Eddie Prévost played skiffle and trad jazz as a teenager, before graduating to bebop. In 1965, with Lou Gare and Keith Rowe, he formed the radical improvising ensemble AMM which has remained, in its various incarnations, a major involvement for him. Prévost’s deep commitment to improvisation has led to collaborations with many notable musicians including Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Marilyn Crispell and Veryan Weston. It has also led him to lecture, write, edit and publish and to convene regular well-attended workshops, mainly in London but also elsewhere in Europe and America. An admirer of Max Roach and Ed Blackwell, Prévost has continued – outside AMM – to play music rooted in jazz, in groups such as his trio with Alan Wilkinson and Joe Williamson. He is also a subtle interpreter of scored music by former AMM associates Cornelius Cardew and Christian Wolff. Prévost worked with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1998. Other departures include collaborations with the live electronics and computers of Mattin and Rosy Parlane in Sakada, and work with the rock-oriented groups GOD, Main and Experimental Audio Research. He runs Matchless Recordings and issues books, including his own writings, under the Copula imprint.
