Derek William "Eggy" Ley (4 November 1928 – 20 December 1995)[1] was a British jazz musician known for his work with soprano and alto saxophones, as well as for his vocals and his career as a radio producer.

[2] Ley was born in London, England,[3] and started out life as a drummer and a boogie-woogie pianist when he was 13 years old.

[3] He later took up the soprano saxophone and started to play professionally by the early 1950s during his military service in the Royal Air Force.

He then founded his own traditional jazz band, which in August 1955 received a long residency at the New Orleans Bar in Hamburg.

In 1982, he founded his band Hot Shots, ran the Jazzin' Around newspaper and also toured abroad before migrating to Canada in the late 1980s.