Introduction
| Name | Originally submitted by Clayton Jackson, Lancaster |
| name of the workshop exercise or musical score: | Parade for improvisers |
| To whom is the piece aimed at or for: | Open. all levels, all abilities |
| What skills are explored | Attentive listening, one person or more is in enforced listening mode. To explore the creative range and dynamic in the people and space present, via a structured rotation of the musicians/improvisers present at the time and place. |
| History, where and when has the exercise been delivered | Phil Morton's point of view is that this piece is a not uncommon, or to be found in workshops exploring the nature and practice of free improvisation in music. It is helpful to give it a name |
| Description in text if you opt out of uploading a file: | Refer to the video, or download the pdf to be found in the footer of this document. |
| Discussion board support | Yes, link to the forum : registration and permission maybe required |
| Variation | There will be variation on this theme, they maybe transitory and in the moment of a particular session, or ongoing a variation that stciks and becomes part of our practice. If you have a variation that is the later, why not share the thinikng and the description of the actions? |
Ethnographic study
Eddie Prévost's Improvisation Workshop - an Ethnological Study
By Jerry Wigens
2006, M/Mus dissertation
This study examines Eddie Prévost’s weekly free improvisation workshop as both a social and artistic activity, and more specifically as a nexus of likeminded individuals with a shared interest in creating music spontaneously and without, to paraphrase Prévost, prescription or proscription. It examines the extent to which the workshop and its participants might be regarded as a subset of the broader free improvisation community; one which might be seen to have an aesthetic, theoretical or attitudinal approach akin to a ‘school of thought’. The study also, perhaps unavoidably, touches on the differences and similarities between improvisers and other musicians and is termed ‘ethnological’, taking the Concise Oxford Dictionary definition of ‘ethnology’ as ‘the study of the characteristics of different peoples and the differences and relationships between them’.
https://www.academia.edu/83648111/Eddie_Pr%C3%A9vosts_Improvisation_Workshop_an_Ethnological_Study
Weekly sessions in London
At the time of this update, February 2026, there are weekly sessions in London featuring Parade ( as it is called here )
These sessions are called - London Improvisation Workshop
They will also be known as the Eddie Prevost workshops.
Here is the Facebook Group for this project: https://www.facebook.com/LondonImprovisationWorkshop
Here is the Improvisers Networks Online web article for this project: Not available at this time, try here for the current schedule: https://www.improvisersnetworks.online/uk/london-greater-region-of