| Slay the Suitors | ||||
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| Studio album by Bobby Previte's Empty Suits | ||||
| Released | 1994 | |||
| Recorded | June 7–9, 1993 | |||
| Studio | Baby Monster Studio, New York City | |||
| Genre | Avant-garde jazz | |||
| Length | 54:15 | |||
| Label | Avant 036 | |||
| Producer | Mark Helias and Bobby Previte | |||
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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. [1] [2]
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| Allmusic |   [3] |
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". [3]
All compositions by Bobby Previte.
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