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Album

Contours

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Point of Many Returns/ Dance of the Tripedal/ Euterpe/ Mellifluous Cacophony

Album

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.

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Sam Rivers/Ben Street/Kresten Osgood: Violet Violets

Read "Violet Violets" reviewed by Annika Westman

by Annika Westman
November 16, 2005

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 ...

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Sam Rivers/Ben Street/Kresten Osgood/Bryan Carrott: Purple Violets

Read "Purple Violets" reviewed by Rex Butters

by Rex Butters
August 9, 2005

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 ...

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Sam Rivers: Contours

Read "Contours" reviewed by Germein Linares

by Germein Linares
March 3, 2005

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 ...

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Article: Interview

Sam Rivers: A Giant Among Us

by Marc Minsker
January 17, 2005

[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 ...

Album

Vista

By Sam Rivers

Label: FMP
Released: 2004

Album

Contours

By Sam Rivers

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Point of Many Returns; Dance of the Tripedal; Euterpe; Mellifluous Cacophony; Mellifluous Cacophony (alt tk)

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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

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Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings, 1963-1964

By Miles Davis

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2004
Track listing: CD1: Joshua; I Fall in Love Too Easily; Baby Won't You Please Come Home; So Near, So Far; Basin Street Blues; Seven Steps to Heaven (take 3); Seven Steps to Heaven (take 5); Summer Night. CD2: Seven Steps to Heaven (rehearsal take); Seven Steps to Heaven; So Near, So Far; Joshua; Introduction by Andre Francis; Autumn Leaves; Milestones; I Thought About You. CD3: Joshua; All of You; Walkin'; Bye Bye Blackbird; Bye Bye (Theme). CD4: Introduction by Mort Fega; Autumn Leaves; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin'; All of You; Go-Go (Theme and Announcement).CD5: Introduction by Billy Taylor; All Blues; My Funny Valentine; Joshua; I Thought About You; Four; Seven Steps to Heaven; There is No Greater Love; Go-Go (Theme and Re-Introduction). CD6: Introduction by Teruo Osono; If I Were a Bell; My Funny Valentine; So What; Walkin'; All of You; Go-Go (Theme). CD7: Milestones; Autumn Leaves; So What; Stella By Starlight; Walkin; Go-Go (Theme).