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English guitarist Derek Bailey (1930–2005) moved from jazz to a non-idiomatic approach, free improvisation; he wrote Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music (1980), ran the Incus Records label from 1970, and from 1976 ran Company, an improvisers' festival.
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from jazz into a non-idiomatic approach - free-improvisation
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