Slay the Suitors
{{Infobox album
| name = Slay the Suitors
| type = Album
| artist = Bobby Previte's Empty Suits
| cover = Slay the Suitors.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1994
| recorded = June 7–9, 1993
| venue =
| studio = Baby Monster Studio, New York City
| genre = Avant-garde jazz
| length = 54:15
| label = Avant
036
| producer = Mark Helias and Bobby Previte
| chronology = Bobby Previte
| prev_title = Music of the Moscow Circus
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = Hue and Cry
| next_year = 1994
}}
Slay the Suitors is an album by American drummer/composer Bobby Previte's group Empty Suits. The album was released on the Avant label in 1994.Roussel, P. [http://nyds-discographies.com/previte.htm Discography of Bobby Previte], accessed August 15, 2016[http://www.bobbyprevite.com/discog/d08_slay.htm Bobby Previte discography], accessed August 15, 2016
Reception
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
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The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars stating "On the whole, Slay the Suitors is a shake-up, wake-up call to arms in which Bobby Previte faults classicism for not only stifling the artistic impulse, but also for running hand-in-hand with deeply entrenched, even violent forces of oppression. With this theme to guide him on Slay the Suitors, Previte is absolutely at his most uncompromising, and the resulting music -- like the CD cover -- is right on target".{{AllMusic|first=Dave |last=Lynch |class=album |id= mw0000057532 |title=Slay the Suitors – Review |accessdate=August 15, 2016}}
Track listing
All compositions by Bobby Previte.
- "Fantasy and Nocturne" - 16:15
- "Waltz" - 13:39
- "Canon" - 9:41
- "Prelude and Elegy" - 14:32
Personnel
- Bobby Previte – drums
- Robin Eubanks - trombone, electronics
- Wayne Horvitz - Hammond organ, piano, synthesizer
- Steve Gaboury - piano, synthesizer, keyboard bass
- Jerome Harris - acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar
- Roger Squitero - percussion
- Production by Previte and Mark Helias, executive producer John Zorn
References
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