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Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra

Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra: Culmination

by David Adler
June 1, 2000

The anticipated follow-up to last year’s acclaimed Inspiration is here. Rivers, well into his 70s, is as sharp as ever on tenor, soprano, and flute. The music is similar to that heard on the previous album — strident yet sublime big band charts crafted by Rivers roughly between 1969 and 1994, resuscitated by alto sax man ...

Sam Rivers' RivBea All-Star Orchestra: Culmination

by Mark Corroto
June 1, 2000

Recorded at the same session as last year’s Inspiration, the follow up disc Culmination delivers more of the same goods. Sam Rivers, long exiled (by choice) to Orlando, FL, has been making music in semi-obscurity for the past few decades with many of the Disney-based musicians. In this environs Rivers has total control over composition and ...

Inspiration

By Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra

Label: RCA Records
Released: 1999

Sam Rivers' Rivbea All-Star Orchestra: Inspiration

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 1999

Culled from the name of his well-known 1970’s New York City jazz loft “Studio Rivbea”, the esteemed saxophonist-composer Sam Rivers returns to the recording scene with the “Rivbea All-Star Orchestra”. Here, Rivers along with an ensemble of multi-talented modern jazz musicians of whom are probably half his age, perform several pieces which, as Rivers states..”Could easily ...