Incus Records is a British record company and label founded by Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Michael Walters that specializes in free jazz and improvised music.[1][2]
| Incus Records | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder | Derek Bailey Tony Oxley Evan Parker |
| Genre | Free jazz, free improvisation |
| Country of origin | UK |
| Location | London, England |
| Official website | www |
The first release on the label was Incus Number 0 (zero), a 7 “ record with AMM LIVE, after that came Incus Number 1, The Topography of the Lungs, recorded by Bailey, Parker, and percussionist Han Bennink in 1970. Walters and Oxley left the label shortly after its founding, after which it continued as a partnership between Bailey and Parker until a falling-out between the two men in the mid-1980s. Parker left in 1987.[1] Bailey continued the label with Karen Brookman until his death in 2005. Its first CD release was CYRO, a duo recording of Bailey and percussionist Cyro Baptista. In later years the label has issued videos and limited-edition CDRs intended largely for friends and faithful collectors. It relaunched with a new website and a full catalogue in early 2009.
Aside from recordings by Bailey and Parker (who also produced), the Incus catalogue includes the work of Barry Guy, Howard Riley, Kenny Wheeler,[2] Steve Lacy, and John Zorn.[1]
At various times since 1985, Incus Records sponsored festivals of improvised music in London.[3]
Discography
edit| Catalog No. | Artist | Album | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Incus 1 | Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink | The Topography of the Lungs | Subsequently released with two bonus tracks on CD on the Psi label credited to Evan Parker |
| Incus 2 | Derek Bailey | Solo Guitar | A revised version of this album, with alternative improvisations, was released as Solo (Incus 2R) in 1978. A CD version, incorporating improvisations from the original and revised LPs was released in 1993 |
| Incus 3/4 | Paul Rutherford, Derek Bailey, Barry Guy | Iskra 1903 | An expanded three-CD set comprising the music on this double LP plus 10 bonus tracks was released on Emanem as Chapter One 1970-1972 in 2000 |
| Incus 5 | Evan Parker, Paul Lytton | Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) | Released on CD in 2002 on the Psi label |
| Incus 6/7 | Barry Guy/The London Jazz Composer's Orchestra | Ode | Released on CD in 1996 on Intakt Records |
| Incus 8 | Tony Oxley | Tony Oxley | |
| Incus 9 | Derek Bailey, Han Bennink | Derek Bailey & Han Bennink | |
| Incus 10 | Kenny Wheeler | Song for Someone | Released on CD in 2004 on the Psi label |
| Incus 11 | Balance | Balance | Radu Malfatti, Ian Brighton, Phil Wachsmann, Colin Wood, Frank Perry |
| Incus 12 | Derek Bailey | Lot 74: Solo Improvisations | Released on CD by Incus in 2009 |
| Incus 13 | Howard Riley | Synopsis | Released on CD by Emanem in 2000 with one bonus track |
| Incus 14 | Evan Parker, Paul Lytton | At the Unity Theatre | Released on CD with bonus tracks on Psi in 2003 |
| Incus 15 | Steve Beresford, Nigel Coombes, John Russell, Dave Solomon, Garry Todd | Teatime | Released on CD on the Emanem label in 2009 |
| Incus 16 | Evan Parker, Derek Bailey | The London Concert | Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London. Released on CD, with bonus tracks, on Psi in 2005 |
| Incus 17 | Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir | The Music Improvisation Company 1968-1971 | Released by Incus on CD in 1992 |
| Incus 18 | Tony Oxley | February Papers | |
| Incus 19 | Evan Parker | Saxophone Solos | Released by Psi on CD in 2009 |
| Incus 20 | Derek Bailey, Tristan Honsinger | Duo | |
| Incus 21 | Company | Company I | Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Tristan Honsinger, Maarten Altena |
| Incus 22 | Barry Guy, | Statements V-XI: For Double Bass and Violone | |
