“I am an enthusiast for the Watson method and I'm prepared to follow him, even to places where I wouldn't under other circumstances go ... His attack, his singularity. His indecent decency.”

– Iain Sinclair

“A major achievement, as full of dogged wit and irascible single-mindedness as Bailey himself”

– Daniel Spicer, Jazzwise

“The ideal biographer of Derek Bailey.”

– John Fordham, Guardian

“Although Ben Watson's unilateral and frequently strident critical stance may have endeared him to few, Derek Bailey, a dogged pioneer of a genuinely unpopular music, could not have wished for a more committed and enthusiastic champion”

– Lou Glandfield, Times Literary Supplement

“The most renowned member of the British free-form jazz movement.”

– Independent

“A towering giant of the guitar. Singular, unique.”

– David Sylvian

“One of the most original and idiosyncratic musicians I have ever known.”

– Gavin Bryars