Title
Gavin Bryars
Gavin Bryars
Description
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Photographed in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music, at the end of the performance of his 1971 composition, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, a piece based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza, which was the singer's recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn.
Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Gavin Bryars (born 1943) is an English composer and double bassist.He has worked with jazz, free improvisation, minimalism avant-garde and experimental music. Photographed in the Great Hall at Dartington Summer School of Music, at the end of the performance of his 1971 composition, Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet, a piece based on a loop of an unknown homeless man singing a brief improvised stanza, which was the singer's recollection of the chorus of a gospel hymn.
