BOBBY PREVITE & THE NEW BUMP Set the Alarm for Monday All new music from the composer and drummer. Featuring fiery tenor saxophonist Ellery Eskelin, vibemaster Bill Ware, & groove king Brad J o n es Very Special Guests S t eve Bernstein,trumpet & Jim Pu gliese, percussion
Since 1985 BUMP has played hundreds of concerts in both Europe and the United States., and has featured Steve Swallow, Ray Anderson, Marty Ehrlich, Wayne Horvitz, Curtis Fowlkes, Tom Varner, Lenny Pickett, & Joseph Bowie. Two CD s were previously released by Palmetto Records; Just Add Water in 2002 & Counterclockwise in 2003. now comes SET THE ALARM FOR MONDAY in April 2008 The TOURING QUARTET L to R: PREVITE, JONES, WARE, ESKELIN (all photos: Michael DiDonna) TOURING EAST COAST USA, APRIL 2008 EUROPE MAY & NOVEMBER 2008 Booking & Information USA: SCOTT FORSYTH, FORSYTH AGENCY scott@forsythagency.com or www.bobbyprevite.com EUROPE: KARIN KREISL, SAUDADES AGENCY karin@saudades.at
P R E S S QUO T E S "Mr. Previte's pieces are thoroughly, stubbornly, and distinctly his own...the music copies nothing." "His ensembles speak in visionary tongues" In the bigger picture, it updates the very spirit of Western Composition. "Bobby Previte can break your heart with one cymbal crash" "Although Bobby Previte is a great drummer, his pen appears to be mightier still." "A serious composer with the heart of a roadhouse rocker."
Like his music, he is hard, cool, indefinable, self-effacing, wryly sarcastic, and flat-out brilliant. Bobby Previte may be the genuine article of complete originality. Your ears lean eagerly into the music to follow every move of his relentless genius. He s a seemingly bottomless tank of spiritual fuel a perpetual music making machine. Previte comes armed to groove, and rocks at full throttle. An exhilarating spin cycle in which jazz, rock, blues and funk tumble.
Holy hell, is this ever an incredible blast of good, old-fashioned jazz-rock-funk-whatever. I'd describe it further, but I'd be wasting words--you just have to listen to this. When was the last time you heard an album that made you anxious to play it for other people and tell them about it? Bobby Previte's new release is just that kind of album. A triumph in the idiom of instrumental music. A raucous soundtrack for an unlikely, but much needed revolution. One of the best albums of the year. THE OTHER PAPER One of those CDs that is heard by young musicians in years hence and becomes identified as influential in their development.
M U S I C I AN B I OGRA PH I E S E l l e r y E s k e l i n continues to be the most inventive American tenor player in creative music. (Downbeat). Increasingly interested in exploring new and unusual instrumentation in an attempt to place the saxophone in unique contexts for improvising, Eskelin has led projects that have included musicians such as Marc Ribot, Han Bennink, Melvin Gibbs, Mark Dresser, Erik Friedlander, Gerry Hemingway, Mark Helias and Sylvie Courvoisier. In 1994 he formed his current working band including accordionist Andrea Parkins and drummer Jim Black. The band tours regularly and has performed hundreds of concerts in the US, Canada and throughout Europe. Eskelin's recordings as a leader and have been consistently singled out by the major jazz magazines in the US and abroad. Beginning in the 80s and 90s, Vibraphonist B i l l W a r e has continued being a prime mover and shaker on the downtown New York scene. In 1987, Ware became a charter member of the highly acclaimed Jazz Passengers. In 1993 Ware hooked up with the acid jazz outfit the Groove Collective, who debuted on record the same year, and also landed a gig with the reunited Steely Dan, with whom he worked until 1995. With Jazz Passengers' rhythm section of Brad Jones and E.J. Rodriguez, Ware formed a side project called Vibes, which played dark, pulsating jazzfunk; they debuted on record in 1998 on a Knitting Factory album of the same name. Ware followed it in 1999 with Keeping Up With the Jones' (on Cathexis0. 2001 brought Sir Duke, an Ellington tribute recorded with only guitarist Marc Ribot as accompaniment; the following year, Ware released his fourth album for Knitting Factory, aptly titled Four, which featured numerous guests, including Deborah Harry. Bassist/Composer B r a d C h r i s t o p h e r J o n e s has worked with a diverse array of artists that include Ornette Coleman, Elvis Costello, Elvin Jones, Deborah Harry, David Byrne, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sheryl Crow, Dave Douglas, Vernon Reid, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, and The Jazz Passengers. He has recorded three CDs as a leader with two separate projects: "Uncivilized Poise"(Knitting Factory Records) with his band Aka Alias, "Pouring My Heart In" (Senoj Music) with The Brad Jones Quartet, and the soon-to-be-released follow-up to the first Aka Alias recording entitled "The Embodiment.