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Article: Live Review

Due serate al Brussels Jazz Festival 2020

by Mario Calvitti
February 25, 2020

The Best of Belgian Jazz 19|20 Flagey Bruxelles 15-16.1.2020 Giunto alla sua sesta edizione, il festival jazz di Bruxelles è diventato in breve tempo un importante punto di riferimento per l'attivissima scena musicale belga, grazie a un programma che dà molto spazio ai giovani musicisti locali, pur senza rinunciare a ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

February 50th Anniversary Blue Notes & More

by Marc Cohn
February 14, 2020

This week on Gift & Messages we mark 50th anniversary of Blue Note releases from February 1970 by flautist Jeremy Steig (Wayfaring Stranger with Eddie Gomez on bass), McCoy Tyner (Extensions with Wayne Shorter, Gary Bartz and Alice Coltrane), and Duke Pearson (I Don't Care Who Knows It), as well as BN-18 from Edmond Hall with ...

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Sam Rivers

Born: September 25, 1923

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (born September 25, 1923, El Reno, Oklahoma) is a jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, and piano. Rivers was previously thought to have been born in 1930. Rivers's father was a gospel musician who had sung with the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Silverstone Quartet, exposing Rivers to music from an early age. Rivers moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1947, where he studied at the Boston Conservatory with Alan Hovhaness. He performed with Quincy Jones, Herb Pomeroy, Tadd Dameron and others. In 1959 Rivers began performing with 13-year-old drummer Tony Williams, who later went on to have an impressive career

Article: Album Review

Sam Rivers Quintet: Zenith

by John Sharpe
January 4, 2020

Concertgoers must have been forced back in their seats by the intensity of Sam Rivers opening foray at the 1977 Berlin Jazztage Festival. After an annunciatory tenor saxophone burst, he goes for the jugular with fierce vocalized overblowing atop a churning four piece rhythm section. But if that sounds forbidding, then like the audience, listeners to ...

Album

Emanation

By Sam Rivers

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Emanation Part I; Emanation Part II.

Album

Zenith

By Sam Rivers

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Universal Message

Article: Album Review

Hal Galper Trio: The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite

Read "The Zone: Live At The Yardbird Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 19, 2019

Pianist Hal Galper has rounded out a career spanning five decades with his stint at Origin Records, beginning with Furious Rubato (2007) and wrapping things up--or so it was rumored--with 2018's Cubist. Most of these are trio affairs featuring bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer John Bishop, with Cubist adding saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi to the mix. All ...

Article: Highly Opinionated

Blue Note's 80th Anniversary Vinyl Initiative

by Patrick Burnette
September 30, 2019

Blue Note moves in mysterious ways. It seems like only a few months ago that the storied jazz label announced its Tone Poet vinyl series, because, well, it was only a few months ago, and here they are with yet another entry in the vinyl reissue game: the Blue Note 80th Anniversary Series. Like the Tone ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sam Rivers

September 25, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Sam Rivers' birthday today! Samuel Carthorne Rivers (born September 25, 1923, El Reno, Oklahoma) is a jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, and piano. Rivers was previously thought to have been born in 1930. Rivers\'s father was a gospel musician who had sung ...

Article: Album Review

Rob Schwimmer: Heart Of Hearing

Read "Heart Of Hearing" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
September 2, 2019

È un artista assai singolare Rob Schwimmer, classe 1955, compositore, pianista, ma anche interprete del theremin e del continuum: nella sua autorevole carriera si è mosso in molti ambiti della musica e ha collaborato con un numero impressionante di artisti di primo piano, da{Simon & Garfunkel a Wayne Shorter, da Steve Wonder a Sam Rivers, da ...