Jazz Articles about Bobby Previte

Bobby Previte & The New Bump: Set the Alarm for Monday

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
June 9, 2008

A mysterious dame with gams to the ceiling walks in. Shifty characters with trench coats and perilously dangling cigarettes move among the shadows. A mickey is slipped, the double-cross completed. A tenor sax moans amid shimmering vibraphone, a spare bass line and imploring drums. Drummer Bobby Previte's Set the Alarm for Monday may not be the soundtrack to a classic film noir, though he and The New Bump evocatively conjure those moods. No stranger to the genre, ...

Bobby Previte and the New Bump: Set The Alarm For Monday

by Troy Collins
May 8, 2008

A seminal figure in the Downtown New York scene, drummer and composer Bobby Previte resurrected his Bump the Renaissance ensemble for the cinematic Set The Alarm For Monday. Previte's venerable acoustic group has featured a rotating roster of talent over the years, including Ray Anderson, Curtis Fowlkes, Wayne Horvitz, Lenny Picket, Steve Swallow and Tom Varner. Ellery Eskelin (tenor saxophone), Bill Ware (vibes) and Brad Jones (bass) form the current incarnation, with special guests Steven Bernstein (trumpet) and Jim Pugliese ...

Bobby Previte: Verge: Pull To Open/Bump the Renaissance & April in New York

by Christopher Shoe
March 10, 2008

Bobby Previte Verge: Pull To Open/Bump the Renaissance Zoar/Sound Aspects -- Nothing on Television is True 2007 Bobby Previte April in New York Nothing on Television is True 2007

A great many things come to mind when asked to describe drummer Bobby Previte: adventurous and original, creative and bold, authentic and edgy, always ...

Swami LatePlate (Jamie Saft and Bobby Previte): Doom Jazz

by Kurt Gottschalk
November 4, 2007

Although Jamie Saft is best known as a jazz pianist, especially for his work with various Masada projects, he's a rocker at heart who lists ZZ Top among his favorite bands. Swami LatePlate--his duo with drummer Bobby Previte--seeks to a degree to cross the divide. In one sense a piano trio, with Saft doubling on electric bass, the project borrows as much from heavy rock sensibilities. Their debut album and the first on Saft's new label Veal, falls closer to ...

Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
June 22, 2006

A good 80% of the music reviewed at All About Jazz is “instrumental": that is, it has no singing or human voices. It's almost superfluous to say so, of course: have you ever read a review that said “'St. Thomas,' like all the other cuts on Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, is an instrumental offering ?

When people talk about instrumentals, they're often talking about rock 'n' roll, where the presence of the human voice is the norm, and instrumentals are ...

Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing

by Donald Elfman
May 11, 2006

Bobby Previte's musical evolution has been most fascinating. The records he's made for a variety of labels show an astonishing scope but, amazingly, there has never really been a disconnect, even now playing “electronic" drums or instrumental rock music. Color and expression have always been paramount in Previte's output and his palette has always been directed towards finding and creating form and beauty. So to his latest adventure, an explosive collection of instrumental rock music. Previte seems ...

Bobby Previte: The Coalition of the Willing

by Troy Collins
April 26, 2006

It is often said that in youth one is more idealistic and liberal, and with age comes pragmatism and social conservatism. Well, someone ought to tell Bobby Previte, because it seems he missed the memo. A downtown scene luminary, composer and percussionist extraordinaire, Previte pushes ever further a field with The Coalition of the Willing. When most musicians his age would consider thinking about recording a standards program or a ballad session, Previte, ever the contrarian, does just the opposite.