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Bobby Previte began his life in music at thirteen, playing soul and rock music in the old bars,clubs, and bordellos of Niagara Falls, NY, and later studied formally at the University of Buffalo, where teachers included John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Jan Williams. Then he ran head on into Miles Davis, Varèse, Mingus, Terry Reilly, Abstract Expressionism, Stravinsky, Frank Lloyd Wright, Balanchine and William Faulkner. That was that.
He moved to New York City in 1979, with great fortune quickly met the leading lights of the “Downtown” scene, settled in, and never looked back. For twenty years he has remained one of the major figures in the New York City music world, widely hailed for his electrifying drumming and his stunning, unclassifiable compositions.
He has played an astonishing range of genres and venues, from the Palace Burlesque House in Buffalo, NY to country music at Gloria’s Corral Club in the Kentucky backwoods (complete with, yes, a real corral surrounding the bandstand) to Carnegie Hall, and he has presented his music in many of the major festivals around the world, from Europe to Russia, Japan to South America, and back.
He remains committed to form. And to beauty, in all its forms.
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