Colin Bailey

Colin James Bailey (* 9. July 1934 in Swindon , England ) is a British - American jazz - drummer .

Live and act

Bailey learned to play drums as a child and had lessons from seven. From 1958 to the early 1960s he lived in Australia , where he played with Bryce Rohde and the Australian Jazz Quartet (AJQ). When the AJQ toured the United States, Vince Guaraldi brought him into the band, where Bailey played alongside Jimmy Witherspoon and Ben Webster until 1963. He then settled in California and worked in the early 1960s with Clare Fischer (1962-64), Victor Feldman (1964), Joe Pass (1963/64) and the Miles Davis Quintet , where he occasionally replaced Tony Williams in 1963 . In 1964/65 he went on a world tour with Benny Goodman and took part in the television show by Terry Gibbs ; In 1966/67 he went on tour with George Shearing . During this time he also worked with Chet Baker , Roger Kellaway , Eddie Lockjaw Davis , Harry Sweets Edison , Ray Brown , João Gilberto , Blossom Dearie (1975) and Joanne Grauer .

In 1970, Bailey became a US citizen. He then worked in Ed Shaughnessy's backing band in the Tonight Show Band for six years and was a drummer on the Fernwood Tonight Show. In 1979 he moved to Texas and taught at North Texas State University from 1981 to 1984 . He later worked with Ernestine Anderson , Richie Cole , Jimmy Rowles, Red Mitchell , Carol Sloane , Stefan Scaggiari , Joe Pass, John Pisano and Weslia Whitfield . Bailey also wrote two textbooks on drums.

Works

• Colin Bailey: Bass Drum Control Solos. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 063404950X

swell

• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .