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31.1.13

INTERPLANETARY SAM RIVERS MONTH: Sam Rivers Trio - Live in Lovere '77


Sam Rivers Trio - Live in Lovere '77

Rec. live in Lovere, Italy, on June 13, 1977
(mics recording)

Sam Rivers,tenor & soprano saxes,piano,flute
Dave Holland,bass
Bobby Battle,drums

1. Improvisation (48:08)
2. Encore (11:42)

Total Time 59:51

mp3 (130 MB)

flac (371 MB)

INTERPLANETARY SAM RIVERS MONTH: SAM RIVERS - CONTRASTS - 1979 ECM




Sam Rivers - tenor and soprano saxophone, flute
George Lewis - trombone
Dave Holland - bass
Thruman Baker - drums, marimba

Recorded in Ludwigsburg, December 1979

01 Circles
02 Zip
03 Solace
04 Verve
05 Dazzle
06 Image
07 Lines

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Flac with low quality cover image.

30.1.13

INTERPLANETARY SAM RIVERS MONTH - X2 LP: Black Africa! Villalago & Black Africa! Perugia




Black Africa! Villalago:



Horo catalogue # HDP 03-04

Recorded at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Villalago, Italy, July 24, 1976 (except for track 5, which was recorded in Perugia, Italy on July 25, 1976)

Personnel:
Sam Rivers - Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Flute, Piano, Voice
Joe Daley - Tuba, Euphonium
Sidney Smart - Drums, Percussion
Don Pullen - Piano (track 3)

Tracks:
1. Soprano Section
2. Piano & Flute Sections
3. Flute & Tenor Sections
4. Villalago: Encore
5. Perugia Concert: Finale

Black Africa! Perugia:

Horo catalogue # HDP 05-06

Recorded at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy on July 25, 1976

Personnel:
Sam Rivers - Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax, Flute, Piano, Voice
Joe Daley - Tuba, Euphonium
Sidney Smart - Drums, Percussion

Tracks:
1. Tenor Section
2. Piano Section
3. Flute & Soprano Sections
4. Tenor Section


INTERPLANETARY SAM RIVERS MONTH 2013: SAM RIVERS "PARAGON"




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This trio date was recorded in Paris on April 18, 1977 and released in 1979 on Fluid Records, catalogue # 101.

Personnel:
Sam Rivers - Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Soprano Saxophone, Piano
Dave Holland: Bass, Cello
Barry Altschul: Drums

Tracks
1. Ecstasy
2. Bliss
3. Rapture
4. Tingle
5. Paragon

The titles should give you an idea of what to expect with this particular trio. "Ecstasy" is very much an ecstatic energy workout. "Bliss" captures Rivers on flute, and is musically quiet, as we would expect in a blissful state. "Rapture" goes back to a sax, bass, and drum format, and again the title sets the mood - very fluid, very fast-paced. Rivers switches to piano for "Tingle" which somehow manages to get the listener's senses tingling. Rivers becomes truly a multi-instrumentalist for "Paragon" - and all I can say is that if this is what perfection sounds like, I'm digging it. Drummer Barry Altschul and bassist Dave Holland were regular conspirators on Sam Rivers joints during the mid-1970s. On this one, they truly sound like they know each other well.

Rob Ferrier of Allmusic puts it thusly:

As the checks got smaller for jazz musicians, the bands did also. The fewer people to pay, the more profitable the venture. In some ways, this was a tragedy. For other musicians, men like Sam Rivers, it was an opportunity to make the music in his head. Rivers is a giant thinker. While his Blue Note recordings are certainly more accessible to the average listener, it is his remarkable trio output that is the core of his musical thought. Rivers is a player whose playing brooks no argument. There aren't many who can hang, even in a supporting role. There certainly isn't room for other soloists. This is sweeping, grand, muscular music, as regular and jagged as a seismograph, or the jittering of a lie detector. Here, he's supported by two men perfectly suited for their roles, Dave Holland and Barry Altschul. Fine musicians, here they are extensions of the music that pours from Rivers.

I'd like to think that Holland and Altschul are more than extensions of Rivers' music - not to diminish Rivers' accomplishments as an improvisor and composer, but to simply acknowledge that the music is a conversation, and the two sidemen involved are simply ones who happen to be fluent in the language Rivers speaks.

Download Paragon.


SAM RIVERS - PARAGON

JANUARY 2013 IS THE 2ND ANNUAL INTERPLANETARY SAM RIVERS MONTH


PARAGON

Bass, Cello – Dave Holland
Drums, Percussion – Barry Altschul
Engineer – Claude Ermelin

1977 FLUID RECORDS

2013 INTERPLANETARY SAM RIVERS MONTH: SAM RIVERS - FIRESTORM


I was fortunate enough to catch the Sam Rivers Trio when they were on tour in support of this album.  I caught the gig in downtown Portland Oregon, in a magnificent, gigantic, historic church.  And when the band played, church was definitely in session.  

While we were waiting outside before the show, Mr. Rivers came out to smoke a cigarette.  Meeting him and chatting with him about jazz was one of the most exciting conversations I've ever had.  Sam Rivers was a really, really, honest to God, an awesome dude.  

The show was hot.  I mean like smokin' hot.  Now I know that saying stuff like that on a jazz blog is super cheesy, but those adjectives are really best used here in this context.  Anyway, speaking of said adjectives, I refer to the the title of this album:  Firestorm.  The swirling ferocity of this trio literally felt like the sounds the three of them were making were on fire.  Sam switched between reeds and piano.  Doug Mathews, after slaying it on the upright bass, moved to bass clarinet and electric bass.  Anthony Cole's spectacular drumming literally sent me into a trance (he played piano on a few tunes that night as well).

Sam Rivers played with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis when he was very young.  He played or recorded with nearly every cornerstone musician in jazz, from the great masters of the past to the hottest new talent, consistently putting out perfect music all the way through his 70+ year career.  Towards the end of his life he still blew that sax with the aggressiveness of someone 30 years his younger, still creating compositions with a creative spirit that was unparalleled in the genre; a creativity so rare, he lived in a class of musicians that people like Mozart lived in.  

At the end of the show, after the 2nd or 3rd encore, he leaned towards the mic, and said:  "You just witnessed the history of jazz."

He made that statement, a statement that some could take as egotistical, with utmost humility.  He wasn't bragging; he was simply just letting us know what had just happened.  

2ND ANNUAL INTERPLANETARY SAM RIVERS MONTH CONTINUES: "AURORA" FROM 2007


A year has passed since Sam Rivers left planet Earth.  The Changing Same is a little late at getting to the annual celebration Interplanetary Sam Rivers Month, but to make up for lost time we are starting of with a bang.  Here we have a release from 2007, which is yet another one of Rivers' big band masterpieces.  Utterly staggering large ensemble compositions, blazing improvisations, with smashing precision.  

Preview the track "Filaments:"




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More to come!