Derek Bailey

guitar · 1930–2005 · Sheffield

English guitarist, he co-founded Incus in 1970, the first independent British label owned by musicians, then launched the Company project in 1976. Author of "Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice" (1980), he rejected the labels jazz and free jazz in favor of "non-idiomatic" improvisation.

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Styles

• Free improvisation and European free

Landmark tracks

• Titan Moon (1970)
• Lot 74 (1974)

Sources

• Source

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