The Music Improvisation Company

The Music Improvisation Company was a British free improvisation group formed in 1968 by guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonist Evan Parker, Hugh Davies on live electronics and self-built instruments, and percussionist Jamie Muir. Bailey and Parker had met in the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. The quartet played music that avoided any fixed idiom. The group's debut album, The Music Improvisation Company, was recorded in London in August 1970 and released by ECM that year, produced by Manfred Eicher, with singer Christine Jeffrey on two tracks.