Editing Incus Records (section)

{{Short description|British record company and label}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}

{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Incus Records
| founded     = {{start date|1970}}
| founder     = [[Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey]]<br />[[Tony Oxley]]<br />[[Evan Parker]]
| genre       = [[Free jazz]], [[free improvisation]]
| country     = UK
| location    = London, England
| url         = {{URL|www.incusrecords.force9.co.uk}}
}}

'''Incus Records''' is a British record company and [[record label|label]] founded by [[Derek Bailey (guitarist)|Derek Bailey]], [[Tony Oxley]], [[Evan Parker]] and Michael Walters that specializes in [[free jazz]] and [[free improvisation|improvised music]].<ref name="New Grove">{{cite book|last=Adams|first=Simon|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|editor=Barry Kernfeld|page=323}}</ref><ref name="Gottschalk">{{cite web|last1=Gottschalk|first1=Kurt|title=Incus Records|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/incus-records-by-kurt-gottschalk.php|website=allaboutjazz.com|access-date=17 July 2016|date=16 October 2009}}</ref>

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.<ref name="New Grove" /> 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 (musician)|Howard Riley]], [[Kenny Wheeler]],<ref name="Gottschalk" /> [[Steve Lacy (saxophonist)|Steve Lacy]], and [[John Zorn]].<ref name="New Grove" />

At various times since 1985, Incus Records sponsored festivals of improvised music in London.<ref>{{Cite Grove |last=Adams |first=Simon |title=Incus}}</ref>