“Improvisation enjoys the curious distinction of being each essentially the most extensively practiced of all musical actions and the least acknowledged and understood.” That is the primary sentence in his Introduction Improvisation: Its Nature and Follow in Music, by Derek Bailey. It’s the finest ebook on improvisation but revealed. There may be an apparent clarification for this high quality, which is that Bailey was one of many nice improvisers of the recording period, not simply expert however uncompromising and disciplined in a method that few may match. However the ebook is not about Bailey and his concepts about making music (though that is a theme included), it is a sequence…