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   —Mike Chamberlain, All About Jazz

   “A model of independent scholarship, ... A highly immersive experience.
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   “One of those rare works that are destined to become references.”
   —Pierre Crepon, WeJazz Magazine

   “Masterfully sums up Rivers’ lengthy and productive career. ... A formidable document. ... Clearly sets the standard
   for any future work in this format.”
   —Robert Iannapollo, ARSC Journal

   “I have never encountered anything approaching [Lopez’] obsessive thoroughness. ... A testament to Rivers’ enduring
   music and his invaluable role as incubator/advocate/on the bandstand educator.
   —Peter Margasak, The WIRE

   “Rick Lopez’s book is by no means a biography. It’s not a discography either, and it’s not a photo documentation.
   And yet somehow it is everything at the same time.
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   “A Rosetta Stone of insight, and a ... worthy tribute to an overlooked giant of the music.”    —Taylor Ho Bynum
   “An incredible piece of work, ... really something else. Informative and entertaining.    —Barry Altschul
   “Absolutely mind-blowing! So great!”    —Mats Gustafsson
   “An essential resource, a trail map for a rare and beautiful landscape of sounds.”    —Larry Blumenfeld
   “A tremendous document. ... This book is powerful.”    —Jason Moran
   “Lopez’s Sam Rivers sessionography is state of the art.”    —Lewis Porter
   “Rick Lopez has done it again!”    —James Brandon Lewis


   ENORMOUS DISCLAIMER:

   It’s been distressing for me to keep this document available on the web, but I know that some people still
   find it useful, so I’ve been resisting taking it down. It is over four years out of date; missing thousands of
   details that make this web version so out of synch that it hardly bears any resemblance to the updated
   book. I made two long visits to The RivBea Archive, trips to The Smithsonian and the NY Public Libraries,
   received hundreds of updates and additions from people everywhere, none of which has been added here.
   I need to make sure the book project continues to move, and I simply don’t have time to update this, and
   likely won’t get to it for at least a few years.

   Printed out, this old web version would run about 450 pages. The book is 768 pages. So please enter here
   knowing that much is missing, there are errors uncorrected, formatting and editing issues, etc.

   —RL 23.03.01





Mosaic

The
Sam Rivers
Sessionography


(September 25, 1923 - December 26, 2011)



A work in progress
by Rick Lopez.



Document begun March 10, 1997

UPDATES list
(which I am no longer updating as of 19.12.05)


Latest 8:34pm, August 18, 2020, only to add No Business Archival releases.



Photograph by Francis Wolff
(65.05.21, the Blue Note Contours session)




A Note from Your Mad Discographer, on The Deep Digging; The Incantations; The Inspirations; All These Words...

     I’ve been deeply involved in the arts since the mid-’70s, but I’ve never known how to monetize my talents. I’ve never had a hint
     of financial savvy; I am—like a clueless child—almost entirely dependent at the age of 69 on next week’s pay-check; and I am
     “unaffiliated” and on my own here. I also get constant feedback from people all over the world who’ve been telling me, lo these
     many decades, that the work I do is invaluable... And so I’m reaching out.
     There are expenses I constantly struggle to meet: website hosting, an Adobe account for the software that makes the website
     and book layouts possible, subscriptions to newspaper archives, and numerous other expenses. Then there are the absurd number
     of hours I feel compelled to spend gathering and organizing and formatting the information that I find.
     I receive a Social Security check that meets just about half of my living expenses, and I drive a tiny school bus part-time for
     a daycare center that barely covers the rest. So if you appreciate the work that I do and are willing and able to help a boy out
     with any amount, either one-time or monthly, I would be most grateful. —RL

     (And the scant book monies go toward the next publication, Ed Hazell’s Energy Center: A History of Studio RivBea 1972-1978.)



A memoir of the trip to New York City for the Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, and Barry Altschul concert
at Columbia University's Miller Theatre, May 25th, 2007.

The RivBea Official Web-site

Session List :::

All sessions linked below are to detailed entries for recorded media.
AR = Private or Audience Recording / AVR = Private or Audience Video /
BR = Broadcast Recording
/ BVR = Broadcast Video /
SBR = Soundboard Recording / RBA RivBea Archival Recordings

Also listed in chronological order within this sessionography and its session entries are play-dates with no known recorded media.
I would appreciate notice of any club dates, concert dates, festival dates, etcetera, that are not listed here.
Please include reference information (i.e. periodical name, issue date, page number), along with any and all relevant details.



  • 50.02.22 / Serge Chaloff [BR] Verona
  • 61.12.14 / Tadd Dameron Octet: Blue Note Records Presents The Lost Sessions (Blue Note)
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
  • 63.00.00 / Alvin Fiering: Sculptor (University of Boston)


  • Sam Rivers with the Miles Davis Quintet — 64.04.03 to 64.07.15
  • 64.07.12 / Miles Davis Quintet [AR] Tokyo
    • IMAGE
    • Miles Davis Quintet: Starlight In Black Live (Mega Disc Lengendary Collection Series)
    • Miles Davis Quintet: Moment / 1964 Japan Tour Definitive Edition (Heavy Blow)
      + 64.07.15
  • 64.07.14 / Miles Davis Quintet: Miles in Tokyo (CBS)
    IMAGE
    • Miles Davis Quintet: Heard 'Round the World (CBS)
    • Miles Davis: Milestones: New York / Berlin / Tokyo (Jazz Door)
    • Miles Davis: The Complete 63-64 Columbia Recordings (Mosaic)
    • Miles Davis: Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963-1964 (SONY)
    • Miles Davis: The Best of Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963-1964 (SONY)
      IMAGE
  • 64.07.15 / Miles Davis Quintet [AR] Kyoto
    • Miles Davis Quintet: Moment / 1964 Japan Tour Definitive Edition (Heavy Blow)
      + 64.07.12
      IMAGES


  • 64.08.21 / Tony Williams: Life Time (Blue Note)
    • Maiden Voyage: Modern Mainstream No. 2 (Blue Note)
    • The Blue Note Years, Volume Five, The Avant Garde (Blue Note)
      + 64.12.11
    • The Blue Note Years, 60 Years 1939 / 1999 (Blue Note)
      + 64.12.11
  • 64.11.12 / Larry Young: Into Somethin' (Blue Note)
    • Larry Young: The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Larry Young (Mosaic)
    • Larry Young: The Art of Larry Young (Blue Note)
    • Grant Green: Have Guitar, Will Travel, featuring Grant Green (Blue Note)
    • (V/A) Blue Note's Six Vital Organs, Home of the Hammond (Blue Note)
  • 64.12.11 / Sam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)
    • (V/A) 40 Years of Jazz / History of Blue Note - Box 4 (Blue Note)
    • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions (Mosaic)
      + 65.05.21; 66.10.11; 67.03.17
    • The Blue Note Years, Volume Five, The Avant Garde (Blue Note)
      + 64.08.21
    • The Blue Note Years, 60 Years 1939 / 1999 (Blue Note)
      + 64.08.21
    • (V/A) The Amazing Shoichi Yui, Volume 2 (Toshiba) / IMAGE
    • (V/A) A Blue Conception (EMI)
      + 65.04.03
    • (V/A) Jazzanova Blue Note Trip (Blue Note)
  • 65.04.03 / Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue (Blue Note)
    • Bobby Hutcherson: Spiral (Blue Note)
    • (V/A) Blue Note Sampler Vol.3 (Blue Note)
    • Bobby Hutcherson: The Best of the Blue Note Years (Blue Note)
    • (V/A) A Blue Conception (EMI)
      + 64.12.11
  • 65.05.10 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Boston
  • 65.05.21 / Sam Rivers: Contours (Blue Note)
    • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions (Mosaic)
      + 64.12.11; 66.10.11; 67.03.17
    • (V/A) Out of the Blue: The Art of the Improvisers (Blue Note)
    • Sam Rivers: Contours (Connoisseur 24-bit Remaster) (Blue Note)
  • 65.08.12 / Tony Williams: Spring (Blue Note)
    • (V/A) Blue Bossa (1963-1965) (Blue Note)
    • Herbie Hancock: Blue Note (EMI)
  • 66.03.07 / Sam Rivers: Involution (Blue Note)
    + 67.03.17
    • Andrew Hill: The Complete Andrew Hill Blue Note Sessions (1963-1966) (Mosaic)
  • 66.07.02 / Bill Dixon [AR] Newport
  • 66.10.11 / Sam Rivers: A New Conception (Blue Note)
    • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions (Mosaic)
      + 64.12.11; 65.05.21; 67.03.17
    • (V/A) AFRTS Basic Musical Library, P Series (Armed Forces Radio and Television Service)
  • 67.02.10 / Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select #16 (Mosaic)
    + 67.10.31
  • 67.02.20 / Nat Jones Quintet [Rehearsal Recordings] NYC
  • 67.03.17 / Sam Rivers Sextet: Involution (Blue Note)
    + 66.03.07
    • Sam Rivers Sextet: Dimensions and Extensions (Blue Note)
    • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions (Mosaic)
      + 64.12.11; 65.05.21; 66.10.11
    • (V/A) Blue Note Re-Issue Sampler (Blue Note)
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
  • 67.10.31 / Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select #16 (Mosaic)
    + 67.02.10
  • 68.00.00 (1) / Bill Dixon Free Conservatory Orchestra [Dixonia Archival Recording] NYC
  • 68.00.00 (2) / Bill Dixon Free Conservatory Orchestra [BR] NYC
  • 68.12.13 / Steve Tintweiss & His Purple Why [Archival Recording] Brooklyn
  • 68.12.15 / Burton Greene Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 69.01.11 / Don Ayler Sextet with Albert Ayler: Albert Ayler - Holy Ghost (Revenant Records)


  • Sam Rivers with the Cecil Taylor Quartet—69.02.08 to 69.11.10, and beyond
  • 69.02.08 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [RBA & BR] Grinnell
  • 69.07.28 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR] Paris
  • 69.07.29 / Cecil Taylor: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vols. 1-3 (Shandar) / IMAGE
    • Cecil Taylor: Second Act of A, vols. 1-3 (RCA)
    • Cecil Taylor Quartet: The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (Prestige)
    • Cecil Taylor: Fondation Maeght Nights, Vols. 1-3 (Jazz View)


  • 69.08.00 / Jimi Hendrix with Sam Rivers [possible AR] Woodstock
  • 69.10.12 / Burton Greene Quartet [SBR] NYC


  • Sam Rivers with the Cecil Taylor Quartet — Continued...
  • 69.10.26 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR] Milan
  • 69.11.02 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR] London
  • 69.11.03 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR & BVR] Salle Pleyel
  • 69.11.04 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR] Copenhagen
  • 69.11.05 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR & BR] Stockholm
  • 69.11.06 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR] Berlin
  • 69.11.09 / Cecil Taylor Quartet: Cecil Taylor Quartet in Europe (Jazz Connoisseur)
    • Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR & BR] Rotterdam
  • 69.11.10 / Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR] Stuttgart
  • 69.12.10 / Bill Dixon Ensemble [Dixonia Archival Audio & Video Recordings] Bennington
  • 69.12.11 / Bill Dixon Ensemble: Live at Bennington College (no label)


  • 70.08.02 / Afro-American Singing Theatre [WBAI Archival Recording] NYC
  • 70.11.00 / Black Journal [BR] (PBS)
  • 71.01.17 / Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble [RBA] NYC
  • 70.00.00 / Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble [RBA] NYC
  • 71.02.12 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Boston
  • 71.02.13 / Sam Rivers: Hues (Impulse!)
    + 71.02.14; 72.10.27; 73.08.03; 73.11.10
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Boston
  • 71.02.14 / Sam Rivers: Hues (Impulse!)
    + 71.02.13; 72.10.27; 73.08.03; 73.11.10
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Boston
  • 71.04.08 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Brooklyn
  • 71.05.08 / Sam Rivers and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra [Juma Sultan Archival Recording] Middletown
  • 71.05.00 / Sam Rivers Interview [BR] NYC
  • 71.06.03 / Sam Rivers Trio: Emanation (NoBusiness Records)
  • 71.06.03 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & AR] Boston
  • 71.09.16 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Middletown
  • 72.05.00 / Bill Evans & George Russell Orchestra: Living Time (Columbia)
  • IMAGE: Studio RivBea at 24 Bond St.
  • 72.06.27 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] NYC
  • 72.07.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 72.07.10 / Free Jam Session [AR & AVR] New York City
  • 72.10.27 / Sam Rivers: Hues (Impulse!)
    + 71.02.13; 71.02.14; 73.08.03; 73.11.10
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Rochester
    • Sam Rivers: The Dedication Series/Vol.XII - The Live Trio Sessions (Impulse!)
      + 73.07.06; 73.08.03; 73.11.10
  • 72.11.30 / Dave Holland: Conference of the Birds (ECM)
  • 72.12.01 / Dave Holland Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 72.12.02 / Dave Holland Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 72.12.00 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 72.12.15 or 12.16 / Paul Bley Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 72.12.16 (3) / Sam Rivers Quintet [AR] NYC
  • 72.12.30 / Sam Rivers & Karl Berger Group [AR] NYC
  • 73.01.01 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 73.04.14 / Karl Berger and Friends [RBA] NYC
  • 73.04.20 / Sam Rivers Ensemble [RBA] NYC
  • 73.04.27 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 73.04.28 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 73.05.00 or 06.00 / Harlem Opera Society—An Evening of Black Arts Song [RBA] NYC
  • 73.06.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] NYC
  • 73.06.30 (2) / Don Cherry Octet [AR] NYC
  • 73.07.03 / Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Ensemble [AR] NYC
  • 73.07.04 (2) / Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble [AR] NYC
  • 73.07.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 73.07.06 / Sam Rivers: Streams (Impulse!)
    • (V/A) The Saxophone (Impulse!)
    • Sam Rivers: The Dedication Series/Vol.XII - The Live Trio Sessions (Impulse!)
      + 72.10.27; 73.08.03; 73.11.10
    • (V/A) Fire Into Music - The Best of MCA/Impulse! (Impulse!)
    • (V/A) Impulsively (Impulse!)
  • 73.07.07 (1) / Sam Rivers Ensemble [AR] NYC
  • 73.07.07 (2) / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 73.08.03 / Sam Rivers: Hues (Impulse!)
    + 71.02.13; 71.02.14; 72.10.27; 73.11.10
    • (V/A) No Energy Crisis (Impulse!)
    • Sam Rivers: The Dedication Series/Vol.XII - The Live Trio Sessions (Impulse!)
      + 72.10.27; 73.07.06; 73.11.10
    • Sam Rivers: Trio Live (Impulse!)
      + 73.11.10
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Molde
  • 73.08.16 / Sam Rivers [BR] NYC
  • 73.09.23 / Elaine Summers' Dance and Film Company [AVR] NYC
  • 73.10.19 / Sam Rivers Quintet [AR] NYC
  • 73.11.01 / Karl Berger / Creative Music Studio / Music Universe [BR] Berlin
  • 73.11.10 / Sam Rivers: Hues (Impulse!)
    + 71.02.13; 71.02.14; 72.10.27; 73.08.03
    • (V/A) Impulse! Artists on Tour (Impulse!)
    • (V/A) The Drums (Impulse!)
    • Sam Rivers: The Dedication Series/Vol.XII - The Live Trio Sessions (Impulse!)
      + 72.10.27; 73.07.06; 73.08.03
    • Sam Rivers: Trio Live (Impulse!)
      + 73.08.03
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
  • 73.11.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 73.12.01 / Sam Rivers [AR] NYC
  • 73.12.24 / Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo [RBA] NYC
  • 73.12.27 / Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo [AR] NYC
  • 74.02.00 / Jeanne Lee: Conspiracy (Earthforms Records)
  • 74.03.02 / Sam Rivers Ensemble [AR] NYC
  • 74.03.04 / Sam Rivers: Crystals (Impulse!)
    • Del The Funky Homosapien: No Need For Alarm (Elektra Entertainment)
    • (V/A) Respekt! (Universal Jazz Germany)
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
  • 74.03.27 / The Music Universe Orchestra [AR] NYC
  • 74.04.08 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Alberta
  • 74.05.15 / John Lee Hooker: Free Beer and Chicken (ABC)
  • 74.06.00 / Dick Griffin: The Eighth Wonder (Strata East)
    • Dick Griffin: The Eighth Wonder & More (Konnex)
    • (V/A) Strata-2-East (Universal Sound)
  • 74.06.09 (2) / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 74.06.29 / Sam Rivers Sextet [AR] NYC
  • 74.07.05 / Jazz Opera Ensemble [BR] NYC
  • 74.07.06 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR & BR] NYC
  • 74.07.07 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 74.07.00 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] NYC
  • 74.07.26 (1) / Dave Holland Quartet [BVR] Antibes
  • 74.08.01 / (V/A) Sam Rivers "Freedom" Trio: Jazz In Piazza—Umbria Jazz 1974
  • 74.00.00 / (V/A) New American Music, Volume 1 (Smithsonian Folkways Records)
  • 74.11.01 / Sam Rivers Reeds of Harlem [AR] NYC
  • 74.11.19 / Harlem Opera Society's Solomon and Sheba [AR] NYC
  • 74.11.28 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 74.12.29 / Sam Rivers Trio + Karl Berger [AR] Woodstock
  • 75.01.24 / Carman Moore's "Gospel Fuse" [BR] San Francisco
  • 75.05.03 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] East Lansing
  • 75.06.01 / Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR] NYC
  • 75.06.22 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR & BR] NYC
  • 75.07.01 / Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR] NYC
  • 75.07.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] NYC
  • 75.07.08 / Sam Rivers Solo [RBA & BR] NYC
  • 75.08.01 / Bill Cole: The First Cycle (Music from Dartmouth)
  • 75.09.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Paris
  • 75.10.00 / Carman Moore: Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon (Hong Kong Trade Development Council)
  • 75.10.16 / Don Pullen featuring Sam Rivers: Capricorn Rising (Black Saint)
    + 75.10.17
    • Don Pullen: The Complete RM Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (C.A.M. Jazz)
  • 75.10.17 / Don Pullen featuring Sam Rivers: Capricorn Rising (Black Saint)
    • Don Pullen: The Complete RM Recordings on Black Saint & Soul Note (C.A.M. Jazz)
  • 75.10.28—11.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] San Francisco
  • 75.12.09 / Sam Rivers: Sizzle (Impulse!)
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
  • 75.12.00 / Sam Rivers Quintet [AR] NYC
  • 75.12.02 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 75.12.05 / Sam Rivers Quintet [Warren Smith Archival Recording] unknown
  • 75.12.12 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 75.12.14 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 75.12.18 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 75.12.21 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 75.00.00 or 76.00.00 / Sam Rivers & Rashied Ali Duo [BR] NYC
  • 76.01.01 / Sam Rivers [BR] NYC
  • 76.02.18 / Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers / Dave Holland (Improvising Artists)
    • Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol.2 (Improvising Artists)
  • 76.02.00 / Joe Cocker: Stingray (A&M Records)
    • Joe Cocker: Greatest Hits (A&M Records)
    • Joe Cocker: The Anthology (A&M Records)
    • 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best Of Joe Cocker (A&M Records)
    • Joe Cocker: Greatest Love Songs (Hip-O Records)
  • 76.03.11 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Bergamo
  • 76.03.12 + 03.13 / Sam Rivers: The Quest (Red Record)
    • Sam Rivers: Vision—American Jazz & Blues History Volume 12 (Tobacco Road)
    • (V/A) I Grandi del Jazz: L'Avanguardia (Fabbri Brothers Press)
    • Sam Rivers: SAM RIVERS con SCHIANO, ALTSCHUL e HOLLAND (GONG)
      + 76.03.13, 77.04.28
  • 76.04.03 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 76.04.09 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Philadelphia
  • 76.04.10 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR & AR] Philadelphia
  • 76.04.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] San Francisco
  • 76.05.15 / (V/A) Wildflowers I: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions (Douglas)
    • (V/A) Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions Complete (Knitting Factory)
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] NYC
  • 76.06.05 (2) / Sam Rivers and Rashid Sinan [BR] NYC
  • 76.07.11 (1) / Sam Rivers Trio [SBR] Penne
  • 76.07.11 (2) / (V/A) After Hours / The Great Pescara Jam Sessions Volume 2° (Ecamlab)
  • 76.07.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Verona
  • 76.07.23 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Ravenna
  • 76.07.24 / Sam Rivers: Black Africa! Villalago (Horo)
    + 76.07.25
  • 76.07.25 / Sam Rivers: Black Africa! Perugia (Horo)
    • Sam Rivers: Black Africa! Villalago (Horo)
    • Sam Rivers [AR] Villalago
  • 76.08.08 / Sam Rivers Trio [Video Recording] Roermond
  • 76.08.22 / Hugo Heredia Quartet [AR] Chateauvallon
  • 76.08.23 / Sam Rivers Solo [AR] Chateauvallon
  • 76.08.27 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Willisau
  • 76.09.02 / Sam Rivers: The Tuba Trio, Vol.I, Essence - The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz (Circle Records)
    • Sam Rivers: The Tuba Trio, Vol.II, Essence - The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz (Circle Records)
    • Sam Rivers: The Tuba Trio, Vol.III, Essence - The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz (Circle Records)
    • Sam Rivers / Earl Cross: Jazz of the Seventies (Circle Records)
    • Sam Rivers / James Newton: Flutes! (Circle Records)
    • Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Amsterdam
  • 76.09.03 / Sam Rivers Tuba Trio [Warren Smith Archival Recording] Amsterdam
  • 76.10.10 / Kazuko Shiraishi: Dedicated to the Late John Coltrane (Musicworks)
  • 76.10.12 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] NYC
  • 76.11.13 (1) / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Long Island
  • 76.11.13 (2) / Charles Mingus Quintet + guest Sam Rivers [SBR] Long Island
  • 77.00.00 (2) / (V/A) Sam Rivers Solo Silver Burdett's PIPELINE (Pipeline)
  • 77.01.00 / Sam Rivers [AR] NYC
  • 77.01.29 / Sam Rivers Quintet [RBA] NYC
  • 77.02.08 / Barry Altschul: You Can't Name Your Own Tune + 77.02.09
  • 77.02.09 / Barry Altschul: You Can't Name Your Own Tune
  • 77.00.00 (3) / Sam Rivers Ensemble [Unissued Studio Recording] NYC
  • 77.03.14 / Sam Rivers Quintet [Warren Smith Archival Recording] Tokyo
  • 77.04.16 / Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [BR] Paris
  • 77.04.18 / Sam Rivers: Paragon (Fluid Records) / IMAGE
  • 77.04.28 / Sam Rivers & Mario Schiano: Rendez-vous (Red Records)
    • Sam Rivers: SAM RIVERS con SCHIANO, ALTSCHUL e HOLLAND (GONG)
      + 76.03.12, 76.03.13
  • 77.05.07 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Vancouver
  • 77.05.15 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Edmonton
  • 77.05.24 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Washington, DC
  • 77.06.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Europe
  • 77.06.04 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Altglashütten
  • 77.06.13 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Lovere
  • 77.06.15 / Sam Rivers Trio [SBR] Graz
  • 77.06.17 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Laibach
  • 77.06-07.00 / Sam Rivers & Stanley Crouch Duo [Street Fight] New York City
  • 77.08.00 / Sam Rivers Quintet [BR] NYC
  • 77.07.18 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Philadelphia
  • 77.08.19 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Chateauvallon
  • 77.09.06 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Modena
  • 77.09.24 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Dartmouth
  • 77.10.11 (1) / Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [BR] Nancy
  • 77.10.11 (2) / Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR] Nancy
  • 77.10.12 / Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR] Nancy
  • 77.10.13 / Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR] Nancy
  • 77.10.15 (1) / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Nancy
  • 77.10.15 (2) / Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR] Nancy
  • 77.10.19 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [SBR] Brussels
  • 77.11.06 / Sam Rivers Quintet: Zenith (NoBusiness Records)
    • Sam Rivers Quintet [BR] Berlin
  • 77.11.13 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Rotterdam
  • 78.01.01 / Sam Rivers Quintet [AR] NYC
  • 78.01.12 / Sam Rivers Trio: Ricochet (NoBusiness Records)
  • 78.01.14 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] San Francisco
  • 78.01.20 / Sam Rivers Trio: The World of Sam Rivers [BR] Salt Lake City
  • 78.02.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Chicago
  • 78.02.10 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Ann Arbor
  • 78.03.30 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR & AR] NYC
  • 78.06.24 / Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [AR] Washington, DC
  • 78.06.25 / Sonny Rollins Quintet [BR] NYC
  • 78.06.30 (1) / Sam Rivers: The World of Sam Rivers [BR] NYC
  • 78.06.30 (2) / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] NYC
  • 78.07.16 / Sam Rivers Trio + Joe Daley [RBA] Den Haag
  • 78.07.22 / Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR] Nervi
  • 78.07.23 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] San Remo
  • 78.08.08 / Sam Rivers: Waves (Tomato Records)
    • (V/A) Tomato Sampler (Tomato Records) / IMAGE
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 79.12.04+05, 92.01.12
  • 78.09.23 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Philadelphia
  • 78.10.02 / Sam Rivers Quartet: The World of Sam Rivers [BR] Austin
  • 78.10.00 (1) / Sam Rivers Quartet: The World of Sam Rivers [BR] New Orleans
  • 78.10.07 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Cordes Junction
  • 78.10.11 / Sam Rivers Quartet & Anthony Braxton [BR] San Francisco
  • 78.10.15 / Sam Rivers Quartet & Anthony Braxton [AR] San Francisco
  • 78.10.22-23 / IMAGE: Sam Rivers Quartet in Vancoouver
  • 78.10.23 / Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR] Vancouver
  • 78.10.25 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Seattle
  • 78.10.31 / Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR] Brescia
  • 78.11.06 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA & AR] Padova
  • 78.11.07 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Padova
  • 78.12.11 / Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [AR] Quebec
  • 79.01.24 / Sam Rivers Big Band [AR] NYC
  • 79.02.04 (2) / Sam Rivers' New Jazz Festival Orchestra [AR] Kent
    • Hamiet Bluiett / Muhal Richard Abrams: "Saying Something for All" [ERROR LISTING]
  • 79.03.01 (1) / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Minneapolis
  • 79.03.01 (2) / Sam Rivers with the New Jazz Festival Orchestra [BR] Minneapolis
  • 79.04.27 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] New Orleans
  • 79.04.20 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Washington, DC
  • 79.05.15 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Hamburg
  • 79.05.21 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Rouen
  • 79.06.12 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Olympia
  • 79.06.17 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] San Antonio
  • 79.06.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] NYC
  • 79.07.05 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] Kent
  • 79.07.13 (2) / Archie Shepp / Sam Rivers Double Quartet [BR] Den Haag
  • 79.07.13 (3) / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Amsterdam
  • 79.08.23 / Sam Rivers Quartet with The Seattle Composers & Improvisers Orchestra [AR] Seattle
  • 77.09.19 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Brussels
  • 79.11.06 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR & BVR] Milano
  • 79.11.15 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR & AVR] München
  • 79.11.17 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Munich
  • 79.11.20 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] Turin
  • 79.12.04+05 / Sam Rivers: Contrasts (ECM)
    • (V/A) ECM Sampler 7 (ECM)
    • (V/A) The Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time: Contemporary Currents (Franklin Mint)
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 92.01.12
  • 80-81.00.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] unknown
  • 80.02.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Auckland, New Zealand
  • 80.02.16 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Albuquerue
  • 80.02.19 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Brussels
  • 80.03.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Ulm
  • 80.03.22 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Karlsruhe
  • 80.03.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Berlin
  • 80.03.28 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Bielefeld
  • 80.04.01 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Basel
  • 80.04.00 (1) / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Perugia
  • 80.04.11 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 80.04.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] NYC
  • 80.04.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Rome
  • 80.04.30 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Foggia
  • 80.05.24 / Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [AR] Washington, DC
  • 80.06.12 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] San Francisco
  • 80.06.28 / Sam Rivers & Dave Holland [SBR] Pisa
  • 80.10.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Brisbane
  • 80.10.04 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Canberra
  • 80.10.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Sydney
  • 80.10.00 / Sam Rivers [AR] Stockholm
  • 80.11.03 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Athens
  • 80.11.16 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Stockholm
  • 80.11.21 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Metz
  • 80.11.28 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Munich
  • 81.12.31 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Woodstock
  • 81.01.06 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Northampton
  • 81.01.30 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] New Orleans
  • 81.02.08 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Minneapolis
  • 81.02.10 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Chicago
  • 81.02.15 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Dayton
  • 81.03.13 / Sam Rivers Solo [AR] Washington, DC
  • 81.04.04 / Sam Rivers: Crosscurrent (Blue Marge)
    • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Paris
  • 81.05.17 / Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR] Florence
  • 81.06.11 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Brussels
  • 81.08.28 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Willisau
  • 81.09.04 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Saalfelden
  • 81.09.19 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Munich
  • 81.09.22 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Berlin
  • 81.09.25 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Aachen
  • 81.12.06 / Sam Rivers Orchestra [AR] NYC
  • 81.12.18 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR & AR] NYC
  • 82.02.05 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Villingen
  • 82.02.06 / Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR] Saalfelden
  • 82.02.00 / Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR] Florence
  • 82.05.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] New Orleans
  • 82.05.31 / Sam Rivers RivBea Orchestra [AR] Trossingen
  • 82.06.06 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR & AR] Washington, DC
  • 82.06.09 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] Nuremberg
  • 82.06.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] Trossingen
  • 82.06.13 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Jazzbühne Berlin '82, Vol.10 (Repertoire Records)
    • (V/A) Jazz Highlights Live in Berlin (Amiga Records) / IMAGE
  • 82.06.17 / Sam Rivers RivBea Orchestra [AR] Munich
  • 82.08.26 / Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [SBR] Willisau
  • 82.09.01 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] East Berlin
  • 82.09.05 / Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR] Saalfelden
  • 82.09.13 / Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: Colours (Black Saint)
  • 82.09.16 / Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [AR] Berlin
  • 82.10.14 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Wien
  • 82.11.14 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Köln
  • 82.11.15 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Paris
  • 82.11.17 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Bresse-sur-Grosne
  • 82.12.03 / Steve McCraven Quartet Featuring Sam Rivers: Intertwining Spirits (Freelance)
    + 82.12.04
  • 82.12.04 / Steve McCraven Quartet Featuring Sam Rivers: Intertwining Spirits (Freelance)
  • 83.01.25 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Manchester
  • 83.02.00 / Peter Sonntag Quartet featuring Sam Rivers [BR] Köln
  • 83.02.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Milan
  • 83.03.01 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Torino
  • 83.04.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [BVR] Manchester
  • 83.04.30 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] New Orleans
  • 83.07.01 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Berlin
  • 83.09.02 / Beaver Harris Trio [SBR] Saalfelden
  • 83.10.08 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Leverkusen
  • 83.10.15 / Sam Rivers & Köln Workshop Orchestra [BR] Donaueschingen
  • 83.11.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Geneva
  • 84.01.19 / Max Roach Quartet + Sam Rivers [BR & BVR] Hamburg
  • 84.01.30 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Cologne
  • 84.02.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Bregenz
  • 84.02.19 / Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo [AR] Paris
  • 84.02.20 / Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo [RBA] unknown place
  • 84.02.21 / Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo [RBA] Metz
  • 84.03.03 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 84.03.21 / Sam Rivers & Abdullah Ibrahim Duo [AR] London
  • 84.05.25 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 84.07.05 / Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR] Montreal
  • 84.07.28 / Sam Rivers & Reggie Workman Duo [BR & AR] Washington, DC
  • 85.03.03 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Villa Lagarina
  • 85.03.08 / Beaver Harris' French Horn Connection [BVR] Burghausen
  • 85.03.21 / Beaver Harris' French Horn Connection [BR] London
  • 85.04.19 / Sam Rivers Quartet [AR] Basel
  • 85.04.27 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Baden
  • 85.09.02 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] NYC
  • 85.10.25 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] San Francisco
  • 85.10.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] San Francisco
  • 85.11.08 / Thurman Barker Trio with Sam Rivers [AR] Cambridge
  • 85.11.10 / Thurman Barker: Voyage (UpTee Productions)
  • 85.11.00 / Carman Moore and Ensemble [RBA] NYC
  • 86.00.00 / Chaka Khan : Destiny (Warner Brothers)
    • Chaka Khan: Love of a Lifetime / Coltrane Dreams (Warner Brothers)
    • Chaka Khan: Perfect Fit (Warner Brothers)
  • 86.02.01 / Rivers - Pullen Quartet [AR] NYC
  • 86.04.26 / Thurman Barker Trio with Sam Rivers [AR] Cambridge
  • 86.05.06 / Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra with Sam Rivers [AR] Boston
  • 86.05.28 / MEMORIAL SERVICE for JIMMY LYONS [AR & AVR] NYC
  • 86.10.14 / Hilton Ruiz: Something Grand (RCA Novus)
    + 86.10.15
    • (V/A) American Beauty º Film Soundtrack (Dreamworks)
  • 86.10.15 / Hilton Ruiz: Something Grand (RCA Novus)
  • 86.10.20 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Paris
  • 86.10.26 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & BR] Paris
  • 87.01.31 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] NYC
  • 87.02.27 / Dizzy Gillespie Birthday Concert [BVR] Stuttgart
  • 87.03.27 + 03.28 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR] Fort Worth
  • 87.05.12 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet [BVR] Rio de Janeiro City
  • 87.05.13 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet [BVR] Rio de Janeiro City
  • 87.06.06 / Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band: The Wolf Trap Salutes Dizzy Gillespie, An All-Star Tribute to the Jazz Master (PBS)
  • 87.07.02 / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band: Live at the Royal Festival Hall (BBC Music)
    • Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band [BVR]
  • 87.07.04 / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [AR] Stockholm
  • 87.07.06 / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [Audience Video] Rome
  • 87.07.07 / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR] Cagliari
  • 87.07.09 (2) / Sam Rivers Jam Session [BR] Nice
  • 87.07.01 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR] Den Haag
  • 87.07.09 (1) / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR] Nice
  • 87.07.12 (1) / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR] Den Haag
  • 87.07.12 (2) / Sam Rivers & Friends [AR] Den Haag
  • 87.07.13 / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [AR] Montreux
  • 87.07.17 / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [AR] Wein
  • 87.07.25 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BVR] Freehold
    • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Summer Jazz Live at New Jersey 1987 (Alpha Centauri)
  • 87.10.15 / Hilton Ruiz: El Camino (The Road) (RCA Novus)
    • (V/A) Novus Sampler '88 (RCA Novus)
    • Hilton Ruiz: The Collected Hilton Ruiz (RCA Novus)
      + 88.11.30; 88.12.01
  • 87.10.17 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Jacksonville Jazz Festival VIII [BVR] Jacksonville
  • 87.10.28 / ERROR LISTING: Dizzy Gillespie Birthday Concert [BVR] Mainz
  • 87.12.16 / Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [AR] NYC
  • 87.12.17 / Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [BR] NYC
  • 87.12.18 / Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [AR] NYC
  • 87.12.20 / Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [AR] NYC
  • 88.01.07 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR] Enschede
  • 88.01.08 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR] Hamburg
  • 88.01.12 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with special guests Tony Scott and Gege' Telesforo [BVR] Rome
  • 88.06.03 / [AR & Rehearsal Recording] Wolf Trap
  • 88.07.09 / Dizzy Gillespie: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts (Bob City)
    • Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band [BVR] Den Haag
  • 88.07.15 / Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BVR & Audio Recordings] Perugia
  • IMAGE [Photo courtesy Sam Rivers]
  • 88.07.18 / Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band [BR] Nice
  • 88.07.23 / Dizzy Gillespie & the United Nation Orchestra [AR] San Sebastian
  • 88.11.30 / Hilton Ruiz: Strut (RCA Novus)
    + 88.12.01
    • Hilton Ruiz: The Collected Hilton Ruiz (RCA Novus)
      + 87.10.15; 88.12.01
  • 88.12.01 / Hilton Ruiz: Strut (RCA Novus)
    • Hilton Ruiz: The Collected Hilton Ruiz (RCA Novus)
      + 87.10.15; 88.11.30
  • 89.01.06 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Cairo
  • 89.01.07 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Cairo
  • 89.01.00 (1) / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Casablanca
  • 89.01.00 (2) / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Rabat
  • 89.01.11 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Marrakesh
  • 89.01.00 (3) / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Dakar
  • 89.01.19 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Senegal
  • 89.01.22 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Lagos
  • 89.01.23 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Benin City
  • 89.01.24 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Benin City
  • 89.01.25 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Port Harcourt
  • 89.01.26 / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Lagos
  • 89.01.00 (4) / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Kinshasha
  • 89.01.00 (5) / Dizzy Gillespie Sextet, [Gillespie Collection Archival Recording] Kinshasa
  • 89.04.01 / Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [FM Broadcast Recording] Tokyo
  • 89.09.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Chicago
  • 89.09.02 / Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Orchestra [AR] Chicago
  • 89.10.07 / Sam Rivers Quartet [Video Recording] Leverkusen
  • 89.10.09 / Sam Rivers Quartet: Lazuli (Timeless)
    + 89.10.10
  • 89.10.10 / Sam Rivers Quartet: Lazuli (Timeless)
  • 89.11.27 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RivBea Archival Soundboard & AR] Linz
  • 90.05.12 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Biella
  • 90.07.12 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] Den Haag
  • 90.08.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [AVR] Cambridge
  • 90.11.19 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Berlin
  • 91.00.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Lokeren
  • 91.04.01 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Zaragoza
  • 91.04.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Paris
  • 91.04.13 *or* 91.04.14 / Sam Rivers Quartet [BR] London
  • 91.04.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Ulm
  • 91.07.26 / Sam Rivers & Michael Leasure Duo [RBA] Orlando
  • 91.09.03 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Orlando
  • 91.10.18 / Roots: Salutes the Saxophone (IN+OUT)
    + 91.10.19
    • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone, Volume 1 (IN+OUT)
      + 91.10.19
  • 91.10.19 (1) / Roots: Salutes the Saxophone (IN+OUT)
    • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone, Volume 1 (IN+OUT)
    • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone, Volume 2 (IN+OUT)
    • Roots [*possible* Soundboard Recording] Pulheim
  • 91.10.19 (2) / Roots [BR] Hamburg
  • 91.11.23 / Sam Rivers & Jazz Now! [RBA] Winter Park
  • 91.11.23 / Sam Rivers [RBA] unknown
  • 92.01.12 / Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra w/ Julius Hemphill and Sam Rivers: Flux (Northeastern / Popular Arts)
    + 92.01.13
    • Sam Rivers: Samthology (RivBea Music)
      + 61.12.14, 67.03.17, 71.02.13, 73.08.03, 73.11.10, 74.03.04, 75.12.09, 78.08.08, 79.12.04+05
  • 92.01.13 / Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra w/ Julius Hemphill and Sam Rivers: Flux (Northeastern / Popular Arts)
  • 92.03.24 / Roots: Salute to the Saxophone (VideoArts)
    • (V/A) Double Time Jazz Collection Volume 5 (Eagle Eye Media)
  • 92.03.26 / Roots [BVR] Burghausen
  • 92.04.01 / Don Pullen Septet: In Germany 1992 (JazzTime Records)
    • Roots [BR] Karlsruhe
  • 92.04.04 / Dave Holland Trio w/ Sam Rivers [BR] Utrecht
  • 92.04.04 / Roots [BR] Utrecht
  • 92.06.07 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] unknown
  • 92.06.25 (1) / Roots [AR] NYC
  • 92.07.01 / Roots [BVR & Audio Recordings] Lugano
  • 92.07.10 / Roots [BR] Den Haag
  • 92.07.17 / Roots [BR] Berlin
  • 92.07.24 / Roots [AR] Modena
  • 92.09.10 / Sam Rivers Interview [RBA] Orlando
  • 92.11.00 / Longineu Parsons: Work Song (Longineu Music)
    • Longineu Parsons: Spaced: Collected Works 1980 - 1999 (Longineu Music)
  • 92.06.07 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] St. Petersburg
  • 92.12.14 / Roots: Stablemates (IN+OUT)
    + 92.12.15
  • 92.12.15 / Roots: Stablemates (IN+OUT)
  • 93.04.26 / Roots [BR] Köln
  • 93.04.00 / Barry Altschul Trio + Sam Rivers [BR] Bucharest
  • 93.04.09 / Barry Altschul Quartet [RBA] Draguignan
  • 93.04.10 / Barry Altschul Quartet [RBA] Paris
  • 93.04.14 / Scott Whitfield: To Be There (Amosaya Music)
  • 93.05.01 / Roots [AR] Cardiff
  • 93.05.00 (1) / Roots [AR] Essen
  • 93.05.00 (2) / Roots [BVR] Köln
  • 93.05.07 / Roots [BR & BVR] Bern
  • 93.05.08 / Roots [BR] Bonn
  • 93.05.20 / Roots [AR] Paris
  • 93.05.21 / Roots [AR] Paris
  • 93.06.09 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Orlando
  • 93.08.04 / Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers [MGA] Bucharest
  • 93.09.27 / James Blood Ulmer Quartet [RBA] unknown location
  • 93.10.09 / James Blood Ulmer Quartet [BR & BVR] Leverkusen
  • 93.10.27 / Roots [AR] Paris
  • 93.11.10 / Barry Altschul Quartet [AR] Oakland
  • 93.11.13 / Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers [RBA] Oakland
  • 93.12.05 / Reggie Workman: Summit Conference (Postcards)
    + 93.12.06
    • (V/A) Arkadia Jazz Presents: Out and Out Jazz (Arkadia Jazz)
      + 95.04.27
  • 93.12.06 (1) / Reggie Workman: Summit Conference (Postcards)
  • 93.12.06 (2) / Music Revelation Ensemble: In the Name of... (DIW)
    + 93.12.07
  • 93.12.07 / Music Revelation Ensemble: In the Name of... (DIW)
  • 94.01.00 / Sam Rivers & Mike Welsh [RBA] unknown
  • 94.01.29 / Sam Rivers and his High Density Orchestra [BR] Orlando
  • 94.02.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Orlando
  • 94.03.02 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] unknown locale
  • 94.04.16 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Melbourne
  • 94.05.04 / Sam Rivers and his High Density Orchestra [DMA] Orlando
  • 94.05.14 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Melbourne
  • 94.06.22 / Sam Rivers and his High Density Orchestra [DMA] Orlando
  • 94.07.02 / Roots [BR] Eldena
  • 94.08.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Melbourne
  • 94.09.04 / Sam Rivers and his High Density Orchestra [RBA] unknown
  • 94.09.17 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] unknown
  • 94.11.11 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Melbourne
  • 94.12.00 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] unknown
  • 94.12.21 / Bruce Ditmas: What If (Postcards)
    + 94.12.22
  • 94.12.22 / Bruce Ditmas: What If (Postcards)
  • 94.12.30 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Melbourne
  • 95.02.04 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Melbourne
  • 95.02.19 / Franklin Kiermyer: Kairos (Evidence)
    + 95.02.20; 95.02.21; 95.02.22
  • 95.02.20 to 02.22 / Franklin Kiermyer: Kairos (Evidence)
  • 95.03.18 / Sam Rivers Quartet w/ DJ-BMF [MGA] Orlando
  • 95.03.25 / Thilo Wolf Big Band [BVR] Burghausen
  • 95.04.05 / Improvisors Pool: Backgrounds for Improvisors featuring Sam Rivers & Alexander Von Schlippenbach (FMP)
  • 95.04.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Gainesville
  • 95.04.27 / Reggie Workman: Cerebral Caverns (Postcards)
    + 95.04.28
    • (V/A) Arkadia Jazz Presents: Out and Out Jazz (Arkadia Jazz)
      + 93.12.05
  • 95.04.28 / Reggie Workman: Cerebral Caverns (Postcards)
  • 95.05.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [Audience Video Recording] Melbourne
  • 95.05.13 / Sam Rivers' Dance Science Orchestra with DJ BMF [RBA] Orlando
  • 95.05.23 + 05.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gotha
  • 95.06.10 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Melbourne
  • 95.06.17 / Sam Rivers: Portrait (FMP)
    + 95.06.18
  • 95.06.18 / Sam Rivers: Portrait (FMP)
  • 95.07.01 / Sam Rivers' Freedom Jazz Band [RivBea Archival Recording] Orlando
  • 95.07.08 / Sam Rivers: Concept (RivBea)
    + 96.02.10; 96.03.18; 96.04.23; 96.05.13
  • 95.07.14 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA & MGA] Savannah
  • 95.07.15 / (V/A) Relaxing the Undertow (Put It On a Cracker)
  • 95.08.02 / Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [AR] Oakland
  • 95.08.12 / Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [BVR] Antwerp
  • 95.08.17 / Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [AR] Oakland
  • 95.08.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gotha
  • 95.09.30 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Apopka
  • 95.10.22 / Sam Rivers Trio: Offering (RivBea Sound)
    + 95.10.26
  • 95.10.26 / Sam Rivers Trio: Offering (RivBea Sound)
  • 95.11.04 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Melbourne
  • 95.12.09 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Ragusa
  • 95.12.23 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Melbourne
  • 96.01.19 / Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 96.02.09 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Melbourne
  • 96.02.10 / Sam Rivers: Concept (RivBea)
    + 95.07.08; 96.03.18; 96.04.23; 96.05.13
  • 96.02.23 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Winter Park
  • 96.03.01 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Florida
  • 96.03.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] unknown
  • 96.03.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gotha
  • 96.03.18 / Sam Rivers: Concept (RivBea)
    + 95.07.08; 96.02.10; 96.04.23; 96.05.13
  • 96.03.21 / Sam Rivers: Configuration (Nato)
    + 96.03.22; 96.03.23; 96.03.24
  • 96.03.22 / Sam Rivers: Configuration (Nato)
  • 96.03.23 / Sam Rivers: Configuration (Nato)
  • 96.03.24 / Sam Rivers: Configuration (Nato)
  • 96.04.23 / Sam Rivers: Concept (RivBea)
    + 95.07.08; 96.02.10; 96.03.18; 96.05.13
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Gotha
  • 96.04.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gotha
  • 96.05.13 / Sam Rivers: Concept (RivBea)
    + 95.07.08; 96.02.10; 96.03.18; 96.04.23
  • 96.05.17 / Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 96.05.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] unknown
  • 96.05.23 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gotha
  • 96.05.29 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 96.05.30 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] NYC
  • 96.06.08 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gainesville
  • 96.07.02 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] Vienna
  • 96.07.13 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA] Gotha
  • 96.07.14 / Sam Rivers Trio with Mike Cafaro [DMA] Gotha
  • 96.07.20 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] Orlando
  • 96.07.00 to 08.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gotha
  • 96.08.22 / Sam Rivers Trio [MGA] Orlando
  • 96.09.21 / Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 96.10.00 / Sam Rivers & Trudy Morse [BR] Orlando
  • 96.11.08 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] St. Petersburg
  • 96.11.14 / Julian Priester/Sam Rivers: Hints on Light and Shadow (Postcards)
    + 96.11.15
  • 96.11.15 / Julian Priester/Sam Rivers: Hints on Light and Shadow (Postcards)
  • 96.11.21 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Gainesville
  • 96.11.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 96.12.12 / Sam Rivers & the New England Conservatory Orchestra [RBA] Boston
  • 97.01.08 / Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 97.02.08 (1) / The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble with special guest Sam Rivers [AR] Hanover
  • 97.02.08 (2) / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Hanover
  • 97.02.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 97.02.26 / Sam Rivers Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 97.03.29 / Noël Akchoté: Complete K7 Recordings (1996-1997) (Noël Akchoté Recordings)
  • 97.04.04 / Sam Rivers Quintet [AR] Paris
  • 97.04.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 97.04.20 (1) / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] Gainesville
  • 97.04.20 (2) / Sam Rivers Quartet + Duo with Chick Corea [RBA & AR] Gainesville
  • 97.04.23 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 97.05.14 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA] Orlando
  • 97.05.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA] Orlando
  • 97.05.28 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA] Orlando
  • 97.06.14 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Gainesville
  • 97.06.18 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA] Orlando
  • 97.06.25 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA] Orlando
  • 97.06.29 / Reggie Workman Trio [RBA] Tornio
  • 97.07.09 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA] Orlando
  • 97.07.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Carrboro
  • 97.07.27 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Washington, DC
  • 97.08.16 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Oakland
  • 97.08.09 / Sam Rivers Interview [RBA] San Francisco
  • 97.08.17 / Sam Rivers & Julian Priester Quartet [RBA & AR] Oakland
  • 97.09.06 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Gainesville
  • 97.09.00 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] NYC
  • 97.09.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 97.09.27 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] New York City
  • 97.09.30 / Sam Rivers Trio [AVR] Boston
  • 97.10.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Erie
  • 97.10.03 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Chicago
  • 97.10.04 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Detroit
  • 97.10.06 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Buffalo
  • 97.10.08 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Columbia
  • 97.11.08 / Sam Rivers & Alexander Schlippenbach: Tangens (FMP)
  • 97.11.09 / Sam Rivers & Alexander Schlippenbach Duo [AR] Berlin
  • 97.11.22 / Sam Rivers Trio [SBR] St. Petersburg
  • 98.01.21 / Sam Rivers & Tony Hymas: Eight Day Journal (Nato)
  • 98.02.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Live on the Internet [Web Broadcast] Winter Park
  • 98.03.21 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Winter Park
  • 98.03.27 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] Gainesville
  • 98.04.11 / Sam Rivers Trio: Firestorm (RivBea Sound Company)
    + 98.04.12
    • (V/A) JazzSouth #39, Fall 2001 (Southern Arts Federation)
  • 98.04.12 / Sam Rivers Trio: Firestorm (RivBea Sound Company)
    + 98.04.11
    • (V/A) JazzSouth #39, Fall 2001 (Southern Arts Federation)
    • Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 98.05.10 / Jeff Silvertrust Quintet: Plan Et Surf Is (Bulldozers from Jupiter Records)
  • 98.06.10 / Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [BR & AR] NYC
  • 98.06.11 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Live on the Internet [Web Broadcast] Orlando
  • 98.06.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Live on the Internet [Web Broadcast] Orlando
  • 98.07.02 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Vienne
  • 98.09.23 / Sam Rivers Trio: [AR] NYC
  • 98.09.26 / Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra: [AR] NYC
  • 98.09.27 / Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra [AR] NYC
  • 98.09.28 / Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra: Inspiration (BMG)
    • Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra [RBA] San Francisco
    • (V/A) Jazziz On Disc, January 2000 Limited Edition (Jazziz Magazine + CD)
  • 98.09.29 / Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra: Culmination (BMG)
    • Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra [RBA] San Francisco
    • (V/A) Calendar—This is My Music 2 (Orlando Sentinel)
  • 98.10.03 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Philadelphia
  • 98.12.14 / Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee (ARTE France)
    + 98.12.15; 98.12.16; 98.12.17
  • 98.12.15 / Sam Rivers & Tony Hymas: Winter Garden (Nato)
    + 98.12.16; 98.12.17
    • Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee (ARTE France)
  • 98.12.16 / Sam Rivers & Tony Hymas: Winter Garden (Nato)
    • Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee (ARTE France)
  • 98.12.17 / Sam Rivers & Tony Hymas: Winter Garden (Nato)
    • Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee (ARTE France)
  • 99.03.26 / Julian Priester and Sam Rivers [AR] San Francisco
  • 99.04.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.05.05 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.06.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.06.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.07.02 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [Audience Video] Vienne
  • 99.07.03 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra featuring Hamiet Bluiett & Ray Anderson and Steve Coleman Double Band [BVR] Paris
  • 99.07.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.07.28 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.08.04 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.08.0 / Sam Rivers [RBA] unknown
  • 99.08.11 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.08.18 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.08.25 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.08.28 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Gainesville
  • 99.09.01 + 09.02 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Aurora (RivBea Sound Company)
    + 99.09.02
    • (V/A) Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: 1999 Orlando Music Awards (Orlando Weekly)
  • 99.09.03 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Chicago
  • 99.09.04 / Sam Rivers: Quasar—Live at the Chicago Jazz Festival September 1999 (RivBea Music)
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra featuring Hamiet Bluiett & Ray Anderson [BR] Chicago
  • 99.09.29 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.10.06 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.10.20 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.11.03 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.11.10 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.11.17 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 99.11.20 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra / Orchestral Explorations for 30 Musicians [BR] Winter Park
  • 99.11.24 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.01.05 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.02.02 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.02.09 / Sam Rivers & Winds [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.02.16 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.02.19 / Sam Rivers & Winds + Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Winter Park
  • 00.02.25 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Gainesville
  • 00.04.15 / Sam Rivers & Anthony Cole Duo [RBA] NYC
  • 00.04.16 / Sam Rivers & Anthony Cole Duo [BR] NYC
  • 00.05.07 (1) / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] New Orleans
  • 00.06.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Warsaw
  • 00.08.02 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.08.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Caramoor
  • 00.08.09 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.08.23 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.09.08 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.09.13 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.09.13 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Winter Park
  • 00.10.03 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.10.04 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.10.18 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.10.25 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 00.11.03 (2) / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] NYC
  • 00.11.04 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] NYC
  • 01.03.16 / Jason Moran: Black Stars (Blue Note)
    + 01.03.17
  • 01.03.17 / Jason Moran: Black Stars (Blue Note)
  • 01.03.22 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] NYC
  • 01.03.23 / Sam Rivers Trio [WKCR Archival Recording & AR] NYC
  • 01.03.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 01.03.25 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 01.03.26 / Sam Rivers SOLO & Trio [AR] Boston
  • 01.04.16 / (V/A) Visions / performances from the EMIT series (isospin labs)
  • 01.06.06 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & AR] Orlando
  • 01.06.13 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.06.20 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.06.27 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.07.04 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR] Orlando
  • 01.07.21 / Longineu Parsons: Tribal Disorder (Longineu Music)
  • 01.07.25 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.08.15 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.08.18 (2) / NOJO + Sam Rivers [RBA] Toronto
  • 01.08.19 / NOJO + Sam Rivers [RBA] Toronto
  • 01.08.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.08.29 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.09.05 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.09.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.09.19 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.09.26 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.10.06 / Jason Moran and The Bandwagon [AR] Minneapolis
  • 01.10.10 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.10.24 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA] Orlando
  • 01.10.29 / Sam Rivers Trio [BVR] Seixal
  • 01.11.14 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.11.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA] Orlando
  • 01.12.04 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] unknown
  • 01.12.11 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Orlando
  • 02.01.03 / Fluid Motion: Fluid Motion (isospin labs)
  • 02.01.14 / Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Blues (Tzadik)
    + 02.01.15
  • 02.01.15 / Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Blues (Tzadik)
  • 02.02.09 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Lexington
  • 02.02.16 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Carrboro
  • 02.02.23 / Sam Rivers Trio [AVR] Atlanta
  • 02.03.08 / Sam Rivers Trio with The The New Orleans Naked Orchestra [RBA] New Orleans
  • 02.03.09 / Sam Rivers Trio [SBR] New Orleans
  • 02.04.01 / Sam Rivers Trio [UNT Archival Recording] Denton
  • 02.04.04 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Austin
  • 02.04.06 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Houston
  • 02.07.14 / Jason Moran and The Bandwagon [BR] Netherlands
  • 02.08.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [BVR & AR] Orlando
  • 02.09.26 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] St. Petersburg
  • 02.00.00 / Junkie Rush: Junkie Rush II (Junkie Rush)
  • 02.10.08 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 02.11.14 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Chicago
  • 02.11.15 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Chicago
  • 02.11.23 / Sam Rivers Trio [SBR] Los Angeles
  • 02.11.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Los Angeles
  • 02.12.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [DMA] Sanford
  • 03.01.26 / Sam Rivers Interview [RBA] Tel Aviv
  • 03.01.30 (2) / Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra [BR] Rehovot
  • 03.05.19 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Vicenza
  • 03.05.24 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Orlando
  • 03.07.01 (1) / Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers [DMA] St. Petersburg
  • 03.07.01 (2) & 03.07.02 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Winter Park
  • 03.07.11 / Sam Rivers Trio [BR] Den Haag
  • 03.07.20 / Jason Moran Trio featuring Sam Rivers [BR] Gent
  • 03.07.22 / Nojo with Sam Rivers: City of Neighbourhoods (True North Records)
    + 03.07.23
  • 03.07.23 / Nojo with Sam Rivers: City of Neighbourhoods (True North Records)
  • 03.07.25 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Halifax
  • 03.08.29 / Sam Rivers Trio + Steven Bernstein "play Diaspora Blues" [BR & AR] Saalfelden
  • 03.09.24 (1) / Sam Rivers º Adam Rudolph º Harris Eisenstadt: Vista (Meta Records)
  • 03.09.27 / Sam Rivers: Celebration (Posi-Tone Records)
    + 03.09.28
  • 03.09.28 / Sam Rivers: Celebration (Posi-Tone Records)
  • 03.11.01 / Sam Rivers "Electric" Trio [RBA] Orlando
  • 03.11.20 / Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues [BR] Lugano
  • 03.11.25 / Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues [Digital Soundboard Recording] Vienna
  • 03.11.30 / Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues [SBR] Amsterdam
  • 04.03.08 (2) / Sam Rivers Trio + George Lewis and Anthony Davis [BR] San Diego
  • 04.03.10 (1) / Sam Rivers with David Borgo & his Graduate Improvisation Ensemble [UCSD Archival Recording]
  • 04.03.10 (2) / Sam Rivers and the UCSD Large Ensemble directed by Jimmy Cheatham [RBA]
  • 04.08.04 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 04.08.11 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 04.08.18 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 04.08.25 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 04.10.14+15 / Rivers º Street º Osgood º Carrott: Purple Violets (Stunt Records)
    • Rivers º Street º Osgood º: Violet Violets (Stunt Records)
  • 04.10.20 / Sam Rivers RivBea All-Stars Orchestra [AR] Orlando
  • 04.11.13 / Sam Rivers Trio & RivBea Orchestra U.K. [BR] London
  • 04.12.01 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 04.12.08 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.02.23 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.02.24 / Brian Groder [Rehearsal Recording and Video] Orlando
  • 05.03.05 / Sam Rivers Trio + Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Blues [AR] Philadelphia
  • 05.04.01 / Sam Rivers Trio + The Peabody Jazz Ensemble [Peabody Institute Archival Recording] Baltimore
  • 05.04.00 / Shak Nasti: From the Belly (Richter Records)
  • 05.04.13 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.04.15 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra + The University of Central Florida Jazz Ensemble [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.04.28 / Brian Groder: Torque (Latham)
    + 05.04.29
  • 05.04.29 / Brian Groder: Torque (Latham)
  • 05.05.13 / Sam Rivers and the Austrian Jazz All-Star Orchestra [BR] Diersbach
  • 05.05.19 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Seattle
  • 05.05.20 / Sam Rivers Trio [SBR] Albuquerque
  • 05.05.21 / Sam Rivers Trio [AR] Tucson
  • 05.06.08 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.06.14 / WARM: WARM Live + WARM Take 1 (TUM Records—Unissued)
    + 05.06.00 (2), 05.06.25
    • WARM [AR] NYC
  • 05.06.00 (1) / WARM "Day 1" [Unreleased Studio Recording] NYC
    + 05.06.00 (2)
  • 05.06.00 (2) / WARM "Day 2" [Unreleased Studio Recording] NYC
    • WARM: WARM Live + WARM Take 1 (TUM Records—Unissued)
  • 05.06.18 / Sam Rivers Solo [AR] Chicago
  • 05.06.25 / WARM: WARM Live + WARM Take 1 (TUM Records—Unissued)
    + 05.06.14
    • WARM [BR] Terni
  • 05.06.29 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.08.03 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.08.10 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.08.17 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.08.24 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.08.31 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.09.07 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.09.14 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.09.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.09.28 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.10.05 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.10.19 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.10.26 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.11.02 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.11.05 / Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Winter Park
  • 05.11.09 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.11.16 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.12.07 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.12.14 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.12.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 05.12.28 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.01.04 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.01.11 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.01.25 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.02.01 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.02.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.03.01 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.03.22 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.03.28 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra with The Valencia Jazz Lab Band [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.03.29 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.04.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.04.19 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.04.26 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.05.03 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.05.17 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.05.31 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.06.14 (1) / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR & AVR] NYC
  • 06.06.14 (2) / Sam Rivers Trio [AR & AVR] NYC
  • 06.06.07 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.06.16 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Detroit
  • 06.06.21 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.06.28 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.07.05 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Detroit
  • 06.07.26 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Detroit
  • 06.08.27 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 06.08.30 / Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA] Detroit
  • 07.05.24 / Sam Rivers Interview [WKCR Archival Recording] NYC
  • 07.05.25 (1) / Sam Rivers Interview [WKCR Archival Recording] NYC
  • 07.05.25 (2) / Sam Rivers Trio: Reunion—Live In New York (Pi Recordings)
    • Sam Rivers Trio [AR] NYC
  • 07.05.30 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Casselberry
  • 07.06.13 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Casselberry
  • 07.06.20 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Casselberry
  • 07.06.27 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Casselberry
  • 07.08.01 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Casselberry
  • 07.09.05 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Casselberry
  • 07.09.12 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 07.10.10 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 07.10.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 07.10.17 / (V/A) Swing in Time featuring Sam Rivers: A Christmas Gift (Sonic Cauldron Studios)
    + 07.00.00
  • 07.11.10 (2) / Sam Rivers: Jazz Master of the Moment (UCF Radio-TV Department)
  • 07.11.14 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 07.12.12 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 08.02.01 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR] Orlando
  • 08.02.27 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy (Mosaic Records)
    + 08.09.10; 08.11.12; 09.04.08
  • 08.05.22 / Sam Rivers Quintet [DMA] Orlando
  • 08.09.12 / Sam Rivers Trio & the NEC Jazz Orchestra [AR] Boston
  • 08.08.13 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 08.09.10 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy (Mosaic Records)
    + 08.02.27; 08.11.12; 09.04.08
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 08.09.15 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 08.11.12 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy (Mosaic Records)
    + 08.02.27; 08.09.10; 09.04.08
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 08.12.10 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 09.01.14 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 09.04.08 / Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy (Mosaic Records)
    + 08.02.27; 08.09.10; 08.11.12
  • 09.11.16 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Casselberry
  • 10.02.24 / Sam Rivers [RBA] Casselberry
  • 10.06.09 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 10.06.22 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 10.07.22 / Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA] Orlando
  • 11.12.26 / Passage ...
  • 12.01.04 / "Sam Rivers (1923-2011) / A friend remembers the local legend" by Matt Gorney The Orlando Weekly Jan 5, 2012