| Incus 23 | Company | Company 2 | Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, Evan Parker |
| Incus 24 | Spontaneous Music Ensemble | Biosystem | John Stevens, Roger Smith, Nigel Coombes, Colin Wood |
| Incus 25 | Company | Company 3 | Derek Bailey, Han Bennink |
| Incus 26 | Company | Company 4 | Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy |
| Incus 27 | Evan Parker | Monoceros | Released on CD in 1999 on Chronoscope |
| Incus 28 | Company | Company 5 | Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Tristan Honsinger, Maarten Altena |
| Incus 29 | Company | Company 6 | Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Lol Coxhill, Steve Lacy, Steve Beresford, Tristan Honsinger, Maarten Altena, Han Bennink |
| Incus 30 | Company | Company 7 | Derek Bailey, Leo Smith, Evan Parker, Anthony Braxton, Lol Coxhill, Steve Lacy, Steve Beresford, Tristan Honsinger, Maarten Altena, Han Bennink |
| Incus 31 | John Russell/Richard Coldman | Home Cooking/Guitar Solos | split album |
| Incus 32 | Gary Todd, Roger Turner | Sunday Best | |
| Incus 33 | David Toop, Paul Burwell, Hugh Davies, Max Eastley, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Annabel Nicolson, Evan Parker | Circadian Rhythm | |
| Incus 34 | Derek Bailey, Tony Coe | Time | |
| Incus 35 | Evan Parker, George E. Lewis | From Saxophone & Trombone | |
| Incus 36 | Company | Fables | Derek Bailey, Dave Holland, George Lewis, Evan Parker |
| Incus 37 | Various Artists | Pisa 1980 Improvisors' Symposium | Evan Parker & George Lewis/Maarten Altena & Derek Bailey/Barry Guy, Paul Lovens, Paul Lytton, Evan Parker & Phil Wachsmann/Maarten Altena, Barry Guy, George Lewis, Paul Rutherford & Giancarlo Schiaffini |
| Incus 38 | Company | Fictions | Derek Bailey, Steve Beresford, Lol Coxhill, Ian Croall, Misha Mengelberg |
| Incus 39 | Evan Parker | Six of One | |
| Incus 40 | Derek Bailey | Aida | Released on CD in 1996 on Dexter's Cigar |
| Incus 41 | Derek Bailey, Jamie Muir | Dart Drug | |
| Incus 42 | Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton | Tracks | |
| Incus 43 | Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton | Royal Volume 1 | |
| Incus 45 | Evan Parker, George Lewis, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton | Hook, Drift & Shuffle | |
| Incus 46/47 | Company | Epiphany | Derek Bailey, George Lewis, Akio Suzuki, Phil Wachsmann, Ursula Oppens, Fred Frith, Julie Tippetts, Anne LeBaron, Moto Yoshizawa |
| Incus 48 | Derek Bailey | Notes | |
| Incus 49 | Evan Parker | The Snake Decides | Released on CD on Psi in 2003 |
| Incus 50 | Derek Bailey, Evan Parker | Compatibles | |
| Incus 51 | Company | Trios | Derek Bailey, John Corbett, Vinko Globokar, Evan Parker, Peter Brötzmann, J. D. Parran, Ernst Reyseger, Joëlle Léandre, Jamie Muir, Hugh Davies |
| Incus 52 | Steve Noble, Alex Maguire | Live at Oscars | |
| Incus CD01 | Derek Bailey, Cyro Baptista | Cyro | |
| Incus CD02 | Derek Bailey, Han Bennink | Han | |
| Incus CD03 | Tony Bevan, Greg Kingston, Matt Lewis | Original Gravity | |
| Incus CD04 | Company | Once | Derek Bailey, Lee Konitz, Richard Teitelbaum, Carlos Zingaro, Tristan Honsinger, Barre Phillips, Steve Noble |
| Incus CD05 | Derek Bailey, Barre Phillips | Figuring | |
| Incus CD06 | Steve Noble, Alex Ward | Ya Boo, Reel & Rumble | |
| Incus CD07 | Company | Company 6 & 7 | Compilation of tracks from Incus 29 and Incus 30 |
| Incus CD8 | Tony Bevan, Steve Noble, Paul Rogers | Bigshots | |
| Incus CD9 | Derek Bailey, Thebe Lipere, Louis Moholo | Village Life | |
| Incus CD10 | Derek Bailey | Solo Guitar Volume 1 | Reissue of Incus LP 2 and Incus LP 2R |
| Incus CD11 | Derek Bailey | Solo Guitar Volume 2 | |
| Incus CD12 | Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir | The Music Improvisation Company 1968-1971 | Reissue of Incus 17 |
