Improv Nights 2026: A Tribute to Derek Bailey New York Performances

At Roulette, *Improv Nights 2026: A Tribute to Derek Bailey* frames live classical performance around the legacy of Bailey’s unsentimental approach to improvisation. Featured performers include Improv Nights 2026, Chris Ryan Williams, and Derek Bailey, with the program treating “tribute” less as nostalgia than as a working method onstage. In New York, where Roulette has long functioned as a home base for experimental music, this kind of memorial concert carries cultural weight even without a specific NYC-premiere claim. One clear takeaway is how the music foregrounds decision-making in real time, not repertoire.