The Walnut Room

David Thomas Bailey

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Nobody escapes their roots, right? Music from Cuba, the Balkans, Appalachia, whether high art music or simple folk music, still maintains the essence of a unique musical culture. Some people like the term roots music. Well my roots are in southwest Denver, along the neighborhoods lining South Federal Boulevard. Here, my unique musical culture, my roots music, spread from punk rock like the Minutemen to nortena. In high school, I played in rock bands while working fast food to finance jazz guitar lessons at Brentwood Music. At this time I gained a love for musical scholarship and earned a music degree at the University of Colorado at Denver and then a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Northern Colorado. Although I love jazz music, I have adopted the term post-jazz to define my music; I felt inspiration from my roots that was too strong to ignore. My musical goals are now to take all the music that have made my southwest Denver life unique and apply the improvisational processes I have learned from jazz music. The result is hopefully to make something new and descriptive of my life in the American West.

I currently play a couple of Greg German seven-string guitars which allow me to occupy bass and guitar roles simultanioulsy. I play these instruments in three principle projects:

1. FaceMan, a music/multimedia experience. The music is a rock/folk hybrid I have termed “death folk.” www.thefacemanmusic.com

2. Man vs. Village, a trio with Andrew Lindstrom and Glenn Taylor performing original instrumental music.

3. Micro Marauder, a duo with Dean Hirschfield on drums. Old friends exploring the the outer rims of improvisation.

I also am beginning a new endeavor where I will be writing music for specific locations in Denver, click on the link beneath the picture for more intformation on the Locus Project.