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Sam Rivers:
🎵 Improvisation III

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#NowPlaying Sam Rivers - Waves (Tomato Recordings, US 1979/Affinity reissue)

The titles of the compositions (all by Sam Rivers) should give you an idea of how explosive this set is : Shockwave, Torch, Pulse, Flux & Surge.

Sam Rivers – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piano
Dave Holland –  bass, cello
Joe Daley – tuba, baritone horn
Thurman Barker – drums, percussion

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#NowPlaying Sam Rivers - Streams (Impulse!, US 1973).

A brilliant continuous 50-minute trio improvisation recorded live at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival.

With Cecil McBee (bass) & Norman Connors (drums, gongs).

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Sam Rivers playing live in a tiny venue in Tucson Arizona in 2003. Image shot with a 5 megapixel Kodak point and shoot camera.

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Sam Rivers

Jazz great. Spearheaded the loft scene years in NYC.

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Sam Rivers Quartet plus Anthony Braxton solo at Keystone Korner in San Francisco

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"Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions, Vol. 1" (1977) #NowPlaying #vinyl #vinylrecords #SamRivers #ByardLancaster #KhanJamal @vinylrecords
An unlikely find from today's trek to the record store. I nabbed the first 3 volumes of the 5-part series. These were live performances recorded at Sam Rivers' NYC home. This one features Sunny Murray with Byard Lancaster, David Murray, Khan Jamal and Fred Hopkins; Sam Rivers; Ken McIntyre; and Henry Threadgill, among others.

"Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions, Vol. I" (1977) #NowPlaying #vinyl #vinylrecords #SamRivers #ByardLancaster #KhanJamal @vinylrecords
An unlikely find from today's trek to the record store. I nabbed the first 3 volumes of the 5-part series. These were live performances recorded at Sam Rivers' NYC home. This one features Sunny Murray with Byard Lancaster, David Murray, Khan Jamal and Fred Hopkins; Sam Rivers; Ken McIntyre; and Henry Threadgill, among others.