Bobby Previte
Bobby Previte can break your heart with one cymbal crash.
Bobby Previte began his life in music as a great way to meet girls, but then fell in love with the drums instead. At thirteen, he fashioned his first set out of a rusted iron garbage can turned on its side (the bass drum), four upside-down rubber trash bins (the toms), a box with loose junk rattling around inside (the snare), three plungers with aluminum pie plates nailed on top, (the cymbals), and two pieces of linoleum crimped together, stuck through with a wire coat hanger wound into a spring, crowned with a rubber ball on top (the kick pedal)•and for hours on end would play to records in his dark basement with a lone spotlight shining on him. Eventually hired by a band, he rehearsed with them for a year, only to get fired the day of the first booking for not having real drums. After this experience he decided to strike out on his own, and has been doing so ever since.
Brought up playing soul and rock music in the old bars,clubs, and bordellos of Niagara Falls, NY, he later studied formally at the University of Buffalo, which boasted musicians John Cage, Lucas Foss, Morton Feldman, and Jan Williams. He then ran head on into Miles Davis, Edgard Varèse, Charles Mingus, Terry Reilly, Abstract Expressionism, Igor Stravinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Balanchine and William Faulkner. That was that.
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July 10, 2014
Enter the "Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte - The New Standard"...
April 20, 2014
Jamie Saft Joins Steve Swallow And Bobby Previte On The New Standard
June 07, 2010
Jane Ira Bloom Trio with Mark Helias & Bobby Previte at Cornelia Street...
September 24, 2008
Doom Jazz to Bring New Twist to Old Music
June 05, 2008
"This is Our Music IV" Presents Bobby Previte, Michael Blake and...
May 07, 2008
Bobby Previte & the New Bump "Set the Alarm for Monday" Available May...
October 31, 2006
Bobby Previte and The Coalition of the Willing, November, 5 2006 at...
January 13, 2006
Bobby Previte's "Coalition Of The Willing" Coming May 23rd on Ropeadope
June 17, 2002
Kudzu, feat. Wayne Horvitz & Bobby Previte, to play Seattle on Friday,...
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