Any good books on Free improv?

Hrm. Eddie (AMM) Prevost apparently has a quite (in)famous one that I've never read but seen for sale at the sole AMM gig I've been fortunate to attend. Perhaps someone else can comment. That's the only one *I* know of...

Prevost book = No Sound is Innocent (ed. = mark s, conflict of interest-wise, but it is eddie's thru and thru and thru, so I can recommend it w/o qualm)
John Litweiler's The Freedom Principle: Jazz after 1958, touches but doesn't settle
Bailey's own book on Improvisation (just called that?)
Books of essays by John Corbett, forget title momentarily
Graham Lock's book on Braxton, Forces in Motion

Ben's bk really will be kinda ground- breaking, just as a history...

I'm quite looking forward too it, even though I admit feelings of loathing towards the always controversial Mssr. Watson, although I guess provoking any sort response in me these days is a sign of doing *something* right...

Seeing as I was gratuitously nasty to B*n W*tson on another thread, I should say that I'm also v. much looking forward to his bk on Bailey, not only to read all the goss abt DB vs. Evan Parker etc. etc. but because, as Mark S points out, there really hasn't been a good history of the British improv 'scene' up till now (that I'm aware of, anyway). Have always suspected that beneath the collective 'spirit' of improv runs a bubbling seam of resentments, jealousies, and long-lingering antagonisms, personal as much as musical/ideological, all of which could make for some GRATE reading.

Full title of Bailey's bk is "Improvisation: Its Nature and Practice in Music", btw, and think it's still in print from American publisher Da Capo (they also publish Nick Tosches, Chuck Eddy and Richard Meltzer amongst others.)

Also, has Bailey's book been published? The last interview I read with him (2000, I think) it was still in the mythical "suitcase full of notes" phase.

I would just like to point out that I am not an idiot, and Andrew's post must have arrived at the same time as my last one. Thank you.

Jess - think yr referring to Bailey's book on the guitar, which has yet to see the light of day, rather than the one on Improv which originally came out at the same time as an early 1990s(?) C4 documentary series on the same subject (anybody got this on tape? Have never seen it...)

orig. bailey book pub.1980; second edition (very much revised plus tales of topographic oceans given correct title) 1991/2?; guitar book still to come

sadly benW does not approve of goss so the true story will not immediately be told: all division will be located ideologically... however this will certainly enrage everyone so much that succeeding years will be JAM- PACKED with furious spill-all, to make the bold and the beautiful look like, er, something where nothing much happened and everyone liked everyone else

I read a review in a local bay area rag, don't recall the book, supposed to focus on the NY scene, with Shipp/Ware at the center. Supposed to horribly slam Zorn/tzadik as well as the usual Miles/Crouch thing, and in general supposed to be terribly fannish and hypeladen, sort of obsessive-like. I'm quite looking forward to it.