Famed for his work on improvisational music, Bailey also co-founded, in 197… Read Full Bio ↴Famed for his work on improvisational music, Bailey also co-founded, in 1970, the record label Incus with Tony Oxley and Evan Parker, often said to be the first British independent label owned by musicians.

This naturally progressed into the co-founding of Musics magazine in 1975. It became one of the most influential jazz publications in England, and instrumental for the formation of the London Musicians Collective.

Bailey's improv musician community grew in 1976 when he formed Company, to include like-minded improvisors, such as Anthony Braxton, Lol Coxhill, Fred Frith, Steve Lacy, Leo Smith, Han Bennink, Henry Kaiser and others who gave annual concerts.

Bailey once suggested to critic John Corbett that his music should just be called "free," so that the term would have four letters like "jazz" and "rock," but be neither. As Bailey said: "Four letter words are good for music, it seems to me, if you want to nail something onto it."
Derek & The Ruins live at the Purcell Rooms, South Bank, London, Apr 3 1997.
The Ruins are Sasaki Hisashi on bass and Yoshida Tatsuya on drums and voice. The above show was part of a broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Mixing It programme.

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Derek Bailey & Ruins Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Derek Bailey:

Head You go to my head And you linger like a haunting…
Laura You know the feeling of something half remembered Of somethi…
You Go You go to my head And you linger like a haunting…
You Go To My Head You go to my head And you linger like a haunting…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Ruins:

Love Sometimes I feel I've got to run away I've got to…
Ruins Ashen grey, poisoned horizon As you cling to your toppled th…
The end Lonely boy took his life in the living room. He's…

Tides Nothing more than a haircut This has become all that we…

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