Bobby Previte
Robert " Bobby" Previte (born 16 July 1951, Niagara Falls, New York) is an American jazz drummer and composer.
Life and work
Previte had started to play the drums at the age of 14 years in rock bands and studied percussion at the University of Buffalo. He was taught by Morton Feldman, John Cage, Lou Harrison. Tony Williams, whom he met on the Miles Davis album Filles of Kilimanjaro, encouraged him to devote himself to jazz drumming. In 1980 he moved to New York City. He soon entered on the environment of the M -Base musicians who worked with Greg Osby, Robin Eubanks, but also in the environment of "Downtown " scene to John Zorn and Bill Frisell, Don Byron, and with Anthony Davis and Mark Helias. Mid-1980, he presented his own group and Bumb had a trio with Wayne Horvitz and Butch Morris. In 1990 he founded his electric group Wheater Clear, Track Fast, but also took parallel with its Empty Suits. At the latest with his commissioned composition "Music of the Moscow Circus " (1991, CD), which he recorded with his own octet, he found international acclaim. He also played with Marc Ducret duo. In 1998 he founded his big formations Voodoo Orchestra, with whom he published a series of five albums since 2002. He currently plays with The Coalition of the Willing, a fusion of jazz and classic rock. Furthermore, Previte recorded with Marty Ehrlich, The President, Guy Klucevsek, Tom Waits, Tim Berne, Annie Ross, Victoria Williams, Jane Ira Bloom, Elliott Sharp and Ray Anderson.
In addition, Previte has also recorded film music, so for Robert Altman's " Short Cuts " ( in which he is seen as a stage musician). After Martin Kunzler among the virtuoso drummer " to the far adequately perceived by the audience musicians of our time ." As early as 1990 he was appointed by downbeat Kritikerpoll as percussion talent that deserve further attention, excellent.
Disco Graphical Notes
- Claude 's Late Morning ( 1988)
- Empty Suites (1990 )
- Music of the Moscow Circus "(1991)
- Hue and Cry (1994 )
- Too Close to the Pole (1996 )
- Just Add Water (2002)
- The Coalition of the Willing ( 2006)
- Pan Atlantic (2009)
Lexigraphic entries
- Ian Carr et al, Rough Guide Jazz. ISBN 3-476-01584- X
- Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
- Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia, vol 2, 2002. ISBN 3-499-16513-9