Beginnings

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    Pre-History

    Rivers' great-grandmother was a house slave who listened to and memorized songs that the slaves sang in the fields while working.
    Her son, Rivers' grandfather, Marshall W. Taylor, was born after the emancipation. His great-grandmother sang the plantation songs
    to him, Taylor wrote them down, and compiled them into a booked titled Plantation Melodies, which he published in 1862.
    This first slave book can be found in the Library of Congress. He later became a Bishop in the African Methodist Church.

    Rivers' father was a church musician, touring with a gospel quartet. Rivers was raised in Chicago and then Little Rock, AR, where his mother taught music and sociology at Shorter College. He began taking piano and violin lessons at about the age of five [1928]. [allmusicguide.com]

    His mother was politically active. Rivers recalls her protests against the poll tax in front of City Hall in Chicago in the 1930s. [blogs.orlandosentinel.com/community_altamonte_blog]
    ———

    1930-37:

    Sam Rivers' father sang with a group known as the Silvertone Quartet; his mother was a pianist. Naturally, he took to music early.
    Born September 25, 1923, in El Reno, Oklahoma, he was an infant when the family returned to Chicago, and it was there
    that he took violin and piano instruction starting in 1935. After two or three years he abandoned the violin to concentrate on piano.
    ["Liberty Records Press Office, Blue Note Records —Leonard Feather, 3/6/68," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

    1933:

    "The ten-year-old hid behind the door. ‘I was eavesdropping,’ remembers Sam Rivers... Night after night the youngster stood unobserved, quietly listening as his grandfather interviewed men and women, by then very elderly, who had lived in slavery. Marshall Taylor, a preacher in Chicago, had published hymnals Rivers describes as ‘fiery’ in the vein of Malcolm X, and had collected songs the slaves had sung in the fields... As the young Rivers strained to hear, his grandfather was urging visitors to his house to tell what they remembered about being slaves so he could write down their accounts.
    The stories were ‘very, very rough,’ recalls Rivers. ‘It was sort of traumatic to hear them. I used to think they must have been joking. The women were always raped, all of them who talked to my grandfather.’
    Their pasts were such that ‘my grandfather had to pull their stories out of them,’ he remembers. ‘He would convince them to talk by [telling them that they needed to tell him or the experiences would be lost, that it was important.]’
    [The ex-slaves sounded] ‘Quiet, very soft, secretive, as if there were a kind of shame involved. For me, it was very depressing to hear the same stories from people when they didn't know each other.’
    He will one day write a composition recreating these voices..."
    ["Liberty Records Press Office, Blue Note Records —Leonard Feather, 3/6/68," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

    1937-44:

    I was growing up in Chicago, but then my father had an accident, and he couldn't ... He was helping somebody move some rugs
    or something, and he got knocked over the bannister and he cracked his skull, and he wasn't any more good after that. He wasn't able
    to really stand. He kept his sanity, but he really couldn't work. So my mother took a job at Shorter College in North Little Rock,
    and so we moved down there when I was about 10 or 11, I think [1933-34]. So I came up on the campus in North Little Rock,
    pretty much. I was going to Catholic school and coming up on the campus.
    [Kay Bourne "Reed Man Rivers Recalls Roots in Boston, Stories of Slaves," Bay State Banner Dec 19, 1996, The RivBea Archive]
    ———

    1937-39:

    Sam Rivers: Yes. I was going to this Catholic school, St. Bartholomew's in Little Rock, and they had all these instruments. In those
    days, they had all these donated instruments, so if you wanted to play you could go in and choose whatever instrument you wanted
    to play. You didn't have to buy an instrument; they just had it there. First I took trombone, then the soprano saxophone, then I worked
    on the baritone horn, and then finally the tenor...
    It was a military band. But when I got in college at Jarvis Christian College... I graduated from high school at 15 and went
    to Philander Smith for the summer, and then went down to Jarvis Christian College for the year. That's when I started playing
    the tenor saxophone and so on.
    [Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997 www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php]
    ———

    After the death of his father in an accident in 1937, Sam's mother took a job as a music and sociology teacher in North Little Rock,
    Arkansas. Sam began to play trombone at the age of eleven in the marching band of a Little Rock school. Two years later he picked
    up a tenor saxophone, found it more to his liking than the trombone, and from then on it was his first love.
    ["Liberty Records Press Office, Blue Note Records —Leonard Feather, 3/6/68," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

    1946:

    After graduating from high school at fifteen, Sam enrolled at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins, Texas. As a liberal arts major,
    Sam played the trombone in the marching band and the jazz combo. During his years at college Sam switched to tenor saxophone
    because he felt he could express himself more fluently on that instrument... When his college days were over Sam came West
    to join the Navy and while stationed in California, he played many small concerts and dances.
    ["1973, ABC/Dunhill Records BIO," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

    Sam Rivers: After I got out of the Service during the Forties ... When I entered the Navy, I was one of the first who didn't go in
    as a musician or a steward. Robert Smalls and I went in as regular Navy men. We had a choice of whatever field we wanted to go into,
    Bosuns, Mates... I chose music, but the band they wanted to put me in wasn't good. I'm very young and arrogant, so I said, "No, I'll learn
    something else." So I went in as Quartermaster, correcting charts and steering the ship and all that, but I never went on board ship. I knew
    I wasn't going on board if I took something like that. I was transferred to Vallejo, California, which was my musical experience. It was very
    good I didn't go into the band, because the band had to play in the officers' quarters every night. I wasn't in the band, so I could take my horn
    and go out into the city and play. Vallejo is near San Francisco. That's where I met Jimmy Witherspoon. One of my first professional gigs
    was with Jimmy Witherspoon while I was in the Navy. We were playing at this club someplace in Vallejo where he was everything. He was
    the Master of Ceremonies, he was the maitre'd, he was the comedian, and he was the singer, and I was part of the group. That's pretty much
    the playing I did when I was in the Navy. ...I got out of the Navy in 1945.
    [Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997 www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php]
    ———

    1947:

    Rivers moved to Boston in 1947...
    [allmusicguide.com]
    ———

    Upon being honorably discharged from the Navy, Sam entered the Boston Conservatory of Music, where he studied composition
    and played viola in the Conservatory's symphony orchestra.
    ["1973, ABC/Dunhill Records BIO," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

    1948:

    "[In 1948] Hovhaness was invited to join the faculty of the Boston Music Conservatory where he taught for three years, whilst retaining his
    duties at the Watertown Armenian church. His Conservatory duties included teaching composition and conducting the student orchestra.
    This teaching post did not hinder his productivity, and students recall that in his classes he imposed no compositional dogma, unlike other composers there." [www.hovhaness.com/Biography.html]

    "I am helping to build the collection of the planned Alan Hovhaness museum in Yerevan, Armenia, and as part of this I am contacting people who knew Hovhaness to ask if they would like to write some reminiscences of him. As Sam Rivers studied composition with Hovhaness many years ago in Boston, I would like to ask if he might be interested in submitting some of his memories for the museum."
    [David Badagnani correspondence to RL]

    ———

    Sam Rivers, Interviewed about his studies with Alan Hovhaness in the late 1940s, speaking from his home in Maitland, Florida:

    Sam Rivers: I'm not sure of the years that I studied under Professor Hovhaness; it's somewhere in the late '40s, I think. And also,
    other musicians were there at the same time that I was. Gigi Gryce was there at the time; he also studied with Professor Hovhaness.
    We had stories we used to trade around about him... like the way he walked, and that it'd be kind of frightening to walk into him on a sort of cloudy, dark, moonlit night, because he had such a way of walking—it was sort of a ...you know, I don't know how to describe it—being 6'3" or 6'4," and then walking to accomodate the buildings—a tall guy like that walking into... [Laughter] ...roofs and stuff—ceilings, you know? So he had a sort of a bend... so he wouldn't hit his head.
    He wasn't a very talkative person. It seems to me most musicians were there just in order to work on their particular personal projects, you know? With him—he would write certain things, because he had the symphony there at his disposal and so we performed other works with the conservatory orchestra. He didn't really take all the time for his music, although most of the students really liked his music, because it was new and fresh, and... [Laughter] ...he was still writing it, you know? So we really liked doing his music rather than doing the traditional Beethoven and things like that. We all really loved to play his music; it was different. I remember his music, his direction and philosophy of music was pretty much open freedom. And he didn't really have any kind of barriers, so to speak—traditional barriers, or anything like that. So he pretty much went his own way. And that's what a lot of the students respected. One of the reasons why myself and Gigi Gryce studied with him—because of his openness, not trying to constrict you to conservatory fare. Of course, there were other professors teaching composition, too, you see? He wasn't the only one! And so the others were more or less straight-down-the-line traditional, you see what I mean?
    David Badagnani: Right.
    SR: And so we had choices there... [Laughter]. And that was another thing, each [professor] had their own orchestra, which was pretty much comprised of a lot of the students [with] every opportunity to participate in three or four orchestras there, because it was not many students to cover a complete symphony orchestra each time. So the teachers there—the professors—they were all as should be in the conservatory, they were all exhibiting their own works, because that's one of the reasons they're there, because they're composers, too, you know? And so they were all doing that.
    The most I remember is that he never really criticized anybody for doing something out of the norm, because we had already gone through that anyway, you know, in basic harmony and theory. So we were pretty much in an advanced stage, where you'd be setting your own rules, you know, after you've gone through it. Then you come into this... you can see things where you can set your own... [Laughter] I mean, it's like mathematics, in a sense; so after you get to a certain place in mathematics, it seems to work out... [Laughter] ...right, in a sense. You know?
    DB: Yeah! Were you, at that time, writing jazz compositions, or was it classical music?
    SR: No, I wasn't really writing any kind... well, I mean... I wasn't really writing at all, you know. I was pretty much a performer at that time.
    DB: So when you studied with him, was it a composition class, or some other type of class?
    SR: It was a composition class, yes. That's when I started composition, in the conservatory... You know, you have to learn two or three instruments in order to study composition. And so I already knew trombone, and I already knew reeds, and I played piano, and I had studied strings very early, so [I] took that up, because that was my least proficient instrument... [Laughter], so I took that one, you know, along with the composition.
    DB: And when you played Mr. Hovhaness's music, which instruments were you playing them on?
    SR: I was playing on viola. I was in the string section in the school symphony.
    DB: Viola—how interesting.
    SR: Yeah. My mother and father are musicians; my grandfather was a musician. I'm a third generation musician. My mother taught violin in Chicago, you see? And my father was a singer with the Fisk Jubilee Singers, traveled around the world. My mother's a graduate from Howard University in Washington, DC; my father's a graduate of Fisk University in Tennessee. And then I studied... [Laughter] ...I was a musician at ten years old. I mean, I was always performing. By fifteen I was a professional.
    DB: And how did you select the New England Conservatory?
    SR: Well, I was there... I was... Actually, it was the Boston Conservatory, for me. Yes—that's where Alan Hov... that's where Professor Hovhaness was—the Boston Conservatory.
    DB: It's difficult to find information about those years, because it's not well...
    SR: ...documented.
    DB: Yes, exactly.
    SR: It's documented, but where are they? [Laughter] That's the problem. I mean, everything's documented, but where those files are is another problem.
    DB: You know, at that time... He was married six times, and the names of his first four wives are not even known, because he didn't talk about it, you know? I think by the '50s he was on his fifth wife.
    SR: [Laughter] I didn't know that. [Unintelligible]
    DB: And another thing you might be interested in is that he claimed to travel, with his mind, among the planets.
    SR: [Laughter]
    DB: And so, in that way, he's very similar to Sun Ra in his conception of... kind of universal...
    SR: Right, right! I remember him mentioning things like that. I remember him mentioning things like that.
    DB: Oh, yeah—he was into a cosmic conception of music, so... And at that time were you aware that he was drawing on many kinds of world music and non-Western musics in his compositions?
    SR: Yes, that's really... that's one of the main things that he always lectured about to us, anyway, so I mean that was part of his particular overall philosophy of music.
    DB: And is that why you and some of the other students were attracted to study with him instead of some of the other professors?
    SR: That was the main reason, that he was going past the traditional. He was the only one there that would be considered, in a sense, avant-garde. You know, the other teachers were straight down, straight-down traditional. He was the only one that was... There were three... four professors teaching composition. And he was the only one that was open... I forget how he announced it. He was clearly different from the other three composers there.
    DB: Can you remember the names of any of the other three?
    SR: There was a... I remember one, that was Chinese. His name was Lee, I think—that's the only one I remember.
    DB: Okay.
    SR: [Laughter] How could I forget? I mean, a composer, a Western concert music composer, that was Chinese! Impossible—I mean Lee! [Laughter] It's coming back to me after all these years. He was Chinese, and his name was Lee. But there were two others. One was like theory and composition, and then those other ones—you know, two composers—and Professor Hovhaness was like world music. A different category than the other two European concert music composers.
    DB: And after you graduated, did you ever have any contact with Hovhaness in the intervening years?
    SR: No, no, I didn't, but he did do some lectures in New York when I was there, and I went up to see him and speak to him. And then there's quite a few, at least one or two documentaries on him, when I was there... I was in New York when he did them.
    DB: The documentaries... when were those made? Because we've found two that were made around the 1990s in Seattle, where he lived.
    SR: Yeah, yeah... well, that might be the earliest, then. That might be the earliest. 1990. That sounds kind of late, you know, because I think... I remember something in the '70s, too.
    DB: Oh, I wish we could find those.
    SR: Yeah. [Laughter] You know, that's... one good thing about these things, nobody really destroys anything. If it isn't destroyed by fire, it's hidden somewhere. You know?
    DB: Well, we certainly hope so.
    SR: Of course, yes.
    DB: And...
    SR: I don't remember any fires, I mean, that destroyed anything in the Conservatory, so it's somewhere else, someplace. That's one thing about academics, they don't throw anything away. [Laughter] You know what I mean?
    DB: Yes.
    SR: It's somewhere, you know? Did you, have you contacted Boston Conservatory yet?
    DB: No, because I was under the impression it was the New England Conservatory that you were studying at.
    SR: [Laughter] Wrong school! Don't do a thing like that. The Boston Conservatory is also connected with Berklee School of Music now. Berklee and Boston Conservatory are combined, in a sense. I mean, in order to get a degree from Berklee, you have to go to finish up your work at Boston Conservatory.
    DB: I see.
    SR: So when you get ready to go that far... Berklee, I mean—then you transfer to Boston Conservatory so that you can get your degree.
    DB: So were you in graduate school or an undergraduate?
    SR: No, I was in school before Berklee. Berklee was still Schillinger School—Schillinger House—when I was studying there, you know? A lot of students were there when I was: Jaki Byard was there, Quincy Jones, Alan Dawson—you know, a lot of good musicians were studying at the same time that I was there.
    [Beatrice Rivers enters]: Joe Gordon...
    SR: Joe Gordon. And the guy that pretty much... [asks wife:] what's that bandleader's name who played trumpet? Teaches at [Unintelligible]...
    Beatrice: Herb Pomeroy?
    SR: Herb Pomeroy. He pretty much made Berklee School of Music. So it was all at the same time, these things are happening there. It was quite an interesting period in Boston.
    DB: Do you feel that Hovhaness had any influence on the direction that you later took in your compositions?
    SR: Of course. That was one of the reasons I went there, because I was interested in zeroing in on European concert music. That was it, it was there, what he was planning on teaching. So things for orchestra, or when he needed a larger... they all had their own particular orchestra, in a sense. Professor Hovhaness was the one that was the most open as far as world music was concerned, because he wasn't really European anyway. I mean, I'm not sure if he's considered European... no, he's not European. His music is more like world music than like European concert.
    DB: Yes, the Armenian style, and he played the piano in a very Middle Eastern style.
    SR: Right—it's Middle Eastern music. Middle Eastern classical concert music—that's what it technically should be called, you know? Concert music, because the big difference between concert music and folk music—I mean, here we have, you know, concert music, and we have pop music, which is folk. Of course, the situation is in every culture.
    DB: And were you also playing jazz at that time, when you were studying?
    SR: At the same time; yeah, I was working at nights.
    DB: And do you know what he thought about jazz?
    SR: Who?
    DB: Do you know what Hovhaness thought about jazz?
    SR: No, we never mentioned it. We never mentioned it.
    DB: [Laughter]
    SR: I went to school, and I went to work in jazz. No, he never mentioned it. It was a different instrument, because I played saxophone in a jazz thing, you know? And I was playing in the school symphony—I was playing viola, like I said. But the main difference was you know, playing in the symphony is different. Say you're working two, three hours... working in the symphonic, and later... about two, three, or four hours later going to play jazz. Jazz musicians, their skills weren't that... now they are—but playing in tune was really, you know, it got after you... [screams in mock exasperation]... I'd be screaming at the guy to tune up, because after playing in the symphony, it was very disturbing! But now jazz musicians are pretty much there, you know? So, yeah, everybody plays in tune now, so... But it wasn't part of the thing, playing in tune. They're trying to play and think about ideas, more than playing in tune. I mean, ...[Laughter]... like classical music thinks about playing in tune more than ideas! It's just the opposite, you know?
    DB: Can remember any of the other students' names who were studying with Hovhaness the time you were there—if any of them went on to be famous as well?
    SR: Yes—Gigi Gryce.
    DB: And was he a composer, or instrumentalist?
    SR: Composer. Yes—he studied composition. He worked with a lot of groups; he wrote some music for Stan Getz and quite a few other musicians.
    DB: [Did you have] any other stories that came to mind when I called to ask you originally if you could remember anything interesting; anything like a funny story, or anything you could remember about your studies with Hovhaness.
    SR: Well, no, not really; like I said, he wasn't a very talkative person. He was a ...sometimes he would... he was very precise in the sense that he would really get upset with some of the students who made unnecessary mistakes. He was very sharp on that—precision is important. You know, if something was written... I mean like that, he was open to different things, but he was very critical. Other times... it all depends on the composition itself. [Laughter] Yeah.
    DB: When you went to Boston Conservatory were you right out of high school?
    SR: No, I was right out of the Navy.
    DB: The Navy. So that was the first university that you attended?
    SR: No, I was already... I had almost graduated from Dallas Christian College in Texas before I volunteered for the Navy, because I was getting ready to graduate from college, and they sent me to report to the officers' training school. [Unintelligible]
    DB: So that would've been just after World War II?
    SR: It was World War II. Yeah, man—19..., and that was fifty... it was only fifty years ago, and I was 20 then. Like I say, I'm 81 now... [Unintelligible] ...the things I did... [Unintelligible] ...you get in perspective.
    DB: ...Thank you for taking the time to remember these things.
    SR: Yes. Good—thank you; it's good for my brain, you know what I mean, to try to recall things. [Laughter]
    [Sam Rivers telephone Interview by David Badagnani, March 9, 2005]
    ———

    1949:

    "Nineteen forty-nine found Gordon in a bop sextet with Sam Rivers, working regularly at Louie's Lounge on Washington Street.
    The pianist was Jimmie Martin, who led an Eckstine-inspired big band of local significance. Rivers was also on the Martin band,
    and he vividly recalled Gordon's strong solos, and his unison playing with valve trombonist Hampton Reese. (Reese later served
    as B.B. King's music director for almost 25 years)."
    ["The Joe Gordon Story, Part 1: Boston," www.troystreet.com/tspots/2017/05/14/joe-gordon-story-part-1]
    ———

    [At the Boston Conservatory of Music] he fell in with a large 1950s community of like-minded, ambitious musicians including Jaki Byard,
    Quincy Jones, and Charlie Mariano. "The level of musicianship was very high, man," Rivers emphasised. "By day I was studying at the
    conservatory, playing viola, and at night I was playing saxophone in this club. Seven nights a week! People lived and breathed music."
    ["Sam Rivers: Sax Symbol Blows On," The Independent Nov 19, 2004; www.independent.co.uk]
    ———



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    Vladimir Simosko:
    "Saw you noted... the ‘possible Hi-Hat broadcast’ while Sam was in Serge's band in 1950. That info was via me direct from Sam when I was
    interviewing him about Serge a few years ago. As noted in my book Serge Chaloff (Scarecrow Press 1998), in 1950 Serge had a 12-piece group
    with the lineup of trumpet, trombone, tenor, bari, two violins, two violas, cello, piano, bass, and drums. Serge's mother (Margaret) gave him
    $600.00 for special arrangements, which were mostly standards arranged by Nat Pierce, Sonny Truitt, and some others. They spent at least
    six weeks rehearsing and played two gigs (one at the Hi-Hat opposite Roy Eldridge, with a broadcast). The way Hi-Hat broadcasts have been
    turning up in recent years, perhaps it will turn up; sorry I never found the exact dates. There'd been rumors all along that there were recordings:
    some said rehearsal tapes, others a radio station recording for broadcast. Sam Rivers played tenor with that group; when I interviewed him about
    Serge and asked about that group, Sam said it was a very nice group and he was sorry there were no recordings, and mentioned that the Hi-Hat
    broadcast occurred but that he had no idea if it was preserved. Serge's booker said they were too sophisticated and wanted to book Serge with
    just a rhythm section, so Serge had to give up, and the charts went into a trunk...."

  • 50.03.19 - Sam Rivers and His Lionel Hampton All Stars: Sam Rivers (reeds), Goody Goody (tp), Sunny Truitt (tb),
    Art "Flying Home" Foxal, Jonnie Chase, Roy Scott, Lucious Bryant, Milt Gold, Ed Burke, Gato Rivers, others... /
    Hotel Merrimack, Lowell, MA [Nashua Telegraph Mar 18, 1950 p.7]

  • okay

    1952-55:

    In Boston, during his student years, he worked from time to time with Gigi Gryce, Joe Gordon, Jaki Byard, and Herb Pomeroy.

    During the 1950s Sam worked in a variety of jobs in and around the Boston area. In 1952, however, he dropped out of Boston University,
    and was ill for the next two or three years. During that time he composed but was more or less inactive as a performer.
    ["Liberty Records Press Office, Blue Note Records —Leonard Feather, 3/6/68," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

    Sam Rivers: Actually, the place I was working at the time in Boston was called Ort's (?) Grill, and it was across the street from the theater
    where they brought out all the musicians... RKO. So I didn't go to see the musicians; they came to see us! [laughs] Stan Kenton came in
    and hired Charlie Mariano out of the place—some other musicians got hired working out of there. Quincy was playing trumpet at the time;
    I'm not sure what happened to him. Jaki Byard was there. I was working with a pianist ... There were so many different groups that played.
    It was one of those places where there was never a dull moment. It had like eight singers and stuff like this. So we just played the
    intermission. Our trio was me, Larry Willis on piano, and Larry Winters on drums. That's a different Larry Willis, a stride pianist
    who knew all the tunes.

    ...I started writing for big bands, but I didn't have one really organized. But I was writing thematic material for it. I was working at a place
    called Club 47 near Harvard Square. I'm trying to get this pretty much in chronology. I spent ten or fifteen years before I came to New York,
    and it was through Tony that I went to New York. I really didn't think it was necessary for me to go to New York, because I'd been traveling
    all around the world, I had been traveling with any kind of groups that wanted it. I went out with T-Bone Walker for quite a long time,
    and I did some things with B.B. King. But I pretty much stayed around Boston, because I was working for this publishing company,
    which I never really ... I got a letter from some people the other day about this. It was "Send your poems up and we will put the music
    to it." I was very adept at doing that. I pretty much lived in Boston by writing music for lyrics.
    [Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997 www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php]
    ———

    Rivers remained in Boston, composing and performing in clubs in the area. While there, he performed with notable rhythm and blues artists
    including Wilson Pickett, Jerry Butler and Maxine Brown.
    [blogs.orlandosentinel.com/community_altamonte_blog]
    ———

    1955:

    A stint with a rhythm and blues band followed and when the group arrived in Florida [in 1955], Sam stayed for two years there
    composing and arranging music for various musicians and performers in the area.
    ["1973, ABC/Dunhill Records BIO," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———


  • 56.00.00 - Billie Holiday: Holiday (voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Carl Drinkard (p), unknown others... / Sir John Motel, Miami, FL

    "In the fall of 1956, I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I decided to go to Miami. Billie Holiday was there, Cab Calloway, King Cole,
    Dinah Washington, BB King, Ray Charles, Chet Baker... after work, everyone would go to the Sir John [Hotel] to jam until 8 or 9 in the morning.
    I played next to Billie—she'd just done a chorus and I took my solo. She told her piano player, Carl Drinkard, that she liked the way I played.
    Then I had an attack, broke out in a cold sweat, felt faint. Billie noticed and told me to go outside; she'd watch my horn. She said she'd watched
    Pres' horn for him when he had to go out. When I came back she was singing "Detour Ahead". I listened to the anguish in her voice and the lyrics
    seemed to be about my own problems. I started to cry."

    ["Billie Holiday Remembered" The New York Jazz Museum (1973) 20pp. Illustrated in blue wrappers, The RivBea Archive ]
    Tributes to Holiday by Amiri Baraka, Frank O'Hara, Billy Taylor, Duke Ellington, John Hammond, Leonard Feather, Count Basie, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Hinton, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Vernon Duke, Ned Rorem, Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Stan Getz, Pearl Bailey, Rivers, and others.

    1955-58:

    "Jeroen de Valk is updating his Chet Baker bio, and we notice that Sam Rivers plays with Chet Baker around Miami, probably in
    the late '50s. This period isn't well documented and any information about venues or dates (month or year is good) is gratefully received.

    The club that Sam was talking about, in his interview with David Mittleman about Miami in the 50s, was in a hotel in the black section
    of Miami that is now called ‘Overtown.’ It was the Sir John. I stayed there and there was a big club (Billie Holiday appeared there for
    a minute) and a small lounge. The lounge was where everything happened. It did go till 7:00 in the morning. Musicans used to come over
    after their gigs and jam all night/morning... Unfortunately Sam never came down there that I know of. But people like Blue Mitchell
    and Grachan Moncur and others did..."
    —Anonymous 05.12.29
    ———

    Returned to Boston in 1958 and joined Herb Pomeroy's band at the Stable. He continued to work with Pomeroy until 1962, in addition
    to gigging on his own. He recalls that as far back as 1959 he hired a brilliant 13-year-old drummer named Anthony Williams, for whom
    he rightly predicted a brilliant future.
    ["Liberty Records Press Office, Blue Note Records —Leonard Feather, 3/6/68," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———


  • 58.00.00 - Sam Rivers: (no personnel details) / Connolly's Stardust Room, Boston, MA
    [Lee Tanner's Jazz Photographs: A Book of Postcards, Pomegranate Artbooks]

    Late 1959:

    John Ephland: You made important connections with Sam Rivers... Tell me about your experiences...
    Tony Williams: What happened was, Alan Dawson—the only person I took [private] lessons from, basically for reading—was teaching
    at Berklee. I was too young to go there, and never did, actually.
    JE: How long a period of time was that?
    TW: On and off for about a year, year-and-a-half. So, there was a club that he played at, the Mt. Auburn Club 47 in Boston, in Cambridge.
    My dad brought me out to the club and asked him to listen to me. Alan would let me, as part of his show, sit in on a couple of tunes
    each night. Then a guy named Leroy Fallana, a piano player, asked me to join his band. I was about 14 or 15. He hired me, Sam Rivers,
    and a bass player named Jimmy Towles.
    JE: What kind of music did you play?
    TW: It was basically straightahead stuff. Leroy was more of a soul, kind of Horace Silver-type of piano player. That was when I started
    to go around Boston by myself. I didn't need my dad to take me around anymore. I started playin' dates, playin' casuals, and things like that.
    Then around '62—to leap, 'cause there were a lot of things happening—I had been playing in a club called Connelly's, as part of a house
    rhythm section; a club where they would hire a name horn player to come in from New York for a week...
    JE: ...you were doing some interesting things with Sam Rivers. Tell me about that.
    TW: When we had a band with Sam, we were doing a lot of Third Stream, which meant at the time a combination of jazz players playing
    avant-garde music. This was the late fifties, early sixties. We were playing with a chamber group [The Boston Improvisational Ensemble],
    doing things in the afternoons where they had cards and numbers and you're playing to time, watches, and big clocks; playing behind
    poetry, all kinds of stuff... My first record (Life Time, 64.08.21) was in '64. It was the first record that Blue Note had ever made of free,
    avant-garde music.
    ["Tony Williams: Still The Rhythm Magician" Down Beat May 1, 1989; Down Beat Magazine Archive]
    ———

    "Shortly before [Williams] turned 14 [Dec 12, 1959], he was regularly gigging with saxophonist Sam Rivers, in a group with pianist
    Leroy Fallana and bassist Jimmy Towles. Hal Galper became the pianist, and Henry Grimes and then Phil Morrison the bassist. Williams
    worked with this group in 1960-61, before he was 16. Their home base was the Mt. Auburn Club 47, in Cambridge...
    Not everyone welcomed this drumming prodigy with open arms. Williams told Down Beat's Don DeMicheal in 1965 about older musicians
    who wouldn't let him sit in, or who would talk club owners out of hiring his group because they were too young. There was an establishment,
    and Williams wasn't in it. Maybe, suggested DeMicheal, it was jealousy at work.
    [Richard Vacca, "Dec 17, 1962: World, Meet Tony Williams" Dec 17, 2013 www.troystreet.com]
    ———




1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

The 21st Century...

2010


    1960:

    Trombonist Gene DiStasio led the Monday night house band at the Stable in Boston 1960-62.
    [Richard Vacca, "Hal Galper Live at the Stable, 1962" Mar 8 2017, www.troystreet.com]
    ———

    Mark Whitecage :::
    "While I was down there [Texas], I met Maynard Ferguson and he liked my playing. I was a great reader and he wanted me to join; he'd had
    a fight with his tenor player. He wanted me to go up to Boston, when I got out of the army, and meet Claude Thornhill, get in his band
    and then he (Maynard Ferguson) would pick me up when he came through town.

    So I got out of the army and my car gave out and some guy offered to give me a ride to Chicago. Then after I loaded his car he pulled out
    a .38 [pistol] and took off with my horn and everything. I had just bought this old cigar cutter Selmer—it was beautiful—and I was going
    to stop in Elkhart, Indiana at the Selmer factory and have it redone. It was kind of embarrassing to come home with just the clothes
    on my back, no horns or anything. The Chicago police laughed at me when I reported it.

    So when I got back to New York I bought a new tenor with the army money and went up to Boston. I'm sittin' at the front table,
    Claude Thornhill's playing, and I looked over at the second tenor chair that I was eyeing and who's sitting there but Sam Rivers.
    He'd stand up and play and it was worse than the 'Trane stuff. I said, Man, I'm not ready for this. I spent the whole night listening
    to Sam and he was fantastic. At the end of the night I picked up my horn, put it in the car, and drove back to Litchfield, Connecticut,
    and started working on my own thing."
    [A great Mark Whitecage interview, Cadence Vol.23 no.10 October 1997, p.8]
    ———


1961 : : :


  • 61.00.00 - Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Mike Nock (p), unknown others / unknown venue, Provincetown, MA
    [Mike Nock Interview, Cadence Vol.18 No.7 July 1992 p.14]

    Rivers... started his professional life very much in the mainstream of black music, leading the house band as music director for a lively night
    spot in Roxbury, Louie's Lounge on Washington Street. Headliners who came through included Gene Chandler, Wilson Pickett, Jerry Butler,
    and a host of popular favorites, he remembers. Farrakhan was in the band, too, at Louie's. He was an excellent violinist then and he is now.
    T-Bone Walker hired Rivers to direct the band for his blues review, and Rivers would later also do a similar job for B.B. King.
    When was your first recording session?
    "I did one with J.C. Higginbotham, another with Paul Gonsalves. Then... Tadd Dameron in 1961." —Sam Rivers.
    ["Reed man Rivers recalls roots in Boston..." Kay Bourne, Bay State Banner Dec 19, 1996]
    ———

    "Other spots around town where more or less good jazz is blown, include the Stable on Huntington Avenue. Try to get down there
    the nights a new tenorman, y-clept Sam Rivers plays. This man blows in the Sonny Rollins, Coltrane vein, but has such an exceptiona
    style of his own, that digging him blowing his fours is a rewarding experience. Sam is going places, and if you don't believe it,
    ask him."
    [The Bentley Journal Mar 1961 clipping, The RivBea Archive]
    ———


  • 61.06.24 - Herb Pomeroy and His Orchestra: Pomeroy (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Ray Santisi (p), Larry Richardson (b), Alan Dawson (dr), others... /
    Boston Arts Festival, Public Garden, Boston, MA [The Boston Globe Jun 25 p.7]
    "Herb Pomeroy's band was outstanding. A tight 13-piece group, well-rehearsed, and alive with a driving rhythm section,
    it can thrill almost any audience with its brilliance..." —Fr. Norman J. O'Connor The Boston Globe
  • 61.10.17 - Herb Pomeroy and his Orchestra featuring Sam Rivers / The Jazz Workshop, The Stable, Boston, MA
    [Boston Globe October 15, 1961 p.A73]
    "Every Tuesday & Thursday night:"
    —I'm only listing those dates that I find actual sources for. —RL
  • 61.10.19 - Herb Pomeroy and his Orchestra featuring Sam Rivers / The Jazz Workshop, The Stable, Boston, MA [ibid]
  • 61.10.31 - Herb Pomeroy and his Orchestra featuring Sam Rivers / The Jazz Workshop, The Stable, Boston, MA
    [Boston Globe October 29, 1961 p.A73]
  • 61.11.02 - Herb Pomeroy and his Orchestra featuring Sam Rivers / The Jazz Workshop, The Stable, Boston, MA [ibid]
  • 61.11.14 - Herb Pomeroy and his Orchestra featuring Sam Rivers / The Jazz Workshop, The Stable, Boston, MA
    [The Boston Globe Nov 12 p.A80]
  • 61.11.16 - Herb Pomeroy and his Orchestra featuring Sam Rivers / The Jazz Workshop, The Stable, Boston, MA [ibid]

61.12.14 • (V/A) Tadd Dameron: Blue Note Records Presents The Lost Sessions

Blue Note Connoisseur Series 7243 5 21484 2 4 (CD) 1999 [+Europe];
Blue Note TOCJ-66072 (CD) 1999 Japan
[Includes tracks from sessions led by Charlie Rouse, Sonny Stitt,
Herbie Hancock, Ike Quebec, and Fred Jackson]

December 14, 1961 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. The Elder Speaks (Rivers) [5:48]
2. Bevan Beeps (Dameron) [5:13]
3. Lament for the Living (Dameron) [4:06]
4. Aloof Spoof (Dameron) [6:22]
Samthology has track 1.
—The Blue Note Discography has two takes of each title, with no indication which have
 been issued: "The Elder Speaks," take 5 and tk 7; "Bevan Beeps," take 18 and tk 19;
 "Lament for the Living," take 22 and tk 29; "Aloof Spoof," take 31 and tk 34

Donald Byrd (tp), Curtis Fuller (tb), Julius Watkins (frh), Sam Rivers (ts),
Cecil Payne (bar), Tadd Dameron (p, Arr), Paul Chambers (b), Philly Joe Jones (dr)

{Blue 7243 5 21484 2 4; Samthology; Blue Note Discography, Cuscuna & Ruppli}

okay

1962 : : :


62.04.09 • Gene DiStasio Quintet [AR—5:09]

April 9, 1962 / The Stable, Boston, MA

1. Blues (Theme) [5:09]
—"This tune started side 2 on the [reel-to-reel] tape..."

"DiStasio, Rivers, and Galper were all members of the Herb Pomeroy big band, stepping out of it on Monday nights to explore different sounds."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Gene DiStasio (tb), Hal Galper (p), John Neves (b), Peter Littman (dr)

{Richard Vacca, "Hal Galper Live at the Stable, 1962" Mar 8 2017, www.troystreet.com}


  • 1962:

    "Williams was still working with the Rivers group, and they were playing everything from straightahead quartet dates to third stream to poetry readings. Williams spent that summer with Rivers, Galper, and Benny Wilson playing on Cape Cod, and, with Morrison and pianist Phil Moore, was on "Jazz With Father O'Connor," on WGBH-TV. All Williams wanted to do was play drums. He spent his days practicing instead of going to school, which led to his expulsion in 1962."
    [Richard Vacca's Troy Street Publishing, www.troystreet.com/tspots/2013/12/17/dec-17-1962-world-meet-tony-williams]
    ———


  • 62.09.00 - Hal Galper Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Galper (p), Tony Williams (dr) / Atlantic House, Cape Cod, MA [ibid]
  • 62.11.01 - Jimmy Tyler Trio: Tyler and Rivers (ts), unknown others... / Shanty Lounge, Boston, MA [The Boston Globe Nov 1 p.20+41]
    "Now playing The Fabulous Tenor Saxe [sic] of Sam Rivers, Guest of Jimmy Tyler Trio..."
    —Richard Vacca in Boston Jazz Chronicles has "Jim Mellen's Shanty Lounge...opened in June 1961 with a jazz policy,
     and Sam Rivers and Jimmy Tyler both had groups there...," but display ad implies Rivers playing with the JT Trio.
     Also unclear is how long the engagement was for.

