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Reunion: Live In New York

By Sam Rivers

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1 (First Set): Part 1; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5; CD2 (Second Set): Part 1; Part 3; Part 4.

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Article: Live Review

44 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: China Moses, Albert Sanz Trio y Brad Mehldau Trio

Read "44 Voll-Damm Festival de Jazz de Barcelona: China Moses, Albert Sanz Trio y Brad Mehldau Trio" reviewed by Enrique Turpin

by Enrique Turpin

China Moses44 Voll-Damm Festival Internacional de Jazz de BarcelonaArtèria Paral.lel17 de noviembre de 2013No siempre hacen caso los hijos a los padres. De hecho, no debieran cuando llegan a una edad --padres e hijos--, pero siempre hay excusas para no contrariar a las voces de la experiencia. Una de esas voces ...

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Article: Album Review

Hal Galper Trio: Airegin Revisited

Read "Airegin Revisited" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

Hal Galper's Airegin Revisited is exhilarating. The pianist has been working at his artistry for more than a half century, and he is moving surely into the “elder statesman of jazz" category, riding the furious wave of several distinctive and idiosyncratic trio recordings. Galper, like alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Martial Solal, has gone deeper ...

News: Contest

Enter the "Sam Rivers - Reunion: Live in New York" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Enter the "Sam Rivers - Reunion: Live in New York"  Giveaway at All About Jazz!

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Pi Recordings “Sam Rivers - Reunion: Live in New York“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on January 7th. Click here to enter the contest (Becoming a fan of Sam Rivers at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) ...

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News: Recording

Origin Records Has Just Released The Hal Galper Trio's Latest Foray Into Their Original "Rubato Style" Of Playing

Origin Records Has Just Released The Hal Galper Trio's Latest Foray Into Their Original "Rubato Style"  Of Playing

Dear Fellow Travelers. Thanks for taking the musical journey with us. It’s a journey without a road map, where the road takes us wherever it wants to go. The destination? There is none. It’s the trip that counts. We strive to intuit the direction upon which the road takes us without imposing our ego’s on ...

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Article: Album Review

Harris Eisenstadt: Canada Day III

Read "Canada Day III" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

The third installment in drummer Harris Eisenstadt's Canada Day adventure follows the same winning formula as established by Canada Day (Clean Feed, 2008) and Canada Day II (Songlines, 2011),carving out a distinctive niche on the contemporary jazz borderlands, with a nod to the '60s Blue Note territory of pianist Andrew Hill and reedmen Sam Rivers and ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sam Rivers

Jazz Musician of the Day: Sam Rivers

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Sam Rivers / Dave Holland / Barry Altschul: Reunion: Live In New York

Read "Reunion: Live In New York" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

There will be no more opportunities to experience saxophonist Sam Rivers, who passed away in 2011, at 89. Then again, you probably hadn't caught him live in decades, since he chose to live in Florida from the early 1990s, although he did release several large ensemble sessions. His 1960s Blue Note Records and 70s Impulse! dates ...

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Article: Album Review

Phil Grenadier / Bruno Raberg Duo: Plunge

Read "Plunge" reviewed by Florence Wetzel

by Florence Wetzel

Plunge is a captivating CD that features the formidable duo of bassist Bruno Råberg and trumpeter Phil Grenadier. Each musician brings to the table their unique background and decades of experience: Råberg hails from Sweden, and in his twenties he played with the cream of Swedish jazz musicians, including trombonist Eje Thelin, pianist Bobo Stenson and ...

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Article: Album Review

Geoff Vidal: She Likes That

Read "She Likes That" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

It's not often that a debut CD by a young artist brims with great playing, complex, soulful compositions, and exceptional group chemistry. But that's exactly what happens on Geoff Vidal 's She Likes That. Vidal is a young tenor saxophonist from New Orleans who--much like fellow Big Easy native Rob Wagner--wields a big, bluesy “bull tenor" ...


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