Empty Suits

by Bobby Previte

Empty Suits cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Gramavision
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 48:03
  • Community rating: 3.71/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Showcasing the percussionist's wildly eclectic compositional style, 'Empty Suits' fearlessly careens between dense downtown avant-garde and highly accessible fusion grooves. The project features an impressive roster of New York collaborators navigating impossibly tight, kinetic arrangements.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, improvisation, experimental, percussive, genre-blending

Tracklist

  1. Across State Lines (5:43)
  2. Flying Buttress (5:50)
  3. Gaboo (5:50)
  4. Break The Cups (5:58)
  5. Great Wall (9:08)
  6. Pichl (6:41)
  7. Across State Lines (Reprise) (2:52)
  8. A Door Flies Open (6:01)

Credits

  • Marty Ehrlich - alto saxophone, guest
  • Jerome Harris - electric bass, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, vocals
  • Allan Jaffe - electric guitar
  • Steve Gaboury - electric organ [hammond b-3 organ], piano, keyboards [keyboard]
  • Elliott Sharp - guitar, guest
  • Carol Emanuel - harp, guest
  • Skip Krevens - pedal steel guitar [pedal steel], guest
  • Robin Eubanks - trombone, electronics [trombone electronics]

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