    December, 1962:

    "The place as far as I was concerned was Connolly's Stardust Room on Tremont and Ruggles Streets in the South End. Maybe because
    it was the first place I was old enough to get into... The only time I ever saw Eric Dolphy was there. Herbie Hancock
    played piano. Dexter Gordon, Horace Silver Quintet with Junior Cook and Blue Mitchell, Yusef Lateef, Roland Kirk (Horace Parlan
    on piano), all played there regularly. Sam Rivers led a house band with a young, sixteen-year-old drummer, Tony Williams. I remember
    when Jackie McLean came in to play and Tony was on the gig. Jackie kept looking behind him to see where all of this music was coming
    from. He looked out at the audience and told us he was going to have to take this kid to New York. He did just that."
    [Steve Schwartz (WGBH in Boston) posting to Jazzcorner's Speakeasy, 03.11.19 www.jazzcornertalk.com/speakeasy/archive]
    ———

    "Tony himself arrived in New York on Christmas Eve, 1962...
    ‘Sam is a very good saxophone player. He'll be going to New York soon, I think.’"
    —Richard Hadlock interviews Tony Williams during a Miles Davis run at Jazz Workshop in San Francisco
    [The San Francisco Examiner Apr 19, 1964 ShowTime p.14]
    ———


1963 : : :


    "We used to jam in a loft space in Boston's Haymarket Square. That was the place of Dave and Bobby Kapp—Byard and I was working
    a six-nighter in the combat zone at the Golden Nugget. After 1:00am we [Byard, Rivers, Yancy] would all meet and jam until sun up.
    It's that quiet little laugh that he had, now I think it was kind of musical."
    [Youseff Yancy, Facebook posting 13.12.26]
    ———


63.00.00 • Alvin Fiering: Sculptor

University of Boston (35mm film) 1963

Early 1963 / unknown studio, Boston, MA

1. improvisation [10:00]
—Fiering received a US Information Agency Grant in November, 1962. Subject was a sculptor
 working at MIT's foundry on an art casting research project.

"The jazz track was recorded for the film in one sitting. [Crew-member] Lois [Ginandes] contacted Larry Richardson who in turn brought Sam Rivers
and Alan Dawson. We sat through a showing of the fine cut of the picture twice, the only preparation the three had for the recording, and then proceeded
to record five takes of improvised music to the picture. Any one of the five takes was usable.
Though it had been my idea originally to edit pieces of the various takes into a composite music track I felt afterwards that this would hurt the unity
of the music. I therefore ran one of the takes in its entirety for the lenghth of the film. The recording session took three hours.
Picture editing was in 35mm. Sound recording was a 1/4-inch tape transferred to 35mm magnetic for editing."
—Alvin Fiering "Reflections on Making 'Sculptor'"

Sam Rivers (reeds), Larry Richardson (b), Alan Dawson (dr)

{Alvin Fiering "Reflections on Making 'Sculptor'" Journal of the University Film Producers Association Vol.16 No.1 (1964) pp.15-16, U. of Illinois Press;
Library of Congress database: "Jazz on the Screen—A Jazz and Blues Filmography" by David Meeker}


    June, 1963:

    [Having] arrived in New York on Christmas Eve, 1962... Williams plays with Jackie McLean,
    and in June of '63 answers the call from Miles Davis.
    —Richard Hadlock interviews Tony Williams during a Miles Davis run at Jazz Workshop in San Francisco
    [The San Francisco Examiner Apr 19, 1964 ShowTime p.14]
    ———



1964 : : :


    Early 1964:

    "While he was on the road with T-Bone, drummer Tony Williams, whom he'd nurtured when the Roxbury lad was 13 or so,
    called Rivers to join him playing with Miles Davis."
    ["Reed man Rivers recalls roots in Boston...," Kay Bourne, Bay State Banner Dec 19, 1996]
    ———

    Featured with the Sam Rivers Quartet was a talented 13-year-old drummer named Tony Williams. Tony left Boston with Jackie McClean
    to perform in New York and was later hired by Miles Davis. During Rivers' short stints away from Boston, he was performing with
    T-Bone Walker. In 1964, Tony sent a telegram saying Miles wanted to hire Rivers. "Come to New York right away," the telegram read.
    Rivers toured with Miles through the famous "Miles in Tokyo" recordings.
    [blogs.orlandosentinel.com/community_altamonte_blog]
    ———

    Sam Rivers: Tony Williams got me with Miles. He had these tapes that he had done with me in Boston, so he said, "Miles, I want you
    to hear this tape." Miles said, "Yeah, okay, later." He kept doing that. So finally, one day he trapped Miles. "Okay, go ahead, play it!"
    Tony said [Miles] heard the first track and he said, "Call him up. Get him up here right now." So he called me. I was on the road with
    T-Bone Walker, and he called me and said, "George quit; Miles wants you to join the band." I was out there on the road someplace.
    So I left T-Bone Walker to join Miles Davis.
    [Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997 www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php]
    ———



Sam Rivers with the Miles Davis Quintet ::: 64.06.30 to 64.07.15

    "My first choice to replace George was Wayne Shorter, but Art Blakey had made him musical director of the Jazz Messengers
    and he couldn't leave then. So we hired Sam Rivers." —Miles Davis

    "According to Gary Giddins [in the liner notes of Miles Davis-Heard 'Round The World Columbia, C238506] Miles approached
    Sonny Stitt, Jimmy Heath, and Eric Dolphy before hiring George Coleman. Big George left suddenly before the Japan tour and Miles
    hired Sam Rivers almost purely on Tony's recommendation."
    [Gordon Blewis posting to Miles-list 95.08.15]

    —West coast reviews of the San Francisco Workshop dates from April 7th through the 19th have Coleman, and he was on
     the Village Vanguard enagement that ended on May 12.

    F L U X : : :

    —"Gary Peacock has left the Miles Davis Quartet and joined the Bill Evans Trio."
     [Ralph Wilson Las Vegas Review-Journal Jun 14 p.33]
    —"Miles Davis just broke up his most recent jazz group, his third in as many years.
     He now has eyes for a band with no saxophones."
     [Dorothy Kilgallen "Voice of Broadway" Trenton Evening Times Jun 26 p.6]
    —"Miles Davis has broken up his group and is keeping only drummer Tony Williams
     and pianist Herbie Hancock. He has hired guitarist Grant Green and probably
     will work without a tenor saxophone in the future."
     [Ralph J. Gleason "Rhythm Section" The Milwaukee Journal Jun 27 p.3]
    —"[Birdland] was overflowing on opening night and almost as large a crowd was present
     the next night... Davis has a new tenor saxophonist, Sam Rivers..."
     [Oakland Tribune Jul 12 p.13-EL

  • 64.06.30 to 07.01 - Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Davis (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Tony Williams (dr) /
    Birdland, NYC [The New York Times Jun 30 p.L23]
    "This month when Birdland reopened. The club was overflowing on opening night, and almost as large a crowd was present the next night."
     [Oakland Tribune Jun 12 p.EL13]

    On The Japan Tour dates:

    There have been unsubstantiated claims of additional sessions with Rivers during the Japan tour.

    "This Japanese tour included six concerts with Sam Rivers at four cities.
    July 10, Nagoya / July 11, Osaka / July 12, Tokyo / July 13, Osaka / July 14, Tokyo / July 15, Kyoto.
    Three of these (July 13, 14, and 15) were recorded for radio broadcast...
    This information was acquired from... Swing Journal."
    —Tosiyuki Nomoto 02.05.00 & 02.06.02.

    "Of course I have heard Miles Group 1964 (Nagoya). I have concert tour book and flyer
     of ‘World Jazz Festival in Japan.’"
      A-Group—Modern Jazz
      Miles Davis Quintet: Sam Rivers, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Anthony Williams.
      J.J.Johnson All Stars: Sonny Stitt, Clark Terry, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb.
      Carmen McRae: McRae, Norman Simmons, Victor Sproles, Curtis Boyd.
      + From Japan: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Charlie Mariano, Hidehiko Matsumoto, and others.
      B-Group consisted of Gene Krupa All Stars, Red Nichols & His 5 Pennies,
      Dukes of Dixieland, Edmond Hall, and Dakota Staton.
      C-Group of Tommy Dorsey Orchestra with Frank Sinatra Jr., Pied Pipers,
      Jeanne Thomas, and Louis Bellson.
      A-group only, June, 1964:
      10th - Nagoya (Nagoya shi Koukaido)
      11th - Osaka (Osaka Festival Hall)
      12th - Tokyo (Hibiya-Yagai-Ongakudou)
      13th - Osaka (Osaka Festival Hall)
      14th - Tokyo (Tokyo Shinjuku Kousenenkin Hall)
      15th - Kyoto ( Kyoto Maruyama Ongakudo)
      —Kuniharu Itoh 02.06.10
okay

Photo from Swing Journal
edition of December, 1991 p.57
    "I'm sorry but Miles only played three days—July 12, 14 and 15. I have from Japanese friends the information
    that Miles only played at the... three concerts. Miles Davis seems to have arrived in Tokyo on July 9th, so why
    he shouldn't have played any of the others days mentioned I don't know..."

    —Jan Lohman, posting to Miles-list

    "Although several Japanese concerts were booked, the Quintet apparently performed only three:
    Hibaya Yagai Ongaku-do Hall, Tokyo (July 12), Shinjuku Kohseinenkin Hall, Tokyo (July 14),
    and Maruyama Ongaku-do Hall, Kyoto (July 15)."
    [Dan Plosin's Miles Ahead Sessions on the Web.]

    "I asked Yasuki Nakayama (a noted music critic and once the chief editor of Swing Journal) on this issue, and he says
    although the Miles group basically travelled and appeared together with ‘A-group’, not all bands were supposed to play
    every time anyway. Therefore, it's not a mystery that Miles didn't have to play on some venues. As far as I know, there are
    no rumors about Miles' cancelling his concerts in Japan, 1964. Also I guess Miles didn't go to Osaka (and possibly Nagoya)
    at all. Nagoya is something like Chicago—a big, but somewhat provincial city halfway between Kyoto/Osaka and Tokyo.
    And Osaka is pretty close to Kyoto but a hundred miles away from Tokyo, so the Nagoya → Osaka → Tokyo → Osaka
    → Tokyo → Kyoto sequence doesn't make much sense. I think the tour started in Nagoya, then some bands went to Osaka
    while others went to Tokyo and did two concerts each, and finally met in Kyoto. Miles might just have stayed in Tokyo
    and then went to Kyoto directly."
    —Masayuki Hatta 03.12.22

    "I remember performing in Osaka, Tokyo, and Kyoto..."
    —Sam Rivers 02.06.09

    Despite there being no evidence for these two concert dates (64.07.10; 64.07.11) having occurred at all,
    I list them nonetheless simply to acknowledge the claims.

    64.07.10 - Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Davis (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Tony Williams (dr) /
    Nagoya shi Koukaido, Nagoya, Japan
    "My acquaintance (Mr. Kuniharu Ito is introduced. he is actually hearing the concert of Nagoya on July 10th."

    64.07.11 - Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Davis (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Tony Williams (dr) /
    Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan
    [Tosiyuki Nomoto 02.05.00]

64.07.12 • Miles Davis Quintet: Moment (1964 Japan Tour Definitive Edition)

Heavy Blow Records HB-001/002 (2CD, Unofficial Release) 2004 Japan
—1st Session [See also 64.07.15]
  • Miles Davis Quintet: Starlight In Black Live
    Mega-Disc no issue # (CD, Unofficial Release) 2009 Japan
    "MD Legendary Collection Series"
  • Miles Davis Quintet: The Unissued Japanese Concerts
    Domino Records 891212 (2CD, Unofficial Release) 2011 Europe
    —1st Session [See also 64.07.15]
  • Miles Davis Quintet [BR—40:20 & SBR—39:01]

July 12, 1964 / Hibiya Yagai Ongaku-do Hall, Tokyo, Japan
—NHK-Radio Tokyo.

Unofficial Releases:
1. Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma) [11:02]
2. So What (Davis) [8:40]
3. Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) [10:53]
4. Walkin' (R. Carpenter)—The Theme [9:33]
5. Announcement (Teruo Isono) [0:08]
Starlight In Black Live and The Unissued Japanese Concerts
 do not include closing announcement. —Broadcast and Soundboard Recordings are both complete.

Miles Davis (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Tony Williams (dr)

{CDr; Jan Strom; Tosiyuki Nomoto; www.plosin.com/milesAhead; pastdaily.com}


    64.07.13 - Miles Davis Quintet [Rumored Broadcast Recording] Osaka Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan
    "The tape on the 13th has still slept in the warehouse of a broadcasting station. There is not a person whom heard."
    —Tosiyuki Nomoto 02.06.05
    There is no evidence for this concert having occurred. —RL

64.07.14 • Miles Davis: Miles in Tokyo

1969: CBS/Sony SONX 60064-R (LP) Jpn; SONT 52028 (7" Reel-to-Reel, 4-track Stereo) Jpn; CBS/Sony SONE 70064-R (7" EP, 33rpm) Jpn;
1972: CBS/Sony SOPL 162 (LP, SX68MARK II Series) Jpn; 1977: CBS/Sony 25AP 762 (LP) Jpn; 1981: CBS/Sony 18AP 2064 (LP) Jpn;
1983: CBS/Sony 23AP 2564 (LP, "Miles Greatest Collection 25") Jpn; 35DP 67 (CD, sub- "Miles Davis Live in Concert");
1986: CBS/Sony 32DP 529 (CD, "Miles Davis Greatest on CD 20") Jpn; 1984: CBS/Sony 28AP 2838 (LP, "Miles Digital Mastering Series") Jpn;
1990: CBS/Sony CSCS 5146 (CD, Miles The Greatest Series) Jpn; 1994: Tristar 80873 (CD); 1996: Sony SRCS 9112 (CD) Jpn;
Sony SRCS 9112 (CD, Ltd. Edition, Master Sound Series) Jpn; 1997: Sony 65335 (CD); 1998: Limited Edition No.058/M3-98 (CD) Russia;
2001: Sony Int'l SRCS 9746 (CD, Ltd. Edition, Master Sound Series) Jpn; 2005: Columbia CK 93596 (CD); Sony SICP 824 (CD) Jpn;
Columbia/Legacy COL 519508 2 [+ 5195082001] (CD) Eur; Jazz Heritage Society 5190832 (CD); Columbia/Legacy 5190832 (CD);
Sony BMG 88697381082 (CD) Russia; 2006: Sony Music Japan Intl SICP 1213 (CD, Ltd. Edition, Original Jacket Collection) Jpn;
2008: SBME Special 726680 (CD) Jpn; 2009: Sony SICP 20056 (Blu-spec CD, Ltd Edition) Jpn; 2014: CBS/Sony SICP-4017 (CD);
2019: Get On Down 51279LP (LP)
  • Miles Davis: The Miles Davis
    1969: CBS/Sony SONP 50164-165 (2-LP) Jpn
  • Miles Davis: Greatest Hits
    1970: CBS/Sony SONX 60127 (LP) Jpn
  • Miles Davis Quintet: Heard 'Round the World
    1983: CBS Records C238506 (2-LP); CBS 88626 (2-LP) Eur [+ Netherlands];
    C2 38506 (2-LP) Can [+ New Zealand]
    [1983 2-LP issue includes Miles in Berlin with Wayne Shorter on reeds from 64.09.25]
  • Miles Davis: Milestones: New York/Berlin/Tokyo
    1999: Jazz Door JD 12113/4 (2CDr, Bootleg) Germany
  • Miles Davis: The Complete 1963-64 Columbia Recordings
    2004: Mosaic Records MQ10-226 (10 Q-LPs, #ed Ltd Edition 3,000 copies)
  • Miles Davis: Seven Steps—The Complete Columbia Recordings... 1963-1964
    2005: Columbia/Legacy C7K 90840 (7-CD Box) [+ Europe]
  • The Best of Seven Steps—The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963-1964
    2005: Columbia CK 93585 (CD); 519510 2 (CD) UK; SICP 853 (CD) Jpn
  • Miles Davis: The Original Jacket Collection
    2006: Sony SICP 1201/37 (37-CD Box, Ltd. Edition DSD CDs) Jpn
  • Miles Davis: Master Collection
    2013: Sony SICP 30341-30368 (Blu-spec CD2 Luxury Box, Ltd Edition) Jpn

July 14, 1964 / Shinjuku Kohseinenkin Hall, Tokyo, Japan

 introduction, Teruo Isono [1:11]
1. If I Were a Bell (F. Loesser) [10:21]
2. My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers) [12:57]
3. So What (Davis) [8:09]
4. Walkin' (R. Carpenter) [9:21]
5. All of You (Cole Porter) / Go-Go (theme) [12:42]
CBS/Sony SONE 70064-R (7" EP) has tracks 3 and 4.
Miles in Tokyo EP SONE 70064-R has tracks 3 and 4.
The Best of Seven Steps has track 1.
The Miles Davis has track 3.
Greatest Hits has track 5.

—Also obscurely referenced is an additional unissued track, Stella by Starlight.

"The author of the [Live in Tokyo] liner notes mentions that Davis did three concerts with
Rivers in the quintet in Japan. This disc is taken from the second concert. It was released
somewhat later than the concert itself, and he talks about how he remembered the version
of ‘My Funny Valentine,’ and how pleased he was that they got it on tape.

He also talks about the trouble Davis had finding a saxophonist for his band at that time.
He had wanted Shorter for a few years, but Shorter kept turning him down.

The notes go on to say that Tony Williams recommended Rivers, but that Rivers and Davis
did not get along musically. Rivers was musically more ‘outside’... Davis could handle that
type of music, but Miles was also interested in keeping his music commercially accessible.
Rivers also was not interested... in playing things like ‘My Funny Valentine.’

The first concert supposedly did not go well. Rivers was playing outside, Davis was playing
inside, and the thing did not jell. [By] the second concert... the two men tried to reach
a musical accommodation with each other... The result is a unique document.

At the third concert, the musical compromise fell apart..." —Bill Sakovich

"Contrary to the liners... quoted, I'd have to suggest that to my ears the Kyoto concert
was superior to Tokyo. A private tape was circulating... and I've listened to both concerts
in order. Both private tapes (Tokyo was not yet released) were in excellent fidelity
and the tunes were almost the same..." —Vladimir Simosko

Images, top to bottom:
Miles in Tokyo SONX 60064-R (1st LP cover)
Miles in Tokyo SONT 52028 (Reel-to-Reel)
The Complete 1963-64 Columbia Recordings MQ10-226 (10 Q-LPs)
Seven Steps—The Complete Columbia Recordings... 1963-1964 C7K 90840 (7-CD Box)

Miles Davis (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Tony Williams (dr)

{CSCS 5146; JD 12113/4; www.plosin.com/milesAhead}









64.07.15 • Miles Davis Quintet: Moment (1964 Japan Tour Definitive Edition)

Heavy Blow Records HB-001/002 (2CD, Unofficial Release) 2004 Japan
—2nd Session [See also 64.07.12]
  • Miles Davis Quintet: Kyoto 1964
    Mega-Disc no issue # (CD, Unofficial Release) 2009 Japan
    "MD Legendary Collection Series"
  • Miles Davis Quintet: The Unissued Japanese Concerts
    Domino Records 891212 (2CD, Unofficial Release) 2011 Europe
    —2nd Session [See also 64.07.12]
  • Miles Davis Quintet [AR—49:41]

July 15, 1964 / Maruyama Ongaku do, Kyoto, Japan

Unofficial Releases:
1. If I Were a Bell (F. Loesser) [11:19]
2. Oleo (Sonny Rollins) [6:10]
3. Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) [9:49]
4. Walkin' (R. Carpenter) [7:43]
5. All of You (Cole Porter) [10:51]
6. Seven Steps to Heaven "Cut" (V. Feldman, Davis) [2:44]
Audience Recording:
1. If I Were a Bell [10:35]
2. Oleo [5:25]
3. Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) [9:00]
4. Walkin' [7:20]
5. All of You [9:40]
6. Seven Steps to Heaven [2:30]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
Miles Davis (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Tony Williams (dr)

{CDr; www.plosin.com/milesAhead}





okay
    "A concert by the Miles Davis Quintet, which was scheduled tonight in the International Center, has been cancelled. The jazz musicians
    were originally schedlued to stop here en route back from a jazz festival in Japan, but they took another route."
    [Honolulu Star-Bulletin Jul 20 p.10]

    "Rivers left the Quintet as soon as the group returned
    to the United States. Wayne Shorter was hired as his
    replacement, and joined the Quintet at the Hollywood
    Bowl in early September"

    [Ebony Oct 1964 p.127, text p.129; Dan Plosin's "Miles Ahead Sessions," www.plosin.com/milesAhead]



64.08.21 • Anthony Williams: Life Time

1964: Blue Note BLP 4180 (mono LP); 1973: BST-84180/BLP-4180 (LP); 1977: BNS40018 (LP) UK; 11C 07460086 (LP) Port;
1978: GXK 8026—BST84180 (LP, Masterpiece Selection 150) Jpn; 5C 038 60086 (LP) Neth; 1982: BST-84180 (LP) Fr;
1984: BST 84180—BNJ 71043 (LP, New Wave In Jazz) Jpn; 1987: CDP 7 84180 2 (CD);
1995: CDP 7 84180 2 (CD, Ltd. Edition, BN Collector's Choice); TOCJ-4180 (CD, BN Works 4100 Series) Jpn;
1999: 7243 4 99004 2 4 (CD, RVG Edition) [+ Eur]; 2003: TOCJ-9365 (CD, Ltd Edition, 24-Bit RVG mini-LP w/ OBI) Jpn;
7243 4 99004 2 4 (CD, RVG Edition) Eur; 2006: TOCJ-6681 (CD, Ltd Edition, BN Best 1500 Series #281) Jpn;
unknown: BSTF 84180 (LP) Fr
  • Maiden Voyage: Modern Mainstream No. 2
    unknown: BN W-5513 (LP)
  • (V/A) Les Années Blue Note—The Avant Garde, 1963-67
    1996: 854194 2 (2CD) Fr;
    1998: Blue Note 7243 4 96384 2 6 (2CD, "The Blue Note Years Volume 5")
    —1st Session [See also 64.12.11]
  • (V/A) The Blue Note Years—60 Years 1939/1999
    1998: Blue Note 7243 4 96427 2 0 (14-CD Boxed Set)
    —1st Session [See also 64.12.11]
  • (V/A) The Blue Note Years, 60 Years 1939/1999
    1998: Blue Note 7243 4 96427 2 0 (14-CD Boxed Set)
  • (V/A) 100 Best Of Blue Note
    2011: EMI Music Belgium 50999 9053032 6 (10-CD Box Set) Eur
        [+ 50999 0270790 7]
  • (V/A) 100 Best Of Blue Note Volume 4
    2011: EMI Music Belgium 50999 0269682 9 (2CD) Eur
  • (V/A) 75 Blue Note
    2014: Universal Classic Jazz France 535 5292 (5-CD) Fr
    —1st Session [See also 64.12.11]

August 21, 1964 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Two Pieces of One: Red [10:36]   master #1417, take 5
2. Two Pieces of One: Green [8:03]   master #1418, take 7
3. Tomorrow Afternoon [5:30]   master #1419, take 9
Maiden Voyage, The Avant Garde, 60 Years 1939/1999,
100 Best Of Blue Note, 100 Best Of Blue Note Vol.4,
 and 75 Blue Note all have track 3.

—Three other tracks sans Rivers were recorded 64.08.24.
    Tony Williams Interview from Down Beat:
    TW: It was the first record that Blue Note had ever made of free, avant-garde
    music (Life Time). I think they wanted me to make a record. I wanted to
    make a record, and by that time I guess, because I was so adamant about
    what I wanted to do, they were willing to take the chance.
    John Ephland: You wanted to play free music, not the straightahead stuff?
    TW: Yeah. I mean, what's been important to me is to show diversity in
    different things, and to show different colors of things. I mean, if I'm working
    with a band, it sounds one way; and then I'm recording with other people
    and it sounds another way, then why not—if I get the chance to do something
    of my own—do a third thing? That makes sense to me. That's logical because
    it gives me a chance to, number one, show that I can do that, and secondly,
    it brings a fresh sound to the ear of people who have heard me do the other
    two things.
    JE: And it was consistent with some of the music you'd done before.
    TW: Right, before that. And, you know, when I was in Boston, playing with
    Sam, one of the things that really opened my ears was the first time I heard
    Ornette Coleman. That first record I heard—I think it was Change of the
    Century
    —was just unbelievable, the impact it made on me. This was
    about 1959, 1960.
    JE: So it planted a seed?
    TW: Yeah. That music was the way to go, for me, at that time.
Images, top to bottom:
Life Time original LP cover
Life Time GXK 8026—BST84180 OBI madness (LP, Masterpiece Selection 150)
Les Années Blue Note 854194 2 (2CD)




Sam Rivers (ts), Richard Davis (b-1,2), Gary Peacock (b), Anthony Williams (dr, Comp)
Life Time CDP 7 84180 2 erroneously lists Davis only on track 3.

{BST 84180; CDP 7-84180-2; RVG Edition 7243 4 99004 2 4; Blue Note 7243 4 96384 2 6;
"Tony Williams: Still The Rhythm Magician," Down Beat May 1, 1989}


    1964: (late)

    After a tour with Miles Davis, Rivers joined the Andrew Hill Quartet and went to California for an extended tour [Late July through August].
    Rivers then moved to New York in September 1964.
    [blogs.orlandosentinel.com/community_altamonte_blog]
    ———

    SR: But the thing is, there's always been this story out how advanced I was, that Miles wasn't happy with my style. It wasn't that at all.
    Miles was right there with it. He understood. He could hear what I was doing. It wasn't a problem at all. The thing was that he had already
    committed to Wayne Shorter. So the deal was that when Wayne left Art Blakey, I was supposed to go with Blakey, and it was supposed
    to be a trade like that. But I didn't want to go with Art Blakey. I went with Andrew Hill instead. So we went on tour with Andrew Hill,
    and that's the way it went down. It wasn't anything about me being much more advanced than Miles. Miles was just as advanced. In certain
    ways he wanted to produce his free stuff, which is what he did in Bitches Brew and everything. All these things are pretty much free over
    the static rhythm, like I mentioned before. So he wanted to make sure that I projected the music to the public, and reach a wider audience.
    As soon as I came to New York. That's what I came to New York for, to set up the band. I had a place, a rehearsal space downtown.
    A lot of musicians. I think I remember having the Brecker brothers in the band...
    Panken: Did you go to Bond Street right away?
    SR: No, that was much later [June, 1972]. I moved uptown. I had two six-room apartments on 124th Street. I had the whole top floor,
    12 rooms, so I could do a lot of things up there. I did something for the Canadian Broadcasting System with Cecil McBee and a lot of other
    musicians up in my studio. But I was rehearsing at the Marion McCloud School up there, long before...
    [Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997 www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php]
    ———


  • 64.10.00 - Sam Rivers (reeds), Jimmy Stevenson (b), Barry Altschul (dr), unknown others / The October Revolution, Cellar Cafe, NYC
    [Barry Altschul Interview, October 5, 1974, —WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 22, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

    Altschul: "I met [Sam Rivers] at Jimmy Stevenson's house in 1964... rehearsing a band [for the October Revolution]."
    —The October Revolution, Bill Dixon's four-day festival, led to the birth of The Jazz Composers' Guild and The Jazz Composer's Orchestra.

64.11.12 • Larry Young: Into Somethin'

1964: Blue Note BLP 4187 (mono LP); BST 84187 (stereo LP);
1983: K18P 9235—ST-84187 (LP, Ltd Edition, Blue Note Masterpiece Vol.2) Jpn;
1993: BST 84187 (LP, Ltd Edition, Rare Groove Series) Jpn;
1995: TOCJ-4187 (CD, Works 4100 Series) Jpn;
1995: CDP 7243 8 21734 2 7 (CD, Ltd Edition, Connoisseur); TOCJ-4187 (CD) Spn;
2000: TOCJ-9196 24-BIT (CD Ltd Edition, 24-Bit RVG) Jpn;
2005: TOCJ-6543 (CD, Ltd Edition, BN Best 1500 Series #143) Jpn;
2007: BLP 4187 (LP, Ltd Edition HQ-vinyl);
2012: Music Matters MMBST-84187 (2-LP, 45rpm, Ltd Edition, 180g vinyl);
2014: UCCQ-5063 (CD, Ltd Edition, The Masterworks) Jpn;
2016: Elemental Music ERLP 1048 (LP, 180g vinyl) Eur
  • Larry Young: The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Larry Young
    1991: Mosaic MD6-137 (6-CD, Ltd Edition 7,500);
    Mosaic MR9-137 (9-LP, Ltd Edition 7,500)
  • (V/A) So Blue, So Funky—Heroes of the Hammond
    1991: Blue Note CDP 7965632 (CD) Eur [+ BNZ 267, UK];
    TC-B4 96563 (CS) UK & Eur; B1-96563 (2-LP) [+ UK];
    1995: Blue Note/Capitol 0777 7 96563 2 5 (CD, "True Blue Reissue #5") Can
    [+ BNZ 267, UK]; CDP 0777 7 96563 2 5 (CD, retitle "Blue Funk");
    1999: 5168232 (CD, Jazz Heritage); 0777 7 96563 2 5 (CD)
  • (V/A) Le Paris Bleu
    1992: Blue Note CDP 7991002 (CD, mono) UK & Eur
  • Larry Young: The Art of Larry Young
    1992: Blue Note/Capitol CDP 0777 7 99177 2 3 (CD)
  • (V/A) Blue Note's Six Vital Organs—Home Of The Hammond
    1996: Blue Note 7243 8 53234 2 3 (CD, Blue Notables Vol. 12) Neth
  • (V/A) Have Guitar, Will Travel, featuring Grant Green
    1996: Blue Note TOCJ-6067 (CD) Jpn
  • Grant Green: Retrospective 1961-1966
    2002: Blue Note 7243 5 40851 2 3 (4-CD)
  • (V/A) Hip Hammond & Soulful Grooves
    2009: Blue Note/EMI 00946-357689-2-3 (2CD, BN Explosion) Eur

November 12, 1964 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Plaza De Toros (Green) [9:35]   master #1464, take 3
2. Tyrone (Young) [9:36]   master #1465, take 5
3. Backup (Young) [8:35]   master #1466, take 9
4. Paris Eye (Young) [6:38]   master #1467, take 10
5. Ritha (Young) [6:52]   master #1468, take 22
Blue Note's Six Vital Organs; So Blue, So Funky;
Six Vital Organs; and Hip Hammond & Soulful Grooves all have track 1.
The Art of Larry Young has track 2.
Retrospective 1961-1966 has tracks 1 and 2.
Have Guitar, Will Travel has track 3.
Le Paris Bleu has track 4.
Into Somethin' release CDP 7243 8 21734 2 7 (Connoisseur Series) and Mosaic's
The Complete Blue Note Recordings are the only versions that include track 5.
 All other releases had a trio version of this composition sans Rivers of 6:43.

Images, top to bottom:
Into Somethin' original LP cover
Mosaic's The Complete Blue Note Recordings...
Have Guitar, Will Travel

Larry Young (org), Sam Rivers (ts), Grant Green (g), Elvin Jones (dr)

{MD6-137; CDP 7243 8 21734 2 7; BN 7243 8 53234 2 3}





    1964:

    Panken: Bea Rivers, do you remember when Sam composed your tune, "Beatrice"?
    Bea Rivers: Yes, I do. It was one evening when Tony Williams came by to spend the evening, which he did...
    SR: Ron Carter, too, wasn't he there?
    Bea Rivers: Yeah, Ron Carter was there as well. But Tony Williams would come every day and play with Sam. One day he came in,
    and Sam said, "Tony, listen to this." Tony listened to it and he said, "Wow, what is the name of that?" He said, "I think I'll name it
    ‘Beatrice.’" So that's how it came about.
    Panken: That was composed for the date, Fuchsia Swing Song. It wasn't one of your older tunes?
    SR: I had already composed it. I hadn't planned to put it on the album. I had different music for the album, but it was a little too advanced
    for Alfred. He said he was going to cancel the date, so I went back and got other music. Fuchsia Swing Song was music I had done four
    or five years earlier. I really hadn't planned on recording that music. I thought it was much too old to record.
    Panken: Was that the music you had recorded in that quartet with Hal Galper, Henry Grimes, and Tony Williams?
    SR: Yes, that music.
    Panken: So the music performed on Fuchsia Swing Song was all music from 1959 and 1960.
    SR: Yeah, Fuchsia Swing Song was old music. I had other music, but Alfred... As a matter of fact, all the music that Tony did with Lifetime,
    he had big problems with Alfred Lion because Alfred didn't want to do it. He really couldn't hear it. It seems like the music that musicians
    have the hardest problem getting recorded is the music that withstands the ravages of time. It's the ones that last the longest. You know what
    I mean? So you have the hardest problem talking to the producers, and it ends up that this music twenty years later is still fresh-sounding.
    You still have to convince the producers, because they would prefer something that they heard yesterday...
    [Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997 www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php]
    ———

64.12.11 • Sam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song

1965: Blue Note BLP 4184 (mono LP); BST 84184 (stereo LP) 1965;
1973: BST-84184 (LP, Label w/ black b Blue Note logo) [+ white b BN logo];
1977: GXK 8020 (LP, Masterpiece Selection 150) Jpn;
1981: World Record Club R-09986 (LP) Aus [+ 1982 & '83];
1984: BST 84184 (LP) Fr; BN GXK8020 (LP) Jpn;
1985: BNJ 71044 (LP) Jpn;
1995: TOCJ-4184 (CD, BN Works 4100 Series) Jpn;
1998: TOCJ-4184 (CD, BN Collection) Spn;
2000: TOCJ-9232 (CD, 24-Bit RVG Ltd Edition mini-LP) Jpn;
2003: 7243 5 90413 2 2 (CD, Ltd Edition, Connoisseur) [+ 7243 5 93874 2 0, Eur];
2009: TOCJ-7168 (CD, RVG Edition) Jpn;
2011: Music Matters MMBST 84184
    (2-LP, 45rpm 180g vinyl gatefold, The Definitive 45 RPM Reissue Series);
2013: Heavenly Sweetness HS079VL (LP, 180g vinyl) Fr;
2005: TOCJ-6558 (CD, Ltd Edition, BN Best 1500 Series #158) Jpn;
2015: RivBea Music RB98810 (digital download);
2016: B0024362-01 (LP, 75th Anniversary Vinyl Initiative);
    UCCQ-9274 (CD, Ltd Edition, The Masterworks) Jpn
  • 40 Years of Jazz—The Best of Blue Note, Box 4
    1983: Blue Note/EMI 1A 158-83395/8 (4-LP) Neth
  • (V/A) The Amazing Shoichi Yui, Volume 2
    1985: Blue Note PRP-8269 (LP, Promo);
    1998: Toshiba EMI SPCD1607 (CD Sampler) Jpn
  • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    1996: Mosaic MD3-167 (3-CD, #ed Ltd Edition);
        Mosaic MQ5-167 (5-LP, #ed Ltd Edition)
      —1st Session [See also 65.05.21; 66.10.11; 67.03.17]
  • (V/A) Les Années Blue Note—The Avant Garde, 1963-67
    1996: 854194 2 (2CD) Fr;
    1998: Blue Note 7243 4 96384 2 6 (2CD, "The Blue Note Years Volume 5")
      —2nd Session [See also 64.08.21]
  • (V/A) The Blue Note Years—60 Years 1939/1999
    1998: Blue Note 7243 4 96427 2 0 (14-CD Boxed Set)
      —2nd Session [See also 64.08.21]
  • (V/A) A Blue Conception
    2001: Blue Note/EMI 534 2542 (CD) UK
  • (V/A) Jazz History, Volume 3: Avant Garde 1963-68
    2003: Blue Note —no release# (2CD) SoKor
  • (V/A) Blue Note Saxophone High-Lights
    2004: Blue Note 7243 874631 2 7 (3-CD) Eur
  • (V/A) The Best Of Blue Note at Umbria Jazz 1973/2005
    2005: EMI 0946 3 30973 2 2 (2CD) Italy
  • (V/A) Blue Note Trip—The 12CD Collection
    2005: Blue Note 74461 (12CD) Neth
  • (V/A) Blue Note Trip—Jazzanova—Lookin' Back/Movin' On
    2005: Blue Note/EMI 30498 (2CD, jewel) [+ digipak promo];
        BTE 30594 (2-LP); 74461 (2CD, BN Trip) Eur;
        Blue Note/EMI 74617 (2-LP) UK [+ Neth]; 74464 (2CD) Neth;
        Gala Records 094635798920 (2CD) Rus;
    2013: Music on Vinyl MOVLP742 (2-LP, 180g vinyl) Neth
  • (V/A) Lounge Trip Tempo
    unknown: MP3SERVICE no release# 062 1703541 (CDr, Unofficial) Rus
        (Boot of Blue Note Trip—Jazzanova, "Lookin' Back" section.
  • (V/A) Hans Mantel—Highlights Blue Note (A Groove Selection by...)
    2009: Blue Note 50999 6062832 9 (8-CD Box) Eur
  • (V/A) 100 Best Of Blue Note
    2011: EMI Music Belgium 50999 9053032 6 (10-CD Box Set) Eur
        [+ 50999 0270790 7]
  • (V/A) 100 Best Of Blue Note Volume 4
    2011: EMI Music Belgium 50999 0269682 9 (2CD) Eur
  • (V/A) Beat Takeshi & Blue Note
    2013: Universal Music UICZ-1494/5 (2CD) Jpn
  • (V/A) 75 Blue Note
    2014: Universal Classic Jazz France 535 5292 (5-CD) Fr
      —2nd Session [See also 64.08.21]
  • (V/A) Blue Note Saxophone Tracks Vol. 2
    Blue Note 062 1703541 (LP) Grc unknown

December 11, 1964 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

 1. Fuchsia Swing Song [6:00]   master #1487, take 3
 2. Cyclic Episode [6:55]   master #1488, take 6
 3. Luminous Monolith [6:28]   master #1488, take 10
 4. Luminous Monolith [6:36]  alternate take, take 12
 5. Ellipsis [7:39]   master #1490, take 15
 6. Downstairs Blues Upstairs [8:06]  alternate take 1, take 17
 7. Downstairs Blues Upstairs [7:44]  alternate take 2, take 18
 8. Downstairs Blues Upstairs [7:46]  alternate take 3, take 19
 9. Downstairs Blues Upstairs [5:31]   master #1491, take 20
10. Beatrice [6:10]   master #1492, take 23
Fuchsia Swing Song has tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 9, and 10.
 Mosaic's The Complete Blue Note... recordings, and Fuchsia Swing Song releases
 7243 5 90413 2 2 and 7243 5 93874 2 0 (US + European Connoisseur Series);
 TOCJ-7168 (Japanese RVG Edition); and UCCQ-9274 (Japanese Ltd Edition),
 are the only versions that have all 10 tracks.
The Amazing Shoichi Yui has a brief 1:21 excerpt of track 1.
Beat Takeshi and A Blue Conception have track 1.
A Blue Conception has track 2.
40 Years of Jazz; Les Années Blue Note—The Avant Garde, 1963-67;
The Blue Note Years, Volume Five; 100 Best Of Blue Note;
100 Best Of Blue Note Volume 4; and 60 Years 1939/1999 all have track 3.
Umbria Jazz 1973/2005 has track 9.
Blue Note Trip—Jazzanova; Blue Note Trip 12CD Collection;
Lounge Trip Tempo;  Highlights Blue Note; Saxophone High-Lights;
75 Blue Note;  and Saxophone Tracks Vol. 2 have track 10.

Images, top to bottom:
Fuchsia Swing Song original LP cover
1981 Australian release World Record Club R-09986 (LP)
2003 European release 7243 5 93874 2 0 (Connoisseur CD) tray liner
The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions on Mosaic
The Amazing Shoichi Yui compilation CD.

Sam Rivers (ts, Comp), Jaki Byard (p), Ron Carter (b), Anthony Williams (dr)





{MD3-167; MQ5-167; Blue Note 96384; BN 90413; Blue Note Discography, Cuscuna & Ruppli; random web sources}


1965 : : :


  • 65.02.28 - Jazz Composer's Guild Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts), Marion Brown, Lee Konitz, Jimmy Lyons, and John Tchicai (as), Steve Lacy (ss),
    Fred Pirtle (bar), Mike Mantler (tp), Joseph Orange and Roswell Rudd (tb), Buell Neidlinger and Alan Silva (b),
    Lowell Davidson and Carla Bley (p), Paul Motian (dr) / Contemporary Center, NYC
    —1. Radio (Carla Bley); 2. Communications no. 4 (Mantler)
    [Dixonia, a Bio-discography of Bill Dixon, compiled by Ben Young, August 1998, Greenwood Press—Producer p.362 U65-0228]

65.04.03 • Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue

1965: Blue Note BLP 4198 (mono LP); BST 84198 (stereo LP);
1967: BLP-4198/BST-84198 (LP) [+ variant title font above spindle];
1972: 84198 (LP w/ 84198 on cover, ST-84198 back, BST-84198 labels);
1973: BST-84198 (LP, with BLP-4198/BST-84198 on back);
1975: BST-84198 (LP, black BN logo on labels) [+ 1977 w/ white BN logo];
1978: GXK 8024 (LP, Masterpiece Selection 150) Jpn;
1987: CDP 7 46537 2 (CD); D 112556 (CD, BMG Club);
    BLJ 84198 (LP, MetalMaster) [+ Fr LP w/ blue header on spine];
1995: CDP 7 46537 2 (CD, Collector's Choice); TOCJ-4198 (CD, Works 4100) Jpn;
2002: 7243 5 35586 2 8 (CD, RVG Edition) [+ UK & Eur];
2003: TOCJ-9367 (CD, 24-Bit mini-LP RVG Edition) Jpn;
2005: BLP 4198 (LP);
2008: TOCJ-7178 (CD, RVG Edition) Jpn;
2013: Elemental Music ERLP 1003 (LP, Ltd Edition, 180g vinyl) Eur;
2015: UCCQ-5114 (CD, Ltd Edition, The Masterworks) Jpn
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Spiral
    1979: Blue Note LT-996 (LP, BN Classic); LBR 1029 (LP, "The Jazz File") UK;
    31C 052 82960 (LP, BN Classic) Brz;
    1981: GXK 8178 (LP, "Unissued Masters, Part 2") Jpn;
    2009: LT-996 (LP, Reissue);
    2012: TOCJ-50280 (CD, Ltd Edition, BN Classic, BNLT 999)
  • (V/A) Blue Note Sampler Vol. 3
    1980: Blue Note/United Artists UALP21 (LP, Promo) UK
  • (V/A) Pop #4—Jazz Vol. 2
    1996: Tidningen Pop POP 004 (CD, Promo only) Swd
        (Tidningen Pop subscribers only, very Ltd Edition)
  • Bobby Hutcherson: The Best of the Blue Note Years
    2001: Blue Note 31325 (CD, 24-Bit) [+ UK 531 3252 and Fr PM 516]
  • (V/A) A Blue Conception
    2001: Blue Note/EMI 534 2542 (CD) UK
  • (V/A) That's Blue + Painters Talking—Sidetracks Vol. 7
    2006: Blue Note/EMI Belgium 0946 3770152 2 (CD) Bel
  • (V/A) Rollins' Choice
    2010: Blue Note 50999 9177792 8 (2CD) Neth
        (A Henry Rollins'-choice compilation.)

April 3, 1965 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Catta (Hill) [7:15]   master #1556, take 3
2. Jasper (Hill) [8:27]   master #1557, take 11
3. Idle While (Chambers) [6:35]   master #1558, take 18
4. Ghetto Lights (Hill) [6:12]   master #1559, take 24
5. Les Noirs Marchant (Hill) [6:35]   master #1560, take 29
6. Dialogue (Chambers) [9:58]   master #1561, take 30
Dialogue has tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
 Only 1987 releases CDP 7 46537 2 and D 112556 (BMG Club);
 1995 release CDP 7 46537 2 (Collector's Choice); the 2002 RVG
 and 2003 TOCJ-9367 24-Bit RVG Editions; 2008 RVG reissue TOCJ-717;
 and Masterworks UCCQ-5114 contain all six tracks.
That's Blue + Painters Talking has track 1.
Spiral has track 2.
Sampler Vol.3 has a [3:57] excerpt of track 2.
Pop #4 and The Best of the Blue Note Years have track 4.
A Blue Conception and Rollins' Choice have track 5.

Images, top to bottom:
Dialogue original LP cover
Spiral 1981 Japanese reissue GXK 8178
Spiral 2012 Japanese reissue TOCJ-50280

Bobby Hutcherson (vb, mba-6), Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, ss-4, bcl-2,4,6, fl-3,5)
Freddie Hubbard (tp), Andrew Hill (p), Richard Davis (b), Joe Chambers (dr)

{D112556}





  • 65.04.09 to 04.11 - Jazz Composer's Orchestra / Contemporary Center, NYC
    [www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/McIntyre/mkm-disc.htm; Dixonia p.366]
    Conflicting information exists regarding workshop performances/rehearsals held between April 9 and 11, 1965. Participation
    of Bob Zottola (t), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), and Tony Williams (dr) is uncertain, but mentioned by Ben Young in Dixonia.

