Sam Rivers

Sam Rivers – Fuchsia Swing Song (1965/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Saxophonist Sam Rivers’ debut album on Blue Note Records, originally released in 1964.

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Sam Rivers – Contrasts (1980/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Dave Holland always described Sam Rivers’ groups as his finishing school. It was Sam who instructed him to play “all the music” – inside, outside, atonal, swing, blues, and all the hues of the jazz and chamber music traditions. By the time of Contrasts, Rivers and Holland had been working together consistently for seven years (with Dave’s Conference of the Birds at the start of the story), a powerhouse combination of multi-reeds and double bass. Of the drummers who passed through the line-up, Thurman Barker was one of the most creative, rippling across drum kit and marimba. Young trombone innovator George Lewis had already worked with Holland and Barker in Anthony Braxton groups. For Contrasts everyone was fired up and ready to play.

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Sam Rivers – Contours (1967/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Saxophonist & flutist Sam Rivers followed-up his striking debut Fuchsia Swing Song with the tremendous album Contours, which was recorded at Rudy Van Gelder’s Englewood Cliffs, NJ studio in 1965 with a top flight band featuring Freddie Hubbard on trumpet, Herbie Hancock on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums. The quintet explored four of Rivers’ engaging original compositions “Point of Many Returns” “Dance of the Tripedal” “Euterpe” & “Mellifluous Cacophony” with a profound spirit of freedom and innovation while keeping a foot firmly planted in Post-Bop. Blue Note Records’ Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series is produced by Joe Harley and features all-analog, mastered-from-the-original-master-tape 180g audiophile vinyl reissues in deluxe gatefold packaging. Mastering is by Kevin Gray (Cohearent Audio).

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Max Roach, Sam Rivers – Now’s The Time (Live (Remastered)) (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer. A pioneer of bebop, he worked in many other styles of music, and is generally considered one of the most important drummers in history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians, including Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Abbey Lincoln, Dinah Washington, Charles Mingus, Billy Eckstine, Stan Getz, Sonny Rollins, Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little. He was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1992

In the mid-1950s, Roach co-led a pioneering quintet along with trumpeter Clifford Brown. In 1970, he founded the percussion ensemble M’Boom. He made numerous musical statements relating to the civil rights movement.

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Sam Rivers – Fuchsia Swing Song (1965/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Fuchsia Swing Song is the debut album by American saxophonist Sam Rivers recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label. (more…)

Sam Rivers – Contrasts (1980/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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One of the great, and most underrated, figures in the jazz avant-garde, composer, and reedman Sam Rivers turned out rigorous, substantive work from the early ’60s well into the 2000s. (more…)