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Sam Rivers Leads Strong Topeka Jazz Lineup
The little jazz festival that could continues to grow and evolve in surprising ways. The three-day Coleman Hawkins Legacy Jazz Festival, just a couple of gallons of gas away in Topeka, has a new location and an even stronger lineup this year. It's a far cry from its scraggly but spirited beginnings, but the music-loving and ...
Sam Rivers - Ben Street - Kresten Osgood: Violet Violets
by AAJ Italy Staff
All'età di 82 anni (alla data d'incisione di questo disco) Sam Rivers torna in sala d'incisione - su invito dell'emergente batterista danese Kresten Osgood - dimostrando di vivere una splendida seconda giovinezza. Dopo aver trascorso gli anni ottanta in mediocre oscurità (nonostante un periodo come sideman di Dizzy Gillespie) da un decennio il grande sassofonista che ...
Contours
By Sam Rivers
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Point of Many Returns/ Dance of the Tripedal/ Euterpe/ Mellifluous
Cacophony
Violet Violets
By Sam Rivers
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Nature Calls Part 1; Horatio; Invisible; Past Response; I Forgot to Remember; No Time
Toulouse; What A Difference A Day Made; Lace; Chianti Blues; Nature Calls Part 2.
Sam Rivers/Ben Street/Kresten Osgood: Violet Violets
by Annika Westman
Since this group's first CD was called Purple Violets, what would be more appropriately redundant than naming the sequel Violet Violets? The legendary Sam Rivers did it again--actually both CD's are a result of the same great session, and this is another one without a dull moment. The lineup is the same, except vibraphonist Bryan Carrott ...
Sam Rivers/Ben Street/Kresten Osgood/Bryan Carrott: Purple Violets
by Rex Butters
Sam Rivers has the energy of an old Taoist master. On his infrequent trips to Los Angeles, he's relaxed after gigs by mixing it up with local musicians all night long. One such after hours session resulted in Vista, with Adam Rudolph and Harris Eisenstadt. A night in Denmark resulted in Purple Violets, a collection of ...
Sam Rivers: Contours
by Germein Linares
After his Blue Note debut on Fuchsia Swing Song, saxophonist Sam Rivers drifted further “out" on Contours. Reissued as a limited edition connoisseur series CD, this '65 Blue Note outing sparkles anew with 24-bit remastered sound. Playing with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Joe Chambers, Rivers performs four of his ...
Sam Rivers: A Giant Among Us
by Marc Minsker
[Originally published in the South Carolina Free Times in February 2002] It's been said that jazz is dead.Scores of notable jazz critics have made the claim that jazz, an art form that relies heavily upon change and improvisation, must continue to progress if it is to live and prosper. If the music ...
Fuschia Swing Song
By Sam Rivers
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Fuchsia Swing Song (Rivers) - 6:03,
2. Downstairs Blues Upstairs (Rivers) - 5:33,
3. Cyclic Episode (Rivers) - 6:57,
4. Luminous Monolith (Rivers) - 6:31,
5. Beatrice (Rivers) - 6:13,
6. Ellipsis (Rivers) - 7:43,
7. Luminous Monolith [alternate take/*] (Rivers) - 6:39,
8. Downstairs Blues Upstairs [*] (Rivers) - 8:09,
9. Downstairs Blues Upstairs [*] (Rivers) - 7:47,
10. Downstairs Blues Upstairs [*] (Rivers) - 7:49