    —Session on 65.04.10 released as Jazz Composer's Orchestra: Communication, Fontana 661 011 ZY (LP).
    Personnel: Carla Bley and Bill Dixon (Cond), Bob Carducci (ts), Robin Kenyatta and Jimmy Lyons (as), Makanda Ken McIntyre (as, bcl, fl),
    Steve Lacy (ss), Fred Pirtle (bar), Perry Robinson (cl), Ray Codrington and Michael Mantler (tp), Roswell Rudd (tb), Paul Bley (p),
    Kent Carter and Steve Swallow (b), Barry Altschul (dr).

65.05.10 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—51:15]

May 10, 1965 / WGBH-TV, Boston
WGBH-TV Broadcast; WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 21, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

 announcement by host Randy Weston [0:14]  (over start of track 1)
1. H.I.T. (Galper) [6:52]
2. Beatrice (Rivers) [8:11]
3. Dance of the Tripedal (Rivers) [10:34]  (incomplete, fades out)
 Interview with Hal Galper by WKCR's Ben Young on May 18, 2007 [25:38]
—Track 3 has "Tripadoll" on the acetate label.

Date given during 2007 interview as "probably 1963, a Sunday afternoon...," but sound files posted later
at Galper's website are dated May 10, 1965, which was a Monday.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Hal Galper (p), Larry "Lanky" Richardson (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{CDr; www.halgalper.com/18_interviews/riversinterview.htm; "unissued acetate in possession of Hal Galper," WKCR Radio Broadcast}


65.05.21 • Sam Rivers: Contours

1965: Blue Note BLP 4206 (mono LP); BST 84206 (stereo LP);
1967: BST 84206 (LP, Liberty Label); 1973: BLP-4206/84206 (LP) Jpn;
1977: BST-84206 (LP, Reissue); 1978: BNST 36509 (LP) It;
2004: 73163 (CD, Ltd Edition, Connoisseur) [+ 66744 Connoisseur UK and Eur];
2010: Heavenly Sweetness HSV037VL (LP, 180g vinyl) Fr;
2015: Blue Note UCCQ-5116 (CD, Ltd Edition, The Masterworks) Jpn;
2019: B0029413-01 (180g vinyl LP, Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series)
  • (V/A) Out of the Blue: The Art of the Improvisers
    1995: Blue Note CDP 8354142 (CD) UK;
  • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    1996: Mosaic MD3-167 (3-CD, #ed Ltd Edition);
        Mosaic MQ5-167 (5-LP, #ed Ltd Edition)
      —2nd Session [See also 64.12.11; 66.10.11; 67.03.17]

May 21, 1965 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Point of Many Returns [9:18]   master #1582, take 6
2. Dance of the Tripedal [10:06]   master #1583, take 10
3. Mellifluous Cacophony [8:57]   master #1584, take 12
4. Euterpe [11:42]   master #1585, take 18
5. Mellifluous Cacophony [9:00]  alternate take, take 25
Contours has tracks 1 through 4.
 Mosaic's The Complete Blue Note... recordings, and Contours Connoisseur
 releases 73163 and 66744; and Blue Note UCCQ-5116 are the only versions
 that have all five tracks.
The Art of the Improvisers has track 1.

—Master #1584 is misspelled "...Cacaphony" on original issue.

"I got my drums stolen on the way to that session. I was in a five-story walk-up
in a not-too-high-class neighborhood. By the time I got my snare drum down,
the rest of my set was gone. I had to scramble and get another set, which came
from Jimmy Cobb..."
—Joe Chambers [John Corbett, Down Beat Jan 1, 1997 Vol.64 No.1 p.59]

Images, top to bottom:
Contours BLP-4206/84206 1973 Japanese reissue LP cover
The Art of the Improvisers 1995 UK compilation
Contours BLP-4206/84206 1973 Japanese reissue OBI
—(Front sleeve has 84206; back has BLP-4206/84206; OBI has BST-84026)

Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,5, ss-1, fl-4, Comp), Freddie Hubbard (tp),
Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Joe Chambers (dr)


{MD3-167; MQ5-167; CDP8-35414-2; 7243 4 73163 2 6; B0029413-01; Blue Note Discography, Cuscuna & Ruppli}


okay


  • 65.05.23 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b), Anthony Williams (dr) /
    Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society, Madison Club, Baltimore, MD [Jeff Zeitz posting to Miles-list 98.01.10]

65.08.12 • Anthony Williams: Spring

1965: Blue Note BST 84216 (LP) Fr;
1966: BLP 4216 (mono LP); BST 84216 (LP);
    BLP-4216/BST-84216 (LP, 2nd pressing);
1970: BN 84216 (LP, Liberty Records, with label BIEM mark);
1973: BLP-4216/BST-84216 (LP);
1977: GXK 8007 (LP, Masterpiece Selection 150) Jpn
    [+ LP w/ OBI, "100 Years of Recorded Sound"];
1985: BST 84216 (LP, Cadre Rouge Audiophile Edition, MetalMaster) [+ Fr];
    BNJ 71075 (LP, 4000 Series Original Collection 100) Jpn;
    SGD-70 (LP w/ OBI, Gold of G.D. 100) Jpn;
1986: CP32-5238 (CD, Ltd Edition, CD Super 50) Jpn;
1987: CDP 7 46135 2 (CD);
1997: TOCJ-4216 (CD, BN Works 4200 Series) Jpn;
2000: TOCJ-9233 (CD, Ltd Edition, 24-Bit RVG mini-LP) Jpn;
2009: 61538 (CD, RVG Edition) [+ Eur];
2014: BST 84216 (LP, 75th Anniversary Vinyl Initiative)
    [+ Eur, 180g vinyl + mp3, "Back to Blue"];
2015: UCCQ-5117 (CD, Ltd Edition, The Masterworks) Jpn;
unknown: BST 84 216 K (LP) Ger
  • (V/A) Blue Bossa—Blue Note Special 1963-1965
    1982: K18P 9128 (LP) Jpn
  • Herbie Hancock: Herbie Hancock
    1993: Musica Jazz/EMI 4789372 (Musica Jazz CD) It
        Supplement to Musica Jazz Magazine, Issue No.12 December 1993
  • (V/A) Hans Mantel—Highlights Blue Note (A Groove Selection by...)
    2009: Blue Note 50999 6062832 9 (8-CD Box) Eur

August 12, 1965 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Extras [8:07]   master #1642, take 2
2. Tee [10:25]   master #1643, take 4
3. From Before [6:50]   master #1644, take 6
4. Love Song [8:22]   master #1645, take 18
Blue Bossa and Herbie Hancock: Blue Note have track 3.
Highlights Blue Note has track 4.

Images, top to bottom:
Spring original LP cover
GXK 8007, Japanese LP release from 1977, Masterpiece Selection 150
+ OBI

Sam Rivers (ts), Wayne Shorter (ts-1,2,3), Herbie Hancock (p-3,4),
Gary Peacock (b), Anthony Williams (dr, Comp)

{CDP 7 46135 2; amicus.collectionscanada.gc.ca, AMICUS No. 33954657}





  • Late 1965:

    George Benson: "After I left [Jack] McDuff's band in 1965, I was promised another gig with the organist from Philadelphia, Don Patterson.
    But he forgot he even hired me. I drove all the way from Pittsburgh to New Jersey and when I got there for the gig he said, 'George, what are
    you doing here?' And I said 'Man, you don't remember telling me to show up this evening, that you were going to start a gig and that you
    hired me?' And he said 'Man, I forgot all about it.' Instead he had hired Sam Rivers, the great saxophone player. So I didn't contest that.
    I left it alone. I sent my new wife home, back to Pittsburgh by bus and she cried, and I told her, 'This is fine because it forces me to do
    what I know I should do... start my own band.'"
    [Downbeat feature Nov 2001 p.50]
    ———


1966 : : :


  • 1966:

    Panken: For how long before doing this had you felt this way? I'm curious about how your academic background
    and cultural background as a German led to some of the pedagogical concepts at CMS.
    Karl Berger: What really got me going on this, I started teaching at the New School. John Cage had a course there, and he left,
    and I applied, and funny enough, I got the job, and I started an improvisation class there. I realized everybody had timing problems,
    so I started to get into time, beat-for-beat attention and all that. One of our mainstays at that time [when I came here in '66] was a job
    with Young Audiences. There was a group led by the drummer Horacee Arnold, and there was Reggie Workman, Sam Rivers, myself,
    and Mike Lawrence was the trumpet player—and we would go to all the schools, playing for sixth-graders.
    [Berger, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM NYC, October 24, 2008, tedpanken.wordpress.com]
    ———


  • 1965-66:

    Galper reunited with Rivers in the mid-1960s at Connolly's in Boston and the Club 47 in Cambridge, joined by Steve Ellington on drums.
    [Richard Vacca, "Hal Galper Live at the Stable, 1962" Mar 8 2017, www.troystreet.com]
    ———


  • 66.01.09 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss fl), Hal Galper (p), Phil Morrison (b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Club 47, Cambridge, MA [Ebay poster listing; The Boston Globe Mar 2 p.54; Club 47 January-February schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    "Periodically appear here..."
  • 66.01.30 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Club 47, Cambridge, MA [Club 47 January-February schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    "Periodically appear here..."
  • 66.02.25 + 02.26 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss fl), Hal Galper (p), probably Phil Morrison (b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    The Loft Coffee House, Boston, MA [The Justice Feb 23 p.4]

66.03.07 • Sam Rivers: Involution

1975: Blue Note BN-LA453-H2 (2-LP, BN Re-Issue Series);
    BST 84 491/92 XC (2-LP, BN Re-Issue Series) Ger
  —1st Session [See also 67.03.17]
  • (V/A) Radio NOVA—explore Blue Note
    2008: Blue Note/EMI 2162092 (CD) Fr
  • (V/A) Everyday Blue Note
    2010: Blue Note TOCJ-66531 (CD) Jpn
  • Andrew Hill: The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions (1963-1966)
    1995: Mosaic MQ10-161 (10-LP 180g vinyl, #ed Ltd Edition 5,000);
        MD7-161 (7-CD, #ed Ltd Edition 5,000)
      —1st Session [See also 67.03.17]
  • Andrew Hill: Change
    2007: Blue Note 85190 (CD, Ltd Edition, Connoisseur Series)
        [+ Blue Note/EMI, Eur];
        Blue Note/BMG D 171639 (CD, Ltd Edition, Connoisseur Series, Club)

March 7, 1966 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Violence [11:04]   master #1708, take 1
2. Violence [7:00]  alternate take, take 3
3. Hope [7:15]   master #1709, take 5
4. Illusion [5:52]   master #1710, take 7
5. Desire [6:31]   master #1712, take 16
6. Desire [8:30]  alternate take, take 18
Involution has tracks 1, 3, 4, and 5.
Radio NOVA and Everyday Blue Note have track 4.

This was actually an Andrew Hill Quartet session that was issued on this double LP
under Rivers' name. "According to the Blue Note discography, Involution was
originally the title of the unissued Hill session. Catalogue number for this would
have been Blue Note BLP 4233, BLP indicating that [both] a mono and a stereo
issue were planned." —Gerritt Stolte

Images:
Involution original LP cover
Andrew Hill's Change, Connoisseur Series CD

Sam Rivers (ts), Andrew Hill (p, hps-1,2,3 under bass solos, Comp),
Walter Booker (b), J.C. Moses (dr)

{BN-LA453-H2; MD7-161; MD10-161}




  • 66.04.26 to 04.30 - Andrew Hill Quartet: Hill (p), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Don Garrett (b), Oliver Johnson (dr) /
    Both-And, Oakland, CA [Oakland Tribune Mar 31 p.28F + Apr 24 p.7EN + Apr 27 p.28 + May 1 p.5EN, for various details and aspects...]
    "An extended engagement."

  • okay San Francisco Examiner
     May 1 Datebook p.19

  • 66.05.03 to 05.07 - Andrew Hill Quartet: as above / Both-And, Oakland, CA [ibid]
    "Sounds of fury from instrument and voice bounced around the Both/And on Divisadero last night... Unfortunately, for this engagement
    Hill brought along only reed performer Sam Rivers with him from the east. Though local bassist Don Garrett and drummer Oliver Johnson
    are working more smoothly with Hill and Rivers than they were last week, the depth and imaginative ensembles of the Blue Note recordings
    aren't captured by this current quartet... The group didn't really solidify until some young rebels started reading verse from Soulbook 1,
    an outspoken Negro activist publication, through the microphone." —San Francisco Examiner, makes no mention of the poet's
    identities, or whether this was a one-off occurence.
    [San Francisco Examiner May 5 p.39; San Francisco Chronicle May 1 Datebook p.19]
  • 66.05.10 to 05.14 - Andrew Hill Quartet: as above / Both-And, Oakland, CA [ibid]
  • 66.05.17 to 05.21 - Andrew Hill Quartet / Both-And, Oakland, CA
    [San Francisco Examiner May 5 p.39]
  • 66.06-07.00 - Sam Rivers Quartet: unknown, probably Rivers (ts, ss, fl) with Hal Galper (p), Herbie Lewis (b), and Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Connolly's, Roxbury, MA [The Boston Globe Jun 30 p.24]
    "Sam Rivers and his quartet in action this week..."

  • 66.07.02 - Bill Dixon Quintet: Dixon (tp, flg), Ken McIntyre (as, bcl), Louis Brown (ts), Bob Cunningham (b), Tom Price (dr),
    Judith Dunn (dance) / Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI
    Rivers not on this date:

    In the program documentation part [on] p.271 the lineup is Dixon, Rivers (ts and bcl), Silva, Murray—that is, missing McIntyre.
    Two different lineups have been listed for this date: [Audience Recording] ‘Pomegranate Parts 1-6 (Dixon) [38:27]’
    I got this recording on a reel tape many years ago (1980?)...
    The info with the tape was Dixon, McIntyre, Brown, Cunningham, Price—which I think is inaccurate especially re: bass and drummer.
    I checked the date in Burt Goldblatt's book (Newport Jazz Festival / Illustrated History), and there are mistakes there as well:
    On p.132 briefly describing the session, B.G. writes "One very extended number called ‘Pomegranate’.
    Aside from Ken McIntyre on bass clarinet and alto sax nothing much seemed to happen..."
    —Lukas Lindenmaier

    "Just checked interview with Bill Dixon and he confirms what was evidently on your reel." [Dixon, McIntyre, Brown, Cunningham, Price] —Clifford Allen

    {Dixonia, a Bio-discography of Bill Dixon, compiled by Ben Young, August 1998, Greenwood Press—Dixon-Dunn p.98 R66-0673;
    CDr; Lukas Lindenmaier 05.09.11; Clifford Allen 14.07.05;}



    66.08.21 - (CANCELLED) "Due to absence of Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers..." /
    Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society, 4:00pm, Madison Club, Baltimore, MD [Baltimore Afro-American Aug 20 p.22]


  • 66.08.30 to 09.05 - Sam Rivers Quartet: (no personnel listed) probably Rivers (ts, ss, fl) with Hal Galper (p),
    Herbie Lewis (b), and Steve Ellington (dr) / 9:30pm-4:00am (8:30-3:00 on Saturday), Slugs' Saloon, NYC
    [The New York Times Aug 30, 1966 p.34; Daily News Aug 31 p.76; Slugs' poster 66.08.30 to 10.09]


66.10.11 • Sam Rivers: A New Conception

1966: Blue Note BLP 4249 (mono LP); BST 84249 (stereo LP);
1970: BST 84249 (LP, Reissue);
2011: BLP 4249/84249 (LP) Eur;
2012: Heavenly Sweetness HSV 054 (LP, 180g vinyl) Fr;
2014: Blue Note TYCJ-81055 (CD, Ltd Edition, The Masterworks) Jpn;
2017: UCCQ-9309 (CD, Ltd Edition, The Masterworks, Top 50) Jpn
  • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    1996: Mosaic MD3-167 (3-CD, #ed Ltd Edition);
        Mosaic MQ5-167 (5-LP, #ed Ltd Edition)
       —3rd Session [See also 64.12.11; 65.05.21; 67.03.17]
  • AFRTS Basic Musical Library, P Series
    1968: AFRTS P-10644 (LP)
        Armed Forces Radio and Television Service
        Shelf no.LPA 23967 / Genre(s) Popular music—1961-1970

October 11, 1966 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. I'll Never Smile Again (Ruth Lowe) [5:55]   master #1783, take 5
 The Touch of Your Lips  (unissued)
2. That's All (Haymes, Brandt) [5:37]   master #1784, take 17
3. When I Fall In Love (Heyman, Young) [5:48]   master #1785, take 18
4. What a Difference a Day Makes (María Grever) [6:17]   master #1786, take 21
5. Detour Ahead (Ellis, Carter, Frigo) [5:08]   master #1787, take 23
6. Temptation (Brown, Freed) [7:36]   master #1788, take 24
7. Secret Love (Fain, Webster) [7:31]   master #1789, take 25
AFRTS Basic Musical Library has tracks 1, 3, and 7.

—Discography in Mosaic booklet lists Master #1875 as take 17
 and omits Master #1784 alltogether.

Images:
A New Conception 2012 release Heavenly Sweetness HSV 054
OBI labels on Japanese releases UCCQ-9309 (2017) and TYCJ-81055 (2014)

Sam Rivers (ts-1,4,5,6,7, ss-1,3,5,6,7, fl-6,7,8), Hal Galper (p),
Herbie Lewis (b), Steve Ellington (dr)
—AFRTS P-10644 has "Steve Ellinton".

{MD3-167; MQ5-167; Library of Congress Database}




  • 66.10.23 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts), Hal Galper (p), Herb Lewis (b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society, Madison Club, Baltimore, MD [home.earthlink.net/~eskelin/leftbank.html]

  • On The Left Bank Jazz Society: (65.05.23; 66.08.21; 66.10.23)
    "Every concert was recorded by the Society... I've often wondered what happened to those tapes."
    —Bill Jadios rec.music.bluenote
    "Apparently, there was a rift between Vernon Welsh, the longtime head of the group, and the rest of the ‘board.’
    As a result, I'm told that the tapes (which Welsh recorded) are locked up somewhere at Morgan State University."
    —Dave Holmes rec.music.bluenote


1967 : : :


  • 67.00.00 (unknown dates) - Jay Clayton, together with her husband, percussionist Frank Clayton, presented Jazz at the Lispenard Loft
    in their home in SoHo in about 1967. "We would present concerts right there. I had a piano, I had a sound system, we would make little
    flyers, and we presented concerts." They would charge $1.25 for people to come hear music. Sam Rivers, Cecil McBee, Joanne Brackeen,
    Dave Liebman, Pete Yellin, Hal Galper, Jeanne Lee, Bob Moses, Junie Booth, John Gilmore, and Jane Getz were among the featured musicians.
    [www.jazzitalia.ne; "Jeannette talks to Jay Clayton," Jeannette Lambert Video Interviews]

67.02.10 • Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select #16

2005: Mosaic Records MS-016 (3-CD, Ltd Edition, Mosaic Select)
    —1st Session [See also 67.10.31]

February 10, 1967 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Prevue [6:14]   master #1834, take 2
2. Yomo [10:02]   master #1835, take 5
3. I [7:30]   master #1836, take 8
4. Awake [7:05]   master #1837, take 9
5. Now [4:40]   master #1838, take 11
Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,4,5, ss-1, fl-3), Robin Kenyatta (as),
Andrew Hill (p-2,3,4,5; org-1,2, Comp), Cecil McBee (b),
Nadi Qamar (kalimba-2, African drum-2,3, perc-1,5), Teddy Robinson (dr)
—Nadi Qamar aka Spaulding Givens

{Mosaic Select #16 MS-016; Blue Note Discography, Cuscuna & Ruppli}



  • 67.02.15 - The Urbanites: Sam Rivers (ts), Freddie Hubbard (tp), Andrew Hill (p), Scotty Holt (b), Joe Chambers (dr) /
    Countee Cullen Regional Branch, The New York Public Library, NYC [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
    —"Program: 1. Compulsion (Fox Trot); 2. Lust (Latin); 3. Legacy (Ballad); Les Noir Merchant (Blues);
     Intermission; 5. Cantar (Ballad); 6. Moonchile (Ballad); 7. Heritage (Blues)"

67.02.20 • Nat Jones Quintet [Rehearsal Recordings]

February 20, 1967 / Live at 9 Great Jones Street, New York City

Afternoon Session:
 1-2. Peyote   2 takes
 3-9. The Night Song   7 takes
Evening Session:
10-14. Complicity   5 takes
15-18. You Had Better Listen   4 takes
19-23. The Night We Called It a Day   5 takes
24-25. Torati Road   2 takes
26-27. All For You   2 takes
"This was a rehearsal for the Jimmy Owens record that came out on Atlantic (sans Rivers). Both sets were rehearsals for that record...
Not all the guys that were there for the rehearsals/jams did the record."

Nat Jones (p), Sam Rivers and Bennie Maupin (reeds), Cecil McBee (b), Sonny Brown (dr)

{Anonymous 06.01.01}


67.03.17 • Sam Rivers: Involution

1975: Blue Note BN-LA453-H2 (2-LP, BN Re-Issue Series);
    BST 84 491/92 XC (2-LP, BN Re-Issue Series) Ger
  —2nd Session [See also 66.03.07]
  • (V/A) Blue Note Re-Issue Sampler
    1976: Blue Note SP-128 (LP, Re-Issue Series) [+ Can, UK]
  • Sam Rivers: Dimensions and Extensions
    1986: Blue Note BST 84261 (LP) [+ Fr]; 4BN 84261 (CS);
    1988: CDP 7 84261 2 (CD);
    1995: CDP 7 84261 2 (CD, Reissue, Ltd Edition BN Collector's Choice);
    2000: BCD 0054 (CD, Ltd Edition mini-LP, RVG Remaster Promo ONLY) Jpn;
    2008: 50999 2 15364 2 7 (CD, RVG Edition) [+ Eur];
    2014: UCCQ-5009 (CD, 24 Bit Ltd Edition, The Masterworks) Jpn
  • Sam Rivers: The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions
    1996: Mosaic MD3-167 (3-CD, #ed Ltd Edition);
        Mosaic MQ5-167 (5-LP, #ed Ltd Edition)
       —4th Session [See also 64.12.11; 65.05.21; 66.10.11]
  • Sam Rivers: Samthology
    2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
       —2nd Session: [See also 61.12.14; 71.02.13; 73.08.03; 73.11.10; 74.03.04; 75.12.09; 78.08.08; 79.12.04+05; 92.01.12]

March 17, 1967 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Paean [5:21]   master #1858, take 10
2. Precis [5:18]   master #1859, take 20
3. Helix [5:29]   master #1860, take 25
4. Effusive Melange [5:47]   master #1861, take 32
5. Involution [7:10]   master #1862, take 33
6. Afflatus [6:25]   master #1863, take 34
Blue Note Re-Issue Sampler has track 3.
Samthology has track 2.

"This material was previously released in 1976 as part of a double album
Involution (BN-LA453-H2). It is now issued here, for the first time, with
the cover art and catalogue number, as originally intended by Blue Note in 1967."

Images:
Re-Issue Sampler LP cover
Dimensions and Extensions original LP cover

Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,4,6, ss-1, fl-5, Comp), James Spaulding (as, fl),
Donald Byrd (tp), Julian Priester (tb), Cecil McBee (b), Steve Ellington (dr)



{BN-LA453-H2; MD3-167; MQ5-167; 4BN 84261; Samthology; Blue Note Discography, Cuscuna & Ruppli}


  • 67.03.19 - Andrew Hill Octet: Hill (p, as, Comp), Sam Rivers and Robin Kenyatta (reeds), Richard Davis (b),
    Nadi Qumar (African drum, perc), unknown (cga), two unknown (dr) / 4:30pm (actual start around 8:30), Judson Hall, NYC
     "The concert was scheduled for 4:30 in the afternoon. Those who arrived on time were advised that the concert had been postponed until 6:30.
     Those who returned at 6:30 waited more than an hour and a half before Nadi Qumar... came out on stage and began strumming and plucking
     an instrument made of several sets of amplified strings set in a round frame. ... By the time he had finished one long selection, Mr. Hill
     and his friends were ready to start.
     The music played by this octet was by Mr. Hill, and bore such titles as ‘Unity’ and ‘Now’... Even when the four drummers were not
     intentionally placed in the musical foreground, they maintained such a tumultous cannonading that they buried Mr. Hill's occasional passes
     at the piano, and only the shrillest bleats of the saxophonists could rise above the accompanying thunder. The only soloist who was granted
     surcease from the percussionists was Mr. Davis, the bassist.
     The concert was presumably intended to serve as a showcase for Mr. Hill as both pianist and composer. From his recordings, it is evident
     that he has much to offer in both fields. But only the merest hint of this could be gleaned from the clamorous performances that were
     offered at Judson Hall."
     [John S. Wilson "Hill and Friends Wail at Judson" The New York Times Mar 20, 1967 p.26]

  • 67.06.00 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss fl), Hal Galper (p), unknown, perhaps Herb Lewis (b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Connolly's, Roxbury, MA [William Buchanan "On The Beat" The Boston Globe Jun 9 p.35]
    "Tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers couldn't make the Wednesday night show on Channel 2, but he's playing nightly with his group at Connolly's..."

67.10.31 • Andrew Hill: Mosaic Select #16

2005: Mosaic Records MS-016 (3-CD, Ltd Edition, Mosaic Select)
  —2nd Session [See also 67.02.10]

October, 31 1967 / Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

1. Oriba (first version) [5:38]   master #1977, take 3
2. Mother's Tale [9:27]   master #1978, take 7
3. Enamorado [6:07]   master #1979, take 14
4. For Blue People Only [9:34]   master #1980, take 15
5. Oriba (second version) [6:12]   master #1981, take 20
—"Oriba (second version)" was listed in previous discographies as "Requiem for Truth,"
 and has been corrected for the Mosiac Select release.

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,4,5, ss-2,3), Robin Kenyatta (as), Woody Shaw (tp), Howard Johnson (bar-hn-4, tu-1,2,3,5),
Andrew Hill (p, Comp), Herbie Lewis (b), Teddy Robinson (dr)

{Mosaic Select #16 MS-016; Blue Note Discography, Cuscuna & Ruppli}


  • 67.11.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: unknown personnel /
    5:00pm, East Village, NYC [Christopher Carville 14.07.27]

  • 67.11.18 Andrew Hill Septet: Hill (p),
    Sam Rivers and Bobby Brown (reeds), Woody Shaw (tp),
    unknown others (See 67.10.31) / Village Theater, NYC
    [The New York Times Nov 20, 1967 p.58]
  • okay

1968 : : :


  • 68.02.10 - Sam Rivers, Bill Barron, and Bennie Maupin (reeds), + "All-Star Rhythm Section" / 5:00pm, Slugs', NYC
    [gig poster, Carville 14.07.30]

68.00.00 (1) • Bill Dixon Free Conservatory Orchestra [Dixonia Archival Recording—82:10]

unknown date, 1968 / University of the Streets, New York City

—"Much of 1968"...
1. Large Orchestra Piece 1 [29:00]
2. V + VI rehearsal reel [17:50]
3. "XP" (untitled) [18:00]
4. "XY" (untitled) [17:20]
—"XP" and "XY" were given for identification only; the other titles are on original tape boxes.

"Dixon was involved in the UOTS for around a year, perhaps beginning in late 1967 and continuing into the fall of 1968... The music above comes
from rehearsals... At least "XP" and "XY"—and possibly all of these pieces—were recorded in the first quarter of 1968." —Dixonia—Dixon-Dunn p.125

Bill Dixon (tp, Leader, Comp), Arthur Doyle (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Leopanar Witlarge (as), Monty Waters (b-natural ss), Dave Chamberlain (ss, fl),
Marzette Watts (bcl), Sonny Clark (bar), Leo Jones and Jacques Coursil (tp), Clifford Thornton (cor), Richard Dunbar (frh), Sonny Simmons (enhn),
Sam Burtis, Wesley Whittaker (tb), John Buckingham (tu), Warren Chiasson (vb), Susan Elrauch (mezzo-soprano voc)

{All info from Dixonia, a Bio-discography of Bill Dixon, compiled by Ben Young, August 1998, Greenwood Press—Dixon-Dunn p.124 R68-0000}


68.00.00 (2) • Bill Dixon Free Conservatory Orchestra [BR—46:14]

unknown date, 1968 / (probably) University of the Streets, New York City

1. unknown title [43:02]   (possibly "Intents and Purposes," mentioned in interview)
 Dixon interview segment [3:12]   (incomplete, cuts in, cuts out)
Bill Dixon (tp, Leader, Comp), Sam Rivers (reeds), others possibly as in 68.00.00 (1) above.

{CDr}


  • 68.06.15 - Sam Rivers & his 12-Piece Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Monty Waters, Roland Alexander, Bill Barron, and Hal Batch (reeds),
    Mike Ridley, Martin Banks, Steve Furtato, and Joe Dupars (tp), Astley Fennell and John Gordon (tb), Reggie Johnson (b), unknown (dr) /
    7:30pm, Mary McLeod Bethune School, NYC [Flyers, The RivBea Archive]
    "The Afro-Arts Cultural Center & The Bureau of Community Education proudly presents Bold New Black Worlds,
    Revolutionary Voices, Ethnic Sounds, & Black Visions of the African Cultural Evolution. "
  • 68.07.06 - Sam Rivers Trio: (no personnel info) / 5:00pm, Slugs', NYC [gig poster, Carville 14.07.30]

    1968 (late):

    Sam then became one of the members of the Jazz Composers Guild, an organization composed of such giants as Cecil Taylor
    and Archie Shepp. The association led to a spot with the Cecil Taylor group, a gig which once again changed many of Sam's
    conceptions of music...
    ["1973, ABC/Dunhill Records BIO," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

    Pianist Cecil Taylor has lately been living in Bologna, playing in small clubs."
    [Leonard Feather "Jazz Action Shifts to Europe" The Los Angeles Times Nov 24 1968 Calendar p.64]
    ———


68.12.13 • Steve Tintweiss & His Purple Why [Archival Recording]

Steve Tintweiss Archive ST0220 A & B (reel-to-reel)

December 13, 1968 / Gallery 55, Brooklyn, NY

Exorcism
1st Set:
1. Ramona, I Love You [ : ]
2. Sleeping Jungle Harlot [ : ]
3. Waltz of Eternity [ : ]
2nd Set:
4. Contrapuntal [ : ]
5. How Sweet? [ : ]
6. The Purple Why—Steve's Demon Blues—The Purple Why [ : ]
7. Exorcise Demons...Defy Superstition [ : ]
 "Playing four hours..." —Boston Sunday Globe

"Sam played one gig with my band the Purple Why in 1968 on a Friday the 13th concert at Gallery 55, which was a funeral parlor
turned-art-gallery in Brooklyn. That was a one-time performance line-up... Shelly Rusten was present and took a lot of photos
in his role as a professional photographer."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Earl Cross (tp, wood flute, whistle, cowbell), Marty Cook (tb),
Steve Tintweiss (b, va, melodica, voc, Comp), Randy Kaye (dr, voc)

{Steve Tintweiss 12.01.05; 16.09.18; Boston Sunday Globe Jan 26 p.14}


okay okay
—Photos by Shelly Rusten, with permission

68.12.15 • Burton Greene Quartet [AR]

December 15, 1968 / The Scene, New York City

1st Set:
1. Creep Suite (Greene) [ : ]
 conversation with Eartha Ensel [ : ]
2nd Set:
 introduction [ : ]
2. warmup [ : ]
3. Pavanne (Gabriel Faure) [ : ]
3. Slurp [ : ]
—"Two sets... pending a double CD release on Porter Records."

Sam Rivers (ts, fl-1,3), Burton Greene (p),
Steve Tintweiss (b), Shelly Rusten (dr)

{Anonymous; Steve Tintweiss 18.05.19}

okay

  • 68.12.21 - Jazz Session: Sam Rivers, Bennie Maupin, and Bill Barron (reeds), others... / 5:00pm, Slugs', NYC
    [Bernard Bulletin Dec 18 p.8]
  • 68.12.31 - Sam Rivers: unknown ensemble / Queens, NY [Boston Sunday Globe Jan 26 p.14]
    "A commercial job in Queens on New Year's Eve..."

1969 : : :


69.01.11 • Albert Ayler: Holy Ghost

2004: Revenant Records RVN 213 (10-CD "Spirit Box")

January 11, 1969, 5:30pm / Town Hall, New York City

1. Prophet John [10:53]
2. Judge Ye Not [10:16]
—This was billed as the "Don Ayler Sextet."

Albert Ayler and Sam Rivers (reeds), Don Ayler (tp), Richard Johnson (p),
Richard Davis and Ibrahim Wahen (b), Muhammad Ali (dr)

{The Spirit Box; Village Voice Jan 9 p.29}

okay

    1969:

    "Following the Free Music Meeting [Alan] Silva went to Paris and stayed for several months, playing with Sunny Murray, Bernard Vitet,
    François Tusques, and Michel Portal, before returning to New York in early 1969. The first incarnation of his mythic big band,
    The Celestrial Communication Orchestra (CCO), rehearsed in a loft on 14th Street (featuring horn players Sam Rivers, Marzette Watts,
    Frank Lowe, Perry Robinson, and drummers Barry Altschul and Lawrence Cook), though Silva considers his first real orchestral piece
    to be ‘Solestrial’, on the ESP-Disk record Skillfullness, on which he conducted."
    [WIRE #228 February 2003 p.40]
    ———


Sam Rivers with the Cecil Taylor Quartet ::: February 8, 1969 through November 10, 1969, and beyond

  • 1969:

    "I think being with [Taylor's] group sent me to another plateau. We rehearsed eight hours per day. Constant rehearsing. I had never done that before. That got me to a place where I was subconscious when I got to my fifteenth solo chorus: you know with Cecil one solo can last forty-five minutes to an hour."
    [Sam Rivers interviewed by Bill Shoemaker early July, 1978, undated Washington Post clipping, The RivBea Archive]
    ———


    "Administration is reportedly recommending bringing the Cecil Taylor jazz group for an in-residence program."
    —Betty Dietz Krebs Dayton Daily News Mar 19 p.33

    "Cecil Taylor Unit will be available to the entire campus for discussion, etc..." /
    Cecil Taylor Previewed: Uncompromising Artist Presents New Jazz, By Gary Giddins (article quoted in 69.02.08 session entry below)
    [Grinnell College Scarlet and Black, Vol.LXXVI Friday, February 7, 1969]

  • 69.02.06 - "Thursday at 4:00 p.m. there will be a lecture-discussion." / South Lounge, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
  • 69.02.07 - "Friday at 8:00 p.m. there will be a drum workshop and at 10 p.m. a poetry reading by Taylor." /
    South Lounge, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa

69.02.08 • Cecil Taylor Unit [RBA—129:00 & BR—160:19]

  • Cecil Taylor Unit [BR—159:28]
    Physical Item RGA 2835 B3, 1 digital sound cassette (polyester)
    Recording Laboratory, William L. Ewell, Jr. Collection (Library of Congress)

  • Cecil Taylor Unit [BR]
    Shelf no.RGA 2839 A2—RGA 2840 A1, 2 digital sound cassettes (polyester)
    Recording Laboratory, William L. Ewell, Jr. Collection (Library of Congress)
    —Marked "1965" / "May be a recording of a radio broadcast."

February 8, 1969, 8:00pm / Roberts Hall, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

RivBea Archive / Reel 16
1. improvisation [69:00]
2. improvisation [60:00]
 A 7" reel, "#16" written and circled on box.
 "3 3/4 (ips) Cecil Taylor Grinnell College 8 Feb 1969 Side 1 collective piece #1 69 minutes Side 2 collective piece #2 60 minutes
 Personnel: Cecil Sam Rivers Jimmy Lyons Andrew Cyrille" also written on box.
 —Joe Washek, June 2008
RGA 2835 B3:
1. improvisation #1 [68:24]  (minor glitch at 48:07; another, possible split track at 48:50)
2. piano solo [31:23]  (minor glitches at 27:20 and 28:42)
3. improvisation #2 [59:41]
RGA 2839 A2—RGA 2840 A1:
1... unknown titles [no time given]
There are two recordings at this locale in The LOC: given the personnel notes, the "1965" date on RGA 2839 A2—RGA 2840 A1
is an obvious error. The single tape listed as RGA 2835 B3 is likely an excerpted broadcast of the two-tape version. —RL

Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{RivBea 2CDr, Reel 16; 3CDr BR; Library of Congress Database; Andrew Galloway 02.11.28}



    "I received photo copies of the articles from the student newspaper The Scarlet and Black, describing Cecil Taylor's performance at Grinnell.
    Apparently, it was quite controversial (SURPRISE!!!)..."
    —Andrew Galloway 02.11.28, posting to The Cecil Taylor Research-List.

    Cecil Taylor Previewed

    "Uncompromising Artist Presents New Jazz" by Gary Giddins, Grinnell College Scarlet and Black, Vol.LXXVI / February 7, 1969

    Cecil Taylor, pianist, composer, poet, and all-around musical guru for the jazz advance guard, will be on campus February 6, 7, and 8.
    Leonard Feather has written of him, "The freedom, complexity, harmonic innovation, and emotional brilliance of Taylor's playing have
    established him as one of the truly original minds in American music... Taylor's fast and intricately structured lines, almost percussive
    in their intensity, have had a stirring effect on the new horn techniques of the 60s... A lack of acceptance by some musicians and critics
    and pitifully infrequent opportunities to record, have kept Taylor's reputation and following limited to a small but devoted group of admirers.

    That's not the half of it. Taylor has been screwed royally by club owners who were more interested in selling drinks then providing a free rein
    for artistic expression. Record companies have used him for a tax loss and don't bother to distribute. In this, Taylor is not unique. On the contrary,
    there are very few jazz musicians who have not suffered under a similar strain of capitalism. The new jazz is the bastard child of American music;
    it can't make it on a popular music level and it is not accepted by the classical elitists. Taylor, however, is an uncompromising artist who puts his
    craft first and refuses to kiss the asses of the money grabbing critics and hucksuckers who control the (gasp) "music business." Unfortunately,
    the payoff at times was one major gig a year supplemented by working at Macy's in the afternoons.

    And now—twelve years after his first major date in New York—the critics and the public who criticized him as being a charlatan and anti-jazz
    are coming around. Cecil Taylor is a virtuoso pianist who unlike many of his imitators—some of whom are better known than he—can express
    on the keys what's happening in his head. And that's what jazz is about—expression and communication. This doesn't mean that he is any more
    accepted by the public. Last August, he despaired as to whether he would ever record again. Those who have heard him, know that if in a hundred
    years some historian asks whether people in the 20th century could communicate, Cecil and some other musicians like him will serve as one
    of the new affirmative answers.

    Previously our ideas of time and space have been negated in favor of a collective sound emanating from individual musicians surrendering their
    individuality to a group feeling. This music is not intended for background music; it is a total music.

    During their stay here, the Cecil Taylor Unit will be available to the entire campus for discussion, etc. Thursday at 4:00pm there will be
    a lecture-discussion. Friday at 8:00pm there will be a drum workshop and at 10:00pm a poetry reading by Taylor. All of these events
    will be in the South Lounge. The concert is in Roberts, Saturday night at 8:00pm.

    Open up your mind and give them some of your time. They're worth listening to.



    "Controversial Concert Defended" by Molly McGuire, Grinnell College Scarlet and Black, Vol.LXXVII / February 14, 1969

    A new breed of music was introduced to Grinnell last weekend in the form of the Cecil Taylor Unit, an avante-guard jazz quartet. If nothing
    else, the concert became a topic of controversy on campus as the music was foreign and incomprehensible to the ears of most of the audience.
    Arguments raged over the quality or value of the music itself as well as the advisability of bringing this type of music to Grinnell.

    Comments ranged from the facetious Bandstand favorite, "Oh, it didn't have a very good beat and I couldn't dance to it," to the popular,
    "It stunk!" Those who liked it seemed overpowered by it—they were completely carried away emotionally: "I was intoxicated by it,"
    was one of the more extreme comments on the positive side.

    Generally, however, there seemed to be unfavorable response from the campus. On this note, the S&B talked to Garry Giddins and
    Lee Shamberg of the Social Coordinating Committee to let them explain their reasons for bringing in Cecil Taylor, and also to let them
    comment on the student reaction.

    Their reason for presenting a concert of this type was two-fold. First, Giddins felt that "any controversy started in this conservative
    melange of apathy and lethargy would be beneficial." Shamberg added, "The concert was a result of a continuous attempt to make
    the concerts program an organic part of the education process. Education involves a challenge to one's standards and preconceptions."

    Secondly, they wanted to expose students to music they may never listen to on their own, or even realize existed. "The importance
    of the concert," stressed Giddins, "was that the students got a chance to hear this music, not whether they liked it or disliked it.
    One of my hopes in bringing in Taylor was that people would be moved to investigate the music more fully on their own."

    Those criticizing the quality of the music itself were severely chided by Giddins and Shamberg. They argued that to criticize from
    a position of total ignorance is "indefensible." Instead of judging the music by the standards of the familiar Western music, they stressed
    that one must realize that Taylor is working in a different medium, that of an Afro-American culture. Giddins stressed, "Whatever
    similarities there are between Taylor and Mozart are outweighed by similarities between Taylor and Ellington."

    Giddins was particularly disturbed by the fact that so much of the audience left before and during intermission. He said that had they
    stayed longer they very possibly would have ended up enjoying it (which is what did happen in several cases.) He said that Taylor
    wasn't playing for those who left, but for those who stayed long enough to enjoy listening to the music as much as he did playing it.

—CECIL TAYLOR TOUR continues with session 69.07.28.



  • 69.02.16 - Sam Rivers Sextet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Sonny Simmons (as), Dick Griffin and Virgil Jones (tp),
    Reggie Workman (b), Horacee Arnold (dr) / Jazz Interactions, Inc. Presents..., 5:00pm, The Scene, NYC
    [Village Voice Feb 13 pp.46+72]
    —Display ad has "Sammie Simmons."
  • 69.02.18 - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr) /
    New Dimensions in Jazz, 8:30pm, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC [Village Voice Feb 13 pp.58+72]
    "Cecil Taylor will premiere ‘Tongues’..."
  • 69.02.22 - "The Burton Greene Jazz Quartet": Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Greene (p), Steve Tintweiss (b), Shelly Rusten (dr) /
    "Israel Young Presents," 8:30pm, Washington Square Methodist Church, NYC [Village Voice Feb 13 p.34 + Feb 20 p.26]
  • 69.04.06 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations: no personnel listed / 5:00 to 9:00pm, Slugs', NYC
    [Village Voice Apr 3 p.43; New York Magazine Apr 28 p.15]
    Voice has this misdated as "Sun. Apr. 7," which was a Monday.
  • 69.04.08 to 04.12 - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr) /
    New Dimensions in Jazz, 8:30pm, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC [Village Voice Apr 10 p.40]
    —Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography has this as 69-0410 (date of the display ad only) with CT, Lyons, Cyrille, and "rest unknown."
  • 69.04.13 (1) - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations / 5:00 to 9:00pm, Slugs', NYC
    [Village Voice Apr 10 p.40 + p.72; New York Magazine Apr 28 p.15]
    Voice Apr 10 p.72 has this misdated as the 12th.
  • 69.04.13 (2) - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr) /
    9:30pm to 4:00am, Slugs', NYC [Village Voice Apr 10 p.40]
  • 69.04.20 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations / 5:00 to 9:00pm, Slugs', NYC
    [Village Voice Apr 20 p.43; New York Magazine Apr 28 p.15]
  • 69.04.27 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations / 5:00 to 9:00pm, Slugs', NYC
    [Village Voice Apr 24 p.39; New York Magazine Apr 28 p.15]
  • 69.07.17 - Horacee Arnold's Here and Now Company: Sam Rivers (ts), Mike Lawrence (tp), Roy Ayres (vbs), Reggie Workman (b), Arnold (dr) /
    8:30pm, Alumni Theatre, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [The Ottawa Journal Jul 5, 1969 p.46; Ottawa Citizen Jul 12 p.22]
    —"The Sounds of Times and Seasons"
  • 69.07.27 - Horacee Arnold's Here and Now Company: Sam Rivers (ts), Mike Lawrence (tp), Reggie Workman (b),
    Carl [sic] Berger (vbs), Arnold (dr) / Jazz Interactions, Inc. Presents... 5:00pm, The Scene, NYC [Village Voice Jul 24 p.29]


    1969:

    In 1969 the Taylor band members were Artists in Residence at the Maeght Foundation in St. Paul De Vence, France, where they worked
    with some of the top European musicians, including Karlheinz Stockhausen.
    ["1973, ABC/Dunhill Records BIO," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———


69.07.28 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR—92:51]

July 28, 1969 / St. Paul de Vence, France

1. Was—Ethopie—More [92:51]   (split track at 47:11)
"I am not certain the (July 28-29) are two different concerts or the same... A note in my file claims the 28th consists of ‘three linked pieces
and an encore featuring Sam on soprano’, but that doesn't sound like the Shandar & Prestige set... sometimes a midnite concert (confuses) the date."
—Vladimir Simosko

"There was one concert on 69-0728 afternoon/evening, plus another one the next day/afternoon/evening. The recordings as on Shandar/Prestige
are from 69-0729. The first concert is known from a private audience recording only, so far, and the music is very different from ‘Second Act Of A’".
—H. Lukas Lindenmaier 05.01.03

Cecil Taylor (p, voc, Comp), Jimmy Lyons (as, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Andrew Cyrille (dr, perc, voc)

{2CDr; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography; Vladimir Simosko}


69.07.29 • Cecil Taylor: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght—29 Juillet 69

1971: Shandar D.R. 83507/8/9 (3-LP Box, 1st Edition) Fr;
    Shandar 10 011 (3-LP Box) Fr;
  • Cecil Taylor: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 1
    1971: Shandar 10.011 (LP) Fr; 1972: Shandar 83 507 (LP) Fr;
    1973: RCA-6085 M (LP) Jpn;
    1991: Jazz View COD 001
        (CD, Ltd Edition 2,000, Historical Masters, Unofficial Release) It
  • Cecil Taylor: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 2
    1972: Shandar 83 508 (LP) Fr;
    1991: Jazz View COD 002
        (CD, Ltd Edition 2,000, Historical Masters, Unofficial Release) It
  • Cecil Taylor: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 3
    1972: Shandar 83 509 (LP) Fr;
    1991: Jazz View COD 003
        (CD, Ltd Edition 2,000, Historical Masters, Unofficial Release) It
  • Cecil Taylor Quartet: The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor
    1977: Prestige P 34003 (3-LP Box, Remaster)

July 29, 1969 / Fondation Maeght, St. Paul de Vence, France
—Recording has locale as "Paris, France."
 "Recorded in St. Paul de Vence... about 30-40 km northwest of Nice in southern
 France, i.e. nowhere near Paris! ...an old error (started by Prestige)."
 —Graham L. Rogers

1. Second Act of A (pt 1) [21:17]
2. Second Act of A (pt 2) [20:51]
3. Second Act of A (pt 3) [18:08]
4. Second Act of A (pt 4) [16:11]
5. Second Act of A (pt 5) [12:45]
6. Second Act of A (pt 6) [20:38]
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 1 has tracks 1 and 2.
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 2 has tracks 3 and 4.
Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 3 has tracks 5 and 6.

—Side 6 is an encore, as "it was apparently a complete piece in itself."
 —Vladimir Simosko

Jazz: America's Classical Music, a book by Grover Sales, has the title
 as "Second Art of A." Sales indicates he took this title from an LP release.



"Met Miró at the Fondation Maeght in 1969. [Miró] gave
each member of Taylor's group at that time... an original
lithograph (‘Same design but different colours for each,’
says Taylor) and he left it in his will that the pianist should
be the first to play at the [Miró Museum on the island
of Majorca] when it was completed."
[WIRE #124 June 1994 p.23]

Images, top to bottom:
The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor 3-LP Box cover
Japanese release of Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 1
(the only volume to see a Japanese release)
Photo courtesy Sam Rivers

Cecil Taylor (p, voc-4, Comp),
Jimmy Lyons (as),
Sam Rivers (ts, ss),
Andrew Cyrille (dr)

okay

{P-34003; Jazz Records—The Specialist Labels, compiled by Ralph Laing and Chris Sheridan, Two Volumes by Jazz Media APS, Denmark, 1981}


—CECIL TAYLOR TOUR continues with session 69.10.00.



