Incus Book 1
Improvisation:
It's Nature and Practice in Music

by Derek Bailey.
60 pages wrappers

Based on accounts by practising musicians from Indian music, flamenco, baroque music, church organ playing, jazz, rock, contemporary Western composition and free improvisation, this book was first published in 1980, subsequently appeared in several languages and formed the basis of a TV series on improvisation in music. It has now been fully revised for this edition.
“A Wonderfully thoughtful book” - Village Voice

Incus Book 2
Company Week

by Peter Riley

A commentary on Company Week 1977.
A contemporaneous account by Peter Riley
in prose, poetry and drawings of Company Week 1977.

Incus Book 3
Derek Bailey
and the Story of Free Improvisation

Biography by Ben Watson
Hardback 416 pages.


Verso Publishers 2004

This book traces the musical career of the innovative, uncompromising practitioner of Free Improvisation. Includes a detailed discography of Bailey's enormous output.

Incus Book 4
Intervals

Ringbound 76 pages.

Published by Beehive Press N.Y.C.

Writings, mostly poetry, by musicians including :
Bill Dixon,Karen Borca, Joe Mc Phee,Thurston Moore etc