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Artist:	HOLBROOKE, JOSEPH
Title:	'65 (Rehearsal Extract)
Label:	INCUS RECORDS (UK)
Format:	CD EP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	INCUS S01CD

"CD single (10 & 1/2 minutes) of the Joseph Holbrooke group, recorded in 1965. With Derek Bailey (guitar), Gavin Bryars (bass) and Tony Oxley (drums) -- a legendary ensemble, and a key to the whole dawn of the European free music arena.. The first and only issued recording by this trio (named after an obscure turn-of-the-century UK composer, Joseph Holbrooke). Includes an addition of some poorly designed CD Rom material (text, photos and other ephemera about the brief and generally undocumented existence of this trio) that doesn't seem to commonly function (doesn't work with Netscape, seems to auto-crash on Explorer -- but maybe you're made of tougher stuff). "This short piece was recorded in rehearsal in the front room of my ground floor flat at 329 Crooksmoor Road, Sheffield some time in 1965. It was a medium-size living room, carpeted and with an open fireplace, and was just big enough for the three of us to have sufficient space to play. I had lived in the upstairs flat during my last two years as a philosophy student, a period when, in reality, I was spending more time working virtually as a professional musician even before I graduated in 1964. Throughout the time that I lived there, until the end of the summer of 1966, the three of us would rehearse frequently and try out ideas. Sometimes just Tony and I would practice together, working on complex approaches to pulsed time, especially in order for the trio to become familiar with Tony's increasing interest in subdivisions of triplets (even when we were still playing relatively conventional jazz compositions). At other times the three of us would rehearse, basically testing possible procedures in our transition from jazz to free playing. We would perform regularly in public, playing each Saturday lunchtime in an upstairs room in The Grapes, Trippet Lane." -- Gavin Bryars. Limited stock.

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