    1969:

    "Rivers was invited to a jam session that included Jimi Hendricks [sic] in the late 1960s. During that period, Rivers was performing
    with Cecil Taylor and recalls how jamming with Hendrix was almost the same as playing with Taylor. ‘Jimi wanted me to join
    his group while he was developing new directions,’ Rivers said."
    [blogs.orlandosentinel.com/community_altamonte_blog]
    ———

    "The story with me and Jimi is that we met at a jam session. It was a session down on Broadway and Sixteenth Street. There was a loft
    up there, so I used to go there and play. So one time, I don't know how they got him there, but Jimi Hendrix was up there. We were jamming
    together, and he really liked my flute—man, his eyes brightened up when he heard it. So we used to go down to his place in Woodstock.
    We'd play down there in his studio. We used to play all the time down there and did a lot of stuff there, but I don't know what happened to it.
    He... had a nice house down there. We went down for dinner, Bea and myself. We were down there and were pretty much guests all the time
    when he was in town. He never asked me to play with him. I would have though."
    —Sam Rivers, Waxpoetics No.29 [prince.org/msg/8/275536]
    ———


69.08.00 • Jimi Hendrix with Sam Rivers [Possible AR]

August, 1969 / Woodstock, NY


Jeff Evangelista: "Sam has mentioned in interviews that Alan Douglas set up a jam with him and Jimi at the Woodstock retreat house... and they
had a play. Your session dates helped tremendously because I think I have narrowed the time-frame down to August 1969. From your notes, it looks
like Sam was in Europe (Poland etc.) for most of the autumn of 1969. And he played in France with Cecil Taylor in late July. Jimi [was in]
Morocco... July 30 through Aug, ...and was at the retreat for most of August. Of course Woodstock was held Aug 18th.

...Anything that might rule out this time-frame? Do you know anything more about this supposed jam between the two musicians? ...We do have
quite a bit of tape from this Woodstock ‘rehearsal’ period, but nothing I can identify with Sam. Jimi was definitely experimenting with playing with
Free Jazzers at this time though, as we can hear from the house tapes and tapes recorded at the Tinker Street Cinema with Earl Cross on trumpet.

The Sam Rivers episode though is one mystery that needs to be solved. it would be wonderful to get a sense... about what they might have played
together, personnel, ...etc. If tapes existed..."

{Jeff Evangelista 02.04.18 and 02.05.26}


  • 1969:

    Harris Eisanstadt: How did it come around that you and Hendrix hooked up?
    Barry Altschul: The Aboriginal Music Society, Juma Sultan. It was an African percussion ensemble plus guests, like Archie Shepp,
    Sam Rivers, Earl Cross (a trumpet player). Juma Sultan was a bass player and conga player. He's the only one who went with Jimi.
    Jimi wanted the whole group to go and nobody wanted to.
    [Destination Out Guest Post: Barry Altschul interviewed by Harris Eisanstadt, January 2013]
    ———


  • 69.00.00 - Burton Greene Quartet: Sam Rivers (reeds), Greene (p), Steve Tintweiss (b), Shelly Rusten (dr) / Bucknell College, Lewisburg, PA
    [Steve Tintweiss 11.12.31 and 12.01.05]
    "Burton Greene, Shelly Rusten, and myself were working fairly steadily in the late 1960s with a series of saxophone players in the band...
    My stint with Burton started in 1966 or 1967 I believe. Adding to the trio was Byard Lancaster in 1968 and '69, then Sam Rivers in 1969."
    —Steve Tintweiss
  • 69.09.30 - Horacee Arnold's Here and Now: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Carlos Ward (as, fl), Mike Lawrence (tp), Jeanne Faulkner (voc),
    Karl Berger (vbs), Reggie Workman (b), Arnold (dr) / "Jazz-Art-Museum," The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
    [Montclarion Oct 15 p.8]
    "The program was unique in that pictures of Afro-American art by prominent black artists and sculptors were flashed on the walls
    of the museum's fourth-floor gallery. The musicians then responded by improvising through jazz what the pictures meant to them..."

69.10.12 • Burton Greene Quartet [RBA—109:38]

October 12, 1969 / Loeb Student Center, New York University, New York City

1. Kreef Suite [44:28]
 1st Movement—11:05 (ss); 2nd Movement—8:52 (fl); 3rd Movement, Blues for Viet Nam—17:42 (ts); 4th Movement—4:56 (ss)
2. Woodstock Vibrations [11:32]  (solo piano)
3. Shanti Om Suite [40:30]
 1st Movement—12:46 (ss); 2nd Movement—9:32 (fl); 3rd Movement—9:05 (ts); epilogue—8:20 (fl)
4. Out of Bartok [10:53]
Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,4, ss-1,3, fl-1,3), Burton Greene (p, farfisa organ-4, Comp), Steve Tintweiss (b), Shelly Rusten (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings DVD #25; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 18.08.27; Steve Tintweiss 11.12.31 and 12.01.05; }


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    69.10.00 - Cecil Taylor Quartet / Late October, 1969, Warsaw, Poland

    This incorrect listing is possibly the result of a citation ("Warsaw, 10/69") in:
    Mike Hames' Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, Cecil Taylor, Byard Lancaster & Kenneth Terroade: On Disc & Tape, photography by Val Wilmer,
    printed privately by the author with the financial assistance of the Arts Council of Great Britain, January, 1983 p.i-iv, p.1-65.

    "That's all the publishing info. The book is typewritten, printed on one side of each page and bound with two staples. There is a full page photo
    of Ayler on the cover, and one of each of the other musicians at the beginning of their sections." —George Scala 03.04.11

    "In my opinion CT don't played in Warsaw on 1969, he played a year ago on 18 or 19 October 1968. Jazz Jamboree '68, Poland, Warsaw,
    Sala Kongresowa, Cecil Taylor—piano solo (USA) [Jazz Jamboree '68 was October 17,18,19, 1968] '69—this is failure, mistake date of gig.
    Comment: October is typically time of Jazz Jamboree in Warsaw Poland who started from 1958. It's mint probable if any (fame) artist
    who played live gig in Oct., Poland, don't play on JJ. Just check 'festival notes' from 1969 [October, 20-23]; result: CT is not present."
    —Darek Pietak to Cecil Taylor Research Group 03.04.11

69.10.26 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR—91:48]

October 26, 1969 / Teatro Lyrico, Milan, Italy

1. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke [49:54]  (incomplete, split track at 47:02)
2. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke [41:48]  (incomplete)
I have this at 48:16, seems complete, if any time is missing it may be from the beginning, and I assume it's the first track.
This second track has an erroneous citaton. (See below) —RL

The LP excerpts from 69.11.09 "are also on a tape from 69.10.26 but most sources place the LP as a recording from De Doelen." —Jan Ström

Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{CDr; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography; l'Unità Oct 28 p.9}


  • 69.10.28 - Cecil Taylor Quartet: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr) /
    21:00hr, Theatre Francais, Bordeaux, France [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 69.10.31 - Cecil Taylor Quartet: as above / Jazz Expo 69, 6:45 & 9:10pm, Hammersmith Odeon, London, England
    [Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography; The Observer Oct 26 p.30]
    —"No known recording, unknown titles."

69.11.02 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR & AR—18:06]

November 2, 1969 / Ronnie Scott's Club, London, England
BBC-TV Broadcast

 announcement by Ronnie Scott [0:26]
1. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke [6:58]
2. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke [10:21]
—Also noted: Audience Recording at "1 track/8:00; November, 1969; London, fragments."

 "It's all Fragments Of A Dedication To Duke,’ the [tracks] announced as Extracts from Fragments’..."
 —H. Lukas Lindenmaier to CTResearch-List 03.09.23

Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{CDr (both AR & BR); Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography}


69.11.03 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR—80:43 & BVR—25:09]

November 3, 1969 / 6th Paris Jazz Festival at Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
—Broadcast Video, 1970, "Jazz Harmonie," program that included the Michel Portal Quartet.

Broadcast Audio:
1st Set:
 Broadcast announcement [0:25]
1. Fragments Of A Dedication To Duke [30:55]
2nd Set:
2. Fragments Of A Dedication To Duke [48:50]  (split track at 10:15)
Broadcast Video:
 opening credits, Bernard Lion intro [2:23]
1. "Never Mind (extrait)" [21:35]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 end credits [1:12]
"The LP Jazz-Connoisseur-JC 111 [69.11.09] in fact is a bootleg, at the time widely distributed in Europe, possibly in the US as well,
but it has nothing to do with the 69.11.03 Paris concert(s) [as previously and repeatedly claimed —RL].

"I do have on CD two transcriptions of the Paris 69.11.03 concerts. One is a 27:19 fragment said to be from the first concert, the other
is (low audio fidelity) 49:30 said to be from the second [set]. The music in both of these recordings is quite similiar, both being
‘Fragments Of A Dedication To Duke,’ but none of these is identical to the music on JC-111. The recording from first Paris concert
is mis-announced by the radio MC (André Francis?) as ‘Never Mind’, by the way."
—H. Lukas Lindenmaier to CTResearch-List 03.09.23

Cecil Taylor (p, Comp), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{CDr (1st Set incomplete at 27:12, fades in); Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09;
Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography}


69.11.04 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR—27:49]

November 4, 1969 / Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark

1. excerpt [3:25]  (fades in at beginning, out at end)
2. excerpt [11:45]  (cuts in at beginning, fades out at end)
3. excerpt [12:10]  (cuts in at beginning—ten seconds in the level goes down, voice-over, music back up at 0:35—applause at end)
Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{CDr; Heinrich Smejkal}


69.11.05 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR—50:00 & BR—55:27]

November 5, 1969 / Newport Jazz Festival, Folkets Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
Swedish Radio Broadcast

Broadcast Recording:
1. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington [55:27]  (split track at 46:45)
Audience Recording:
1. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington [50:00]
—Track is also titled "Unit Structures" according to the Lyon's Sessionography.

"I have 55:00 mono radio broadcast recording, and I think this is the complete performance of the day."
—H. Lukas Lindenmaier to CTResearch-List 03.09.23

Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{Broadcast CDr; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography}


69.11.06 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR—64:47]

November 6, 1969 / Berlin Jazztage 1969, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
RBB Kulturradio, Broadcast June 19, 2009
—This Berlin session has also been mistakenly dated 69.11.11 and 69.11.30

 Broadcast announcement Köhn [1:15]
1. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington [63:25]
"The German radio station ‘RBB Kultur’ did broadcast the Cecil Taylor concert... RBB Kultur, which stores the original tapes, played the complete
‘Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington’, which had 63 minutes 25 seconds of music and didn't seem to be edited. Before that there was
the announcement of Dietrich Schulz-Köhn + applause (1 minute 15 seconds); afterwards applause fading into the broadcast announcement of 2009."
—Holger Neuhaus 09.06.29

"After listening to the 1969.11.06 recording again [emphasis mine —RL], I do believe the 63:30 version we have from the 2009.06.19 broadcast
(RBB Kulturradio) is the complete performance... There is no cut/editing audible—not in my ears, at least—except for cutting short the final applause.
Also, this version is of the best audio quality so far.

Longer versions of recordings from this same date result from—in my humble opinion—clumsy efforts combining (editing/pasting) fragments
from earlier incomplete broadcasts (aired 1969, 1970, and later, by various German radio stations). All these pastiche versions (69 minutes, 75 minutes,
some even longer) suffer from low audio quality, also harsh cuts and/or inexplicable fades, cross-fades, and overlappings. There is no private audience
recording from this performance, as far as I know, documenting a ‘much longer performance’ as rumourously reported by a few eye-/ear-witnesses.

From contemporary (1969) festival reviews, 1969.11.06 was the opening night of Berliner Jazztage. Performing on this ‘Piano For Duke’ night were:
1) Joe Turner (with Hans Rettenbacher and Stu Martin)
2) Steve Kuhn (with Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and Aldo Romano)
3) Joachim Kühn (with Barre Phillips, Stu Martin, and Jacques Thollot)
4) Thelonious Monk Solo, (with Joe Turner, Hans Rettenbacher, and Stu Martin sitting in for the last tune)
5) Cecil Taylor Unit (with Lyons, Rivers, and Cyrille)

Not having heard recordings from the first three sets, but the complete Monk set, which runs for some 30 minutes including applause, I guess
the CT Unit started at about two and a half hours after the beginning of the program—and I don't think they played more than the 63:30
on the recording, when ‘three-quarter parts of the audience derserted...’
(From Hans Harzheim's review in Jazz-Magazine (France) #175, Feb. 1970 p.11). —H. Lukas Lindenmaier

Other versions circulating:
    [74:50]  —Opening announcement [2:31], Music [70:53] fades out and back in at 10:52 and again at 55:23. Closing applause [1:27].
    [45:46]  —Without announcements, clipped at the beginning.
         "...the 45:xx from radio broadcast is—most probably—the closing section of the performance."
    [15:45]  —Opening section.
"It seems most likely no Audience Recording of this concert exists." —H. Lukas Lindenmaier 05.01.03

Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{CDr at 64:47 and 45:46 (incomplete); Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; H. Lukas Lindenmaier and Florin Casura to the CTResearch list, 09.12.14}


  • Berlin, 1969:

    There is a story Rivers likes to tell about being in Berlin for a jazz festival in 1969. He is heading past
    the hotel restaurant when he spots jazz pianist Cecil Taylor, with whom he is sharing the festival stage.
    "Sit down with me," Rivers recalls Taylor instructing him.
    Rivers mentions he has a car waiting to take him to an interview.
    "You're Sam Rivers. Let them wait," Taylor replies.
    "So I sat down and had breakfast."
    ["Rivers' Edge" Sam Rivers feature article Orlando Magazine Jul 2009]
    ———


69.11.09 • Cecil Taylor Quartet: In Europe

1978: Jazz Connoisseur JC 111 (LP) It —Unauthorized
  • Cecil Taylor Quartet [AR & BR—57:03]

November 9, 1969 / De Doelen Concert Hall, Rotterdam, Netherlands

JC 111:
1. Improvisation 1 [22:54]
2. Improvisation 2 [21:57]
Audience & Broadcast Recordings:
1. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington [57:03]
In Europe excerpts the opening 44:51 of this concert.

"Rumors were that the JC-111 is an edited version of the recordings from
Rotterdam on 69.11.09... [It] IS an edited portion of the Broadcast Recording
from this performance."
—H. Lukas Lindenmaier to CTResearch-List 03.09.23; 05.01.03

"I've just gone headphones to CDr, speakers to turntable, note-for-note,
trill-for-trill, cymbal-splash-for-cymbal-splash through the first 8 minutes,
and there is no doubt that they are one and the same." —RL

Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{JC 111; CDr; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography}

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69.11.10 • Cecil Taylor Quartet [BR—78:42]

November 10, 1969 / Liederhalle, Mozartsaal, Stuttgart, Germany

1. Fragments of a Dedication to Duke Ellington [78:27]  (incomplete)
—Also noted as "Parts 1-5" (20:26 / 41:25 / 4:00 / 1:48 / 9:21)

Cecil Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr)

{CDr; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography}


    69.11.11 and 69.11.30 - Berlin / "The 69.11.30 date possibly was the broadcasting date for the 69.11.06 recording"
    —H. Lukas Lindenmaier to CTResearch-List 03.09.23

      Additional Rivers with Cecil Taylor sessions: 70.01.13 to 01.18; 70.04.10; 71.02.09; 71.03.30 + 03.31; and 71.05.13.


69.12.10 • Bill Dixon Ensemble [Dixonia Archival Audio & Video Recordings—51:11]

December 10, 1969 / Carriage Barn, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

1. improvisations [51:11]
—A public concert of two classes: Improvisation I (spring, 1969) & Improvisation II (fall, 1969) "probably including their combined membership.".

Arthur Doyle (ts, fl), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Bill Dixon (tp, flg, p), Scott Holt (b), Andrew Cyrille (dr),
+ Susan Myers, Paule Sepinuck, Megan Bierman, Erika Bro, Cheryl Niederman, Peter Stevens,
and possibly Connie Allentuck, Karen Lierley, Mary Kinal, Cathy Weiss, and Leslie Berg (movement)

{Dixonia, a Bio-discography of Bill Dixon, compiled by Ben Young, August 1998, Greenwood Press—Bennington-Madison p.144 R69-1210}


69.12.11 • Bill Dixon Ensemble: Live at Bennington College

unknown: no label (12" EP, 1-sided picture-disc, Ltd Edition of 70 copies, Unauthorized) It
  • Bill Dixon Ensemble [Dixonia Archival Audio & Video Recordings—95:59]

December 11, 1969 / Carriage Barn, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Live at Bennington College:
1. improvisation excerpt [14:58]
Dixonia Archival Audio & Video Recordings:
1. improvisations [95:59]
—As in 69.12.10 above, a public concert of two classes:
 Improvisation I & Improvisation II (fall, 1969).

"Record is a picture disc [with] ...only a transparent plastic sleeve...
this copy is numbered 12/70 on the front bottom-right corner."
—The label on the grooved side is black and completely blank.
 The only other markings or text on the EP is a Matrix/Runout
 inscription of "MARIA A." —RL

Arthur Doyle (ts, fl), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
Bill Dixon (tp, flg, p), Scott Holt (b), Andre [sic] Cyrille (dr),
+ Susan Myers, Paule Sepinuck, Megan Bierman, Erika Bro,
Cheryl Niederman, Peter Stevens, and possibly Connie Allentuck,
Karen Lierley, Mary Kinal, Cathy Weiss, and Leslie Berg (movement)

{12" EP; Dixonia, a Bio-discography of Bill Dixon, compiled by Ben Young,
August 1998, Greenwood Press—Bennington-Madison p.144 R69-1211}

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  • 69.12.31 - Burton Greene Quartet: Greene (p), Sam Rivers (reeds), Steve Tintweiss (b), Shelly Rusten (dr) /
    "...a New Year's Eve club date." / unknown venue, NYC [Steve Tintweiss 11.12.31 and 12.01.05]

  • Late 1969:

    sep 25 69 vv display ad has music by... not SR

    "The Harlem Opera Society's abandonment of its former European repertory and subsequent reinvention as the Afro-American Singing
    Theater/Jazz Opera Ensemble. Collaborating with prominent avant-garde jazz musicians including Sam Rivers, Jacques Coursil,
    and Jerome Cooper, the group took improvisation... as the basis for a distinctly black and modern opera. They called their new form,
    alternatively, 'operatic improvisation,' 'operavisation,' 'black opera,' 'American opera,' and 'jazz improvisational opera.'" —p.25

    Technically, the Ensemble was a wing of the Afro-American Singing Theater, which was itself part of an organization called the Harlem
    Opera Society, which itself fell under the umbrella aegis of an institution called the Harlem Cultural Council. Presiding over this complex
    affair of nested councils, societies, and ensembles was an opera singer and community activist named Edward ('Emory') K. Taylor. —p.114

    At some point shortly before this, Sam Rivers had come on board as the principal composer and instrumentalist of the group. —p.46

    Thus, in January of 1970, Rivers joined Taylor, Jeanne Faulkner, and Francois Clemmons (an opera singer who had recently created
    the role of Officer Clemmons on National Educational Television's children's show, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood) to dramatize the slippery
    slope of household debt in three 'Credit Improvisations.' Each was loosely based on a real case from the files of the Harlem Consumer
    Education Council... Following the improvisations were lectures by figures from [the] consumer advocacy movement." —pp.134-5
    —See 70.01.21, 01.28, 02.04, and 02.11.

    [David Gutkin "American Opera, Jazz, and Historical Consciousness, 1924-1994," Submitted... for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
    in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (2015) 328pp.]
    ———




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  • Early 1970:

    In 1970, Rivers—along with his wife, Bea—opened a studio in Harlem where he held music and dance rehearsals.
    The space relocated to a warehouse in the Soho section of New York City. "Named Studio RivBea...," though that name
    would not be used until the Bond Street Loft would open in June, 1972. —RL
    [allmusicguide.com]
    ———


  • 70.01.13 to 01.18 - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr) / Slugs', NYC
    [Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography; The Village Voice Jan 15 p.20]

  • 1970:

    "A short history of the [Harlem Opera Society’s] activities, presumably used for promotional purposes, reads: ‘The composer-musician
    Sam Rivers became composer in residence and introduced the first Harlem-style operas, 15-minute singing/acting improvisations on
    consumer problems for Harlem housewives.’ Taylor claimed (in a performance at Cooper Union in the early 1970s) that the whole thing
    came about when the [Afro-American Singing Theatre] was mistaken for a drama troupe and asked to sing about consumer problems.
    Putting on his best ‘straight face,’ Taylor agreed." —footnote p.134
    [David Gutkin "American Opera, Jazz, and Historical Consciousness, 1924-1994," Submitted... for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
    in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (2015) 328pp.]
    ———


  • 70.01.21 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: Sam Rivers (p), Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    Francois Clemmons (voc) / "Credit... Big Deal," 7:00pm, West 125th Stret YWCA, NYC
    [David Gutkin "American Opera, Jazz, and Historical Consciousness, 1924-1994," Submitted... for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
    in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (2015) 328pp.; Poster, The RivBea Archive]
  • 70.01.28 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: as above / "Credit... Big Deal," 7:00pm, West 125th Stret YWCA, NYC [ibid]
  • 70.02.04 - Afro-American Singing Theatre / "Credit... Big Deal," 7:00pm, West 125th Stret YWCA, NYC [ibid]
  • 70.02.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), others unknown / Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    [Programs for On-Campus Events, D.C. History DA-836, BOX: 13447, PROGRAMS: RESS-SKID,
    1890-2014, ead.dartmouth.edu/html/da836_fullguide.html]
    —Flyers for events held at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Webster Hall, College Hall, Robinson Hall and College Church.
  • 70.02.11 - Afro-American Singing Theatree: Sam Rivers (p), Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    Francois Clemmons (voc) / "Credit... Big Deal," 7:00pm, West 125th Stret YWCA, NYC [ibid]

  • 70.02.25 - The Here and Now Company: Sam Rivers (ts), Mike Lawrence (tp), Karl Berger (vbs), Reggie Workman (b), Horace Arnold (dr) /
    8:00pm, Hudson Park Library, NYC [The Village Voice Feb 19 "What's On" p.80]


  • 70.02.00 - Cecil Taylor Quartet: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts), Andrew Cyrille (dr) / Slugs Saloon, NYC
    [Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography]
    —Ström had this split into two sessions: 70-0200A at "East 3rd Street Club" and 70-0200B at Slugs. (Slugs was in fact at 242 East 3rd.)
     He also notes a "Concert review—‘did a weekend stint.’"

    Taylor did have a January engagement in '70 (70.01.13 to 01.18), but there is no evidence of this February week.
    There are no mentions in any of the Village Voice Slugs' display ads for this time period.

  • 70.03.21 - Sam Rivers' 15-Piece Harlem Music Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Ed Whit (poetry), unknown others... /
    The New Sun Year Celebration, 8:30pm, "H" Building Auditorium, Long Island University, Long Island, NY
    —"African-American Teachers' Asociation and The Collective Black Artist Presents..." (This was an ATA/CBA Benefit Concert)
    [W. S. Tkweme "Vindicating karma: jazz and the Black Arts movement" (2007) p.212, Doctoral Dissertation,
    scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_1/924; Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 70.04.10 - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts), Andrew Cyrille (dr) /
    8:00pm, University Pavilion, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI [Wisconsin State Journal Mar 29 p.48]
    "The first concert of 1970 for his Unit... Taylor has composed a new three-part piece for the occasion."

    "Visiting professor of music for the spring semester, [Taylor] is teaching the first course of its kind ever given on the Madison campus
    [‘Black Music: From 1920 to the Present’]. More than a thousand students showed up for the first class session, making it necessary
    for School of Music administrators to comandeer a larger auditorium." —The Capital Times Mar 13 p.14

  • 70.04.12 to 04.15 - An Evening with Margaret Beals: Beals (dance, Chor, voc), Bryan Dunlap (dance, Narrator), Ree Dragonette (poetry),
    Sam Rivers (winds), Patricia Dell (p), Corky Christman (harp), Daniel Barra-Janos (perc) / 8:30pm, The Cubiculo Theatre, NYC
    [Village Voice Apr 9 p.31 + "What's On" p.80; "Margaret Beals in Dance Program" The New York Times Apr 14 p.53]
     —Pieces included "Remember Zion" and "Wild Swan and Epitaph".


    • 70.04.15 - The Here and Now Company is also scheduled, probably sans Rivers / 8:00pm, Hudson Park Library, NYC
      [Village Voice Apr 16 p.80]


  • 70.04.26 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: Sam Rivers (p), Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    Francois Clemmons (voc), others? / 6:00pm, Mary McLeod Bethune School, NYC [Village Voice Apr 16 p.44 + Apr 23 "What's On" p.80]
    "A four-day festival to benefit the Harlem Jazz Music Center..."
    —Included Warren Smith Composers' Workshop, Society of Black Composers; Betty Carter Trio, and the Herbie Hancock Sextet.
  • 70.04.28 - The Here and Now Company: Sam Rivers (ts), Mike Lawrence (tp), Karl Berger (vbs), Reggie Workman (b), Horace Arnold (dr) /
    Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, MA [The Berkshire Eagle Apr 30 p.4]
    —One-hour concert, six seletions. "Tune In," "Sea Guise," "From Now On" (all by Berger), others...
    "The group is scheduled to give several similar concerts in the area during the next several weeks,
    under the auspices of Young Audience's school programs..."
  • 70.05.03 - Black Cowboys: Ed Taylor (Dir, Libretto), Sam Rivers and Roland Alexander (reeds, Comp), Jeanne Faulkner, Francois Clemmons,
    Abraham Lindoquendo, Beverly Mason, and Hugh Harrell (voc), Jackie Earley (poetry), Rod Rodgers (Chor), others? /
    2:00pm, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY [Village Voice Apr 9 p.31 + Apr 30 p.30; Gutkin citation below]
    —Original cast included the singers named above.

    "Black Cowboys was actually just one name for this ‘horse opera in jazz form,’ which underwent numerous revisions and title changes
    from 1969 until its final iteration in the mid-1980s; other versions were called Buckaroos; Bronze Buckaroos; Cowboy Improvisations;
    The Black West; West on the Black Side; and Hodges & Co.
    The opera began as a collaboration between the AAST [Afro-American Singing Theatre], poet Jackie Earley, choreographer Rod Rodgers
    and saxophonist Roland Alexander, who, like Rivers, was a veteran of the 1950s Boston jazz scene. Rivers became involved sometime
    before the first performance at BAM in 1970, and all subsequent versions featured some combination of Alexander's and Rivers' compositions,
    with a libretto by Taylor, and poems by Earley.
    It is somewhat unclear, but it appears that Sam Rivers was hired to perform for the first performance only at the last minute.
    No instrumentalists are listed on the BAM program...
    Not so much a narrative work as a series of loosely related, and largely comic, set pieces that were presented, in some versions,
    as a multimedia collage comprised of live performance, projected photographic stills, and pre-recorded sounds (mostly, cows mooing).
    [David Gutkin "American Opera, Jazz, and Historical Consciousness, 1924-1994," Submitted... for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
    in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University (2015) pp.147-149]

  • 70.05.04 - The Here and Now Company: Sam Rivers (ts), Mike Lawrence (tp), Karl Berger (vbs), Reggie Workman (b), Horace Arnold (dr) /
    Simon's Rock School, Great Barrington, MA [The Berkshire Eagle Apr 30 p.4]
  • 70.05.12 - The Here and Now Company / Keyport High School, Keyport, NJ [The Keyport Weekly May 28 p.6]
    "Berger is 'Karl Bergen' in photo caption, which reads 'Pictured doing a little improvising
    is Michael Calicari, KHS senior, right, at the drums, with Sam Rivers.'"
  • 70.06.21 - The Lyric Action: Ree Dragonette, Sylvia Spencer, Gary Livingston, and Herbert Krohn (poetry), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
    Daniel Barrajanos (dr) / 3:00pm, Village Vanguard, NYC [Village Voice Jun 18 p.39]
    "Opening June 21st with..." —This was the first Sunday afternoon poetry program at the Vanguard hosted by Dragonette.
  • 70.07.00 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Music Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Fred Kelly (ts, ss, fl), Gene Ghee (ts, fl, cl), Carlos Ward (as, fl),
    Hamiet Bluiett (bar, fl, bcl), Marvin Peterson, Charles McGee, Joe Gardner, and Robert Williams (tp), Daoud Hardon and Marvin Neal (tb),
    Bob Stewart (tu), Kiana Ziwadi (eu), Hakim Jami and Bill Wood (b), Billy Hart and Maurice McKinley (dr) /
    "Three Days of Peace Between the Ears," [July 3rd, 4th, and 5th] 8:00pm Thu-Fri, 2:00pm Sun, Studio We, NYC
    [Michael Heller Loft Jazz—Improvising New York in the 1970s poster reproduction p.39, from Juma Sultan Archive]
  • 70.07.26 - Red Dragonette's Lyric Action: Isidore Century, Vincent Gaeta, Frank Murphy, and Richard Zarro (poetry), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
    Karl Berger (vbs), Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc) / 3:00pm, Village Vanguard, NYC [Village Voice Jul 23 p.21]
    —This and 70.06.21 are the only dates that Rivers is named for these sets. Karl Berger and Dragonette were usually listed
     with other poets going forward, and the series fades away during September.

70.08.02 • Afro-American Singing Theatre [WBAI Archival Recording]

August 2, 1970 / WBAI Free Music Store, New York City
—WBAI-FM Live Broadcast

1... "Improvisations" [ : ]
—Program also had performances by Hale Smith, "Variations for Violin and Piano;"
 Jacques Coursil, "Forms" and "Gift;" and Noel da Costa, "5 Verses with Vamps."
—Emory University Library has an archival recording listed [Raymond Danowski Poetry Library collection, Series 7 (AV) Box LP1,
 Dub from master tape made for KPFK, "The Free Music Store: Black Music," 1970 January 27, original: reel to reel]
 This item is misdated; the WBAI January Folio has no mention and lists other programming on that date.

Sam Rivers (p), Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura)

{WBAI Folio August 1970, Internet Archive at archive.org}


  • 70.08.17 to 08.22 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: Sam Rivers (p), Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    probable others... / A production of Black Cowboys, the "horse opera in jazz form" at five locations over six days:
    —109th Street, NYC
    —Sarah D. Roosevelt Park, NYC
    —Tompkins Square, NYC
    —Mt. Morris Park, NYC
    —Demroach Band Shell, Lincoln Center, NYC
    [Bernard L. Peterson Jr, A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works
    By, About, or Involving African Americans
    , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 1993 p.42]
  • 70.10.06 to 10.10 - McCoy Tyner Quintet: Tyner (p, pic-fl, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, chimes, metal bells, pan pipes, pic-fl, perc),
    Charles Tolliver (tp, chimes, metal bells, pan pipes, pic-fl, perc), Herbie Lewis (b), Eric Kamau GrÁvátt (dr) / Slugs', NYC
    [Village Voice Oct 1 p.45 + Oct 8 p.47; Bill Cole "Caught in the Act" Down Beat Nov 26 1970 p.27;
    Musica Jazz Jan 1971 p.26; Bill Cole 19.06.07]
    "There were several great [Tyner] lineups in the '70s that never recorded, perhaps most notably an early '70s incarnation
    with Charles Tolliver, Sam Rivers, and Eric Gravatt." —Mark Rappaport posting to Miles-list 01.31.00
     —Some interviews describe this period with Tyner as a "six-month stint."
      Bill Cole recalled it being one of the initial gigs: "I believe it was towards the beginning of that collaboration."
  • 70.11.04 - Andrew Cyrille and the Ensemble Plus: Sam Rivers (ts-1,3, ss-3, fl-2), Charles Sullivan (tp),
    Lonnie Liston Smith (p, voc), Stafford James [replacing Charlie Haden, listed on program] (b), Cyrille (dr) /
    8:00pm, Countee Cullen Regional Library, NYC
    [Village Voice Nov 5 "What's On" p.80; Down Beat Bill Cole review Jan 21 1971]
    —1. Sockokimmiya (James Spaulding); 2. Autumn in New York; 3. Short Short
  • 70.11.08 - Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp, Cond), Paul Jeffrey, (reeds), Ted Daniel (tp),
    Charles Stephens and Dick Griffin (tb), Warren Smith (dr), others... / 9:00pm, The East, Brooklyn, NY [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

70.11.00 • Black Journal [BR]

1970: PBS Television (Documentary, 59:00)

Early November, 1970 / Various locales, Brooklyn, NY and New York City
—Broadcast November 30, 1970 (last Monday of every month)

From Historic Films Transcript: (Appears from 27:54 through 41:54 of program)
 1. Black musicians carry instruments through ghetto streets, 1970S, carrying big bass
 2. Collective Black Artists title card superimposed over clip of musicians in city
 3. [Close-up] of Black musicians talking about the Collective, controlling their own music, 1970s afros
 4. Jazz musicians performing at the Seth Low Community Center, atonal music, bass sax,
   [medium shot] of percussionist
 5. [Exterior] of Muse, branch of Children's Museum
 6. Black man, Bill Barron, gives sax lesson to Black children, low-angle shot,
   [close-up] of Black flutist, music lessons
 7. Stand-up bass lesson, Black and Hispanic student, calls everything "Black music,"
   high-angle shot and down the neck of the bass
 8. Jimmy Owens conducts band rehearsal, asks questions of students, [extreme close-up] of trumpet players
 9. Owens, Black musician and teacher, talks about how difficult it is to make a living,
   ...clips of music lessons, talks about the music business
10. Band practice, Black teens, [close-up] and "EXU" (?) of Black musicians playing instruments
11. Jazz band playing at Seth Low Center, Brownsville Brooklyn, Reggie Workman talks about the music,
   cuts to Black teenage audience
12. [Exterior] shots of Brownsville Brooklyn, kids playing cards, girls double-dutch jump roping
13. Black boy blows bubbles with chewing gum as he watches performance,
   children watching African-American dance
14. Black cultural performance, atonal music, dancer and woman reciting
15. Black musician talks about limitations of music in a club
16. African-American performance at Seth Low Community Center, 1970s
17. [Medium shot] of Kiane Zawadi, Sam Rivers, and other Black musician [sic], talk about musicians uniting
   to the freedom movement, economic concerns, turned down record deals to stay united
18. Black saxophonist jamming, musicians walk down city street
19. A Black commercial: Black couples in the park, man with processed hair is shunned by Black women
   with natural hair, Black is Beautiful
[0:43]
[0:07]
[0:59]
[1:03]

[0:13]
[1:16]

[1:17]

[1:02]
[1:05]

[0:24]
[1:26]

[0:17]
[0:21]

[0:26]
[0:15]
[1:02]
[1:41]

[0:23]
[1:13]

—Members of Collective Black Artists appeared in the program, which also mentions free music classes at the Brooklyn Children's Museum,
 Brooklyn Muse, and free concerts at the Seth Low Community Center in Brooklyn.

"In [this] segment, Black Journal looks at some black musicians who have organized to promote their music
and to prevent it from being ‘controlled’ by the music industry..."

Sam Rivers, Gary Bartz, Tyrone Washington, and Bill Barron (reeds), Jimmy Owens and Sryl Greene (tp), Kiane Ziwadi (tb),
Reggie Workman, Hakim Jami, and Don Moore (b), Art Lewis (dr)

{"Black Nationalism in Politics Studied" The Messenger Nov 29 The Sunday Messenger p.C6;
Historic Films NT-127, www.historicfilms.com/tapes/50529_459.25_493.48}


    70.11.12 (CANCELLED) - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor, Jimmy Lyons, Sam Rivers, Andrew Cyrille / Black Arts Festival,
    5:00pm, Sears-Harkness Hall, Roberson Memorial Center, Binghamton, NY
    [Press and Sun-Bulletin Jul 10 p.17 + Jul 11 p.3]
    "Mr. Taylor notified Roberson officials earlier today that he had become ill and would be unable to come to Binghamton [tomorrow]."
    —Herbie Hancock Sextet filled in.


  • 70.11.13 to 11.15 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ken Cox (p), Ron Brooks (b), Archie Taylor (dr) /
    9:30pm Fri-Sat, 6:00pm Sun, Strata Concert Gallery, Detroit, MI [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 70.11.20 to 11.22 - Sam Rivers: as above / 9:30pm Fri-Sat, 6:00pm Sun,
    Strata Concert Gallery, Detroit, MI [Detroit Free Press Nov 15, 1970 p.27]
  • 70.12.16 - Beaver Harris' 360 Degree Music Experience: Roland Alexander (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Grachan Moncur (tb, Dir),
    Victor Gaskin (b), Harris (dr) / The East Village "In," NYC [Village Voice Dec 17 p.57]
  • 70.12.17 (1) - Beaver Harris' 360 Degree Music Experience: as above / The East Village "In," NYC [ibid]
  • 70.12.17 (2) - The Sam Rivers Ensemble: unknown personnel / Collective Black Artist Concert, 9:00pm, The East, Brooklyn, NY
    [Flyer, Ras Moshe Burnett Archive]
    —This was a mini-festival with several other groups.
  • 70.12.18 to 12.20 - Beaver Harris' 360 Degree Music Experience: Roland Alexander (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Grachan Moncur (tb, Dir),
    Victor Gaskin (b), Harris (dr) / The East Village "In," NYC [Village Voice Dec 17 p.57]
  • 70.12.22 to 12.27 - McCoy Tyner Quintet: Tyner (p, pic-fl, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, chimes, metal bells, pan pipes, pic-fl, perc),
    Charles Tolliver (tp, chimes, metal bells, pan pipes, pic-fl, perc), Herbie Lewis (b), Eric Kamau GrÁvátt (dr) / Slugs', NYC
    [Village Voice Dec 17 p.57]

1971 : : :


  • 71.01.03 - Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble: unknown personnel / 6:00pm til 12:00midnight, The East, Brooklyn, NY
    [Down Beat Mar 18, 1971 clipping + Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 71.01.10 - Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble: unknown personnel / 6:00pm til 12:00midnight, The East, Brooklyn, NY
    [Down Beat Mar 18, 1971 clipping + Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

On the P.S. 92 Recordings : : :
P.S. 92 is located at 22 W 134th Street in East Harlem. Assuming that it wasn't until the RivBea days in mid-1972 that there
was a large enough facility available to rehearse any extended ensembles, the P.S. 92 option during this time makes sense.
The Harlem Ensemble Recording of 71.01.17 also suggests this.

71.01.17 (1) • Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble [RBA—96:58]

January 17, 1971 / P.S. 92, New York City

RivBea Archive / Reel #12
1. Shades—rehearsal recording [55:29]
 (fragment–1:12, w/ perc, fl, tu, chatter; fragment–2:37, incomplete, cuts in; SR: "That was letter B"–0:43;
 fragments–2:41, w/ perc, bar lead, starts and stops, SR cajoles; fragment–4:40; SR talks–2:30; "End of A"–7:39; SR instructs–2:33;
 "B"–1:08; SR guides–1:39; "Beginning of B"–10:07, several starts and stops interspersed with SR informing; "B"–7:51; SR chats–0:43;
 "B"–9:33, practicing fragments with SR directing; "B"–4:03; "B"–4:24, with a few brief hesitations and SR consulting; SR confers–0:39)
2. Shades [31:32]  (incomplete, cuts out)
—"This tape is in a TDK SD 150H-7 box. It is recorded at 7.5 ips on both sides. On the back in pen is written, ‘Sam Rivers PS 92,’ and beneath
 is written ‘Side ['two' is crossed out] One #10 (app 30 min) Halem [sic] Ensemble Sun Jan 17 1971 First Set Letter I.’ Tracking the first part
 of the rehearsal was very difficult due to the frequent breakdowns after short bits of music. I opted to track in... four or five minute increments."
 —Joe Washek

Same composition as the ensemble is running on 71.00.00 and 71.05.08. Most of the fragments here are tentative (though the final
long run-through is much more assertive), and the recording itself is of higher quality than the preceding rehearsal sections. The apparently
later sessions on 71.00.00 and 71.05.08 are more masterful and roaring, and the recordings are much better quality than anything here.
This composition, Shades, would soon be performed by The Harlem Ensemble at Wesleyan University, 71.05.08. —RL

Sam Rivers and the Harlem Ensemble: (personnel as listed for the Wesleyan concert)
Sam Rivers (ts), Roland Alexander and Dave Young (ts), Rene McLean and Carlos Ward (as), Harvey Lesene (ss),
Kenny Rodgers (bar), Paul Jeffrey (cl), Fred Kelly (fl), Joe Gardner, Olu Dara, Ted Daniel, and Don McIntosh (tp),
Grachan Moncur, Dick Griffin, Jack Jeffers, and Daoud Haroon (tb), Ed Perry (frh), Bill Davis (tu),
Hakim Jami (b), Jumma Sultan (cga), Warren Smith and Wilson Moorman (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #12; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.06.08; Joe Washek 09.03.29; www.thesaurus.com}


  • 71.01.17 (2) - Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble: as above / 6:00pm til 12:00midnight, The East, Brooklyn, NY
    [Down Beat Mar 18, 1971 clipping + Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

71.00.00 • Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble [RBA—42:40]

Probably late January, 1971 / Rehearsal, P.S. 92, New York City

RivBea Archive / Reel #15
1. Shades [20:22]
2. Shades [16:55]  (incomplete, cuts in)
3. Shades [4:42]  (incomplete, cuts in, cuts out)
—Rehearsal recording; see notes on 71.01.17 above.

"This tape is in a Scotch 140 box. It is a 7-inch reel recorded at 7.5 ips. One side of the tape was blank. On the back is written in pen 'Sam Rivers P.S.92'.
Also written in pencil is '2 compositions.' There is no other writing on the box." —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl+voc), The Harlem Ensemble: See personnel listed in 71.01.17 above.

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #15; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.06.08; Joe Washek 09.03.29}


  • 71.01.22 - Andrew Cyrille and Company: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Charles Sullivan (tp), Lonnie L. Smith (p),
    Stafford James (b), Cyrille (dr) / 10:00pm & 1:00am, The East, Brooklyn, NY [Flyer, Ras Moshe Burnett Archive]
  • 71.01.24 - Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble: (See 71.01.17 / 6:00pm til 12:00midnight, The East, Brooklyn, NY
    [Down Beat Mar 18, 1971 clipping + Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 71.01.31 - Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble: as above / 6:00pm til 12:00midnight, The East, Brooklyn, NY [ibid]
  • 71.02.09 - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts), Andrew Cyrille (dr) /
    UW Black Arts Festival, 8:00pm, University Catholic Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
    [Wisconsin State Journal Feb 7 Sec.6 p.6]

71.02.12 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—41:00]

February 12, 1971 / The Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA

RivBea Archive / Unnumbered Reel (Box W):
1. improvisation [41:00]
—RBA Reel (Box W) has "Set #1," "I-flute II-tenor sax III-piano IV-soprano," and is incorrectly dated "12.2.1961."

"Following the first set at the opening of his engagement at the Jazz Workshop... Sam Rivers sparked the only standing ovation
and ten-minute applause I have ever witnessed at the club." —Charles Giuliano Boston Herald Traveler
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Norman Connors (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Unnumbered Reel (Box W); Display ad "Opens Fri. 2/12" Boston Globe Feb 5 p.13;
Boston Globe Feb 12 p.33; Boston Herald Traveler Feb 16 p.25}


71.02.13 • Sam Rivers: Hues

1975: ABC/Impulse! ASD-9302 (LP, Quad) [+ White-label Stereo Promo];
    8027-9302 H (8Trk!); Impulse! IMP8007 (LP) UK; YQ-8505-AI (LP) Jpn
   —1st Session [See also 71.02.14; 72.10.27; 73.08.03; 73.11.10]

February 13, 1971 / The Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA

Hues:
1. Amber [4:26]
2. Turquoise [4:01]
3. Rose [5:13]
Samthology has track 3.
—Track 1 "Amber" excerpt begins at 54:48 in (5:26 into ts section);
 track 2 "Turquoise" excerpt begins at 30:29 in (14:45 into fl+voc section);
 track 3 "Rose" excerpt begins at 42:23 in (8:24 into p+voc section).

 "This LP is made up of selections from various Sam Rivers performances,
 some recorded by Impulse! and some from Rivers' own tapes... (titles are...
 given to sections of live performance after the fact, for LP purposes.)"
 —Impulse! session producer Ed Michel
okay
RivBea Archive / Reel #53, 54, and 55:
1. improvisation [63:14]
 (ss section–13:12; b+dr–2:32; fl+voc section–18:38; p+voc section–12:56; b+dr–2:04; ts section–13:52)
—Three Scotch 207 10-inch Reels marked in pen ‘53,’ ‘54,’ and ‘55.’ On back of box 53 is written ‘Sam Rivers Trio-Boston Jazz Workshop,
 First Set, Feb 13, 1971 (Saturday).’ Below is written ‘opening with soprano saxophone section, beginning of flute section.’ Further below
 is written ‘Sam Rivers, Cecil McBee, Norman Connors.’ At bottom is written ‘Reel 1 of 3’ and ‘Sansui encoded quad, compatible stereo /
 ½-track 15 ips / Dolby NAB+3db.’ Reel box marked ‘54’ has same info except ‘2 of 3’ and ‘conclusion of flute section, complete piano
 section, beginning of tenor saxophone section.’ Reel box marked ‘55’ has same info except ‘3 of 3’ and ‘tenor section to end, faded on applause...’
 I believe that these are the master tapes of the complete performance from which 3 excerpts were drawn for the Sam Rivers LP Hues.
 Digitized, transferred to CDr, and edited to form one continuous [complete] performance." —Joe Washek
—RBA Unnumbered Reel (Box O) is a studio master, dated "12/19/74," with tracks in LP order, studio and engineering notes,
 and "File #A50-9302-A/B."
—Unnumbered Reel (Box P) is dated "12/11/74," and has tracks from four of the five Hues sessions: 3 tracks from this session marked
 "SIDE A- 4:26 1. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Tenor) +4:01 2. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Flute) + 5:12 3. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Piano);" omits
 "Chartreuse" from 71.02.14; has "Mauve" of the 2 tracks from 72.10.27 marked "+ 4:19 4. Michigan 1972 (Tenor);" has only the "Onyx"
 section of track 1 from 73.08.03 marked "SIDE B- 4:04 1. Molde, 8/3/1973 (Soprano);" and has "Hues of Melanin—Part Three" plus
 2 mysterious alternate excerpted tracks from 73.11.10 marked "+ 5:57 2. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Flute) + 4:13 3. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Piano)
 + 4:19 4. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Tenor)." This may have been an earlier selection of tracks for the LP.

