Colin Bailey
Colin James Bailey ( born July 9, 1934 in Swindon, England) is a British- American jazz drummer.
Bailey learned as a child and had drumming 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 ). As the AJQ toured the United States, he was taken by Vince Guaraldi in the band, where Bailey played alongside Jimmy Witherspoon and Ben Webster until 1963. He then settled in California and worked in the early 1960s when Clare Fischer ( 1962-64 ), Victor Feldman (1964 ), Joe Pass (1963 /64), and in the Miles Davis Quintet, where he occasionally Tony Williams replaced in 1963. 1964/65 he went with Benny Goodman on a world tour and participated in TV show by Terry Gibbs; 1966/67, he went with George Shearing on tour. He also worked at this time with Chet Baker, Roger Kellaway, Eddie Lockjaw Davis, Harry Sweets Edison, Ray Brown, Joao Gilberto, and Blossom Dearie (1975).
1970 Bailey was a U.S. citizen. He then worked for six years in the backing band of Ed Shaughnessy in the Tonight Show Band and had a role as a drummer in the Fernwood Tonight Show. In 1979, he moved to Texas and taught from 1981 to 1984 at North Texas State University. Later he worked with Ernestine Anderson, Richie Cole, Jimmy Rowles, Red Mitchell, Carol Sloane, Joe Pass, John Pisano and Weslia Whitfield. Bailey wrote next 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, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9
- Jazz drummer
- British Musician
- Americans
- Born in 1934
- Man