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Sam Rivers 100

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fuchsia Swing Song; Cycl8ic Episode; Helix; Parts Of Speech; Point Of Many Returns; Beatrice; Downstairs Blues Upstairs; Calls Of The Wild; Paean; Ellipsis; Luminous Monolith.

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Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Jack Bowers
December 17, 2025

2025: Another year which proves that jazz is not only alive and well but flourishing in its own little corner of the musical world. The number of splendid new recordings by groups large and small was as plentiful as ever and, even better, spanned the globe from the U.S. to Europe, Asia to Latin America, and ...

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Downstairs Blues Upstairs

September 14, 2025

Album: Sam Rivers 100
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:11

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Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100

Read "Sam Rivers 100" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 26, 2025

The Mark Masters Ensemble released Porgy and Bess Redefined! (Capri Records) in 2005. The music was taken from the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward English-language opera, which was first performed in 1935. Masters' take on the classic was brilliantly expressed by the ensemble, who dug into his adventurous charts with freedom mixed with respect for the familiar and ...

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Mark Masters: Sam Rivers 100

Read "Sam Rivers 100" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 23, 2025

Sam Rivers 100 is the first of two homages recorded in 2023-24 by arranger Mark Masters and his blue chip southern California-based ensemble. This one pays tribute to the music of the late saxophonist Sam Rivers on the hundredth anniversary of his birth; the second, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! salutes the music of tenor saxophonist Billy ...