Sam Rivers (ts-1, fl-2, p-3, voc-2, Comp), Cecil McBee (b), Norman Connors (dr, perc)

{Impulse! ASD-9302; Samthology; RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #53, 54, 55, unnumbered Reel (Box O), and unnumbered Reel (Box P);
CDr copies, track detailing RL 19.06.10; Producer Ed Michel; Joe Washek Jun '08}


71.02.14 • Sam Rivers: Hues

1975: ABC/Impulse! ASD-9302 (LP, Quad) [+ White-label Stereo Promo];
    8027-9302 H (8Trk!); Impulse! IMP8007 (LP) UK; YQ-8505-AI (LP) Jpn
   —2nd Session [See also 71.02.13; 72.10.27; 73.08.03; 73.11.10]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [Impulse! Studio Recordings—454:04]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—531:55 +]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—50:00]

February 14, 1971, 4:00pm / The Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA

Hues:
1. Chartreuse [3:17]
—Track excerpt exact origin unknown.
Impulse! Studio Recordings:
 "My work notes on these tapes indicate [9] recorded sets for February 14."
 [Session producer Ed Michel]
1. First set afternoon [58:00]
2. First set evening [48:00]
3. Second set evening [55:45]
4. Reel A, undated [57:32]
5. Undated Live at The Workshop [47:00]  (+ announcement)
6. Reel Conceptualism [51:20]
7. Box B, undated, probably same [39:00]
8. Box C, undated, probably same [55:00]
 "with sitters-in John Neve (p), ‘Gordon?’ (dr), unknown (as, cl), unknown (ss)"
9. Box D [42:27]
okay

      Japan release YQ-8505-AI LP cover.
RivBea Archive / Reel #7  —"Reel Conceptualism" (item 6) in Impulse! Studio Recordings.
1. Conceptualism [51:46]
 (voc-b-dr–1:48; ss section–8:04; b solo w/ bells+slide-whistle–5:08; voc-fl section–16:14; dr solo–1:26; p section–15:09; ts section–3:57)
—"A 10-inch reel recorded at 7.5 ips half-track. On the back of the box is written, ‘1. Conceptualism Time 51:20 Sam Rivers; piano, soprano,
 tenor & flute Norman Connors; Drums and percussions Cecil McBea (sic); bass’. On the bottom of the back is written
 ‘Sam Rivers Live at The Jazz Workshop’. On the spine is written, ‘7 1/2 ORIGINAL LIVE AT THE JAZZ WORKSHOP Sam Rivers Trio
 BASS Cecil McBee—Drums [illegible writing beginning with 'N']’. On another side of the outer box is written, in different handwriting,
 ‘HOTWATER/7 1/2 ORIG/FATZWESS’." —Joe Washek
—"Conceptualism" is also circulating as an Audience Recording dated incorrectly as 71.02.21.
RivBea Archive / Reel #10 (Box D)  —"Box D" (item 9) in Impulse! Studio Recordings.
4. improvisation [42:02]
 (ss section–14:28; b solo–3:07; ss/musette+voc section–5:06; fl section–5:56; b solo–2:26; p section–;7:19; dr solo–3:39)
—"A 10-inch reel, recorded at 7.5 ips half-track... in a Scotch 207 box. On the back, in blue pen, in the same handwriting (Ed Michel's)
 as seen on the other boxes of Jazz Workshop tapes, is written, ‘42:40 soprano (tenor?) flute piano probably Workshop, Boston McBee, Connors.’
 At the bottom of the back is written ‘Box D.’ At the top in magic marker is written ‘&½ ips 2-track (Prob).’
 On the spine is... ‘Sam Rivers - 7 1/2 ORIGINAL’. On another side... is the cryptic notation, ‘HOT WATER/7 1/2 ORIGINAL/FATZWESS’.
 Sam introduces [McBee and Connors] at the end. The type of tape, the recording method, the box, and the notations are the same as all the other
 tapes that are noted as recorded at the Jazz Workshop in 1971." —Joe Washek

—First bass solo has a brief slide-whistle interlude from 15:05 to 15:20; second has same from 29:22 to 29:44.
—Second soprano section sounds like a Chinese musette, as if Rivers is crushing and gnawing on the reed.
RivBea Archive / Reel #6 (Box A)  —"Reel A undated" (item 4) in Impulse! Studio Recordings.
1. improvisation [56:25]
 (ss section–15:13; voc, b+voc–1:09; voc+fl section–11:49; b solo–3:42; p section–11:44; dr solo–2:39; ts section–11:16)
—"A 10-inch reel... is recorded at 7.5 ips, half-track. There is no... date or location. On the back of the box is written
 ‘Sam Rivers #1.’ In a different handwriting [Ed Michel's] is written, ‘soprano flute piano tenor 57:20’.
 ‘Box A’ and ‘7 1/2 ips prob 2 trk’ are also written on the back in a third handwriting. On the spine is written ‘Sam Rivers 7 1/2 ORIGINAL’.
 On another side of the box is written ‘HOT WATER/7 1/2 ORIGINAL/FATZWESS’.
 Box is a Scotch 206, and the tape appears to be as well, which was the brand used for the other Workshop recordings. The written
 notations on the box and ambient sound of the recording are consistent with the other Workshop recordings in the archive. Sam announces
 Cecil McBee and Norman Connors at the end of the set, and says ‘And that constitutes the evening’." —Joe Washek

—RBA Recordings below unavailable for track detailing:
 RBA Reel #1 has "1st Set-45 min." and [recording engineer] "Larry Villella."
 Reel #2 has "2 Sets, 1st Set-40:20 min., 2nd Set-47:30 min." and "Hotwater/Fatzwess."
 Reel #3 has "2nd Set 54:45 min." and "Hotwater/Fatzwess."  —Impulse! Studio Recordings item 3.
 Reel #4 has "1st Set Afternoon, 58 min.," and "Hotwater/Fatzwess."  —Impulse! item 1.
 Reel #5 (Box C) has "55:00 min." and "Hotwater/Fatzwess."  —Impulse! item 8.
 Reel #52 (Box B) has "39:00 min." and "Hotwater/Fatzwess."  —Impulse! item 7.
 Unnumbered Reel (Box L) has "2nd Set Sun Eve," "tenor, flute, piano, soprano," and "Soprano last part."
 Unnumbered Reel (Box M) has "2nd Set Sun Eve" and "ss, flute, piano."
—CS #42 is a C-60, and has "No Reel Found," "First Set Sunday Evening," "Total 48 minutes,"
 and "WGS-8282-A" [may be "W65-8282-A"].
—RBA Reel #6, 7, 10, and 52 are all dated "1971;" Reel Box L and Box M are both dated "2-14-? Sun Eve."
—"FATZWESS," noted on several of the reels, is Fatz Wess, occasional musician and recording engineer.
—Unnumbered Reel (Box O) is a studio master, dated "12/19/74," with tracks in LP order, studio and engineering notes, and "File #A50-9302-A/B."
Audience Recording:
1. "one continuous set" [50:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss [on Hues track], fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b, voc), Norman Connors (dr, perc)

{ASD-9302; RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Box C), 6 (Box A), 7, 10 (Box D), 52 (Box B), unnumbered Box O,
unnumbered Box M, unnumbered Box L, + CS #42; CDr copies #6 (Box A), 7, and 10 (Box D), track detailing RL 19.06.10;
Correspondence w/ Impulse! Producer Ed Michel; The Boston Globe Feb 14 p.A11}



—All that, and the release of a three-minute track . . .


    71.03.29 to 03.31 - "Impulses: A [Dance] concert of improvisation conceived and directed by Margaret Beals" with Sheila Jordan (voc),
    Joel Press and Sam Rivers (reeds), Gwendolyn Watson (ce), Bill Wood (b) / 8:30pm, The Cubiculo Theatre, NYC
    [Village Voice Mar 25 p.33; New York Magazine Mar 29 p.19]
    —Rivers is listed in New York Magazine, but Village Voice display ad has Beals with "cello, bass, sitar, voice.". —RL


  • 71.03.30 - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts), Andrew Cyrille (dr) / An "informal" concert,
    8:00pm, Marycrest Hall, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
    [Press release from March 23, 1971, Revised Schedule for Cecil Taylor In-Residence Program, ecommons.udayton.edu/news_rls/8339;
    The Journal Herald Mar 31 p.40]


  • 71.03.30 (2) - Time/ ... on & on (1971)—Ceremonial Music for Kirkpatrick Chapel: Barbara Grant (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss),
    Noel Da Costa (vn, Comp), David Drinkwater (org), + electronic tape /
    Mid-Day Recital Series, Kirkpatrick Chapel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
    [The Central New Jersey Home News Apr 18, 1971 p.71]
    —Rivers is listed in the production notice here, but the music was likely pre-recorded. —RL


  • 71.03.31 - Cecil Taylor Unit: as above / 8:15pm, Kennedy Union Ballroom, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH [ibid]


  • 71.04.02 through 71.04.04 (CANCELLED) - Cecil Taylor Unit: Taylor (p), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Alan Silva (b), Andrew Cyrille (dr) /
    Strata Concert Gallery, Detroit, MI [Detroit Free Press Apr 2 p.18 + Apr 3 p.28; Fifth Estate Apr 1-14 p.22+31]
    "To play an Antioch College date..." where Taylor was Visiting Professor of Music and Artist in Residence during the Fall quarter. —RL
    —And again, the Herbie Hancock Sextet fills in for a cancelled CT gig...

71.04.08 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—48:00]

April 8, 1971, 8:00pm / The Muse, Brooklyn, NY

1. improvisation [48:00]
"He apologized to his audience. His group had been late in etting to Muse so they did not start until 9 P.M." —John S. Wilson

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Hakim Jami (b), Clifford Jarvis (dr)

{Village Voice Apr 8 p.88; John S. Wilson The New York Times Apr 11, 1971 p.57; Anonymous source for recording info}


  • 71.04.26 - The Harlem Ensemble (with members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra): Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp, Cond),
    Roland Alexander (ts, ss, fl, ob), Paul Jeffrey (ts, fl, cl), Fred Kelly and Dave Young (ts, fl), Carlos Ward and Rene McLean (as, fl),
    Hamiett Bluiett (ss, fl, bar, bcl), Ted Daniel, Olu Dara, Joe Gardener, and Charles Sullivan (tp), Charles Stephens (tb),
    Dick Griffin (tb, btb), Jack Jeffers (btb), Kiane Zawadi (tb, eu), Edward Perry and William Warnick (frh), Bill Davis (tu),
    Hakim Jami (b), Warren Smith and Wilson Moorman (perc) / JCO Workshop No. 10, 7:30pm, Public Theater, NYC
    [JCOA "Shades" promo sheet w/ personnel + JCOA Workshops Schedule mailer, The RivBea Archive;
    The New York Times Feb 24, 1971 p.35; Village Voice Apr 22 p.98]
    "Ten workshops... Works in Progress." —JCOA season mailer
    "Jazz Composer's Orchestra Workshop No. 10... This is an open rehearsal—not a concert." —Event promo sheet
  • 71.04.30 - Horacee Arnold's Here and Now Company: Sam Rivers (ts), Mike Lawrence (tp), Reggie Workman (b), Roy Ayres (vbs), Arnold (dr) /
    8:00pm, Tillet Hall, Livingston College of Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ [The Central New Jersey Home News Apr 29, 1971 p.50]
    —No personnel listed other than Arnold and Rivers.

71.05.08 • Sam Rivers and The Harlem Ensemble (with members of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra) [RBA—59:01]

  • Sam Rivers and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra [Juma Sultan Archival Recording—30:00]
    —This is listed (as is the RivBea tape box) at Sultan Archive as "Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble."

May 8, 1971 / Sam Rivers—Visiting Artist, World Music Program, Wesleyan University Chapel, Middletown, CT

RivBea Archive / Reel #20
1. Shades—rehearsal fragments [22:48]  (multiple splits in track, numerous starts and brief stops, Rivers giving instructions)
 —Very confident, working in sections, Sam simply saying "Okay." before moving immediately on to the next.
2. Shades [36:03]  (split track at 22:07)  —Performance followed by much applause.
—RBA Reel #20: "This tape is in a Scotch 290 box. It is a 7" reel recorded at 7.5 ips. One side of the tape is blank. On the front of the box
 ‘Sam Rivers’ is written in pen. On the back in pencil is written ‘Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble,’ ‘Shades,’ ‘JCOA,’ and ‘Workshop’.
 There are also a series of numbers in a column on the left and a corresponding column of letters on the right. I suspect that
 the numbers refer to digit-counter readings on the tape recorder the tape was made on, and that the letters refer to sections of a composition."
 —Joe Washek
Juma Sultan Archival Recording Tape #T0146:
1. Shades [30:00]
—"The Sultan archive has a recording that I am VERY confident is this performance. Although I am not at liberty to share it, I have listened
 to it and it closely matches Bill Cole's description of the event in Downbeat. The tape itself was mislabeled, but when I listened with Sultan
 efore knowing the Downbeat connection (listening blind, essentially), he identified the group as Rivers'. You'll also note that in the personnel,
 Cole lists the percussionist as "Juma." This is not Jumma Santos, as you had hypothesized elsewhere, but Juma Sultan. Juma frequently
 travelled with recorders during this period, which accounts for how he ended up recording the tape... Juma's recording only has the first
 half-hour of the Wesleyan performance. We have not found any other tape with the remainder." —Michael Heller

—The Warren Smith Archive has a cassette of Sam Rivers' Harlem Music Ensemble, unknown date, "1970," from Wesleyan University,
 that has Sam Rivers (reeds), Warren Smith (dr, perc), and unknown others.

Bill Cole Down Beat review:
"This concert was in jeopardy because of non-communication and general uncooperativeness by those representing the University.
The money for the concert had not been secured until the Tuesday before the Saturday concert, which for Wesleyan is unusual. A request
by Rivers for advance money to pay for the bus was denied. In fact, he wasn't notified about the money until Thursday, when he took
the initiative to call to see what was happening. Food was supplied for the band when they arrived but they had to eat in one of the dormitory
lounges, most of them sitting on the floor. When they arrived the chapel was completely closed, the piano was locked, no music stands
were on the stage (which was entirely too small for a 25-piece band), and none of the amplifying equipment had been set up.
In other words, none of the courtesies afforded any other music performers on the campus were available to this band. But Rivers was
determined to have his new work premiered.
The piece is called Shades. It was introduced by a procession of the musicians entering the chapel ringing bells and playing an assortment
of percussion instruments. Rivers was the last to enter. Bedecked in a long, elegant white robe with black trim, he resembled a soothsayer...
When percussionists Moorman, Smith, and Jami readied themselves and began playing, Rivers emotionally recited a poem by Yusef Rahman,
All Praise to Allah, while the other musicians moved onto the crowded platform. ...Rivers picked up his tenor and the musical extravaganza
began. The material seemed to be in four parts... about 90 percent of the music was improvisation with Rivers juxtaposing his lines against
the full band, then a section, then another individual player, and then the percussion. The energy level... was incredibly high and it was
sustained for the hour and 45 minutes it lasted... The stage area was so small that every time someone would move, music parts would
fall off the stands and microphones would be hit... At the end I was exhilarated. And I wasn't the only one, the whole chapel seemed
to burst at the seams, as if it hadn't heard anything like that in its entire history...
I recall my amazement when he sat down at the piano. This was right after a flute solo in which he joined the other flutists in the band.
During this, he created triads with flute and voice timbre at the same time. This was preceded by a vehemently aggressive tenor solo in which
he played everything I had ever heard. But it was really the piano that took me off. First, his great skill, technically with the instrument,
then the way he combined periods and styles. I watched the other musicians watch him, stunned. (I found out later that this was the first time
anyone at this gathering, including the band, had heard his piano.)"

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Roland Alexander and Dave Young (ts), Rene McLean and Carlos Ward (as), Harvey Lesene (ss),
Paul Jeffrey (cl), Kenny Rodgers (bar), Fred Kelly (fl), Joe Gardner, Olu Dara, Ted Daniel, and Don Mcintosh (tp),
Grachan Moncur, Dick Griffin, Daoud Haroon (some sources have "David Haroom"), and Jack Jeffers (tb),
Ed Perry (frh), Bill Davis (tu), Hakim Jami (b), Juma Sultan (cga), Warren Smith and Wilson Moorman (dr)

—Pre-show announcement/flyer omits Harvey Lesene, Kenny Rodgers, Don Mcintosh, and Juma Sultan; and adds Dave Young (ts, fl),
 Hamiett Bluiett (ss, fl, bar, bcl), Charles Sullivan (tp), Charles Stephens (tb), Kiane Zawadi (tb, eu), William Warnick (frh),
 Vishnu Wood (oud, b), and Clifford Jarvis (cga)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #20; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.06.12; Harlem Ensemble/JCO "Shades" promo sheet, The RivBea Archive;
Joe Washek 09.03.29; Down Beat Aug 19, 1971 p.11; Bill Cole Down Beat Oct 28, 1971 p.33; Michael Heller 14.06.25 + 18.07.28}


71.05.00 • Sam Rivers Interview [BR—60:00]

May, 1971 / "Jazz, Etc," WBAI-FM Studio, New York City
—WBAI-FM, Broadcast 7:30pm, May 22, 1971; Recorded shortly after the May 8th JCO gig.

1. Interview [60:00]
"A talk with Sam Rivers... who was a featured composer in the recent series of free, open rehearsals
[see 71.04.26 and 71.05.08] of the Jazz Composer's Orchestra."

Sam Rivers (voc), Eric Raeburn (hosting)

{WBAI Folio May 1971 Vol.12 no.5 p.4}


    "Dick Griffin is the trombonist on [a private] live recording. He also recorded the gig with his reel-to-reel machine.
    The gig was at the Jazz Museum (NYC) in 1971." —Anonymous source 18.02.09 + 18.02.29


  • 71.05.13 - Cecil Taylor Ensemble & "The Mendota Players": Taylor (p), Bobby Zankel, Tom Lachmund, Craig Purpura, Herman Milligan,
    Douglas Harris, Bob Kaufman, and David Birkin (reeds), Sam Lobel and Estelle Katz (cl), Karen Borca—given as "Karen Kambitsis" (bsn),
    Carla Poole (fl), Steve Levi and Karyl Wolfe (tp), Jeff Crespi (b), Clifford Sykes (tmp),
    + Special Guests Jimmy Lyons (as), Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Andrew Cyrille (dr), Ken Miller (dance) /
    8:40 & 11:00pm, Hunter College Playhouse, Hunter College of the City University of New York, NYC
    [Down Beat undated clipping, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice May 13 p.28; Jan Ström's Jimmy Lyons Sessionography]
    —"Two concerts May 13..."
  • 71.05.17 - Time/ ... on & on (1971)—Ceremonial Music for Kirkpatrick Chapel: Barbara Grant (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss),
    Noel Da Costa (vn, Comp), David Drinkwater (org), + electronic tape / 8:30pm, Kirkpatrick Chapel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
    [The Central New Jersey Home News May 14 p.5]
    "First complete performance."
  • 71.05.21 to 05.23 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ron Brooks (b), Dan Spencer (dr) /
    9:30pm Friday and Saturday, 6:00pm Sunday, Strata Concert Gallery, Detroit, MI [Detroit Free Press May 21 p.18]

71.06.03 • Sam Rivers Trio: Emanation

2019: NoBusiness Records NBCD 118 (CD, Sam Rivers Archive Series Volume 1) Lth
  • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—79:18 & AR—48:00]

June 3 (or 5), 1971 / The Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA
 "From Saturday night, June 3, 1971, presumably from The Workshop..."
 —Impulse! session producer Ed Michel.
  June 3rd was a Thursday, so either the date or the day mentioned
  both by Michel and on the RBA Reel are incorrect. —RL

Emanation
1. Emanation. Part I [31:09]
2. Emanation. Part II [45:32]
RivBea Archive Reel #8 [33:08]
 tune-up + chatter [1:32]
1. improvisation [31:01]
 (ts section–11:23; b solo–4:34; fl section–7:55; p section–7:09)
—RBA Reel #8: "With one reel... [31:50] + announcements... A Scotch 206 box.
 It is a ten-inch reel recorded at 7.5 ips, 2-track. On the back is written, ‘Sam Rivers—
 Sat. Night June 3, 1971, Set 1 7.5 ips 2-track stereo’. Beneath is written in what
 appears to be different handwriting, ‘31:50 Tenor, Flute, Piano (bass off mike),
 McBee, Connors probably Workshop, Boston’. This is apparently the master tape
 of a recording of the first set on a different night from the performances excerpted
 on Hues (71.02.13 and 71.02.14). —Joe Washek
okay
RivBea Archive Reel #9 [46:08]\
2. improvisation [45:13]
 (ss section–20:46; fl+voc section–10:57; fl+voc w/ dr solo–3:08; p+voc section–10:22)
 Rivers at the end of the 2nd Set: "We're going to come back in about fifteen minutes with some more music."
—RBA Reel #9: "Another... [46:0x]... is in a Scotch 206 box. It is a ten-inch reel recorded at 7.5 ips 2-track. On the back is written,
 ‘Sam Rivers—Sat. Night June 3, 1971 Set 2 7.5 ips 2-track stereo’. Beneath is written in what appears to be different handwriting,
 ‘46:0x (sic) Soprano, Flute, Piano, McBee, Connors (probably Workshop, Boston)’. This is a very nice performance with a very long
 and inventive soprano section and some wild playing by all, especially Sam's vocalizing. Unlike the other recordings from the Jazz
 Workshop in the archive, this one does not show any evidence of splicing or editing, leading me to believe that it was never considered
 for issue on Impulse!. This is the complete set and does not contain a soprano sax section. Having been in the Jazz Workshop many
 times and heard many... recordings from it, the ambient sound... leaves little doubt in my mind that it was recorded there." —Joe Washek
Audience Recording:
1. "one continuous set" [48:00]  (2nd Set)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, ss, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Norman Connors (dr, voc-2 during p+voc section)

{NBCD 118; RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #8 and 9; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.04.19; Joe Washek 09.03.29; Session producer Ed Michel}


  • 71.06.09 - Harlem Cultural Council 7th Anniversary Benefit: George Shirley (Tenor), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Alma Martin (p), Soloists & Ensemble from the Afro-American Singing Theatre,
    + Special Guests Rosetta LeNoir and Frederick O'Neal (actors) / 8:00pm, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Daily News Jun 4 p.65]
  • 71.06.20 (1) - Sam Rivers & Sonia Sanchez: Rivers (reeds), Sanchez (poetry) /
    2:00pm, Mt. Morris Park Amphitheatre, NYC [Village Voice May 20 p.32]
  • 71.06.20 (2) - Sam Rivers and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra: See 71.04.26 and 71.05.08 for probable lineup /
    Mt. Morris Park Amphitheatre, NYC [JCOA "Shades" promo sheet, The RivBea Archive]
  • 71.06.00 (probably the 26th or 27th) - Sam Rivers and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra: as above /
    Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC [JCOA "Shades" promo sheet, The RivBea Archive]
  • 71.06.28 to 07.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Cecil McBee (b), Norman Connors (dr) /
    9:00pm (Sunday matinee at 4:00pm), The Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Chris Carville 16.11.06; Boston Globe Jun 25 p.14 + Jul 2 p.18]
  • 71.07.10 - Sam Rivers and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra: See 71.04.26 and 71.05.08 for probable lineup /
    Franklin Park Amphitheatre, Brooklyn, NY [JCOA "Shades" promo sheet, The RivBea Archive]
  • 71.08.03 - Horacee Arnold's Here and Now Company: Sam Rivers (ts), Mike Lawrence (tp), Reggie Workman (b), Arnold (dr), possible others /
    Jazzmobile, 7:00pm, Gottesman Plaza, NYC [Village Voice Jul 29 p.72]
  • 71.08.04 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble: Rivers (ts, Comp, Cond), "the full compliment stands 30 members." /
    7:30pm, Mt. Morris Park Amphitheatre, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; New York Amsterdam News Jul 31 p.B10; Village Voice Aug 5 p.43 + "What's On" p.80]
  • 71.08.06 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... /
    7:30pm, Tompkins Square Park Amphitheatre, NYC [Village Voice Aug 5 "What's On" p.80]
  • 71.08.12 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: as above / 8:00pm, Jacob Riis Amphitheatre, NYC
    [Village Voice Aug 12 "What's On" p.72]
  • 71.08.14 - Afro-American Singing Theatre / 8:00pm, Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park Bandshell, NYC [ibid]

  • Wesleyan University Graduate Program in World Music: MA and PhD Degrees—School year 1971-72:

    August 1971 through May 1972—Faculty member Sam Rivers, Visiting Artist in Afro-American Music,
    Room 235, Music Building, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
    [World Music Program dated 8/11/71, Department of Music pamphlet, The RivBea Archive]

    "[Teaching at] ...Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. This African American Music Program began in 1969 with one instructor
    and one course. There are now 19 courses. Down Beat contributor Bill Cole is the administrative assistant. Trombonist Clifford Thornton
    is an assistant professor, and Sam Rivers, Jimmy Garrison, and Ed Blackwell are among the six visiting artists. The courses cover a wide range
    of African and Afro-American black music and art. They are available to undergraduate and applicable to Master's and Ph.D. degrees in World
    Music. To complement the program, many black musicians have given concerts on the campus over the past two years, including Sun Ra,
    Jackie McLean, Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble, Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Raschid [sic] Ali, Ken McIntyre, Clifford Thornton,
    and Ornette Coleman..." [Michael Cuscuna Record World Nov 6 '71 p.39]

    "Sam conducts jazz ensembles and teaches the history of music at Wesleyan... three times a week, commuting by bus, which gives him
    a chance to compose, instead of reading the way most of us do." —Ernest Leogrande
    ["An Artistic Bond" Daily News Sep 7 Night Owl p.6]


71.09.16 • Sam Rivers [RBA]

September 16, 1971 / Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

1... unknown compositions [ : ]
—RBA unnumbered Reel X has "Scotch/3M Magnetic Tape, ¼-inch x 1800 feet, 7-inch Reel, unknown;" "Log Sam Rivers,"
 (Short 94), (about 200), (4 bars + Damien improv / unknown);" and "Mozart 1-used tape can be erased 6/9/1971, unknown / Oct 1971."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), unknown ensemble

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel "X"}


  • 71.09.17 - Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp, Cond), Paul Jeffrey, (reeds), Ted Daniel (tp),
    Charles Stephens and Dick Griffin (tb), Warren Smith (dr), others... / The Harlem Cultural Council's Black Celebration,
    8:00pm, Delacorte Theatre, Central Park, NYC [Village Voice Sep 16 p.52]
  • 71.09.18 - The Afro-American Singing Theater: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... /
    The Harlem Cultural Council's Black Celebration, 8:00pm, Delacorte Theatre, Central Park, NYC [ibid]
  • 71.11.04 to 11.06 - The Afro-American Singing Theater: as above / Black Expo, Statler Hilton Hotel, NYC
    [Poster, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, NYC; Ras Moshe Burnett 17.11.28]
  • 71.11.18 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: Sam Rivers (p), Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    probable others... / Harlem YMCA, NYC
    —A production of Black Cowboys, the "horse opera in jazz form."
    [Bernard L. Peterson Jr, A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works
    By, About, or Involving African Americans
    , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 1993 p.42]
  • 71.11.19 (1) - Afro-American Singing Theatre: as above / Harlem YMCA, NYC [ibid]
    —A production of Black Cowboys, the "horse opera in jazz form."
  • 71.11.19 (2) + 11.20 - Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), JR Mitchell (dr), unknown others / Geno's Empty Foxhole, Philadelphia, PA
    ["JR Mitchell Named Lecturer at NU" Bay State Banner Nov 18 p.21]

1972 : : :


    Whitman College African-American Cultural Festival : : :

  • 72.04.04 (1) - Jazz Workshops with Sam Rivers Ensemble: as below / Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
  • 72.04.04 (2) - Sam Rivers Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Sonny King (as), Clifford Thornton (tp),
    Kenny Burrell (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Ed Blackwell (dr) / Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
  • 72.04.05 (1) - The African American Music Faculty of Wesleyan: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Sonny King (as),
    Clifford Thornton (vtb), Freddie Simmons (p), Jimmy Garrison (b), Ed Blackwell (dr) /
    Washington State Penitentiary, Walla Walla, Washington [Stefanie Pettit feature, The Spokesman-Review Apr 6 p.8]
    "Brought their music inside the penitentiary for performances in minimum and maximum security sections... Some people got up and walked out.
    Others were spellbound... Tuesday's [the 4th] performance lasted more than two hours with one number lasting almost an hour... At the first performance at the prison Wednesday, the musicians each played something different for about twenty minutes, each doing short solos, after which the bass player kidded with inmates, talked, and played in brief spurts." —Stefanie Pettit
  • 72.04.05 (2) - Sam Rivers Ensemble + Improvisational Ensemble: as above, + Improvisational Ensemble—Denney Goodhew, Ernie Roberts,
    David Clodfelter, Peter Wilson, other Whitman College students + guest artist / Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington
  • [Bill Cole review clipping Down Beat Sep 14, 1972 pp.36-7, The RivBea Archive;
    The Daily Chronicle Mar 31 p.5; The Paper May 5 p.8; archives.evergreen.edu]


  • 72.04.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Roland Alexander (ts), Kiana Ziwadi (eu) —Tkweme had "R Alex/Kiane Z." /
    Unity House, Brooklyn, NY
    [Down Beat Jun 8, 1972 clipping, The RivBea Archive; W. S. Tkweme "Vindicating Karma: Jazz and the Black Arts Movement" (2007) p.216,
    Doctoral Dissertation at scholarworks.umass.edu]
  • 72.04.16 - Sam Rivers Improvisation Ensemble: (no personnel listed) / Afro-American Music Festival,
    10:00pm, Wesleyan University Chapel, Middletown, CT [Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive; The Bridgeport Post Apr 16 p.58]

72.05.12 to 05.14 • Bill Evans & George Russell Orchestra: Living Time

1972: Columbia KC 31490 (LP) [+ Can]; CBS/Sony 23AP 89 (LP) Jpn;
    CBS/Sony SOPL-114 (LP, SX68MARK II Series) Jpn; CBS S 65010 (LP) Neth;
1973: CBS S 65010 (LP) Spn [Same release# as '72 Neth];
1988: CBS/Sony 25DP 5306 (CD, "Adventures of Jazz" Series) Jpn;
1993: Sony Records SRCS 7134 (CD) Jpn;
1997: Sony Records SRCS 9357 (CD) Jpn;
2010: Sony Records Int'l SICP 2756 (CD) Jpn;
2013: Sony Records Int'l SICP 30283 (CD, Blu-Spec CD2) Jpn
  • Bill Evans: The Bill Evans Album/And Living Time
    1972: Columbia CG33672 (2-LP)
  • (V/A) The Progressives
    1973: Columbia KG 31574 (2-LP) [+ Can];
        CBS S 68210 (2-LP) Neth [+ Club Edition w/ alternate sleeve];
        CBS S 68210 E (2-LP, "Los Progresivos") Spn
  • (V/A) Dive Into Jazz
    2011: Süddeutsche Zeitung Jazz (18-CD) Ger

May 12 to 14, 1972 / Columbia Records 30th Street Studio, New York City
—"Mid-May," "Thursday evening," and "May 12-14."

1. Event I [3:50]
2. Event II [8:23]
3. Event III [2:49]
4. Event IV [5:31]
5. Event V [11:54]
6. Event VI [4:15]
7. Event VII [2:09]
8. Event VIII [5:41]
Dive Into Jazz has track 4.
The Progressives has track 5.

Images, top to bottom:
Living Time original LP cover (CBS S 65010, Neth)
The Progressives 2-LP cover (CBS S 68210, Neth)
And Japanese release OBIs of Living Time CBS/Sony SOPL-114,
and Sony Records Int'l SICP 2756 and SICP 30283
okay

okay
George Russell (Comp, Arr, Cond),
Carl Atkins (Asst Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, fl, ob),
Jimmy Giuffre and Joe Henderson (reeds),
Ted Saunders (cl, el-p), Stanton Davis (tp),
Snooky Young, Ernie Royal,
and Richard Williams (tp, flg),
Dave Baker and Garnett Brown (tb),
Dave Bargeron (tb, tu), John Clarke (frh),
Sam Brown (g), Bill Evans (p, el-p),
Webster Lewis (org, el-p), Eddie Gomez (b),
Ron Carter (b-5,7), Stanley Clarke (elb -1,3),
Herb Bushler (elb-4,6,8), Mark Belair (perc),
Tony Williams and Marty Morell (dr)

{KC 31490; SRCS 7134}

okay

The collaboration between pianist Bill Evans and composer-conductor George Russell... was decidedly more than a group of studio musicians
coming down for a Thursday evening to play a few changes for background music for a soloist. Granted, Evans, playing the Fender Rhodes
and the Steinway Grand, was the soloist for the date, but what went on between pianist and his orchestra was of a far more serious nature.
The band playing behind him—including musicians like Tony Williams, Joe Henderson, Sam Rivers, and Ron Carter—was working on some
intricate time charts, so complex that conductor Russell required an assistant to help with his chores...

Evans, in the center, had a role which was not totally dissimilar to that of a soloist in a classical or romantic piano concerto. The differences
were that the nature of Evans' playing was improvisational, and his role as pianist was not simply a case of virtuosity for virtuosity's sake.
At times, Evans would play alone, other times in a trio (with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Marty Morell), and other times with the full
ensemble. The session marked a special reunion for Russell and Evans; it was in 1955, when Evans was doing postgraduate work at Mannes
College, that he first recorded with Russell. One of those efforts, "All About Rosie." marked the turning point in Bill's career; his solo on
the recording establishing him as one of the finest young pianist talents of the day.
["About The New Bill Evans Album" Record World Annual, Jul 22 '72 p.248 ]


  • 72.05.21 - The Afro-American Singing Theater: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... /
    3:00pm, The Public Theater, NYC [Village Voice May 11 p.71]

  • 1972:

    Panken: Did you go to Bond Street right away?
    SR: I had two six-room apartments on 124th Street. I had the whole top floor, 12 rooms, so I could do a lot of things up there... But then
    I started looking around downtown, and then eventually I found Bond Street. There was a very beautiful woman, Virginia [Admiral],
    the mother of Robert De Niro, and she was very pleased that we made the whole building internationally famous.
    [Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997 www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php]
    ———



okay

June, 1972 : : :

Sam Rivers opens Studio RivBea at 24 Bond Street in Soho, NYC /
"In a Soho building owned by Robert De Niro's mother,
with artist Robert Mapplethorpe for an upstairs neighbor..."

"The mid-70s music scene in NYC was amazing. Somebody interesting
was playing almost every night; certainly every weekend. RivBea was
one of the best places to go—great music from 10pm-4am, for $3.00!"
—Peter Katz posting to Miles-list 95.07.29

"I used to see Sam Rivers play in his basement studio, Studio RivBea
(Bea was his wife) here in NYC in the 'loft' years (1970s). You'd pass
through his living room and go downstairs to the performance space..."
—Greg Masters posting to Miles-list 96.09.19

"I remember in the '70s going to hear Sam Rivers all the time, and it was
so informal—basically at his house, he and his wife were hanging out,
and you just sort of talked to him and it was no big deal. These guys are
just so cool and approachable, and it really rubs off on you—no attitude,
no prima-donna stuff..."
—Tim Berne interview, The Orlando Sentinel Jul 23 1999 Calendar p.8

Photo by Lucia M. (with permission)



72.06.27 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & BR—40:14]

June 27, 1972 / Studio RivBea, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast, NYC
—Also noted as June 28th, probably a Broadcast date.

1. Statement of 3 Restless Musicians [40:11]  (split track at 30:23, fades out and back in)
 (ts section–11:02; b solo–2:23; fl section–8:10; b solo–2:42; p+voc section–6:11; SR voc + dr solo–0:42; ss+voc section–9:01)
 WKCR announcement [0:44]
—RBA unnumbered Reel (Box N) has "Scotch Magnetic 7-inch Reel, ¼-inch x 120 feet, (PH#?), 280-5011 unknown;" "Sport 71-2 Production Tape;"
 "WKCR;," and the personnel with "Jami" on bass   and "Wilson Goodman" on drums.

—This is the first known performance at Studio RivBea, perhaps a preview or opening in preparation for the New York Musicians' Jazz Festival.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Hakim Jami (b), Wilson Moorman (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel Box N; CDr, track detailing RL 19.06.14; Andrew Galloway; Anonymous 06.01.01; Patrick Clare 07.02.07}


    The New York Musicians' Jazz Festival : : : June 30 through July 9, 1972

    "The New York Musicians' Jazz Festival was not sure as of Sunday afternoon [June 18] whether or not an ad for its activities would appear
    in this week's Voice. They plan to have about 100 acts participating—all people who are not on the Newport rosters—at various
    locations (from prisons to clubs) around town, from June 30 to July 10." [Village Voice Jun 22 RIFFS p.55]
    —No display ad was run in the Voice.

    "While the Newport Jazz Festival-New York is going on, an alternate festival, The New York Musicians' Jazz Festival, will also be taking place..."
    ["Newport Jazz Festival expanded for New York" The New York Times Jun 24 p.18]
    —This article has the first mention of Studio RivBea as a performance venue.

     The NYMJ Festival received minimal coverage in the Voice and The New York Times. The Times had a few mentions that it was happening
     within articles on the Newport Festival, but details were few: a short paragraph in the "Going Out Guide" on July 1st; a printed schedule
     only on the 7th, and another on the 8th that neglects to list Studio RivBea at all. Most of the feature articles dealt with the socio-political
     situation that gave rise to the competing festivals.

    [The New York Times Jul 1 p.23; "Dissonants Hear Another Jazz" Jul 6 p.45;
    "Jazzmen Sound Off On State And Status Of Their Art" Jul 7 p.20; partial schedule Jul 8 p.20; "All's Not Harmonious" Jul 9 p.E4]


  • 72.06.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc),
    Cecil McBee (b), and Warren Smith (dr) /
    New York Musician's Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [NYMJFestival Studio RivBea schedule + preliminary PR sheet, The RivBea Archive; Ed Hazell 09.06.14]

  • 72.07.01 through 72.07.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above /
    New York Musician's Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]

72.07.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

July 5, 1972 / New York Musician's Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC

1... improvisations [ : ]
Juma Sultan Archive has a 0:33 video clip: "This film was produced
by Karma Stanley and Juma Sultan for the NYMO. The full version
of this film is interesting for more than just shots of the performers.
It captures moments of Sam's wife, Beatrice, the "Bea" of RivBea.
It also captures moments when the band is setting up on stage. Sam
is running the mic cables, and coming off stage is a very young Dave
Holland, presumably from a preceding performance that night... Juma
does believe [the audio recording] will be found in his collection."

"The tribute to Lionel Hampton at Philharmonie Hall and the Chicago
jazz night... at Carnegie Hall, I prefer a concert organized by the
protesters New York Musicians' Jazz Festival. I go to the Studio
Rivbea, Bond Street, in the Village. It's a cellar, a real one. For $3,
we announce Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, Rashied Ali, and Andrew
Hiil. The latter does not appear, however. What does it matter since Ali
is sensational, that Cecil McBee is the most interesting bassist of new
music and that I discovered a guitarist named Blood who would shame
Mr. Burrell and Larry Coryell, every night of the week! At the exit of
the cellar, around 3:30am, I'm not not very brave. The streets are a little
disturbing, luckily I can hail a taxi." —Gilles Archambault

Sam Rivers (reeds), Cecil McBee (b), Warren Smith (dr)


    One of the first schedules from Studio RivBea and Studio We.
    —Ed Hazell 09.06.14

{Andrew Galloway; web2.clarkson.edu/projects/jumasarchive; Gilles Archambault "Le Tour du Jazz en Sept Jours" Le Devoir Jul 15 p.11,
collections2.banq.qc.ca/jrn03/devoir/src/1972/07/15/5226335_1972-07-15}


  • 72.07.06 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Jerome Cooper (dr, mba, whooper, perc) /
    New York Musician's Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [NYMJFestival Studio RivBea schedule + preliminary PR sheet, The RivBea Archive; Ed Hazell 09.06.14]
  • 72.07.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: personnel as above / New York Musician's Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [ibid]
  • 72.07.08 - Sam Rivers Trio / New York Musician's Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.07.09 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio / Fulton Fish Market Festival, 2:00-10:30pm, Pier 15, NYC
    [Village Voice Jul 6 p.27 + small notice p.57]
    Billboard Jul 1 p.55 has this on the 8th. Article mentions recordings, for which I've found no evidence.
     "The entire [‘Fish Market Festival’] will be recorded for after-airing on FM stations thorughout the US."
  • 72.07.09 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio / New York Musician's Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [NYMJFestival Studio RivBea schedule + preliminary PR sheet, The RivBea Archive; Ed Hazell 09.06.14]

72.07.10 • Free Jam Session [AR & AVR—31:00]

July 10, 1972 / Central Park Mall, New York City

1. improvisation [31:00]
"The audience of young people seemed to understand exactly what the musicians were saying as they shouted encouragement,
whistled and finally gave the performers a standing ovation." —Les Ledbetter The New York Times Jul 11, 1972
"For 31 minutes last night the Central Park Mall was the scene..." —The New York Times review

This film was produced by Karma Stanley and Juma Sultan for the New York Musicians Organization.
(This was the culmination of the first New York Musicians Jazz Festival.)

Alan "Juice" Glover and Frank Lowe (ts), Sam Rivers, Noah Howard, and Arthur Doyle (reeds),
Earl Cross and Ted Daniel (tp), Sam Brown (g), Art Jenkins, Jeanne Lee, and Joe Lee Wilson (voc), Juma Sultan (b),
Ali Abuwi and Harold Smith (perc), Barry Altschul, Steve Reid, and Art Lewis (dr), many others...

{Les Ledbetter The New York Times Jul 11, 1972; web2.clarkson.edu/projects/jumasarchive}


    No Sam Rivers dates on any of the RivBea Calendars between July 28 and NYMO Festival starting up on September 1.



    : : : Visiting Artist, Wesleyan University, August 1972 to June 73 : : :

    Courses taught by Rivers: Afro-American Lab Band [165,166 CPR]; Jazz Saxophone Studies [159,160 C].
    —Other faculty members listed on these pages are Bill Cole, Clifford Thornton, Ed Blackwell, Jimmy Garrioson, and Charles Garner.
     [Typed Wesleyan catalogue proof pages, The RivBea Archive]

    The New York Musicians Organization Labor Day Weekend Festival : : : September 1 through 4, 1972

    "The New York Musicians Organization, Inc., a cooperative of more than 500 jazz artists that temporarily coalesced just before
    the Newport Jazz Festival to produce an ‘alternate jazz festival’ in July, has become a permanent organization. The inaugural event
    of the new company is a series of Labor Day weekend performances centered on three free park concerts by a 150-piece jazz orchestra.
    Today the New York Musicians Improvisational Orchestra will perform an original group work, ‘Zodiac.’
    The musicians organization is also sponsoring performances by smaller jazz groups over the weekend at Studio RivBea, 24 Bond Street,
    each day from 5 P.M. to 4 A.M.; and Sam Rivers, director of the 150-piece orchestra lead his trio at Studio We, 193 Eldridge Street,
    from 5 P.M. today to 4 A.M. tomorrow.
    [The New York Times "Five Hundred Jazz Artists Form New Group" Sep 2 p.15]

    The New York Times errs by switching up venues between the Studio We and RivBea performances: "Performances by smaller jazz groups
    over the weekend at Studio RivBea, 24 Bond Street, each day from 5 P.M. to 4 A.M.; and Sam Rivers, director of the 150-piece orchestra
    lead his trio at Studio We, 193 Eldridge Street, from 5 P.M. today to 4 A.M. tomorrow."

    The Village Voice and the partial Studio We/RivBea PR sheet both had details of the other groups playing at Studio We during this time.
    (Earl Cross Ninette and Phase on the 1st; Earl Cross Ninette on the 2nd; Melodic Art-tet, Pithos Three, and Naoh Howard Quartet
    on the 3rd; Rashied Ali Quintet, Pithos Three, and Noah Howard Quartet on the 4th. The lone(ly) Studio RivBea listing is for
    the Rivers Trio on the 4th.
    —The Studio We/RivBea PR sheet also adds Art Jenkins + 3 and Abdullah to the 4th.
    [Village Voice "What's On" Aug 31 p.80; Studio WE/RivBea PR sheet p.2, The RivBea Archive]

  • 72.09.01 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Cecil McBee (b), Clifford Jarvis (dr) / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Aug 24 p.43 + Aug 31 p.43; Studio WE/RivBea PR sheet p.2, The RivBea Archive; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
    Voice August 31 display ad has Clifford "Jarius."
  • 72.09.02 (1) - New York Musicians Improvisational Orchestra: Sam Rivers (Cond), 150 musicians, + dancers, + a chorus /
    3:00pm, Music Grove, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
    [The New York Times "Five Hundred Jazz Artists Form New Group" Sep 2 p.15]
  • 72.09.02 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Cecil McBee (b), Clifford Jarvis (dr) / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Aug 24 p.43 + Aug 31 p.43; Village Voice "What's On" Aug 31 p.80; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 72.09.03 (1) - New York Musicians Improvisational Orchestra: Sam Rivers (Cond), 150 musicians, + dancers, + a chorus /
    2:00pm, Central Park Mall, NYC
    [The New York Times "Five Hundred Jazz Artists Form New Group" Sep 2 p.15]

    "According to publicity, 150 musicians and dancers were supposed to appear in Central Park on Sunday afternoon, September 2 [sic].
    Only about 30 of them actually made it, but that was still the largest free jazz ensemble I had ever heard."
    [The Village Voice "Free Jazz: A Scrawly Texture" Sep 14 p.41]


  • 72.09.03 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Cecil McBee (b), Clifford Jarvis (dr) / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Aug 24 p.43 + Aug 31 p.43; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 72.09.04 - New York Musicians Improvisational Orchestra "Chorus and Dance Company": as above /
    2:00pm, Mount Morris (Marcus Garvey) Park Amphitheater, NYC
    [The New York Times "Five Hundred Jazz Artists Form New Group" Sep 2 p.15Village Voice "What's On" Aug 31 p.80; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 72.09.04 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Cecil McBee (b), Clifford Jarvis (dr) / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Aug 24 p.43 + Aug 31 p.43; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]

  • September, 1972:

    Bond Street in Manhattan is two blocks long. It runs from Broadway to the Bowery, a kind of lost area between the Greenwich
    and East Village turfs. If you care to hunt it out, two entertaining weekend events are happening face to face on the street.
    Studio RivBea at No. 24... looks like a blank door on a dingy street when you walk up, but at about 9 or 10pm the door slides back
    and there is one of the Rivers' daughters at a welcoming table and you walk directly into the Rivers' warm, spacious floor—through
    living space, broken up by multi-colored screens arranged by Bea, a room big enough to ride a bicycle through, as has happened.
    "I've seen people come to the door all tense," Sam said. "Then they walk in and relax."
    Downstairs, in a white brick-walled basement the length of the upper floor, the audience drifts in and takes seats with practically
    no exchange of conversation. The musicians do the same. No announcements are made or needed. The music begins...
    There's no sign outside because Sam wants to keep the evenings for audiences the size of friends, not mobs.
    The musical groups change from weekend to weekend. Sets run on for an hour or so, with short breaks, and end about 4am.
    "I can play two hours straight," Sam said. "I gave up smoking and drinking three years ago and I run a mile around the neighborhood
    here early in the morning. Sometimes we play after people leave, till 6 or 7. Sometimes that's when the best music is played, because
    we get our second wind..."
    Contributions are $3 for weekends, $1 for workshop groups, which use the basement midweek days starting at 7pm.
    [Ernest Leogrande: "An Artistic Bond" in Daliy News Night Owl Sep 7 p.6]
    ———


  • 72.09.11 - Sam Rivers' "Harlem Ensemble Woodwind Co." Workshop: Rivers and unknown others (reeds) /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Sep 7 p.55]
  • 72.09.20 - Sam Rivers' "Harlem Ensemble Woodwind Co." Workshop: as above / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Sep 14 p.59]
  • 72.09.25 - Sam Rivers' "Harlem Ensemble Woodwind Co." Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Sep 21 p.65]
  • 72.09.30 - Sam Rivers Ensemble: (no personnel listed), The Afro-American Singing Theatre, Ossie Davis and Frederick O'Neal (actors),
    Sonia Sanchez, Askia Mohammed Toure, and Jacqueline Early (poetry) / Schomburg Collection Day, 135th Street Branch, Public Library, NYC
    ["Library's Black Collection Is Saluted in Day of Its Own" The New York Times Oct 1, 1972 p.60]
  • 72.10.09 - Workshop Series: Sam Rivers "Composition for Woodwind Ensemble, Part 1" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Oct 5 p.55; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 72.10.11 - Workshop Series: Sam Rivers "Composition for 15 Brass and Soprano Saxophone, Part 1" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.10.20 - Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), William Davis (b), Warren Smith (vib, perc, dr) /
    The Empty Foxhole, St. Mary's Parish House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

  • —The Richard Davis/William Davis credits on bass on the Foxhole gigs are as given on flyer: "William... (Fri.) Richard... (Sat.)"

