Sam Rivers

Sam Rivers - The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions 1964-67 (1996) {3CD Box Set Mosaic MD3-167}
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© 1964-67, 1996 Blue Note / EMI-Capitol Music / Mosaic Records | MD3-167
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

From the time of his first Blue Note recording in 1964 to his final session for the label in 1967, Sam Rivers made stunning progress as an avant-garde innovator. Starting with an inside/outside hard bop foundation, Rivers quickly took his music as far out as he could while maintaining a recognizable structure; his work fearlessly explored wildly dissonant harmonies and atonality, dense group interaction, cerebral rumination, and passionately intense, free-leaning solos.

Sam Rivers - Configuration (1998) {Pelican Sound Recordings ‎PSR 9803}
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© 1998 Pelican Sound Recordings ‎| PSR 9803
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone / Flute

One of the most surprising recordings of the year (1998), Configuration finds venerable multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers presiding over a very unlikely contingent of European musicians: Recyclers guitarist Noel Akchote, Mujician bassist Paul Rogers, pianist Tony Hymas, and drummer Jacques Thollot. Additionally, this isn’t an album comprised solely of extended, free improvisations; there is a wide array of compositions included in the program, and not all are by Rivers.

Sam Rivers Quartet - Lazuli (1989) {2015 Japan Timeless Jazz Master Collection Complete Series}
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© 1989, 2015 Timeless Records / Solid Records Japan / Ultra-Vibe | CDSOL-6420
Jazz / Jazz Funk / Post Bop / Groove / Saxophone / Flute

Reissue with the latest remastering and the original cover artwork. Comes with a description written in Japanese. An overlooked gem from reedman Sam Rivers – and a set that's surprisingly soulful, given that most of his other work from this stretch is much more outside! The album's got a laidback groove on most numbers – with rhythm from Daryll Thompson on guitar, Rael Wesley Grant on bass, and Steve McCraven on drums – often in this midtempo mode that has the electric currents providing a subtle bounce, which opens up as Rivers solos on tenor, soprano sax, and flute! The style's a few steps down from funky fusion, but not that far away, either – and Sam proves to be an expressive soloist in the setting, in ways we really wouldn't have expected. Titles include "Swirl", "Chant", "Coral", "Lazuli", "Ripples", "Dandelions", "Devotion", "Beatrice", and "Sprung".

Sam Rivers - Black Africa (1976) {Atomic Records 76813}
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© 1976, 2009 Atomic Records / Horo Records | 76813
Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone / Flute

This edition presents, for the first time ever on CD, the complete long unavailable 1976 Villalago performance by the Sam Rivers Trio, featuring Don Pullen as a guest soloist. One of the best exponents of free jazz, this set features Rivers playing tenor and soprano saxophones, flute and piano on an extended exploration of his "Black Africa".

Sam Rivers - Fuchsia Swing Song (1964) {2003 BN Connoisseur CD Series}
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© 2003 Blue Note / Capitol | 7243 5 90413 2 2 | 24-bit remaster
Jazz / Post Bop / Avant-Garde Jazz / Saxophone

Recorded in 1964 immediately after leaving the Miles Davis Quintet, Sam Rivers' Fuchsia Swing Song is one of the more auspicious debuts the label released in the mid-'60s. Rivers was a seasoned session player (his excellent work on Larry Young's Into Somethin' is a case in point) and a former member of Herb Pomeroy's Big Band before he went out with Davis. By the time of his debut, Rivers had been deep under the influence of Coltrane and Coleman, but wasn't willing to give up the blues just yet. Hence the sound on Fuchsia Swing Song is one of an artist who is at once very self-assured, and in transition.