Eddie Prévost

A Bright Nowhere: Journeying into Improvisation is a documentary by Stewart Morgan Hajdukiewicz. Its subject is Making a Journey to a Bright Nowhere, four concerts at Cafe OTO in London on the Saturdays of July 2022. The residency marked the 80th birthday of Eddie Prévost, and more than thirty musicians joined him on stage. The film runs 1 hour 43 minutes and ends with the last concert ever given by AMM, the group Prévost co-founded in the mid-1960s.

Each night looked at a different side of Prévost's work. There was a meeting of saxophonists over a jazz rhythm section, a quartet of quiet group improvisation, his weekly London workshop (founded in 1999) and AMM. The cameras stay close to the musicians as the music takes shape, with no composer, score or conductor in charge. Interviews include John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser, Marjolaine Charbin and John Tilbury, alongside Sue Lynch, Alan Wilkinson, Nathan Moore and Prévost himself, and writer David Toop gives readings. The AMM finale was a duo of Prévost and Keith Rowe, who used samples of recordings by the absent Tilbury. Derek Walmsley named it concert of the year 2022 in The Wire, and the label quotes the magazine on the film as Elegantly filmed and astonishingly moving. Cafe OTO screened the film on 9 November 2023, followed by a duo set by Prévost and Butcher. The music of the four nights is also on four Matchless CDs: A Company of Others, The Art of Noticing, Widdershins and Last Calls.

Released by Matchless Recordings in 2024 as a region 0 PAL Blu-ray disc, a HajduKino production, with audio mastered by Rupert Clervaux.