  • 72.10.20 - Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Richard Davis (b), Warren Smith (vib, perc, dr) /
    The Empty Foxhole, St. Mary's Parish House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

72.10.27 • Sam Rivers: Hues

1975: ABC/Impulse! ASD-9302 (LP, Quad) [+ White-label Stereo Promo];
    8027-9302 H (8Trk!); Impulse! IMP8007 (LP) UK; YQ-8505-AI (LP) Jpn
    —3rd Session [See also 71.02.13; 71.02.14; 73.08.03; 73.11.10]
  • Sam Rivers: The Live Trio Sessions
    1978: IMP IA-9352/2 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII)
        AIMPL 25043 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII) It
        —1st Session [See also 73.07.06; 73.08.03; 73.11.10]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—41:06]

October 27, 1972 / Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Hues:
1. Mauve [4:17]
2. Indigo [1:28]
RivBea Archive / Reel 11":
 sound check; SR talking [0:40]
1. composition (a blues) [6:20]
 (ts section–2:34; b solo–2:50; ts section–1:36)
2. improvisation [24:14]
 (ts section–10:50; fl section–6:08; dr solo–1:22; ss section–5:52)
3. improvisation/encore [5:10]
 (fl+voc, b, perc–3:01; ts, b, perc–2:09)
okay

        Cover image from Live Trio Sessions
—RBA Reel #11: "The tape is on a 10-inch reel and is recorded at 7.5 ips. half-track. It is in a Scotch 206 box. On the back, top left,
  is written, ‘#2 Sam Rivers Trio.’ Below that notation, are two pieces of masking tape. Written on the masking tape is, ‘SAM RIVERS HOLD
 FOR ED MICHEL.’ On the back, at the right, in the same handwriting (Ed Michel's?) that is on the Jazz Workshop tape boxes is written,
 ‘40=39 [sic] notes inside (blank tape at end) 1972 University of Michigan (?)’ [the mark in the foregoing parentheses is most likely
 a '?' but it could be a '2' or a '7'] Rochester.’ On the spine is written ‘SAM RIVERS TRIO, U. OF MICH. ORIGINAL 7 1/2 / 1/2.’
 On another side of the box is the now familiar, cryptic notation, HOTWATER/7 1/2/ ORIG/FATZWESS.’ [Fatzwess was a producer. —RL]
 There are no notes inside the box." —Joe Washek

—"This is excerpted from a live performance, tape of which runs 40:20, and includes a section with Rivers on flute and soprano saxophone,
 and which has vibes, or possibly bell chimes played by the drummer, as well as raps on ‘Spontaneous Creativity’ and ‘Composition
 through Improvisation.’" —Impulse! session producer Ed Michel.
—"Mauve" is the beginning 4:17 of the track 2 improvisation tenor section; "Indigo" is the final 1:28 of the opening blues composition.
—RBA Unnumbered Reel (Box O) is a studio master, dated "12/19/74," with tracks in LP order, studio and engineering notes,
 and "File #A50-9302-A/B."
—Unnumbered Reel (Box P) is dated "12/11/74," and has tracks from four of the five Hues sessions: "Mauve" only from this session, marked
 "+ 4:19 4. Michigan 1972 (Tenor);" all 3 tracks from 71.02.13 marked "SIDE A- 4:26 1. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Tenor) +4:01 2. Boston, 02/13/1971
 (Flute) + 5:12 3. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Piano);" omits "Chartreuse" from 71.02.14; has only the "Onyx" section of track 1 from 73.08.03 marked
 "SIDE B- 4:04 1. Molde, 8/3/1973 (Soprano);" and has "Hues of Melanin—Part Three" plus 2 mysterious alternate excerpted tracks from 73.11.10
 marked "+ 5:57 2. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Flute) + 4:13 3. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Piano) + 4:19 4. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Tenor)." This may have been an earlier
 selection of tracks for the LP.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Richard Davis (b), Warren Smith (vib, perc, dr)

 —Tenor sax only on both Hues tracks.

{Impulse! ASD-9302; IMP IA 9352/2; RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #11 and unnumbered Reel (Box O); CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.12;
Joe Washek 10.10.21; Producer Ed Michel}


  • 72.11.08 - Afro-American Singing Theatre: Sam Rivers (p), Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    probable others... / Billie Holiday Theatre, Brooklyn, NY
    —A production of Black Cowboys, the "horse opera in jazz form," this time as part of a longer work called "The Black West."
    [Bernard L. Peterson Jr, A Century of Musicals in Black and White: An Encyclopedia of Musical Stage Works
    By, About, or Involving African Americans
    , ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 1993 p.42]
  • 72.11.07 to 11.12 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Norman Connors (dr) /
    9:30pm-4:00am (8:30-3:00 Saturday), Slugs', NYC [The Village Voice Nov 2 p.66]

  • November 29, 1972:

    Bill Barron: You have a studio in which you have different things taking place.
    Sam Rivers: Right. That's another thing. I moved to New York from Boston in 1965 because there just wasn't enough musicians that
    were up to doing the kind of things I had in mind. It's relatively easy for me to get musicians to play my music. A lot of people say it's
    hard to find musicians, but I think that has more to do with the music. I don't have any trouble finding musicians; they're calling me up.
    When are you going to have rehearsal? They find the music interesting and challenging and therefore they're always ready to come out
    and rehearse and enjoy the music. Which is a rare thing today, because musicians like everyone else want to get paid for what they do.
    If you do something, somebody's going to get paid, you know. So they feel like they should get money. Even for rehearsals. In my case
    if they're not doing anything, they'll come down and rehearse the music for free because they like the music.
    As far as my studio, we put it together so I had a place to rehearse the band. So the fellas could come by and rehearse and talk and relax.
    In an atmosphere where some one doesn't come in and say, all right, time to get out now. And that blossomed into something else. The
    Newport Festival this summer wanted some new places to do concerts, so July 1 we opened up the doors as a studio doing concerts and
    workshops. So it's still moving right along now and I'm happy it happened that way. Actually I have the studio as an outgrowth of having
    a rehearsal space.
    BB: And what goes on there now?
    SR: Well, I have a full calendar of events for every month. Earlier in the week is workshops in the evenings, where a fella can bring in
    new music that they would like to have rehearsed and get the band together, or they can bring in the people they like, which is every
    evening from like 7:00 to 11:00. During the day, I have classes going on there. I have a few people who are teaching there now and that
    starts around 1:00. Group instruction and private students. And it's working really well.
    BB: What's the address?
    SR: Oh, the address. 24 Bond St. That's the same as Second Street, E. 2nd, between Lafayette and the Bowery.
    BB: What's the phone number?
    SR: The phone number is 473-4378. There's something happening there every night. On the weekends, Friday and Saturday, we have
    concerts, maybe Sunday afternoon. They start at 10:00 and go on until we get tired or things stop happening. This weekend we'll have
    concerts starting at 11:00pm and there will be a quartet featuring Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland on bass, and Barry Altschul on
    percussion, and I'll be playing with them too.
    BB: At...?
    SR: STUDIO RIVBEA (laughs)
    BB: We want all enterprising musicians or anyone who is interested or involved in music to go on out and support it.
    SR: That's right. It's a nice comfortable atmosphere for musicians. I'm a musician so I set it up that way. It's two floors. The first floor
    is an art gallery, and the music is in the basement so we don't disturb anyone. Upstairs are a few of my art pieces that were given to
    me by artists I know. I have one from Miro, which was given to me in the south of France when I was there in 1969.
    [Bill Barron Interviews Sam Rivers on November 29, 1972; The New York Times Dec 7 p.72]
    ———

    "While working with Stan Getz, Holland also began to play with reedsman Sam Rivers and the players that assembled for [Holland's]
    first ensemble record as a leader. Conference of the Birds... comprised, he says, his ideal group... That group played some concerts
    together, but the contrasting approaches of Braxton and Rivers proved incompatible." [WIRE #50 April 1988 p.49]

  • 1972: (late)

    Panken: You spent a good chunk of the 1970's working with Anthony Braxton and Sam Rivers after Circle broke up.
    Dave Holland: That's true. We had all been living in LA for about six months, actually, when the band broke up. Barry and I both came
    to New York, although first I went up to Seattle for a few months with my wife and daughter. My wife was expecting our second child,
    and we came back to New York basically to set up home and have our second baby. Anthony had gone to Paris for a while, and worked
    over there, but he'd been making trips back to New York, and it was during one of these trips that we did Conference Of The Birds.
    Three-quarters of the band was Circle, and we had already achieved an identity as a collection of people. Barry and I also started playing
    with Sam Rivers after we got back to New York. We were going over to Sam's loft, and playing two or three hours a day with him.
    [Holland interview by Ted Panken, WKCR-FM, NYC, June 8, 1994, www.jazzhouse.org/files/panken4.php3]
    ———

72.11.30 • Dave Holland: Conference of the Birds

1973: ECM Records ECM-1027 (LP) Ger; ECM/Polydor ECM 1027 ST 2391 105 (LP);
    ECM/Warner 1-1027 ST (LP); ECM/Trio Records PA-7079 (LP) Jpn;
1979: ECM 1027 ST (LP) Spn;
1987: ECM 1027 829 373-2 (CD) Ger;
2000: ECM 1027 (CD)
2017: ECM 1027 (LP, 180g vinyl) Ger;
unknown: ECM/Polydor 28MJ3505 (LP) Jpn
  • (V/A) ECM Special VI—New Music In Bass
    1978: ECM/Trio Records PA-4016 (LP) Jpn
  • Dave Holland: Conferences
    1998: Musica Jazz ECM/DH (CD) It
        Supplement to Musica Jazz Magazine Issue No.2 1998
  • Dave Holland: Mp3 Collection
    2003: MP3SERVICE, no issue# (CDrOM, Unofficial) Rus
  • Dave Holland: Selected Recordings
    2004: ECM Records 014 206-2 (CD, :rarum X Series) Ger
  • (V/A) Selected Recordings IX-XX
    2004: ECM Records 981 6208 (12CD Box, :rarum IX-XX) Ger
  • (V/A) 100 Years of Jazz
    2011: Ludwig Beck LBJ 150 (12CD, Ltd Edition of 1,058) Ger
    —"Exclusively for the Jazz section at the department store ‘Ludwg Beck’
     in Munich," a reissue of '100 Years of Jazz'—Jazz Selection 40012 (1999),
     a 10-CD Box distributed by Delta Music & Entertainment that did not
     contain the Holland track.

November 30, 1972 / Allegro Studio, New York City

1. Four Winds [6:32]
2. Q & A [8:34]
3. Conference of the Birds [4:34]
4. Interception [8:20]
5. Now Here (Nowhere) [4:32]
6. See-Saw [6:40]
100 Years of Jazz has track 1.
New Music In Bass, Dave Holland: Selected Recordings,
 and Selected Recordings IX-XX and Musica Jazz Conferences have track 3.

Images:
Original US release LP cover, 1973.
New Music In Bass LP cover, 1978 release on Trio Records (PA-4016)

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Anthony Braxton (as, ss, fl, cl, bcl, bsx),
Dave Holland (b, Comp), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{ECM 1027; rutracker.org}

okay

okay

72.12.01 • The Quartet [AR—88:09]

December 1, 1972 "11 o'clock 'til" / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. See Saw (Holland) [13:51]
2. Q & A (Holland) [20:27]
3. Four Winds (Holland) [5:28]
4. Interception (Holland) [14:49]
5. Now Here (nowhere) (Holland) [13:07]
6. Billie's Bounce (C. Parker) [18:15]
—The RivBea flyer has this billed simply as "The Quartet."
—At the end, Sam says that they'll be "back tomorrow."


Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Anthony Braxton (as, ss, fl, cl, bcl, bsx), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{Hand-written flyer, The RivBea Archive; 2CDr, track detailing RL 19.07.15; Village Voice Nov 30 p.68; Andrew Galloway}


    Creative Music Studio New York Studies in Musical Improvisation—December, 1972

    "Group workshops, classes, and special studies for all instruments." / Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS December, 1972 Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    "Special studies avaliable with Karl Berger (piano, vibes, improvisation and composition all instruments);
    Sam Rivers (saxophones, flutes, improvisation and composition all instruments); David Izenzon (bass + composition);
    Barry Altschul (percussions); Lee Konitz (improvisation for saxophone and flute)."


    "The Workshops are open to musicians and artists who need a place for rehearsals, a band, or other musical assistance as well as facilities
    to tape their music in preparation for recording dates. The workshop offers a chance to practice with experts and play for them and a place
    to perfect one's music.
    ‘Too many musicians get that one big chance to record for a company and then blow it. The two dress rehearsals they allow you, with
    disinterested union background players and an untogether studio, are not enough to get your thing together for a recording that may launch
    or further your career,’ says Rivers. ‘A musician should be able to rehearse as much as he feels is necessary and to hear his own music
    played back. Then he can perfect his pieces and whip several excellent tapes on the recording company.’
    On weekends RivBea operates as an after-hours jazz spot, featuring concerts by new and well-established jazz and Latin artists. The Sam Rivers
    Trio and various guests appear weekly." [Encore December 1972 p.27]


  • 72.12.02 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 72.12.02 (2) - Class—Rhythm, Phrasing, Listening: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [ibid]

72.12.02 (3) • The Quartet [BR—122:50]

December 2, 1972, "11 o'clock 'til" / Studio RivBea, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast, The Loft Jazz Festival, January 10-15, 1994

1. Four Winds [25:16]
2. Q & A [12:46]
3. Interception [22:51]
4. Now Here (nowhere) [10:55]
5. See Saw [12:43]  (split track at 11:10; incomplete, cuts out)
6. Conference of the Birds [3:30]
—Broadcast has several interview segments with Altschul; a shorter music-only version is circulating at 98:34.
—Also noted, an Audience Recording at 98:54.

"As a result of [ECM Records Conference of the Birds] we did a few concerts. And yesterday after I spoke to you I was looking
through my tapes and all of a sudden this tape appeared. I completely forgot it existed." —Barry Altschul

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Anthony Braxton (as, ss, fl, bcl, bsx), Dave Holland (b, Comp), Barry Altschul (dr)

 —Some sources have this as the "Sam Rivers and Anthony Braxton Septet," adding Monty Waters (as), Earl Cross (tp), and Jerome Cooper (dr).

{2CDr Broadcast, track detailing RL 19.12.15; Hand-written flyer + CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Nov 30 p.68;
Altschul Interview by Jennifer McNeely, "The RivBea Tapes," Studio RivBea Day, Loft Jazz Festival, WKCR-FM Broadcast January 10-15, 1994;
Andrew Galloway; Patrick Clare 07.02.07 + 08.12.18}


  • 72.12.03 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 1:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 72.12.03 (2) - Class—Harmony, Orchestration: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.06 (1) - Group Workshop: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.06 (2) - Class—Theory, Harmony: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.07 (1) - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble: unknown personnel "15-piece group... that will be playing some of my compositions." /
    7:30pm, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium, Loeb Student Center, New York University, NYC
    [Undated display ad, The RivBea Archive; Bill Barron Interviews Sam Rivers, 72.11.29; The New York Times Dec 7 p.72]
  • 72.12.07 (2) - Sam Rivers and Boston Art Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Stan Strickland (ts), Arthur Brooks (tp),
    Hayes Burnett (b), Syd Smart (dr) / 7:30pm, Loeb Student Center, New York University, NYC
    [Undated display ad, The RivBea Archive; Down Beat Feb 1 1973; Ed Hazell 19.04.15;
    W. S. Tkweme "Vindicating karma: jazz and the Black Arts movement" (2007) p.217, Doctoral Dissertation, scholarworks.umass.edu]

72.12.00 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR]

December, 1972 / Studio RivBea, New York City

1... unknown titles [ : ]
—Moncur is in the house and accounted for on December 8, 9, 28, and 31, and may have been there at other times during the month.

Sam Rivers (ts), Stafford Osborn (tp), Grachan Moncur III (tb), Hank Lewis (dr)

{Andrew Galloway; Village Voice Dec 7 p.61 + Dec 28 p.36}


  • 72.12.09 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 72.12.09 (2) - Class—Rhythm, Phrasing, Listening: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Dec 7 p.61]
  • 72.12.10 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 1:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.10 (2) - Class—Harmony, Orchestration: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.13 (1) - Group Workshop: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.13 (2) - Class—Theory, Harmony: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.15 or 72.12.16 - Paul Bley Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Bley (el-p, ARP synth), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Dec 14 p.70; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
    —Studio RivBea had the "Paul Bley Quartet" scheduled for the 15th and 16th. —RL

  • "...I think I did a gig at RivBea late '72 with Paul Bley, Sam, and Barry." —Arild Andersen 11.12.29
    —May have subbed for either the 15th or 16th of December.

72.12.15 or 12.16 • Paul Bley Quartet [AR—91:44]

December, 1972 / Studio RivBea, New York City
—This is the 15th or 16th, and noted also as "Sam Rivers w/ Paul Bley and Scorpio."

1. improvisation [53:39]  (ts–fl–ts–fl+voc; split track at 46:17)
2. improvisation [37:36]  (ss–fl+voc; incomplete, cuts out)
 "[This is] an improvisation, but Bley inserts Carla Bley's "Syndrome" into it, which he, Holland, and Altschul had recorded
 together just a short time before, on November 24, 1972, for Bley's Milestone album Paul Bley and Scorpio. In fact another
 way to look at this gig is Scorpio with Sam Rivers." —Ed Hazell

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Paul Bley (el-p, ARP synth), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.19; Village Voice Dec 14 p.70; Ed Hazell 16.09.10}


  • 72.12.16 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Dec 7 p.61]
  • 72.12.16 (2) - Class—Rhythm, Phrasing, Listening: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [ibid]

72.12.16 (3) • Sam Rivers Quintet [AR]

December 16, 1972 / Studio RivBea, New York City
—Possibly an after-hours arrangement, as this weekend had "Paul Bley Quartet with Sam Rivers, Barry Altschul" (as above).

1... improvisations [ : ]
—Recording noted with 2 tracks.

Sam Rivers (reeds), Noah Howard (as), Paul Bley (el-p, ARP synth), A. Freeman (b), John Lewis (dr)

{Anonymous 06.01.01}


  • 72.12.17 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 1:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Dec 7 p.61]
  • 72.12.17 (2) - Class—Harmony, Orchestration: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.20 (1) - Group Workshop: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.20 (2) - Class—Theory, Harmony: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.23 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.23 (2) - Class—Rhythm, Phrasing, Listening: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [ibid]
  • 72.12.23 (3) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Monty Waters (as), Benny Wilson (p), Art Lewis (dr) /
    "Midnight," Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Dec 21 p.62; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
    Voice display ad has "SANI RIVERS," which I rather like.
  • 72.12.24 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 1:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 72.12.24 (2) - Class—Harmony, Orchestration: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.27 (1) - Group Workshop: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 72.12.27 (2) - Class—Theory, Harmony: Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.29 - Karl Berger and Friends: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dewey Redman (ts, as), Karl "Hans" Berger (vb), David Izenzon (b),
    Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc), Jerome Cooper (dr) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [New Music December flyer, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Dec 28 p.36+45; Down Beat Feb 1 1973]

    Voice display ad p.36 had only Berger, Ing-Rid, Izenzon, and Cooper; item p.45 had "music for bass, vibes, and percussion, reeds, and voice.".

  • 72.12.30 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 72.12.30 (2) - Class—Rhythm, Phrasing, Listening: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [ibid]

72.12.30 (3) • Karl Berger and Friends [AR]

December 30, 1972, 10:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

1st Set:
1. improvisations [ : ]
—Recording noted with 4 tracks.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dewey Redman (ts, as), Karl "Hans" Berger (vb), David Izenzon (b),
Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc), Jerome Cooper (dr)

Voice display ad p.36 had only Berger, Ing-Rid, Izenzon, and Cooper; item p.45 had "music for bass, vibes, and percussion, reeds, and voice."..

{Anonymous 06.01.01; Village Voice Dec 28 p.36+45; Down Beat Feb 1 1973; New Music December flyer, The RivBea Archive}


  • 72.12.31 (1) - Group Workshop: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 1:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [CMS Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 72.12.31 (2) - Class—Harmony, Orchestration: Karl Berger & Sam Rivers / Creative Music Foundation, 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 72.12.31 (3) - Karl Berger & Friends: Berger, Sam Rivers, unknown others... /
    "New Year's Eve Concert-Dance-Jam Session," Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Dec 28 p.36]

1973 : : :


    "We eventually moved over to playing at Studio We in the daytime... and Sam Rivers' Studio RivBea for the night-time activity.
     About '73 was when he had his full schedule going, he had music seven nights a week."
    —William Parker, interview by Bob Rusch [Cadence Vol.16 No.12 December 1990 p.6]

    —"Seven nights a week," except during the periodic off-months, the months of rest after torrid activity, or when Sam was touring... —RL


  • 73.01.26 to 73.01.28 - Sam Rivers Quartet with Bea Benjamin: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Benjamin (voc),
    Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr), unknown other / Studio RivBea, NYC
    [John S. Wilson "Bea Benjamin Here from South Africa..." The New York Times Jan 29, 1973 p.23;
    New York Magazine Jan 22, 1973 p.19]
    "I'm Glad There is You," "My Melancholy Baby," "It Never Entered My Mind" (Rodgers & Hart),
    a group of Ellington songs, "I Love You" (Cole Porter), "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"

    Village Voice "Jazz on Bond Street" Jan 18 p.60 had this on the 25th and 26th, with Benjamin, John Fourie, Mike Pike, and Sonny Brown.


  • 73.02.02 [CANCELLED] - Margaret Beals' Impulses Company: Sam Rivers (fl), Collin Walcott (sitar), Gwendolyn Watson (ce),
    Beals (dance), Glen Moore (b), Janaki (voc) / 8:00pm, Washington Square Methodist Church, NYC
    [Village Voice Jan 25 p.41]
    —"Due to a prolonged knee injury..." This concert was rescheduled (See 73.05.26+27).


  • 73.02.04 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Feb 1 p.61; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 73.02.05 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Woodwind Ensemble / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive—not included in weekly Village Voice ad]
  • 73.02.07 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.02.09 and 02.10 - Sunny Murray's Spiritual Ensemble: Frank Lowe (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ted Daniel (tp), Grachan Moncur (tb) /
    10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Feb 1 p.61]
  • 73.02.11 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Feb 8 p.59]
  • 73.02.12 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Woodwind Ensemble / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive—not included in weekly Village Voice ad]
  • 73.02.14 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]


  • Creative Music Studio New York—Studies in Musical Improvisation, February 12 through May 28, 1973

    Karl Berger, Lee Konitz, Barry Altschul, Sam Rivers, David Izenzon, and Frederic Rzewski / Turtle Bay Music School, NYC
    [The Village Voice Feb 1 p.39]

    —The CMS Schedule/press release has the Sam Rivers "wind instruments" workshops (Orchestral Explorations) under its auspices
     being held at Studio RivBea on Sundays from February 18 through May 20.

  • 73.02.18 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [The New York Times Feb 11, 1973 p.D18; Village Voice Feb 1 p.61 + Feb 15 p.62; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 73.02.19 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Woodwind Ensemble / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive—not included in weekly Village Voice ad]
  • 73.02.21 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.02.23 + 02.24 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: Sam Rivers, Mike Moss, Joe Ferguson, Clive Stevens, Danny Carter,
    Alym Mustata, Gene Ghee, Louis Keel, Lauren Brown, Trever Koler, and Fred Kelly / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Feb 15 p.62 + Feb 22 p.50; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 73.02.25 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [The New York Times Feb 11, 1973 p.D18; Village Voice Feb 1 p.61 + Feb 22 p.50]
  • 73.02.26 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Woodwind Ensemble / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive—not included in weekly Village Voice ad]
  • 73.02.28 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.03.04 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Contemporary Jazz Orchestral Explorations" / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea March 1973 Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Feb 1 p.61]
  • 73.03.05 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Woodwind Ensemble" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea March 1973 Schedule, The RivBea Archive—Not included in weekly Village Voice display ad]
  • 73.03.07 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.03.11 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Contemporary Jazz Orchestral Explorations" / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea March 1973 Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Ed Hazell; Village Voice Mar 8 p.52]
  • 73.03.12 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Woodwind Ensemble" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea March 1973 Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 73.03.14 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]

    March, 1973:

    "Remember the counter jazz festival last July at the time of the Newport one? Here is where much of it is going on. It is not a nightclub
    so there's no such thing as someone coming around picking up empty glasses. It eally is a studio in the basement of Sam Rivers' loft,
    painted pristine white, carpeted and parachuted (for acoustics), and many of the listeners sit on foam rubber against the walls. I prefer
    the chairs because of my thing of sitting up to listen. It's a serious place but the armosphere is easy, informal not rigid like going
    to a concert because you can stay for another set, walk around or have a refreshment or bring your own. There are some kids going
    back and forth too, which adds to the humanness of the whole scene. There are workshops or concerts going on every night of the week
    and some are only a dollar. Studio RivBea...""
    [Alix Dobkin Village Voice Mar 22 p.56 (review of Dewey Redman performance March 16+17]
    ———


  • 73.03.18 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Contemporary Jazz Orchestral Explorations" /
    6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid; Village Voice Mar 15 p.56]

  • [73.03.19 through 73.03.21 (2) below are not included in Village Voice display ad Mar 15 p.56 which covered the 16th through 24th.]

  • 73.03.19 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Woodwind Ensemble" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea March 1973 Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 73.03.20 - The Jazz Opera Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... /
    10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.03.21 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.03.21 (2) - The Jazz Opera Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... /
    10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]


  • 73.03.22 - Carman Moore & The Interplayers, with Elaine Summers Dance & Film Co.: The Interplayers—Moore (Dir, Comp),
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ken Bichel (synth), Robert Wood (vbs), Wilsom Moorman (perc), Omar Clay (dr), Peter Feld, Rob Spevack,
    and Janice Brown (unknown), + Guest Artist Barbara Washington Grant (voc); Dance & Film Co.—Summers (Chor, fims, camera, dance),
    Robert Wood (public instruments), Tedrian Chizik (camera, dance), Alexandra Ogsbury, Nanette Sievert, and Tony Nunziata (dance) /
    8:00pm, The Cubiculo Theatre, NYC [Program + Cubiculo press release, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Mar 22 p.44]
     "A concert of improvised music / A Mixed Media Experience / A Public Participation Event."
    1. Subtle Jam for 7, 8, or 9 Players
    2. Interplay for Film and Instruments
    3. Variation on a Theme by Abraham Lincoln
    4. "Chamber Progressions"
     —With the Dancers—
     Intermission
    5. Public Improvisation for People, by People, with People
     (everyone is invited to join in making the Music and Dancing)


  • 73.03.25 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Contemporary Jazz Orchestral Explorations" / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea March 1973 Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Mar 22 p.62; Ed Hazell]
  • 73.03.26 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Woodwind Ensemble" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea March 1973 Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 73.03.28 - Sam Rivers Workshop: "Composition for Fifteen Brass Instruments & Tenor Saxophone" /
    7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.03.30 - Jeanne Faulkner Recital: Faulkner (Soprano), probably Sam Rivers (p) / Manhattan Country School, NYC
    —"In classical and jazz selections" (See 73.04.26) [Village Voice Feb 1 p.50]
  • 73.04.01 - Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Mar 29 p.61]
  • 73.04.02 - Sam Rivers Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.04 - Sam Rivers Compositions for Brass Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.06 - Karl Berger and Friends: no personnel listed, likely same as 73.04.14 / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Apr 5 p.48]
  • 73.04.07 - Karl Berger and Friends: as above / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.08 (1) - Jam Session / 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.08 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.09 - Sam Rivers Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.11 - Sam Rivers Compositions for Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.00 - Black Musician's Conference, Keynote Speakers: Max Roach, Archie Shepp, Donald Byrd, Sam Rivers,
    and Clifford Thornton / University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA [Black World/Negro Digest Mar 1973 p.49]
    —Conference ran from 73.04.09 through 04.13, so either the 10th or 12th.
    "Memorial concerts are planned for each night of the conference."

  • 1973:

    "[Studio RivBea] is not a night club so there's no such thing as someone coming around picking up empty glasses. It really is a studio
    in the basement of Sam Rivers' loft, painted pristine white, carpeted and parachuted (for acoustics)... It's a serious place: but the atmosphere
    is easy, informal, not rigid like going to a concert because you can stay for another set, walk around, or have a refreshment or bring your
    own. There are some kids going back and forth too, which adds to the humanness of the whole scene. There are workshops or concerts
    going on every night of the week and some are only a dollar."
    [Rosetta Reitz in the Village Voice quoted in a Nat Henthoff column in Musician September 1973]
    ———

  • 73.04.13 - Karl Berger and Friends: Sam Rivers (ss), Berger (vbs), Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc),
    Dave Holland (b), Steve Haas (dr, perc) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Apr 12 p.70; Studio RivBea March 1973 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    Village Voice display ad has Berger concerts misdated "April 6, 7," same as the previous week's ad.
    —Studio RivBea's March 1973 schedule has the concerts list panel marked "April."

73.04.14 • Karl Berger and Friends [RBA]

April 14, 1973, 10:00pm / Studio RivBea, NYC

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA CS #203 is a C-120 with personnel and date listed for this session, but cassette has Rivers Trio
 with Dave Holland and Steve Ellington from 1980-'81.

Sam Rivers (ss), Karl Berger (vbs), Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Haas (dr, perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #203, without attributed recording}


  • 73.04.15 (1) - Jam Session / 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Apr 12 p.70]
  • 73.04.15 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Ed Hazell; Village Voice Apr 12 p.70]
  • 73.04.16 - Sam Rivers Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.18 - Sam Rivers Compositions for Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]

73.04.20 • Ed Taylor Jazz Opera Ensemble [AR—64:00]

April 20, 1973, 10:00pm & 12:00am / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. "Jazz Opera" [64:00]
Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Vishnu Woods (oud, b), Linda Twine (p), Warren Smith (dr, Perc)

{Black Theatre Alliance Newsletter #2 Spring '73 + Studio RivBea press release, The RivBea Archive; Martin Milgrim 05.02.17; Village Voice Apr 19 p.68}


  • 73.04.21 - Ed Taylor Jazz Opera Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp),
    Vishnu Woods (oud, b), Linda Twine (p), Warren Smith (dr, Perc) / 10:00pm & 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Black Theatre Alliance Newsletter #2 Spring '73 + Studio RivBea press release, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Apr 19 p.68]
  • 73.04.22 (1) - Jam Session / 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Apr 19 p.68]
  • 73.04.22 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.23 - Sam Rivers Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.25 - Sam Rivers Compositions for Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]

  • 73.04.26 Jeanne Faulkner Recital: Faulkner (Soprano), Sam Rivers (p) / 8:00pm, Town Hall, NYC
    [Raymond Ericson "Jeanne Faulkner Glitters in Song" The New York Times Apr 29 p.56;
    Black Theatre Alliance Newsletter #2 Spring '73 + Concert program, The RivBea Archive]
    "She gave the premiere of ‘Three Sung Poems,’ unusual if discursive works by Sam Rivers, who accompanied her, and then sang
    four spirituals. Here she showed that if she didn't want to do opera, she is already a marvelous gospel singer." —Raymond Ericson

73.04.27 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

April 27, 1973, 10:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. improvisation [ : ]  (fl section; ss section)
2. improvisation [ : ]  (p section; ss section)
3. improvisation [ : ]  (fl section; ts section; ss section)
—RBA Reel "R" has Sam Rivers Trio, but database also notes "Sam Rivers Duo / Side I & Side II / Unknown;"
 "A continuation of 04/27/1973 Last 20-30 minutes;" and "Box Over-used / Audio Tape 1200-ft on 1½ mil / Unknown."

—The Studio RivBea March calendar had a preview listing of upcoming dates. April 27 & 28 both had the Harlem Ensemble,
 but this changed during the April display ads. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Jerome Cooper (dr, perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel "R"; Village Voice Apr 26 Centerfold p.46 + Centerfold p.56 + Rosetta Reitz review May 3 pp.51-2;
Andrew Galloway; Anonymous 03.12.13}


73.04.28 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

April 28, 1973, 10:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. improvisation [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Jerome Cooper (dr)

{Andrew Galloway; Village Voice Apr 26 Centerfold p.46 + Centerfold p.56 + Rosetta Reitz review May 3 pp.51-2}


  • 73.04.29 (1) - Jam Session / 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Apr 26 p.46]
  • 73.04.29 (2) - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.04.30 - Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.05.02 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]


  • 73.05.05 - Elaine Summers Dance & Film Co: no personnel listed, "Music by Carman Moore" may imply similar performance to 73.03.22 /
    3:00pm, 131 Greene Street, NYC [Village Voice May 10 p.48]


  • 73.05.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Jerome Cooper (dr) / "Boston Jazz Week,"
    The Celebrated All-Night Jazz Concert, 8:00pm to 8:00am (May 6th), Old West Church, Boston, MA
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Boston Globe Apr 29 p.24B + May 8 p.37]
    "Breakfast of pancakes will be served around 6:00am for those still around. FREE."

    Mark Harvey:

    "It was the Jazz Coalition's decision to do the all-night concert. Again with the model from St. Peter's church, but in our own way.
    So went from 1970 all the way up to 1983 doing I think something like 13 all-night concerts, which went from 6 or 7 at night
    and went til 6 or 7 in the morning. And we had a come on, which was breakfast for the survivors, and Jack Powers and his Stone
    Soup Poets group would alwyas make breakfast for everybody who was left...
    People would rotate in and out of the night and these were always held at the church or the covenant mainly in the early days at
    the Old West Church and once at the Emmanuel Church. Maybe about 1,000 people would come in for the whole span and there
    would be two or three hundred in the morning for pancakes. And that was sort of a... we also toyed with the idea to make T-shirts.
    We never got it together organizationally, but to say that I was a survivor of the all night, but we had some great programs.
    We had Sheila Jordan, Howard McGee, Joe Carol, Dewey Redman; just a whole host of people. Mainly Boston musicians, but then
    we would always bring in a headliner from New York. And we'd try to get headliners who in their own career, who needed a boost.
    Again this model of sort of reaching out and trying to be a self-help organization.
    We brought Sheila Jordan in for instance, when people had not remembered her and she was still working as a secretary in a PR firm
    in New York. We brought Howard [McGee] in when he was not as well known as he should have been. We did a separate concert
    with Betty Carter in our very first jazz week. And that was a whole other thing. We decided if we did a whole night concert why not
    do a whole week of jazz.
    So in 1973 we put together a 100+ event festival. Ora Harris was at that time friendly with Betty Carter. And said well let's have
    Betty come up. Hardly anybody knew who she was except the diehard jazz cognascente and so we did a concert at New England
    Live Hall which unfortunately no longer exists. Great concert. And then the next night we had one of our all-night concerts
    with Sam Rivers as the headliner."
    [Mark Harvey interview, archives.berklee.edu/chapter-4-bohp2007-06-01mharvey/19432]
    ———


  • 73.05.06 (1) - Jam Session / 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice May 3 p.65]
  • 73.05.06 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.05.06 (3) - An Evening of Black Arts Song—Solomon and Sheba: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp),
    and probably the following—Joe Ferguson (reeds), Vishnu Woods (oud, b), Bill Davis (b), Om-be (perc), Karin Burke and Terrin Miles (dance) /
    Harlem Opera Society, 8:00pm, Clark Center Auditorium, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, NYC
    [Black Theatre Alliance Newsletter #2 Spring '73, The RivBea Archive]

73.05.00 or 06.00 • Harlem Opera Society—An Evening of Black Arts Song [RBA]

May or June, 1973, 8:00pm / Clark Center Auditorium, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, New York City
—A recording from 73.05.06, 05.07, 05.24, 06.06, 06.07, 06.23, or 06.24.

RivBea Archive / Reel H
1. Solomon and Sheba [ : ]
—RBA Reel H is a "1½-mil Polyester ¼-inch x 1200 ft." Emerald Recording Tape,
 marked as "Solomon & Sheba (Looks Erased)," and with the location as "Carter Center."

Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), and probably the following—Joe Ferguson (reeds),
Vishnu Woods (oud, b), Bill Davis (b), Om-be (perc), Karin Burke and Terrin Miles (dance)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel H}


  • 73.05.07 (1) - Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice May 3 p.65]
  • 73.05.07 (2) - An Evening of Black Arts Song—Solomon and Sheba: as in 73.05.06 (2) above / Harlem Opera Society,
    8:00pm, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, NYC
    [Black Theatre Alliance Newsletter #2 Spring '73, The RivBea Archive]
  • 73.05.09 (1) - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice May 3 p.65]
  • 73.05.09 (2) - Karl Berger: Rivers, possibly, unknown others... / 9:00pm, Studio C, WBAI-FM, NYC [Village Voice May 0 pp.69]
  • 73.05.10 - Karl Berger & Friends: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Berger (vbs), Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc),
    unknown others / 9:00pm, Studio C, WBAI Free Music Store, NYC [Village Voice May 3 pp.13]
    —no personnel listed, but this was Berger's working group at the time.
  • 73.05.13 (1) - Jam Session / 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice May 10 p.69]
  • 73.05.13 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.05.13 (3) - Karl Berger & "Group": probably Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Berger (vbs), Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc),
    unknown others / 8:00pm, The Kitchen, NYC [Village Voice May 10 p.120]
    —No personnel listed, but this was Berger's working group at the time and The Kitchen was only a few blocks from Studio RivBea.
      The same listing appeared for a May 20th concert at The Kitchen at 8:00pm. Rivers had the Orchestral Explorations Workshop
     at 6:30pm on that date, but these venues were only two blocks apart.
  • 73.05.14 - Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.05.16 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.05.20 (1) - Jam Session / 3:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice May 17 p.70]
  • 73.05.20 (2) - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.05.20 (3) - Karl Berger & "Group": probably Sam Rivers / —See note 73.05.13 (3)
    8:00pm, The Kitchen, NYC [Village Voice May 10 p.120]
  • 73.05.21 - Sam Rivers Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice May 17 p.70]
  • 73.05.23 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.05.24 - An Evening of Black Arts Song—Solomon and Sheba: see 73.05.06 (2) above / Harlem Opera Society,
    8:00pm, Clark Center for the Performing Arts, NYC
    [Black Theatre Alliance Newsletter #2 Spring '73, The RivBea Archive]

  • 73.05.26 + 05.27 - Margaret Beals' Impulses Company: Sam Rivers (fl), Collin Walcott (sitar), Gwendolyn Watson (ce),
    Beals (dance), Glen Moore (b), Janaki (voc) / 8:00pm, Washington Square Methodist Church, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice May 24 p.43] —A paste-up sheet (probably meant to be a display ad) also in the archive has Jack Kulowitch on bass and "May 26th, 27th," with no year indicated.

    Part 1: dancer-instruments; cello-bass; solos with group accents; bass-sax; tabla-all
    Part 2: "Madhonor" unaccompanied dancer; Trios—bass-sitar-winds, voice-cello-dancer;
         Conversation—sitar-bass, voice-cello, dancer-sitar; "Theme in B"—all; bass-all
    *Text for "Madhonor" from the Annunciation Luke ii 19, King James version; "Theme in B" by Colin Walcott.


  • Creative Music Summer Studio—June 1 through 10, 1973

    "An Intensive 10-day Workshop—Seminar—Performance Program for acoustical and electronic improvisation and composition,
    with Karl Berger, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, David Izenzon, Lee Konitz, Gordon Mumma, Sam Rivers, George Russell,
    Frederic Rzewski, members of Musica Elettronica Viva," and others... / Sessions 2:00-9:00pm, Turtle Bay Music School, NYC
    [Village Voice May 31 p.45; Michael Cuscuna Record World Jan 19 '74 p.14; Creative Music Foundation Newsletter, The RivBea Archive]



    12-Week Summer Music Course—June 3 through August 26, 1973

    Sam Rivers—Composition (Traditional and Contemporary): Techniques of Orchestration; New Music and Performance;
    Techniques of Improvisation; Keyboard Harmony & Solo Structure with Historical Background / Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice May 17 p.70]


73.06.00 (1) • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—33:00]

June, 1973 / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. improvisation [33:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), probably Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Martin Milgrim 05.02.17}


  • 73.06.00 (2) (between the 1st and 10th) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Creative Music Summer Studio, Ornette Coleman's Artist House, NYC
    "The very first loft jazz gig I attended was at Ornette Coleman's Artist House space in the summer of 1973. Performing that day was
    the Sam Rivers Trio with Dave Holland on bass and Barry Altschul on drums. It was about 100 degrees outside and not much better
    inside. I was just getting into jazz and had not heard anything like this before so I was both confused and excited at the same time."
    —Bruce Gallanter [Downtown Music Gallery mailing 11.12.30; Creative Music Foundation Newsletter, The RivBea Archive]
  • 73.06.06 + 06.07 - Solomon and Sheba: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp),
    Joe Ferguson (ts, fl), Vishnu Woods (oud, b), Bill Davis (b), Om-be (perc), Karin Burke and Terrin Miles (dance) /
    Harlem Opera Society, 8:00pm, Clark Center Auditorium, NYC
    [Village Voice clipping Jun 7 Centerfold p.59 + Flyer + The New York Times undated review, The RivBea Archive;
    Village Voice Jun 14 review p.58]
  • 73.06.08 - Karl Berger, Sam Rivers, & Friends: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Berger (vbs), unknown others / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 7 p.68; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 73.06.09 - Karl Berger, Sam Rivers, & Friends: as above / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.06.10 - Sam Rivers Workshop—Techniques of Contemporary Orchestration / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.06.11 - Sam Rivers Workshop—Composition & Arranging (traditional) / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.06.13 - Sam Rivers Workshop—Composition for Woodwind Ensemble / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.06.14 - Sam Rivers Composition for Flute Ensemble / 6:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.06.23 + 06.24 - Solomon and Sheba: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp),
    Joe Ferguson (ts, fl), Bill Davis (b), Vishnu Woods (oud), Om-be (perc), Karin Burke and Terrin Miles (dance) /
    Harlem Opera Society, 7:00pm, Clark Center Auditorium, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Peter G. Davis review, The New York Times Jun 25 p.49; Village Voice Jun 14 review p.58]
    The New York Times had "Ed" Taylor.
    —Flyer named dancers and had Vishnu Woods on oud and bass, and did not list Bill Davis at all.


Studio RivBea Avant Garde Festival Jazz, 6:00pm to 6:00am, June 29 through July 8, 1973 : : :

"[Twelve] hours of new sounds that really cook... Dewey Redman, Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton, Paul Bley, Rashied Ali, Karl Berger,
Monty Waters, Ken McIntyre, Frank Lowe, and many more... with their own groups and sometimes jamming with each [other]."
[The Village Voice Jun 28 clipping, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice display ad Jun 28 p.12]

—Part of "The New York Musicians presents a Five-Borough ‘Jazz Festival’ 1973 at 15 city parks and 16 indoor locations. June 29th thru July 8th."
  • 73.06.30 (1) Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop: no personnel listed / 6:00 & 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 28 p.12]

    The New York Times Jun 30 p.29 had this as the Harlem Ensemble from "6:00pm to 6:00am".

73.06.30 (2) • Don Cherry Octet [AR—46:15]

Shelf no.RGA 0190-0191 (RWD 6582-6583 A) - 2 digital sound cassettes, mono, digital (polyester)
Recording Laboratory 1995-7, Voice of America Music Library Collection (Library of Congress)

[Also on this LOC tape—Jam session group 1: Archie Shepp, Ted Dunbar, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, Tom Scott, Garnett Brown,
Clifford Jordan, Cedar Walton, Howard Johnson, Marvin Peterson, Cecil McBee; Jam session group 2: Clark Terry, Gerry Mulligan,
Bob Brookmeyer, Roland Hanna, Sam Jones, Roy Haynes; Jam session group 3: George Benson, Herbie Mann, David Newman,
Roy Ayers, Jimmy Owens, Roland Hanna, Sam Jones, Roy Haynes]

June 30, 1973, 2:30am (so actually July 1st) / "Midnight Jam Sessions," Newport Jazz Festival, Radio City Music Hall, New York City

"Jam Session group 4"
1. improvisation [6:28]  (incomplete, cuts in near beginning of performance)
2. improvisation [37:09]  (incomplete, cuts out duriong ending)
 "Some bad edits on the mylar tapes; some level fluctuation."

"When I arrived at Radio City Music Hall for the first midnight jam session of the Newport Festival I found a line five city blocks long.
It had begun at 7pm. Six thousand capacity, sold out. Okay for jazz!" —Rosetta Reitz, The Village Voice Jul 12

"A group of ‘free-form’ musicians came onstage after more than two hours largely devoted to the long, lackluster solos that generally
pass for jamming in these situations. They gave the stodgy proceedings excitement and color through imaginative interplay, fresh,
coherent statements, individual virtuosity, entertainement, and, surprisingly for free-formers, discipline and structure.
The key figure and pace-setter in this group—the apparent guide through changing melodic and rhythmic ideas—was Don Cherry,
playing his pocket trumpet with bristling intensity and occasionally chanting or shouting up a sudden torrent of sound...
All through the constantly changing, nonstop, 45-minute performance [actually stopped for intros and applause after first
six-and-a-half minutes], Milford Graves put on a nastonishingly [sic] display of strong, virtuoso, drumming that was as melodic
as it was rhythmic, climaxed by a brief solo that was as much involved with shouts, mumbles, chants, and even dancing as it was
with drumming." —John S. Wilson

Don Cherry (ptp, doussn'gouni, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Gato Barbieri (ts), and Robin Kenyatta (as, ss),
unknown (tp), Dave Burrell (p), David Izenzon (b), Ed Blackwell (perc), Milford Graves (dr, perc, voc)

—Most references only list Cherry on (pocket) trumpet, but there is a second trumpet player present during the long second inprov.

{CDr "Jam Session group 4" only, track detailing RL 19.07.16; Library of Congress Database; The Village Voice Jun 28 p.42 + Jul 12;
John S. Wilson The New York Times Jul 2 p.22; Andrew Galloway}


  • 73.07.01 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 6:00 & 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 28 p.12]

73.07.03 • Sam Rivers Orchestral Explorations Ensemble [AR—83:36]

July 3, 1973, 6:00 & 11:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

Early Show:
1. composition [35:54]  (incomplete, cuts in)
2. composition [45:45]  (incomplete, cuts in)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, Cond), Marty Khan (ts), two unintelligible (as), unintelligible (ss), Idris Ibrahim ? (fl), John Wilkes (tb)

{WKCR Archive; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.18; Village Voice Jun 28 p.12; Marty Khan 11.30.11 + 12.07.17;
Very various very anonymous sources, who wish to remain so, 02.07.02 + 03.12.13}


  • 73.07.04 (1) - Jazz Jamboree: Count Basie, Darius & Dave Brubeck, Cab Calloway, Cozy Cole, Eddie Lockjaw Davis,
    Roy Eldridge Quintet, Ray Nance, Anita O'Day, Sam Rivers, Sun Ra, Sarah Vaughan, Reggie Workman, Tiny Grimes,
    John Mayall, Archie Shepp, James Spaulding, Billy Taylor, many others... /
    Newport Jazz Festival, 1:00pm, Louis Armstrong Stadium, NYC
    [Billboard Jun 23 p.44; Cash Box Jun 30 p.41; Enormous poster-schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    "The city of New York is changing the name of the Singer Bowl, to Louis Armstrong Stadium."

73.07.04 (2) • Sam Rivers Harlem Ensemble [AR—58:04]

July 3, 1973, 6:00 & 11:00pm / New York Musician's Five Borough Jazz Festival, Studio RivBea, New York City

1. composition [23:51]
—Performance of two compositions, around 45 minutes each.

Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Cond), "everyone else" (brass and reeds), unknown (b), unknown (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.18; Village Voice Jul 5 p.41; WKCR Archive; Anonymous sources 02.07.02 + 03.12.13; Marty Khan 12.07.17}


73.07.05 (1) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—33:32]

Shelf no.RGA 0217 (RWD 6608 A2) - 1 digital sound cassette, mono, digital (polyester)
Genre(s) Live sound recordings—Jazz, Recording Laboratory 1995-7, Voice of America Music Library Collection
—Tape also has tracks by Art Ensemble of Chicago; Archie Shepp was also on the bill.

