Watson, Ben

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Take performance to the next level! This book does not just teach you how the CLR works--it teaches you exactly what you need to do now to obtain the best performance today. It will expertly guide you through the nuts and bolts of extreme performance optimization in .NET, comple…

Describes the life of the experimental guitarist who quit his job as a highly successful 1960s session musician to pursue an abstract form of avant-garde, improvisational music that has been admired by many other progressive, leading-edge musicians.

After ten years working himself to the top of his profession as dance hall and session musician, Derek Bailey committed himself to 'free improvisation' in the early 1960s. He has lived to see it become the lingua franca of today's art music scene.

"This brilliant biography of the cult guitar player will likely cause you to abandon everything you thought you knew about jazz improvisation, post-punk and the avant-garde. Derek Bailey was at the top of his profession as a dance band and recordsession guitarist when, in the ea…