Dave Bailey
See also: Bailey
Dave Bailey (Samuel David Bailey) is a Batteur American born with Portsmouth (Virginia) the February 22nd 1926.
Of a family of musicians where it receives its first lessons of Musique to Philadelphia, it continues studies of music in Music Center Conservatory of New York in 1947. It is interested particularly in the style of max Roach, Art Blakey, and, later, of Philly Joe Jones and Elvin Jones, but its style is very different.
After beginnings with Herbie Jones (1951 - 53), Al Sears, Johnny Hodges, Lou Donaldson (1957 - 61), Charles Mingus and Horace Silver, it is engaged in 1955 and until in 1959, it works with Gerry Mulligan in its various combos, where it replaces Larry Bunker and Chico Hamilton.
In parallel, it carries out a freelance career, accompanying Sony Stitt, Lee Konitz, Bob Brookmeyer or Annie Ross (1957), Ben Webster (1958), Billy Taylor, Lars Gullin or Curtis Fuller (1959), Kenny Dorham, Grant Green or Tubby Hayes (1961), Coleman Hawkins or Mark Murphy (1962), Stan Getz, Johnny Hodges, Roger Kellaway or Marian McPartland (1963), with the quintet of Clark Terry and Bob Brookmeyer (in 1964 - 65), intersected with some stays in Europe.
In 1960 - 61, it records under its name four discs, but unknown of the current record dealers, because ever republished out of CD in spite of the personnel of value (Clark Terry, Curtis Fuller, Grant Green, Kenny Dorham, Tommy Flanagan). The year 1969 mark end of its musical career: he becomes instructor of aviation in Westchester County Airport.
He leaves the memory of a discrete beater and “metronomic”, in a play without emphase, very appreciated in the small formations where he officiated. This absence of ostentation rather served it near the basic jazzfans, accustomed to the “orgy in rhythm” or the first cataclysms of the Free jazz, but not at the blowers which it accompanied. Its taste of subtlety leads it to be interested in the “Bossa nova”, that it introduces in the United States before even as it makes the fortune of Stan Getz.
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