Person · Male
Derek Bailey
guitar
- From
- Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Active
- 1930–2005
- Releases
- 122
- free improvisation
- free jazz
- jazz
- avant-garde
- avant-garde jazz
- electroacoustic
- experimental
- experimental rock
About
Derek Bailey (29 January 1930 – 25 December 2005) was an English avant-garde guitarist and an important figure in the free improvisation movement. Bailey abandoned conventional performance techniques found in jazz, exploring atonality, noise, and whatever unusual sounds he could produce with the guitar. Much of his work was released on his own label Incus Records. In addition to solo work, Bailey collaborated frequently with other musicians and recorded with collectives such as Spontaneous Music Ensemble and Company.
Member of
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Iskra 1903 guitar
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Tony Oxley Quintet guitar
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The Peter Brötzmann Sextet guitar
Discography
Albums
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The Topography of the Lungs
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Han Bennink & Derek Bailey
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Solo Guitar
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Derek Bailey & Han Bennink
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Incus Taps
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Improvisation
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Duo 2
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Guitar Solos 2
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New Sights, Old Sounds
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Fragments
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Groupcomposing
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Time
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Idylle und Katastrophen
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Dart Drug
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Metalanguage Festival of Improvised Music 1980, Volume 2: The Science Set
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Yankees
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Notes: Solo Guitar Improvisations
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Cyro
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Figuring
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Lace
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Solo Guitar Volume 2
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Different Guitars
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Duo & Trio Improvisations
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Playing
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Moment Précieux
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Wireforks
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Drop Me Off at 96th
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Banter
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Saisoro
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寄り添い合いし 秩序と無秩序の気配かな
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Drops
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Guitar, Drums 'n' Bass Apple Music
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And,
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Music and Dance Apple Music
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The Sign of 4
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Legend of the Blood Yeti
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Soho Suites
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Trio Playing
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Takes Fakes and Dead She Dances
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Viper Apple Music
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Han
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Tohjinbo
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Post Improvisation, Volume 2: Air Mail Special
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Departures
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Play Backs
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Fairly Early With Postscripts
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Arch Duo
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Daedal
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Post Improvisation, Volume 1: When We're Smilin
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Mirakle
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Songs
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LOCationAL
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Llaer
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String Theory
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Duos, London 2001
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Close to the Kitchen
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Fish
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Ore
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Bids
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Hello Goodbye
Live
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Duo in Concert
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Duo in Concert
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Derek Bailey, Trevor Watts & Terry Day at LTC – Amazing Band at N.E.Poly
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Topographie Parisienne (Dunois, April 2ⁿᵈ, 3ᵈ & 4ᵗʰ, 1981)
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28 Rue Dunois Juillet 1982
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Good Cop Bad Cop
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Flying Dragons
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Live At Lamar's
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Live in Okayama 1987
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Outcome
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Dynamics of the Impromptu
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Aida’s Call
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No Waiting
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Harras
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Improvised Music New York 1981
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Village Life
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Pleistozaen mit Wasser
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Compatibles
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Royal Volume 1
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Concert in Milwaukee
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Aida
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PISA 1980: Improvisors’ Symposium
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The London Concert
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First Duo Concert
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Improvisations for Cello and Guitar
Other
Links
Listen
Concerts
Collaboration
Also known as
デレク・ベイリー
Tags
- alternative/indie rock
- experimental jazz
- film score
Identifiers
- MusicBrainz
- 6cd3b12e-c899-4f59-a770-c217954f247a
- ISNI
- 0000000120207509
- IPI
- 00041122538
Data from MusicBrainz, saved 11 Nov 2026. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, covers from the Cover Art Archive and Apple Music.