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Interview

Eddie Prevost: Out On The Free

by Nic Jones
December 11, 2007

Drummer and percussionist Eddie Prévost has spent a career devoted to the outer reaches of the music. In the forty-odd years he's been musically active he has been a key member of the free improvisation group AMM as well as a band leader in his own right, leading units dedicated to mining a musical seam closer to free jazz than free improvisation as such.

For part of that time he has also run Matchless Recording & ...

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Album Review

Eddie Prevost & Alan Wilkinson: So Are We, So Are We

Read "So Are We, So Are We" reviewed by Nic Jones

by Nic Jones
August 12, 2007

Percussionist Eddie Prevost has maintained a musical career for forty years now, and in that time he has worked the rich seam of free improvisation with single-minded authority. The temptation of comparing this duo with saxophonist Alan Wilkinson to Prevost's earlier work with the vastly underrated Lou Gare is great but to be resisted; not least because there's clearly a very different dynamic at work here.

That fact is testament to how expansive this music can be, and how deeply ...