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derek bailey & han bennink - derek bailey & han bennink - honest jons records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Jazz

1. Call That A Balance?
2. Misty
3. The Title
4. Who Is That
5. The Girl With The Concrete Tongue
6. Din Din Teo
7. On A Clear Day
8. Barb
9. Shake Your Arse White Man
10. Whiling
11. When Day Is Done And Shadows Fall I Think Of You
12. Improvisation I
13. Improvisation II
14. Improvisation III

Kicking off a series of collaborations between Honest Jon’s and Incus: three double LPs (this being the second) of the legendary free-improvising guitarist Derek Bailey, solo and in duos with Anthony Braxton and Han Bennink, augmenting the original releases with marvellous, previously unissued music.

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The tussling vegetables in Mal Dean’s cover-sketch somehow befit perfectly this extraordinary duo of Bailey and the great Dutch drummer Han Bennink. Recorded in London in 1972, Incus 9 was their second record (after an ICP in 1969), becoming a blueprint and inspiration for generations of free-improvisers. It is paired here with a brilliant session from the following year, with the same power and friendly combativeness, and oodles of creativity, technique and humour. It’s obvious how much they loved playing together.