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01. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Kuru
02. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Sugu
03. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Itsu
04. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Koko
05. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Ima
06. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Sarinu
07. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Omoidasu
08. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Chiku
09. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Taku
10. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Toki
11. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Burgundy
12. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Bourbon
13. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Dumaine
14. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Chartres
15. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Lafitte
16. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - South Rampart
17. Derek Bailey & Tony Coe - Basin
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HJR 208LP HJR 208LP
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2/15/2019

2022 repress. Honest Jon's Records present a reissue of Derek Bailey and Tony Coe's Time, originally released on Incus in 1979. Multi-reedist Tony Coe was born in 1934, four years after guitarist Derek Bailey. He cut his teeth as a career jazzman with Humphrey Lyttleton, before an extended stint with the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band. On this rare 1979 duo outing, he sticks to clarinet. And though that instrument has an illustrious jazz pedigree, Coe's playing here is something else. It's worth noting that the clarinetist has also played under the baton of arch-modernist Pierre Boulez, the kind of composer Derek Bailey enjoyed taking to task in his book Improvisation. You might think the Frenchman's uncompromising serialism and the free playing Bailey defended with such passion all his life would have little in common, yet both men were hugely influenced by Anton Webern. It's an influence you can hear right through Bailey's career in his obsessive exploration of tight parcels of registrally-fixed pitches, notably those trademark ringing harmonics. Meanwhile, Coe's meandering semitones and sinuous arabesques here recall both Boulez's clarinet writing in Domaines, and the harmonic world of Boulez's own teacher Olivier Messiaen. Still, no traditional classical musical notation could ever render the extraordinary rhythmic subtlety and timbral complexity of this music. It's at one and the same time dazzlingly virtuosic -- Coe and Bailey are on stellar form throughout, and have enough sense to, yes, accompany each other where needs be -- and supremely lyrical and spacious. An absolute delight.