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Derek Bailey's Music Improvisation Company: Purcell Room, London

Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 7 February 1970

YOU MAY not always be able to wait for a composer to write the music you want to play, to paraphrase the ads for the concert by Derek Bailey's Music Improvisation Company at the Purcell Room last Friday, but that's little defence when the music you DO play doesn't catch fire.

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