This track in many ways defined my entire world view. In 1987, I had just signed with Gramavision and this was my first release.I was full of hope and looking straight ahead,this tune pointing me to the future. Recorded at the now defunct Radio City Studio by Don Hunerberg and built on a single expanding phrase on a C7 chord, I turned the band roles around, made the horns and the bass the drummer, the drums the background horns,and then let my great friend Wayne Horvitz loose on piano to rummage, float, stab, and slide through, around, above and beyond it as he chose. One of the greatest solos anyone has ever taken on any of my records.

No, scratch that. The greatest, period.

again, from somewhere:
“Pushing the Envelope,” Previte’s first release of a five record deal with Gramavision Records, was released in 1987. This record is the culmination of Previte’s early style, writing for two horns, piano, bass and drums. This record put him squarely in the camp of the handful of original writers working with a traditional jazz instrumentation. This record, however, stood the idea of what jazz writing was supposed to be on it’s head. The Village Voice—"The intuitive rightness of every improvisation makes Pushing the Envelope one of the finest releases by a New York artist in 1987."
Marty Ehrlich – tenor sax
Tom Varner – French horn
Wayne Horvitz, piano
David Hofstra – bass, tuba
Bobby Previte - drums