| Incus CD13 | Shaking Ray Levis | False Prophets or Dang Good Guessers! | |
| Incus CD14 | John Stevens, Derek Bailey | Playing | |
| Incus CD15 | Tony Oxley | The Tony Oxley Quartet | |
| Incus CD16 | Company | Company 91 Volume 1 | |
| Incus CD17 | Company | Company 91 Volume 2 | |
| Incus CD18 | Company | Company 91 Volume 3 | |
| Incus CD19 | Jamie Muir, Derek Bailey | Dart Drug | Reissue of Incus 41 |
| Incus CD20 | John Zorn, Fred Frith | The Art of Memory | |
| Incus CD21 | John Butcher, Vanessa Mackness | Respiritus | |
| Incus CD22 | John Stevens, Kent Carter, Derek Bailey | One Time | |
| Incus CD23 | Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn | In Memory of Nikki Arane | |
| Incus CD24 | Roger Smith, Neil Metcalfe | S&M | |
| Incus CD25 | Alan Wilkinson, Stefan Jaworzyn | In a Sentimental Mood | |
| Incus CD26 | Henry Kaiser, John Oswald | Improvised Vancouver | |
| Incus CD27 | Steve Beresford, Dennis Palmer, Bob Stagner, Roger Turner | Short in the U.K. | |
| Incus CD28 | Derek Bailey, John Butcher, Oren Marshall | Trio Playing | |
| Incus CD29/30 | Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley | Soho Suites | |
| Incus CD31 | Derek Bailey | Takes Fakes & Dead She Dances | |
| Incus CD32 | George E. Lewis, Bertram Turetzky | Conversations | |
| Incus CD33 | Paul Hession, Alan Wilkinson, Simon H. Fell, Joe Morris | Registered Firm | |
| Incus CD34 | Derek Bailey, Han Bennink | Post Improvisation 1: When We're Smiling | |
| Incus CD35 | Derek Bailey, Han Bennink | Post Improvisation 2: Air Mail Special | |
| Incus CD36 | Derek Bailey, Susie Ibarra | Daedal | |
| Incus CD37 | Derek Bailey, Alex Ward | LOCationAL | |
| Incus CD38 | Mats Gustafsson, Jim O'Rourke | Xylophonen Virtuosen | |
| Incus CD39 | Joseph Holbrooke | Joseph Holbrook '98 | Derek Bailey, Gavin Bryars, Tony Oxley |
| Incus CD40 | Derek Bailey, Keiji Haino | Songs | |
| Incus CD41 | Company | Company 5 | Reissue of Incus 28 |
| Incus CD42/43 | Company | Epiphany | Reissue of Incus 46/47 |
| Incus CD44/45 | Company | Company in Marseille | Derek Bailey, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Will Gaines, Mark Wastell |
| Incus CD46 | Acoustic Guitar Trio | Acoustic Guitar Trio | Nels Cline, Jim McAuley, Rod Poole |
| Incus CD47 | Steve Noble, John Edwards, Alex Ward | False Face Society | |
| Incus CD48/49 | Derek Bailey | New Sights, Old Sounds | |
| Incus CD50 | Derek Bailey, Min Xiao-Fen | Flying Dragons | |
| Incus CD51 | Derek Bailey, Julian Kytasty, Roger Turner, Alan Wilkinson | Duos, London 2001 | |
| Incus CD52 | Derek Bailey, Susie Ibarra | BIDS | |
| Incus CD53 | Derek Bailey, Tristan Honsinger | Tristan (Duo) | |
| Incus CD54 | Derek Bailey, Ingar Zach | Seven | |
| Incus CD55 | Will Gaines | Rappin & Tappin | |
| Incus CD56 | Limescale | Limescale | |
| Incus CD57 | Derek Bailey | Lot 74 | Reissue of Incus 12 |
| Incus CD58 | Derek Bailey, Agustí Fernández | A Silent Dance | |
| Incus CD59 | Duck Baker | The Ducks Palace | |
| Incus CD60 | Derek Bailey | More 74 | |
| Incus CD61 | Lol Coxhill, Alex Ward | Old Sights, New Sounds | |
| Incus CD62 | Derek Bailey | Concert in Milwaukee | |
| Incus CD63 | Tony Oxley, Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford, Pat Thomas, Matt Wand, Phillip Wachsmann, Ian Brighton | A Birthday Tribute: 75 years |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Adams, Simon (2002). Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 323. ISBN 1561592846.
- ^ a b Gottschalk, Kurt (16 October 2009). "Incus Records". allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 17 July 2016.
- ^ Adams, Simon (2001). "Incus". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
- ^ Incus LP Discography, Jazzlists.com, accessed 12 May 2016
- ^ Incus Records: list of LPs Efi.group.shef.ac.uk, accessed 31 May 2016
- ^ Incus Records: list of CDs, Efi.group.shef.ac.uk, accessed 31 May 2016