Doors 7:45 PM, Music 8:30 PM – 2 set(s) of music
Line-up:
Tom Chant – Saxophone
John Edwards – Double Bass
Eddie Prévost – Drums
About
Tom Chant (b. Dublin 1975) is a saxophonist and composer from London living in Barcelona. Tom focuses mainly on free improvised music which he has been involved in for 30 years.
In the mid 90’s Tom started attending Maggie Nicols’ Gathering sessions and continued for many years with Maggie giving Tom his first concert. He has worked with Eddie Prévost and John Edwards since 1997 and with them has recorded four records and toured festivals around the world. He has recorded with the London Improvisers Orchestra, Otomo Yoshihide, Angharad Davies, Sharif Sehnoui, Lê Quan Ninh, Susana Santos Silva, Ferran Fages and many others, while playing concerts with a host of well known and not so well known musicians. Tom’s current practice concerns the entropy of technique and the spaces that this leaves for new vocabularies and dialogues.
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others.
Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and countless others.
“I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz.” – Richard Williams, The Blue Moment
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.
