Edwin (Eddie) Prévost

Edwin (Eddie) Prévost is a percussionist, free-jazz drummer, writer, educator and record producer born in England in 1942.

Began music life as a jazz drummer and in 1965 he co-founded the seminal improvising ensemble AMM.

A constant thinker about the implications of experimental music, he has written “No Sound is Innocent” (Copula, 1995), “Minute Particulars” (Copula, 2004), “The First Concert: An Adaptive Appraisal of a Meta-Music” (Copula, 2011), as well as numerous other articles. Has also lectured and led discussions about the theory and practice of improvisation.

As an educator, Prévost is best known for the weekly London workshop he first convened in 1999. A series of workshops on collective improvisation attended by many hundreds of musicians representing over twenty different nationalities.