Company

Company was the free improvisation project of the English guitarist Derek Bailey (1930-2005). Rather than a fixed band, it was a changing ensemble that Bailey assembled to bring together improvisers from different backgrounds who might not otherwise have played together. Its records came out mainly on Incus, the label Bailey co-founded in 1970, and its annual Company Week festival ran from 1977 to 1994. The first records, Company 1, 2 and 3, appeared in 1976.