DEREK BAILEY - The Music Improvisation Company (1970)

Derek Bailey is a seminal figure in the development of British free improv, and although this is one of Bailey’s earliest recordings, it houses much of what he would come to be known for: microscopic precision, a love of empty space, a supremely fractured aesthetic, and a refreshingly subtle disregard for the rules.


Tracks
1.Third Stream Boogaloo (D. Bailey/H. Davis/C. Jeffrey/J. Muir/e. Parker)
2. Dragon Path (D. Bailey/H. Davis/J. Muir/E. Parker)
3. Packaged Eel (D. Bailey/H. Davies/J. Muir/E. Parker)
4. Untitled No. 1 (D. Bailey/H. Davies/J. Muir/E. Parker)
5. Untitled No. 2 (D. Bailey/H. Davies/C. Jeffrey/J. Muir/E. Parker)
6. Tuck (D. Bailey/E. Parker/H. Davies/J. Muir)
7. Wolgang Van Gangband (D. Bailey/H. Davies/J. Muir/E. Parker)

DEREK BAILEY  electric guitar
EVAN PARKER  soprano saxophone
HUGH DAVIES  live electronics
JAMIE MUIR  percussion
CHRISTINE JEFFREY voice

Recorded on August 25-27, 1970 at the Merstham Studios, London
ECM Records  ECM 1005 / UCCU-9019