Bobby Previte

USA

Born: 16 July 1951

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Jazz, Pop/Rock, International

Styles: Modern Creative, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Experimental Rock, Art-Rock/Experimental, World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion

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A series of albums recorded in the late '80s established Previte as one of the relatively few jazz drummers who are also composers of significance, alongside Jack DeJohnette, Bob Moses, and a handful of others. In 1973, Previte received his B.A. in Music from the University of Buffalo, where he studied percussion with Jan Williams. He moved to New York City in 1979, where he collaborated with many of the musicians who would put "downtown" on the map. His first album as a leader was Bump the Renaissance (1987), followed in short order by Pushing...

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