the masans sociated wih fee improvisation, and recorded ove 90 album on lable incading CS, RCA, Deuce Grammophon ad and 'n 1970 alongwith Tony Oxley and Eran Parker, be founded Ins Reco he fre independet, icine record company in Bain. I 197¢he erable Company, changingensrble of improving masicans toa wha the msc mip be, t9 make iprovisation a pees and Lee athe forefono he sciy. The asemblingofs Compary Weekwho Tiaite— sete hphszard noe reicuouly planned and o some exten techie of macane ight ny felch people have worked with ner the preceding period” Bathe ae inanyexcepeons oth aa sont ake longtime to gt he ht peopein the right place ath igh ine. ight keep ombud fo Tong tne before actualy iting he 0 parla even and hail ony bevthen th reatnshipBrwec the andthe kr players on havent the degres of wnfararity andthe potent fo compat seem ight Exes iene gue ae stngforward that, Sometimes 2 wd card a be eT cline ‘Company is sout mutual musiomaking ad, at dine, demands dhe sacrifice of invade petrences til for msl generosity, cuosy and Sensi, he abilty to respond inmtncvely and eonstrciely to new and 16 ‘afar stato, The peopl [ie are move ots than not highly individual payers disc in steument sles and arcades, 50 ‘asourceofconinuingamarement and rate ome th the comment ‘nu emhsin wth which they pur thse projets sry always oa {nd oreerved, Whatever the iil dace sod in spite ofthe obvious sks, once the process undersay people seem to become immerse i oe ake very ‘There isan intimacy abou thi proces building misc thro proup improviation which asi develops, demands kindof render, Net oo smany people have the courage, the huiypehaps, alk bout thee things the singer Vanessa Mlackess does. OF aking pt in Company she sa Yow have 0 be prepared to tae rks. Somatic fl that Poe made a terrible fol of mse But the chink, yu have ob fepred ota. think you gradual develop a way of saying ls. thnk the more mate nus rely have a ene ofthat. Maybe you coud ar tha the lst pice we pled tonight. Everybody ated ad nh pie eradualy. That relly does take maturity. It ao regres patience both fom the acne the audience, Forme the whole hinges ery profound experince, the problems, ‘the development, the creative snl, everthing. The rely of everyone's ‘ole everyone's human salle forget It bas forte me aed beled eo Smith, who took pat in some ofthe eis eves, looks tit ke this Whoever pay with Company pay th music ofConpany fs not ey musica you woul ethers bear 1 wold nt choc ti man 0 ‘only dominate my creative ouput bu i ice to come togtir and deal ‘uth other sapet of restive me Company Week 1984 which, che programime noe says, Kaur musicians frm diferent prof the mael universe when some cee completely anfasiia wih each oe’ wor’ ined nope “Anthony Pay, who appess cule n this took dscusing beng now ‘proviso, an aso Pip Easton thehor player, st hare working with ‘he Loon ifoiees. Abst plaingom tht Wek, Pili si Towppoe Iasi eos at fet becante invest in rot of an udionc bforeethout pes of ried muse fron of ne Ad log heparin to mpl Look thstihar yon ve ays seaeo dy bent came to dnt, uite worried about. Then once eae pay ts nt lik Deng son a pir of wing; war am cre berating experience —at ast oul ply what Iwan THe then describ the dif he emountred a be exerel hat ihe Onthefietngh eerie or tne pices and Led wally gor os ke double topping, ip rind cra kinds sown By he second nigh, had 0 tar repeating tem and bythe thd might wished Tid boon a bt more sparing with them. Thon I ough ‘mT eng spontaneous in ork i tat wy" Te diay s knowing how approach improvising. And Ubad 1 eve, very guy, «new way of listen. Fuss never are whether to play th peopl, gins hom oF 0 0th. 1 thnk ied everthing Arche presen tine of weting inthe period immedael following Company Week 91, Iam sll under the inence of that event, marveling a how heslyt worked Not at how good o bd the music was much of the Paying as very Be indeed ~ bat simpy at how ie had taken place the achemy which ad produced. “Te vilinit Alexander Balanesc was one ofthe misicians who tok par When he was nterviwed by Chis Backford about his experiences in Company Week 31 he si se great advent, I leo earning process for me. Every might