Sam Rivers recorded for Blue Note from 1964 to 1967. While recording for Blue Note, he was an avant-garde innovator with an inside/outside hard bop sound. Wrote Steve Huey on Allmusic.com: "[Sam Rivers] 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."
Rivers recorded four albums for Blue Note: The classic "Fuchsia Swing Song," the avant-bop masterpiece "Contours," the radical standards album "A New Conception," and the brilliant "Dimensions and Extensions" which also comprised Rivers' half of the split double LP "Involution" with Andrew Hill.
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complete blue note sam rivers sessions, parts 1-3 (3CD set from Mosaic Records)
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ReplyDeleteWow, Thanks for this. I've always loved and listened to his later , freer stuff, but these albums are just amazing! It's certainly deepened my appreciation for his music. These records definitely deserve to be heard, and they sound as fresh and relevant as ever. (Although it's hard to go too wrong with just about any early to mid-sixties Blue Note ha!)
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