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The Music Improvisation Company
The Music Improvisation Company
Studio album by the Music Improvisation Company
Released	1970
Recorded	August 25–27, 1970
Studio	Merstham Studios; London, England
Genre	Free jazz
Length	46:04
Label	ECM; ECM 1005 ST
Producer	Manfred Eicher
The Music Improvisation Company chronology
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The Music Improvisation Company is the debut album by the Music Improvisation Company, recorded over three days in August 1970 and released on ECM later that year. The quartet features saxophonist Evan Parker, guitarist Derek Bailey, Hugh Davies on various self-made electronic instruments, and percussionist Jamie Muir, with guest vocalist Christine Jeffrey appearing on two tracks.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[4]
Tom Hull	B^[5]

AllMusic's Chris Kelsey said, "Although the musicians were conversant in jazz styles, the music made by the MIC was essentially and intentionally non-idiomatic, drawing upon any and all elements of musical thought and given voice in the moment. The resulting music was dissonant, discontinuous, and ultimately in the vanguard of improvised music."^[6]

Tyran Grillo of ECM blog Between Sound and Space wrote, "As can be expected from one look at the roster, the musicianship is excellent. Evan Parker steals the show with his bubbling outbursts of indiscernible melody while Bailey cultivates an even more anonymous approach, cutting in and out with a surgeon’s touch. In the end, such a project can only be what one makes of it. Its difficulties are also what make it go down smoothly, even as its effortless approach renders it impossible to fathom. It is a mysterious object, to be sure, and one that casts a new reflection with every turn."^[7]