Robert Previte (born July 16, 1954, Niagara Falls, New York) is a jazz drummer, composer and bandleader. July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... American Falls, one of the three falls that make up Niagara Falls, is located in the city. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... A drummer is a musician who plays the drums, particularly the drum kit, marching percussion, or hand drums. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A Bandleader is the director of a band of musicians. ...

Previte earned a B.A. in music at the University at Buffalo, where he also studied percussion. A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... University at Buffalo The University at Buffalo, formally known as The State University of New York at Buffalo, has campuses located both in and near Buffalo, New York, USA, and is one of the four university centers operated by the State University of New York. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...

He moved to New York City in the late 1970s, and became active in the city's thriving jazz and experimental music scenes. He began professional relationships with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp and others that have continued, intermittently, to the present. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Experimental music is any music that challenges the commonly accepted notions of what music is. ... John Zorn (born September 2, 1953 in New York City) is a American composer and saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist. ... Elliott Sharp (born 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer who has personified the avant-garde experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years. ...

While Previte is an excellent drummer, he is also acclaimed for his compositions: A review of his 1988 album Claude's Late Morning reports that "Perhaps most striking is Previte's skill in composing music that fully integrates these disparate instruments — including drums and drum machine, electric guitar and keyboards, trombone, harp, accordion, banjo, pedal steel guitar, tuba, and harmonica — while emphasizing each instrument's unique, individual sound." [1] Another critic notes Previte's "driving and propulsive compositions, featuring both fiery jazz expressionism and layered counterpoint that suggested elements of contemporary minimalism."[2] A musical instrument is a device that has been constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is a device designed to imitate drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... An electric guitar is a type of guitar with a solid or semi-solid body that utilizes electromagnetic pickups to convert the vibration of the steel-cored strings into electrical current. ... A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played with a musical keyboard. ... Bâ™­/F tenor trombone A lip-reed aerophone with a predominantly cylindrical bore, the trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... The harp is a chordophone whose strings are positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. ... A button accordion An accordion is a musical instrument of the handheld bellows-driven free reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as squeezeboxes. ... The banjo is a stringed instrument, derived from the banjar, a stringed instrument of American origins, sometimes called the gourd banjo. The banjar, in turn was based on the African akonting. Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of bandore, though recent research suggests that it may come from... Pedal steel guitar (also called Steel Guitar) is a type of guitar, and a method of playing the instrument. ... Headline text WhaT THE FUCK THE PIC NOT TUBA IS ONLY A Euphonium hilippines, see Tuba, Benguet. ... A harmonica A harmonica is a free reed musical wind instrument (also known, among other things, as a mouth organ, french harp, simply harp, or Mississippi saxophone), having multiple, variably-tuned brass or bronze reeds, each secured at one end over an airway slot of like dimension into which it... Counterpoint is a very general feature of music (especially prominent in much Western music) whereby two or more melodic strands occur simultaneously – in separate voices, either literally or metaphorically (if the music is instrumental). ... Minimalist music is a genre of post-1960s classical music and experimental music which displays some or all of the following features: emphasis on consonant harmony, if not functional tonality; reiteration of musical phrases, with subtle, gradual, and/or infrequent variation over long periods of time, possibly limited to simple...

Like fellow New Yorker Henry Threadgill, Previte's works are often tightly arranged, with little or no improvisation. Also like Threadgill, Previte often uses unusual instruementation and also draws on many non-jazz musics for his compostions. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... Henry Threadgill (born February 15, 1941), Chicago, Illinois, is an American saxophonist, flautist and composer. ...

Unusually for a jazz bandleader, Previte rarely uses saxophones. He often works with trombone players, including Ray Anderson and Robin Eubanks. Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Saxophones of different sizes play in different registers. ... Bâ™­/F tenor trombone A lip-reed aerophone with a predominantly cylindrical bore, the trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... Ray Anderson (born 1952) is an independent jazz trombone player. ... Robin Eubanks (born October 25, 1955 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz slide trombonist. ...

Previte has recently formed a musical partnership with guitarist Charlie Hunter; they perform and record duos with Previte playing primarily electronic drums. Guitarist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Charlie Hunter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

Discography

• 1985: Bump the Renaissance
• 1986: Dull Bang, Gushing Sound, Human Shriek
• 1987: Pushing the Envelope
• 1988: Claude's Late Morning
• 1990: Empty Suits
• 1991: Music of the Moscow Circus
• 1991: Weather Clear Track Fast
• 1993: Hue and Cry
• 1994: Slay the Suitors
• 1996: Too Close to the Pole
• 1997: My Man in Sydney
• 1998: Dangerous Rip
• 1999: In the Grass
• 2002: Just Add Water
• 2002: The 23 Constellations of Joan Miró
• 2003: Counterclockwise
• 2004: Latitude (Groundtruther)
• 2005: Longitude (Groundtruther)

External links

• BobbyPrevite.com