find things bout el aswel othe oter musician Hever me alot of strength. This gute» ding or acs tind micion tobe doing, You dn tha the music to ide bind, youre ery mh on te ine After ac night ela senseofacioveret becauceve ge trough tad managed textes somthing. “Two American musicians taking part inthe same Weck were the improvsicomposersrophoniet John Zorn and the rock guitars Backs een About working with them Bales sd “Tonights concert as very entertaing, here slot of arity and humour I found i neretng coking wth Jobn Zorn who works in his filmic way, with things changing very quickly. On the ote and, somebody Wik Buckaead stays on on thing fo ute a lng period of me. ‘When asked about Bocketeads yolune lee, descibed as oud sgrive and dominating’ Balance si "Yes but I find hat gate cal aswel being agressive He's atioy plying melodie andi intersting 0 contrat i ith Deve wha such more of textural player. Uti i ret tha al tes diferent Personalities have the opportunity come ngter ‘Asked if his lasieal background was of any use in cis improvising cometh id es. If eryto observer oun rmetl procs hen Fm proising, ib inds of memorieof hrs om's heard race | dor to exclude a) fence. Yves Raber, the vos Pench trombonist, experienced i a, thea lm and el imposed msi aso took pat in the 91 Company Week Heid Playing improvised musics ie writing without a pen It demands reat concentration to ear xehing that hein from ater mascan nd the sometime tobe playing yours. You ai have tbe bl t remember ‘that as happened the sd before andthe iat fore ads heap tithe shape of what happening ow te pices bin comma. all ‘pends onthe pple yo are proving with Sree hey ave ery {iferet aay of working yours Sometime mghtcork perf ad at ther times there's to mah beppening. Olio ou have fo apt your ‘oxy of playin depending obo you reworking with Ins, angel, adentrouses seems to bea ae commodity. And et eis the one characteristic shared by ala the may diferent kinds of players who ave ken part in Company. Pahaps cs a quality which is retard, o leased, by improvisstion In any even ea afer yee these [roupe of very special ndviuas have taken my invitation and have folleively transformed ic into unique music which, meer ess han worth Shi hae ames ty remarable LIMITS AND FREEDOM fn 1957, sven musica all only sociated with improvisation, tok att publ dnc age an adj toa sees concerts neil he fst sabe up for consideration concerned the feltonship Berween| improvstion and compostion. Afr forty mintesof callie incoherence and mutal misunderstanding, the predominant view to emerge was tha here spo sch thing a improvian, o, fthee i x indingihabe om compen Faherre compotion, shoul cher be sachin i ro diferent improvisation Having cached th, here did’ ace tobe anything che to dcss and the roup dispersed, gratefully returning 19 laying music: improvising. in fa. “This ina sme, eherewe amen Improvisations nota word whichis highly thought of parsculay by impeoisrs, some of whom wil go 19 considera ngs to avoid bang aeed with what they hae fund 0 Bea shell brash Bt, sdiionally, there wasaview strguigtobeexpesed vic, [hink,afndametal bel! or some peoples msi eres (al esti? india doesnt mater what you alt dbs mater how yu dt The creation of music tanscends method and, eset the compostionlimprovsation dichotomy Jos teist “This kindof spongy generation often cba perhaps by design, more than ites utp its, esl ean' hie the fundamental ference that separates compusicon an improvisation In any but the most binkred view of the worl msi composi looks bea very rarest bert in oth practice nd they. Impeorisatin «basi instinct, cena force in sani ie. Without thing sarives. A sours Of stati they areal comparable, ‘Nove of thes lofty projections however, are necessary reveal he manifest and mule dierencee brween composting sed pronation Here's oe for instance, cover tect eel by composcrmponsor Frederic Raewski and inproviorcomponer Steve Lay. Frei tls the 1m 1961 rant Seve Lacy om thestetin Rome, took ou my pocket tape recorder ond asked hon 10 describe fifteen seconds the ference ens compart and mproviaation. He ansuered‘nifteen sends he

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