July 5, 1973, 1:00pm / Newport Jazz Festival, Wollman Amphitheater, New York City

1. improvisation [32:58]
(ts section–9:23; fl+voc section–p section–5:35; ss section–5:17)
—"Some distortion on the acoustic."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Richard Davis (b), Norman Connors (dr)
"Performed by Sam Art Rivers Trio" (sic)

{Library of Congress Database; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.18; Anonymous 03.12.13; Billboard Jun 23 p.44;
The New York Times Jul 5 p.23 + Jul 8 p.37}


  • 73.07.05 (2) - Jazz Opera Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... /
    7:00pm, Apollo Theater, NYC [The New York Times Jul 5 p.23 + Jul 7 p.10]


  • 73.07.05 - "The evening opened with a set by Kinetic Playground, a band composed of young musicians who have been working
    with Sam Rivers at his Studio RivBea headquarters... Playground features a four-horn front-line, composed of Al Kalnin on alto,
    Bob Steinmark on soprano, Ron Lee on tenor, and Bert Primack on trumpet... drummers Billy Parker and Danny Pisello, conga player
    Monty Ellison, and bassist Al Scotty." /
    New York Jazz Musicians' Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Wollman Auditorium, Ferris Booth Hall, Columbia University, NYC
    [George Robinson "Musician's Festival Breath-taking..." Columbia Daily Spectator Vol.XCVII No. 8 Jul 12, 1973]


  • 1973:

    The notoriety Sam gained with the Cecil Taylor group caught the eye of Impulse and we recently signed him to a recording contract.
    Sam's first album for Impulse was recorded live at the 1973 Montreux Jazz Festival held in Montreux, Switzerland. Sam, who currently
    works in a trio format, was backed up by two excellent musicians—Cecil McBee on bass and Norman Connors on drums.
    ["1973, ABC/Dunhill Records BIO," at www.jazzdiscography.com]
    ———

73.07.06 (1) • Sam Rivers: Streams

1973: Impulse! AS-9251 (LP); ABC Impulse!/Toshiba IMP-88143 (LP) Jpn;
    A 8027-9251 (8Trk!);
1989: Impulse!/MCA Records MCA-39120 (LP); MCAD-39120 (CD);
    MCAC-39120 (CS);
1997: MVCZ-123 (CD, Ltd Edition) Jpn;
    — Series ("Impulse Vista Collection");
2015: RivBea Music RB52388 (digital download)
  • (V/A) Impulsively
    1973: Impulse! AS 9266-2 (2-LP);
        ABC Records/Impulse! IMP-1973 (2-LP, Quad)
  • (V/A) The Saxophone
    1973: Impulse! ASH-9253-3 (3-LP)
  • Sam Rivers at Montreux [BR]
    —Televisione Svizzera Broadcast "Jazz Club" 22:35hr Oct 15 1974
  • Sam Rivers: The Live Trio Sessions
    1978: IMP IA-9352/2 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII);
        AIMPL 25043 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII) It
        —2nd Session [See also 72.10.27; 73.08.03; 73.11.10]
  • (V/A) Fire Into Music—The Best of MCA/Impulse!
    1989: MCA2-8032 (2-LP); MCAD 8032 (CD); MCAC2-8032 (CS)

July 6, 1973 / Montreux Jazz Festival, Congrès Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland

LP tracking:
1. Streams [24:35]
 Spoken introduction—1:18
 The tenor saxophone section–18:42
 The beginning of flute section–4:41
B. Streams [25:21]
 The conclusion of flute section–8:32
 The piano section–7:31
 The soprano saxophone section–9:18
 Encore [3:06]
—"Due to the length of the recorded material, there are no spreads between sections
 on the disc. On both sides, the music runs continuously." —The LP liners

Streams was another random title used for the release of an improvisation.
It was used for this recording, and for an 89.10.07 Quartet gig. It is not listed
in the Sam Rivers Composition list, but "Streamers" is (Comp #316).
That title is used beginning with a RivBea Orchestra gig in June of 1999.
(See Mathews comment at 99.06.22). —RL
CD tracking:
1. Spoken Introduction [1:18]
2. Tenor Saxophone Section, Beginning of Flute Section [23:12]
3. Conclusion of Flute Section, Piano Section, Soprano Saxophone Section [25:14]
Impulsively contains excerpts of "Streams, Tenor Sax Section" [3:14]
 and "Streams, Flute Section" [3:48].
Fire Into Music contains the "Soprano sax section" [9:21].
The Live Trio Sessions and The Saxophone have "Encore" [3:06]

"The entire piece Streams, which is a continuous performance, was separated
into sections to fit an LP, and divided for titling purposes for LP labeling."
—Impulse! session producer Ed Michel

—Also mistakenly noted on this date in The New York Times Jul 6 p.10:
 "Today's events in the New York Musicians Five Borough Jazz Festival: 3 P.M.,"
 (at Artist House) name participants Roy Haynes, Cecil McBee, Don Cherry,
 Marion Brown, Ken McIntyre, Juni Booth, Roger Blank, Sam Rivers..."

"I flew over to make the gig in Montreux, and it was kind of hectic."
—Sam Rivers quoted in Robert Palmer's liner notes to The Live Trio Sessions

Images, top to bottom:
Original release LP cover
Japanese release MVCZ-123 (1997)
Fire Into Music compilation 2-LP cover (1989)

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp),
Cecil McBee (b), Norman Connors (dr, gongs)
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{A 8027-9251; MCAD-39120; AS 9266-2; ASH 9253-3; IA-9352/2; MCA2-8032; Producer Ed Michel; Musica Jazz Oct 1973 pp.11-18;
Giuseppe Dalla Bona, on-line index; www.montreuxsounds.com/result2006.php?year=1973; La Stampa Oct 15, 1974 p.6;
www.archiviolastampa.it; Pablo Lopez of Fondation du Festival de Jazz Montreux 19.07.18}


73.07.07 (1) • Sam Rivers Ensemble [AR—50:00 & AVR]

July 7, 1973, 9:30pm & 2:00am (the 8th) / Studio RivBea, New York City
—Followed by a late jam session that included a Dewey Redman Group and The Revolutionary Ensemble. —RL

Audience Audio Recording:
1. improvisation [50:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), unknown (g), unknown (b), unknown (dr)

{Village Voice Jul 5 p.41; The New York Times Jul 7 p.10; Jan Ström 11.01.11}


73.07.07 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

July 7, 1973, possibly very early morning of the 8th / Studio RivBea Summer Festival, New York City
—I have this from two sources: dated July 7 by Anonymous; Galloway had this as "July, 1973."

1... unknown titles [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Barry Altschul and Norman Connors (perc)

{Andrew Galloway; Anonymous 06.01.01}


  • 73.07.08 - Jazz Opera Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... / 6:00 & 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jul 5 p.41; The New York Times Jul 8 p.37 ; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]

73.08.03 • Sam Rivers: Hues

1975: ABC/Impulse! ASD-9302 (LP, Quad) [+ White-label Stereo Promo];
    8027-9302 H (8Trk!); Impulse! IMP8007 (LP) UK; YQ-8505-AI (LP) Jpn
    —4th Session [See also 71.02.13; 71.02.14; 72.10.27; 73.11.10]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—53:13]
  • (V/A) No Energy Crisis
    1974: ABC Records/Impulse! AS-9267/2 (2-LP)
  • Sam Rivers: The Live Trio Sessions
    1978: IMP IA-9352/2 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII);
        AIMPL 25043 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII) It
        —3rd Session [See also 72.10.27; 73.07.06; 73.11.10]
  • Sam Rivers: Trio Live
    1998: Impulse! IMPD-268 (CD, "The New Thing" Series);
        IMP 12682 (CD, "Impulse! Master Sessions") Eur
        —1st Session [See also 73.11.10]
  • Sam Rivers: Samthology
    2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
       —4th Session: [See also 61.12.14; 67.03.17; 71.02.13; 73.11.10;
                   74.03.04; 75.12.09; 78.08.08; 79.12.04+05; 92.01.12]

August 3, 1973 / Molde Jazz Festival, Molde Kino, Molde, Norway

1. Suite for Molde, Part One [8:06]
 a. Onyx (The Soprano Saxophone Section)
 b. Topaz (The Flute Section)
2. Suite for Molde, Part Two (The Tenor Saxophone Section) [11:27]
Hues has track 1 split as a. Onyx (4:04), and b. Topaz (4:02).
Trio Live and Samthology have track 1.
No Energy Crisis has track 2 and gives the date incorrectly as March 8, 1973.
—Track 1a is a soprano section excerpt from 47:26 in to 51:28.
—Track 1b is a flute section excerpt from 22:34 in to 26:37.
—Track 2 is from the beginning of the performance (ends by fade-out).
RivBea Archive / Reels #48 + 49
1. improvisation [51:27]
 (ts section–17:44; fl+voc section–15:51; p section–8:59; ss section–8:53)
—Two Scotch 206 10" Reels marked 48 and 49 in pen. On back of box 49 is written
 "Sam Rivers Molde Festival Recorded In Molde Finland (sic) MASTER/DOLBIED
 REEL 1 OF 2 'Suite For Molde 73' part one-tenor, fl." Below is written "info copied
 from original reel" and next to this note is "Molde-Jestivalgn Koncert Molde Kino
 3-8-73 (sic) Sam Rivers Trio Molde Kino (Sam Rivers, Barry Altschul, Arild
 Andersen)." At very bottom is "STEREO/15 ips/1/2 TRK/ DOLBIED." Reel Box
 marked 48 has same info only "2 of 2" and "Part 2." Edited the two reels together
 to form one continuous performance. This is the entire performance.
 —Joe Washek, June 2008

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—RBA Reel #50 and 51 are likely straight copies of #48 and 49. Both have "Molde Festival 1973," and are also additionally misdated
 "10/31/74" (which may be a copying date); both are marked "Sansui Encoded Quad-Compatible Stereo," and "Hotwater/Fatzwess;
 #50 has 1/2 track; #51 has "2/2 track."
—RBA Unnumbered Reel (Box O) is a studio master, dated "12/19/74," with tracks in LP order, studio and engineering notes,
 and "File #A50-9302-A/B."
—Unnumbered Reel (Box P) is dated "12/11/74," and has tracks from four of the five Hues sessions: only the "Onyx" section
 of track 1 from this session marked "SIDE B- 4:04 1. Molde, 8/3/1973 (Soprano);" 3 tracks from 71.02.13 marked
 "SIDE A- 4:26 1. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Tenor) +4:01 2. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Flute) + 5:12 3. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Piano);"
 omits "Chartreuse" from 71.02.14; has "Mauve" of the 2 tracks from 72.10.27 marked "+ 4:19 4. Michigan 1972 (Tenor);"
 and has "Hues of Melanin—Part Three" plus 2 mysterious alternate excerpted tracks from 73.11.10 marked
 "+ 5:57 2. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Flute) + 4:13 3. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Piano) + 4:19 4. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Tenor)."
 This may have been an earlier selection of tracks for the LP.


Images, top to bottom:
Trio Live CD cover (1998)
No Energy Crisis 2-LP cover (1974)
Sam Rivers Trio at Molde Jazz Festival
—Photo courtesy Arild Andersen.

Sam Rivers (ss, fl, ts, p, voc),
Arild Andersen (b), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

Molde Archive lists another session after this Rivers Trio date:
"Show, Poetry, Jazz:" Sam Rivers (ts), Geirr Lystrup (g, voc),
Knut Ødegaard, Arild Nyquist, Bjørg Vik,
and Georg Johansen (poetry), Willie Mabon (p, voc),
Arild Andersen (b), Barry Altschul (dr)
"We never played with that band at the festival."
—Arild Anderson

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{Impulse! ASD-9302; IMP IA 9352/2; IMP AS-9267/2; IMPD-268; Samthology;
RivBea Archival Recordings Reels #48, 49, 50, 51, unnumbered Reel (Box O), and unnumbered Reel (Box P), + CS #190b;
CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.18; Producer Ed Michel; Arild Anderson 11.12.27; www.moldejazz.no/hoved/historie/list_musikere.php3}


  • 73.08.11 - Sam Rivers: unknown ensemble / Newport and New York Musician Festival in Philadelphia,
    "Concert on the lawn," 6:00pm, 6014 Chew Avenue, Philadelphia, PA
    [Hatam Society press release, The RivBea Archive]
    "In case of rain the festival will be held at Mitten Hall on Temple campus."
  • 73.08.12 - Jazz Session: "Conducted by Mr. Dave Burrell" (p), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dewey Redman (ts, as),
    Grachan Moncur II (tb), Khan Jamal (vib), "Many others" / Newport and New York Musician Festival in Philadelphia,
    8:30pm, 6014 Chew Avenue, Philadelphia, PA [ibid]

73.08.16 • Sam Rivers [BR]

August 16, 1973, 9:00pm / Cafe AuGoGo, New York City
Live Broadcast Teleprompter Manhattan Channel 10, "Inside Music," hosted by Ed Simon

1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others

{The New York Times Aug 16 p.71}


  • 73.08.27 - The Afro-American Singing Theater's Jazz Opera Ensemble—StreetStage: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir),
    Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... Harlem Opera Society, 8:00pm, West End Avenue between 106th and 107th Street, NYC [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 73.08.28 - The Afro-American Singing Theater's Jazz Opera Ensemble—StreetStage: as above /
    Action for Progress, 8:00pm, Eldridge Street between Stanton & Houston, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.08.29 - The Afro-American Singing Theater's Jazz Opera Ensemble—StreetStage /
    Friends of 137th Street, 8:00pm, 137th Street between Seventh and Lenox Avenue, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.08.30 - The Afro-American Singing Theater's Jazz Opera Ensemble—StreetStage /
    Neighborhood Action Program, 8:00pm, Highbridge Park, 173rd Street & Amsterdam Avenue, NYC [ibid]
    "At entrance to pool."
  • 73.08.31 (1) - The Afro-American Singing Theater's Jazz Opera Ensemble—StreetStage /
    Ujuma Circle, 8:00pm, 157th Street between Amsterdam & St. Nicholas Avenue, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.08.31 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Aug 30 p.50; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
    "With slides and films by Richard Otto."
  • 73.09.01 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
    "With [more] slides and films by Richard Otto."
  • 73.09.00 (1) - "September Jams" / Studio RivBea, NYC [New York Magazine Aug 27 p.49]
  • 73.09.02 (1) - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Aug 30 p.50; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]
  • 73.09.02 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
    "With [additional] slides and films by Richard Otto."
  • 73.09.03 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.05 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.09 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Sep 6 p.50]
  • 73.09.10 - Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.12 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.13 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.16 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Sep 13 p.63]
  • 73.09.17 - Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.18 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.19 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 7:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.09.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    "Dedicated to the Spirit of John Coltrane," 8:00pm, Purple Moon, Crampton Auditorium, Howard University, Washington DC
    [Event flyer + The Star-News Sep 24 clipping, The RivBea Archive; Concert poster, www.rhourtney-collector.com]

73.09.23 • Elaine Summers' Dance and Film Company [AVR—64:00]

September 23, 1973, 6:00pm / Sculpture Garden, Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1. Energy Changes [64:00]
—64-minute version by Louis Jaffe, NYPL call numbers MGZIDVD 5-4923 + MGZIDVD 5-4924;
 50-minute version by Paul Ryan, NYPL call numbers MGZIDVD 5-4930 + MGZIDVD 5-4931
 Both are 2-DVD, B&W, 4¾-inch originals, NTSC.

The Interplayers: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Robert Cram (fl), Carman Moore (tape, Comp), David Horowitz (synth), Peter Feld (keys),
Robert Wood (vbs), Daniel Ben Zebulon (perc), Ben Segal and Jole Bruck (unknown),
Elaine Summers (dance, Chor), Alexandra Ogsbury, Marilyn Wood, Yoland Roeberts, Tedrian Chizik, Tony Nunziata, Robert Escamilla,
Antoinette Herring, Robert Kushner, Ellen Saltonstall, Nannette [i.e. Nanette] Sievert, and Michelle Sayegh (dance),
+ films by Summers, Chizik, Phil Niblock, and Albert Rossi

 —Village Voice mentions a harp player and an African xylophone player, with no names given.

{New York Public Library, Performing Arts Research Collections—Dance, nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb18062235 (64') + C__Rb18062248 (50');
The Village Voice Sep 20 p.38 + Sep 27 p.35 + "Music for a Garden Dance" p.37}


  • 73.10.07 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 6:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Oct 4 p.7]
  • 73.10.08 - Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.10.09 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.10.10 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.10.14 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Oct 11 p.66]


  • 73.10.14 - Sam Rivers: (unknown personnel) / Broadcast on Teleprompter Manhattan Channel 10, "Inside Music," Ed Simon host
    [The New York Times Oct 14 p.148]
    —No info on whether this was a live broadcast or a previously taped performance.


  • 73.10.15 - Sam Rivers' Woodwind Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Oct 11 p.66]
  • 73.10.16 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.10.17 - Sam Rivers' Brass Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 73.10.18 - Sam Rivers' Workshop (unknown ensemble) / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]

73.10.19 • Karl Berger & Friends [AR]

October 19, 1973, 10:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

1... compositions [ : ]
"I had the privilege of working with [Rivers] from late 1973 through 1976. I was the Creative Music Studio bass player, an understudy
of Dave Holland, and traveled throughout the continent with Karl Berger. I am credited in the Peace Church listing that follows in 1974.
I am the unknown bass player in [this] listing." —Tom Schmidt

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Karl Berger (vb), Tom Schmidt (b), Barry Altschul and Jerome Cooper (perc)

{Village Voice Oct 18 p.59; Andrew Galloway; Tom Schmidt 05.04.20; Ed Hazell 14.06.21}


  • 73.10.20 - Karl Berger & Friends: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Carlos Ward (as), Karl Berger (vb), Dave Holland (b),
    Barry Altschul and Jerome Cooper (perc) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Oct 18 p.59]
  • 73.10.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    "Impulse! Jazz on Tour," 8:00pm, Carnegie Hall, NYC
    [The Journal News Oct 14 p.47; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
    Village Voice display ad Oct 18 p.67 has Barbieri, Jarret, and Alice Coltrane as the three headliners on this gig, but it seems Rivers
     had recently replaced her in this grouping.

  • —"Impulse! Jazz on Tour" itinerary ("Tentative Schedule") also has 73.10.26 at the Ford Theatre, Detroit, MI.



73.11.01 • Karl Berger & the Creative Music Studio, Music Universe [BR—40:24]

November 1, 1973 / Jazztage 1973, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
—Broadcast Der SÜdwestfunk (SWF)

1. Suite: Berlin—We Are You (K. Berger) [28:36]
 I - We Are You—2:26
 II - Now Is—6:54
 III - Time Is Going On—10:48
 IV - We Are You—2:07
 V - Going Out—6:45
 VI - The End—0:43
2. composition (encore) [3:39]
3. improvisation [0:54]  (Berger piano solo)
—"Suite" is a continuous performance; broadcast begins with an announcement by Ronnie Scott,
  and has a Scott/Berger announcement before the final piano solo.
—"‘The End’ is just a restatement of the ‘We Are You’ theme." —Peter Losin

—An incomplete version [23:10] of this broadcast is also in circulation: "Now Is" cuts off 1:20 before its end and cuts into
 the last ten seconds of "Time Is Going On;" the piano solo encore is eliminated altogether; and it has different announcements
 by Achim Hegben, one of which splits the first part of the medley into ‘You’ and ‘We Are."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Carlos Ward (as, fl), Albert Mangelsdorff (tb), Peter Kowald (tu), Karl Berger (p, vb, balafon, Comp),
Frederick Rzewski (p, el-p), Dave Holland (b), Makaya Ntshoko, Bob Moses, and Klaus Hagl (dr, perc)

{Digital files, track detailing RL 19.05.05; Musica Jazz Dec 1973 p.26, on-line index; Peter Losin 19.05.04, www.plosin.com}


    "Impulse! Jazz on Tour" schedule also had November 2 at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, and November 3
    at Berkeley Community Theatre in San Francisco, but I find no references to Rivers being on this west coast leg of the tour.

  • 73.11.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / "Impulse! Jazz on Tour," Providence, RI
    [Impulse! tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive; Boston Globe Nov 2, 1973 p.22]
  • 73.11.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / "Impulse! Jazz on Tour," 8:30pm, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
    [Impulse! tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive; Billboard Nov 10, 1973 p.80; Boston Globe October 21 p.A46]

73.11.10 • Sam Rivers: Hues

1975: ABC/Impulse! ASD-9302 (LP, Quad) [+ White-label Stereo Promo];
    8027-9302 H (8Trk!); Impulse! IMP8007 (LP) UK; YQ-8505-AI (LP) Jpn
    —5th Session [See also 71.02.13; 71.02.14; 72.10.27; 73.08.03]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—15:58 +]
  • (V/A) Impulse! Artists on Tour
    1974: Impulse! AS-9264 (LP, Quad);
        Impulse!/ABC/EMI Italiano 3C 064-96332 (LP) It
  • (V/A) The Drums
    1974: Impulse! ASH-9272-3 (3-LP Box)
        [+ Promo pressing, White label, 4-page booklet, LPs in company sleeves.]
  • Sam Rivers: The Live Trio Sessions
    1978: IMP IA-9352/2 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII);
        AIMPL 25043 (2-LP, The Dedication Series—Vol.XII) It
        —4th Session [See also 72.10.27; 73.07.06; 73.08.03]
  • Sam Rivers: Trio Live
    1998: Impulse! IMPD-268 (CD, "The New Thing" Series);
        IMP 12682 (CD, "Impulse! Master Sessions") Eur
        —2nd Session [See also 72.10.27]
  • Sam Rivers: Samthology
    2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
       —5th Session: [See also 61.12.14; 67.03.17; 71.02.13; 73.08.03;
                   74.03.04; 75.12.09; 78.08.08; 79.12.04+05; 92.01.12]

November 10, 1973 / Battell Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, CT

1. Hues Of Melanin—Part One (The Soprano Saxophone Section) [15:30]
2. Hues Of Melanin—Part Two (The Flute and Vocal Section) [18:47]
3. Hues Of Melanin—Part Three (Ivory Black: The Piano Section) [4:13]
4. Hues Of Melanin—Part Four (Violet: The Tenor Saxophone Section) [5:48]
Impulse! Artists on Tour has track 1.
The Drums has track 2.
Samthology has track 4.
Hues has tracks 3 and 4 as "Ivory Black" and "Violet".
Trio Live has all tracks, with 1 and 2 combined as one track [34:08].

Images:
Artists on Tour LP cover (1974); The Drums LP cover (1974)
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—RBA unnumbered Reel "J" is a Scotch 7-inch reel marked "RB-7," "Quad-compatible Stereo 7½ IPS / ¼-track," and "Sam Rivers for the Impulse!
 Artists on Tour album;" Time is noted as "15:58," probably "Hues Of Melanin—Part One."
—Unnumbered Reel (Box O) is a studio master, dated "12/19/74," with tracks in LP order, studio and engineering notes,
 and "File #A50-9302-A/B."
—Unnumbered Reel (Box P) is dated "12/11/74," and has tracks from four of the five Hues sessions: "Hues of Melanin—Part Three" plus
 2 mysterious alternate excerpted tracks from this session marked "+ 5:57 2. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Flute) + 4:13 3. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Piano)
 + 4:19 4. Yale, 11/10/1973 (Tenor);" 3 tracks from 71.02.13 marked "SIDE A- 4:26 1. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Tenor) +4:01 2. Boston, 02/13/1971
 (Flute) + 5:12 3. Boston, 02/13/1971 (Piano);" omits "Chartreuse" from 71.02.14; has "Mauve" of the 2 tracks from 72.10.27 marked
 "+ 4:19 4. Michigan 1972 (Tenor);" has only the "Onyx" section of track 1 from 73.08.03 marked "SIDE B- 4:04 1. Molde, 8/3/1973 (Soprano)."
 This may have been an earlier selection of tracks for the LP.
—RBA Cassette #190a has "Part of Hues" with no timings or tracks noted.

Sam Rivers (ts-4, ss-1, fl and voc-2, p-3, Comp), Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

 —Trio Live inexplicably also lists Lewis Worrell on bass.

{Impulse! ASD-9302; AS-9264; IA-9352/2; IMPD-268; ASH-9272-3; Samthology; RivBea Archival Recordings Reel unnumbered Reel (Box J),
unnumbered Reel (Box O), and unnumbered Reel (Box P), + CS #190a; Impulse! tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive; Producer Ed Michel}


  • 73.11.11 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp),
    Cecil McBee (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / "Impulse! Jazz on Tour,"
    7:30pm, Amherst College Alumni Gymnasium,
    Amherst College, Amherst, MA
    [Impulse! tour itinerary + oversize poster, The RivBea Archive;
    Greenfield Recorder Nov 7 p.15]

  • 73.11.16 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above /
    "Impulse! Jazz on Tour," 8:30pm, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
    [Impulse! tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive;
    Evening Star Nov 17 p.B8; Billboard Nov 10 p.80]

  • 73.11.18 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio /
    "The Center for New Music presents,"
    3:00 and 5:00pm, Gallery Space, New York Cultural Center, NYC
    [The New York Times Nov 10 p.19; Village Voice Nov 15 p.47]

  • 73.11.18 (2) - The Afro-American Singing Theatre: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), probably Beverly Mason and Brenda Feliciano (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp),
    unknown others / 8:00pm, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY [Village Voice Nov 1 p.66]

73.11.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

November, 1973 / Studio RivBea, New York City

1... improvisations [ : ]
—Possibly an after-hours session not on RivBea's schedule.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Wayne Dockery (b), Barry Altschul (perc)

{Anonymous 06.01.01}


    Creative Music Studio Winter Term—December, 1973 through January, 1974

    "Vibist Karl Berger has succeeded in establishing the Creative Music Foundation, a project that has been in the works for several years now.
    It is based in New York City and Woodstock, NY. In New York City at the Turtle Bay Music School... the foundation is finishing up its first term...
    The instructors include Berger, Lee Konitz, Sam Rivers, Barry Altschul, Gordon Mumma..." and others...
    [Michael Cuscuna Record World Jan 19 '74 p.14]

73.12.01 • Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo [BR—82:00]

December 1, 1973 / WBAI Free Music Store, Studio C, BAI Church, New York City
—WBAI-FM Live Radio Broadcast "From Studio RivBea... Sam Rivers and guest artists."

1... improvisations [82:00]
—Ström notes a recording dated Friday 73.11.30 ("2 Sets"), same place and line-up, but concerts were only being held
 on Thursdays and Saturdays, with the Saturday sessions broadcast live on WBAI-FM. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Barry Altschul (dr, perc, voc)

{Anonymous; Jan Ström 11.01.11; Pacifica Radio Archives WBAI Folio December 1973 p.5+12}


  • 73.12.02 - Seminar, moderated by Carman Moore, with Sam Rivers, Leonard Goine, Jimmy Owens, Mtume, and Edward Boatner /
    A dialogue on Black Music, "Black Music: Its Uses and Misuse" / Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Jet Magazine Dec 27, 1973 p.92]
  • 73.12.06 - Sam Rivers: unknown ensemble / Studio RivBea, NYC [Jemeel Moondoc Interview, CODA Aug 1980 #174 p.7]
    "Ensemble Muntu made our first appearance at Studio RivBea opposite Sam Rivers in December 1973." —Jemeel Moondoc
  • 73.12.12 - The New York State Council on the Arts Grants Announcement Program: Elliot Carter, Sam Rivers, others... /
    10:30am, Cafe Carnegie, Carnegie Hall, NYC [New York State Council on the Arts press release, The RivBe Archive; Daily News Dec 13 p.116]
    "Other recipients are... Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Elliot Carter of Waccabue ($10,000 from the Speculum Musicae to create mixed
    instrument chamber ensemble composition) and Sam Rivers, jazz and jazz opera composer, tenor saxophonist, founder-director of the Harlem
    Ensemble and director of Studio RivBea ($8,500) for an extended jazz composition for a 35-piece ensemble) were among those honored.
    Both were among those on hand..." —Daily News
  • 73.12.13 - Sam Rivers Interview / "The Listening Room," 10:06am to 12:00noon, WQXR-FM Studios, NYC
    Guests: Conductor Richard Westenberg, Composers Charles Wuorinen and Sam Rivers, and Arthur Bloom (Director of NY State
    Council on the Arts Music Program). [The New York Times Dec 13 p.95]

  • 73.12.14 - Sam Rivers: unknown ensemble / Broadcast on Teleprompter Manhattan Channel 10, 8:30pm, "Inside Music," Ed Simon host
    [The New York Times December 14 p.95] —No info on whether this was a live broadcast or a previously taped performance. —RL



    "It gives me great pleasure to officially welcome you as a charter member of The New York Jazz Repertory Company (NYJRC)."
    [Letter from NYJRC Executive Administrator Mari Jo Johnson to Sam Rivers dated December 19, 1973, The RivBea Archive]
    —See 74.02.17.

    : : : Studio RivBea Holiday Music Festival—December 21 to December 31 : : :

  • 73.12.21 to 12.23 - Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Altschul (perc) /
    11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Dec 20 Centerfold p.56 + p.67; Ed Hazell 14.06.21]

    "Blowing his own horn(s) and playing piano too at Studio Rivbea, the most consistently exciting music room in town, for 11 nights
    in a row, performing new compositions for reeds-piano and percussion with Barry Altschul. In addition there will be a different new group
    each evening during this holiday festival; all avant-garde, all now music." —Village Voice

    —This began an intended run of eleven consecutive evenings for this Duo (the December 27 display ad added Dave Holland for a Trio
     that actually had Arild Anderson on bass). There were various opening acts most nights: Mudon Slaughter & The Peace Excursion (Dec 23);
     Harold Smith—Harold Alexander Flight to Sanity (Dec 4); The Nada Brahma Serialistic Ensemble (Dec 25); Errol Parker Quartet (Dec 26);
     Muntu (Dec 27); Juju (Dec 28+29); Apogee (Dec 30); and Norman Connors Dance of Magic.
     [For more info see Ed Hazell's Studio RivBea Supplement or Timeline or whatever we call it pp...]

73.12.24 • Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo [RBA—58:40]

December 24, 1973 / 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, New York City

RivBea Archive Cassette #144
1. improvisation [58:40]  (incomplete, split track at 27:58, fades out)
 (ts section–27:02, fades out; ss section–2:18, fades out and back in; fl section–28:24, fades out)
—RBA Cassette #144 has this 1973 recording, and was found in a jewel box marked with the date 77.06.17.
 "Tape is labeled as ‘1973 december 24: sam rivers/altshul 24 dec 73 xmas eve.’
 Only one channel... On 60-min TDK. Soundboard or FM." —Jason Hook

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Barry Altschul (perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #144; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.20; Village Voice Dec 20 p.67; Jason Hook 08.03.28}


  • 73.12.25 + 12.26 - Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Altschul (perc) /
    Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Dec 20 p.67]

73.12.27 • Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo [BR]

December 27, 1973 / 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, New York City

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Barry Altschul (perc)

{Andrew Galloway; Village Voice Dec 20 p.67}


    "Then after the Molde festival I went back to New York just before Christmas and from then I was the bass player in Sam's trio,
    'til I went back to Norway mid-March '74... Barry brought me into the trio since I had worked with him and Paul Bley at some occasion."
    —Arild Andersen 11.12.27, 11.12.29

    —The Village Voice ad has Holland in the trio for this weekend, but he was not present. —RL
  • 73.12.28 to 12.31 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (reeds), Arild Andersen (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Dec 27 p.43; Ed Hazell 14.06.21; Arild Andersen 11.12.29]
    "We played a lot of weekends, including New Year's Eve '73 at Rivbea Studio. Sam came over to pick me up with the bass at 18th Street West,
    where I lived, on weekdays so we could just play for an hour or so with Barry. I do not know if any of this was recorded." —Arild Andersen

1974 : : :


  • 74.01.11 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Arild Andersen (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jan 10 p.40]
  • 74.01.25 + 01.26 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Jan 24 p.68]
    "In response to our audience."
  • 74.01.30 - Karl Berger & the Creative Music Studio Music Universe Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dewey Redman (ts, as),
    Carlos Ward (as, fl), Roswell Rudd and Garrett List (tb), Howard Johnson (tu), Frederick Rzewski (p, el-p), Karl Berger (p, vb, balafon),
    Dave Holland (b), Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso aka Ingrid Berger (perc, voc), Steve Haas (perc), Bob Moses (dr) /
    WBAI Free Music Store, Studio C, BAI Church, NYC
    [Pacifica Radio Archives WBAI Folio January '74 Free Music Store Schedule p.5,
    archive.org/stream/wbaifoliojan74wbairich/wbaifoliojan74wbairich_djvu.txt]

74.02.00 • Jeanne Lee: Conspiracy

1975: Earthforms Records 1 / Seeds 5 (LP);
2014: Private release (CDr) Eur

February, 1974 / Sound Ideas Studio, New York City

1. Sundance (Lee/Hazelton) [4:37]
2. Jamaica (Lee/Gregg) [6:10]
3. Subway Couple (Lee/Gregg/Hampel/McCall/Rivers) [2:51]
4. Your Ballad (Hampel) [6:40]
5. Conspiracy (Lee/Gregg/Hampel/McCall/Rivers) [11:55]
Sam Rivers (ss-1,2,4, ts-3, fl-2,5),
Gunter Hampel (fl-1, bcl-2,4,5, acl-2, p-3, vb-5),
Perry Robinson and Allan Praskin (cl-4),
Mark Whitecage (acl-4),
Marty Cook (tb-4),
Jeanne Lee (voc),
Jack Gregg (b),
Steve McCall (dr)

{Earthforms Records 1 / Seeds 5}

okay

  • 74.02.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Arild Andersen (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 9:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Feb 7 p.51]
  • 74.02.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / "The Harpur Jazz Project Presents..."
    8:00 & 10:30pm, Social Room, Student Center, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY [Pipe Dream Feb 5 p.7 + Feb 8 p.11]


  • Creative Music Studio Spring Term—February 11, 1974 through May 31, 1974

    "Barry Altschul, Karl Berger, Daniel Carter, Rhys Chatham, John Gibson, Dave Holland, David Izenzon, Lee Konitz, Garrett List,
    Bob Moses, Sam Rivers, Frederic Rzewski, and other visiting artists" / Turtle Bay Music School, NYC
    —Group Workshops, Rhythm-Sound Studies, Orchestra Workshops, and Concerts.
    [Village Voice Feb 7 p.45]


  • 74.02.17 - Sam Rivers Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others... /
    The New York Jazz Repertory Company Concert Series, 3:00pm, Carnegie Hall, NYC
    [John S. Wilsom "If the Symphonies Can Do It, So Can Jazz" The New York Times Jan 20 p.15]
    "Sam Rivers, who will conduct and play in his own composition, ‘Shades,’ on February 17. Rivers Is a highly developed
    musician but he hasn't been exposed properly to the general public in the context of a large ensemble."

     "Various members of the company's over 100 great jazz artists will play every style of jazz from traditional
     to the most contemporary of avant garde in 15 scheduled concerts from January 26 to June 28, 1974."

74.03.02 • Sam Rivers Ensemble [AR]

March 2, 1974 / Studio RivBea, New York City

[3] compositions [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others

—Possibly the Winds Ensemble, and may have been a rehearsal for 74.03.04 recording session below.

{Martin Milgrim 05.02.17}


74.03.04 • Sam Rivers: Crystals

1974: ABC/Impulse! ASD-9286 (LP) [+ White label Promo pressing];
    8027-9286 H (8Trk!); IMJ-80014 (LP) Jpn;
1975: 3C 064-96430 (LP) It;
1979: ABC Records RB 202 (LP, Record Bazaar Series) It;
2002: Verve/Impulse! 314 589 760-2 (CD, LP Reproduction Series w/ OBI) [+ UK & Eur]
  • Sam Rivers Winds Ensemble [RBA—18:52 +]
  • Del! The Funky Homosapien: No Need For Alarm
    1993: Elektra 61529-1 (2-LP, multiple sleeve and label variations);
        61592-2 (CD) [+ BMG Club]; CD 61529 (CD) Can;
        7559-61592-2 (CD) Ger; 7559615292 (CD) Aus; 61529-4 (CS);
        PRCS-8889 (CS, 5-track Ltd Edition Promo Sampler);
        7559-61529-4 (CS) UK;
        WEA Records, no release# (CS, Tape-to-Tape Promo) UK;
    unknown: No label, STEREO E93 (2-LP, Unofficial)
  • Del! The Funky Homosapien: Wrongplace/Don't Forget
    1993: ED 5678 (12" Single, White label Promo); 4-66241 (CS, maxi-single);
    1994: 0-66241 (12" Single)
  • (V/A) Respekt!
    2004: Universal Jazz Germany 06024 9817717 (CD) Ger
  • (V/A) Living on Impulse!
    2012: Universal Music Belgium/Impulse! 533957 (3-CD) Bel
  • Sam Rivers: Samthology
    2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
       —6th Session: [See also 61.12.14; 67.03.17; 71.02.13; 73.08.03;
                   73.11.10; 75.12.09; 78.08.08; 79.12.04+05; 92.01.12]

March 4, 1974 / Generation Sound Studios, New York City

1. Exultation [8:25]
2. Tranquility [8:58]
3. Postlude [2:31]
4. Bursts [6:51]
5. Orb [9:36]
6. Earth Song [4:09]
Living on Impulse! has track 2.
No Need For Alarm and Wrongplace/Don't Forget have track 2
 sampled in "Don't Forget."
Respekt! has track 3.
Samthology has tracks 4 and 6.
—"Bursts," as given on recording, is actually two versions of Burst back-to-back.
RivBea Archive / Cassette #205
1. (no info) [ : ]
2. Tranquility [7:07]
3. Burst [3:53]
4. Burst (take 2) [3:20]
5. Blossoms [4:32]
6. (no info) [ : ]
—Track titles and timings as given in RivBea database.
—RBA Cassette # 205 has "Rough Mixes of Session."

"These days, for this kind of music you have to go in the studio and you have to do it
in one day... Crystals was done in like... five or six hours." —Sam Rivers

"Burst, Orbs, and Earth Song is one composition, just sliced into three sections."
—Sam Rivers WKCR Interview, October 5, 1974.

Images, top to bottom:
Crystals Verve/Impulse! 2002 release (CD, LP Reproduction Series w/ OBI).
Crystals Italian release LP cover, Record Bazaar Series.
Belgian relese Living on Impulse!, compilation 3-CD set.
Wrongplace/Don't Forget 12" Single label (1994).

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, perc, Comp, Arr, Cond),
Roland Alexander (ts, ss, fl, African flute, perc),
Paul Jeffrey (ts, fl, bassett horn, perc),
Fred Kelly (as, ss, fl, bar, pic, perc),
Joe Ferguson (as, ss, fl, perc),
Ted Daniel, Richard Williams, and Sinclair Acey (tp, flg, perc),
Charles Stephens and Charles Majeed Greenlee (tb, perc),
Joe Daley (tu/eu, perc), Gregory Maker (b, elb, perc),
Harold Smith (perc), Warren Smith (dr, perc)

—There is a list of musicians in the liner notes to this release that Rivers thanks and
 acknowledges for performing "this music and the other compositions that I have
 written." It is often confused as a session roster for this recording. It is not. —RL

Joe Daley appears with Rivers for the first time here. He is credited in a multitude
 of sessions in this document with playing either/and/or tuba, euphonium, and baritone
 horn: "I used tuba and euphonium only, but many confuse the euphonium with
 the baritone horn... They look exactly the same, but the baritone is cylindrical bore
 and the euphonium is a comical [sic] bore like the tuba and French horn... To add spice
 to the story, occasionally I would play a double-bell baritone horn..."
 —Joe Daley


okay
okay
okay
okay
For our purposes going forward, and to avoid confusion and admit to my uncertainty
on particular sessions, Daley is credited with an and/or tuba/euphonium (tu/eu).
—RL

{ASD-9286; Verve 314 589 760-2; Samthology; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #205; Joe Daley 18.02.13}


    March, 1974 through May, 1974 : : : The Music Universe Orchestra

    Robert E. Sweet cites the following personnel on these dates:
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc)—who did not make all of these sessions, Lee Konitz (as), Dan Carter (as, tp), Ilene Marder (fl), Garrett List (tb), Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum and Tom Schmidt (keys), Karl Berger (p, vb), Larry Chernicoff (vb, perc), Jonathan Kline (vn), Gregory Reeve (va), Dave Holland and David Izenson (b), Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc), Steve Haas (perc), and Bob Moses (dr)

    "The Peace Church Concert series was another memorable New York highlight of 1974. The Music Universe Orchestra... performed
    ten concerts in a New York City church in March, April, and May. A live, double album resulted [see below], as did a good deal of publicity."
    —Robert E. Sweet

    Rivers is not on the 2-LP The Music Universe Orchestra: The Peace Church Concerts (Creative Music Communication CMC 1, 1974)
    There are citations that mistakenly include him in the personnel list for this release. —RL
    [Music Universe, Music Mind, Revisiting the Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York, by Robert E. Sweet, p.51]


  • 74.03.13 - Karl Berger—Music Universe: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Lee Konitz (as), Carlos Ward (as, fl), Garrett List (tb),
    Frederick Rzewski (p, el-p), Karl Berger (p, vb, balafon), Gregory Reeve (va), Dave Holland (b), Bob Moses (dr), "and others" /
    8:30pm, Washington Square Peace Church, NYC [Village Voice Mar 7 Center for New Music Calendar p.36]
    "A New Concept bringing together previously separate directions. Part I and II [03.27 below] of a progression..."

74.03.27 • The Music Universe Orchestra [AR]

March 27, 1974 / Washington Square Church, New York City

1. Music of the Spirit [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Carlos Ward and Lee Konitz (as), Garrett List (tb), Frederic Rzewski (p), Ingrid Berger aka Ing Rid aka Ingrid Sertso (voc, perc),
Karl Berger (vb), Gregory Reeve (va, per), Dave Holland (b), Bob Moses (dr), "and strings, percussion, and voice"

{Anonymous 06.01.01; Robert E. Sweet, Music Universe, Music Mind p.51; Village Voice Mar 7 Center for New Music Calendar p.36 + 03.28 p.43}


  • 74.04.07 - Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Edmonton Jazz Society, Old Timers' Cabin, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [Edmonton Journal Apr 4 p.28 + Apr 8 p.9]
    "Two musicians of a trio booked into the Old Timers' Cabin, showed up late... Fans missed out on hearing and seeing bassist Dave Holland,
    detained in Philadelphia. But EJS president Marc Vasey assured Sunday's audience all three would be on deck [Monday the 8th]."
    —Wyman Collins in the Edmonton Journal Apr 8 review.

74.04.08 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR]

April 8, 1974 / Edmonton Jazz Society, Old Timers' Cabin, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
—Broadcast CKUA-FM "Jazz Interactions," 8:00pm, November 21, 1974.

1... improvisations [ : ]
—Archive at www.yardbirdsuite.com adds April 9th, but none of the newspaper items mention it.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Edmonton Journal Apr 4 p.28 + Apr 8 p.9; The Advocate Nov 16 p.2}


  • 74.04.10 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, as, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:30pm, MacEwan Hall Ballroom, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    [Calgary Herald Mar 30 p.75 + Eugene Chadbourne ("Staff Writer") review, Apr 11 p.70, The RivBea Archive]
  • 74.04.14 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 7:30pm, Newcombe Auditorium, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    [The C.C. Free Press Apr 12 p.5]
  • 74.04.15 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop / 3:00pm, Evans Auditorium, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
    [Oregonian Apr 14 p.25+93]
  • 74.04.15 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:00pm, Agnes Flanagan Chapel, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
    [Oregonian Apr 7 p.21 + Apr 14 p.25+93]
  • 74.05.03 + 05.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, as, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice May 2 p.60]

74.05.15 • John Lee Hooker: Free Beer and Chicken

1974: ABC Records ABCD-838 (LP, Quad, Santa Maria pressing); ABCD-838 (LP) [+ Aus]; ABCD-838 (LP, Promo);
    ABCD-838 (LP, Quad, Pitman pressing); ABCL 5059 (LP) UK; 2C06495970 (LP) Fr; SPBA 3080 (LP) Aus;
    TC-ABCL 5059 (CS) UK;
1976: ABC LP-0062 (LP) Sp [Title "Cerveza y Pollo Gratis"];
1991: BGO Records BGOCD 123 (CD) UK [+ BGO CD 123];
1992: BGO BGOLP123 (LP) UK;
2006: BGO Records BGOCD 123 (CD, Reissue) UK;
2011: ABC Records ABCD-838 (LP)

May 15, 1974 / Village Recorder, Los Angeles, CA

1. Five Long Years (Trad arr. Hooker) [5:59]
"I'd left a hole for a solo in this while I was mixing at Westlake Audio [in LA]. I was crossing hours with Stevie Wonder, who was working
with some pals of mine; he agreed to put on a harmonica solo, but it never happened. Sam was in town, so I used him—I had planned a tenor solo,
but he wanted flute, and that's what happened." —Session producer Ed Michel.

John Lee Hooker (g, voc), Joe Cocker (voc, tamb), Sam Rivers (fl overdub), Clifford Coulter (p, elb), Jim Kahr and Wa-Wa Watson (g), Ron Beck (dr)

{BGOCD123; Ed Michel}



74.06.00 • Dick Griffin: The Eighth Wonder

1974: Strata East SES-19747 (LP); JC-7508 (LP) Jpn;
1980: Sugar Hill Records SH 261 (LP)
  • Dick Griffin: The Eighth Wonder & More
    1994: Konnex KCD 5059 (CD) Ger
  • (V/A) Strata-2-East
    1997: Universal Sound US LP6 (2-LP); US CD6 (CD)
Early Summer, 1974 / Sound Ideals Studio, New York City
1. It Could Be [6:52]
2. Girl, I Really Love You So [6:45]
3. Jakubu's Dance [4:07]
4. Flying Back Home [8:21]
5. Come Be With Me [9:32]
Strata-2-East has track 3.

Dick Griffin (tb, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts-3,4, ss-5, fl-1,2), Ron Burton (p), Cecil McBee (b),
Warren Smith (vb, perc), Leopoldo F. Fleming (conga, bells, perc), Freddie Waits (dr)

{KCD 5059; US LP6; Dick Griffin}


okay okay

  • 74.06.02 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea June 1974 Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 74.06.03 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for the Harlem Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.04 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Woodwind Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]


  • 74.06.05 - Sam Rivers Trio, Artists House, NYC : : : See 74.06.09 (2)
    —No mention of why this was postponed, although: "Last June, for example, [Carman] Moore and his soloists flew to San Francisco for a reading
     of the 40-minute first version [of "Gospel Fuse"] with the orchestra." (See 75.01.22, 01.23, and 01.24)
     [Marilyn Tucker "Wedding Gospel to Symphony" San Francisco Chronicle Jan 22 1975 p.55]


  • 74.06.06 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Brass Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea June 1974 Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 74.06.09 (1) - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations—Improvisational Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 6 p.73]

74.06.09 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

June 9, 1974 / Creative Music Summer Studio Festival, 10:00pm, Artists House, NYC
—Originally scheduled for the 5th in Village Voice May 23 p.71 and The New York Times June 2.

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (perc)

{Village Voice May 30 p.55 + Jun 6 p.58; Ed Hazell 14.06.30; Andrew Galoway}


  • 74.06.10 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for the Harlem Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 6 p.73]
  • 74.06.11 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Woodwind Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.12 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for String Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.13 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Brass Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.14 to 04.16 (1) - The Jazz-Op Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert "Bob" Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason, Lydia Payne, and Lillie Andrews (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp),
    Kasa (el-p), Scoby Stromen (dr), Bill Davis (unknown) / 8:00pm 14th + 15th, 7:00pm 16th, The Harlem Cultural Center, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 74.06.16 (2) - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations—Improvisational Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 13 p.72]
  • 74.06.17 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for the Harlem Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.18 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Woodwind Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.19 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for String Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.20 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Brass Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.21 to 04.23 (1) - The Jazz-Op Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert "Bob" Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason, Lydia Payne, and Lillie Andrews (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp),
    Kasa (el-p), Scoby Stromen (dr), Bill Davis (unknown) / 8:00pm 21st + 22nd, 7:00pm 23rd, The Harlem Cultural Center, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 74.06.23 (2) - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations—Improvisational Ensemble Workshop / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.24 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for the Harlem Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.25 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Woodwind Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.26 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for String Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.27 - Sam Rivers' Workshop—Compositions for Brass Ensemble / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.06.28 + 06.29 (1) - The Jazz-Op Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert "Bob" Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason, Lydia Payne, and Lillie Andrews (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp),
    Kasa (el-p), Scoby Stromen (dr), Bill Davis (unknown) / 8:00pm, The Harlem Cultural Center, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]


Studio RivBea Summer Festival : : : June 28 through July 7, 1974

"During the Newport New York Jazz Festival, a counter-festival with 30 concerts at Studio RivBea and Studio We's Harlem New York
Centennial Jazz Festival in various theatres and at Carnegie Hall, New York City." [Musica Jazz Oct 1974 p.27, on-line index]


74.06.29 (2) • Sam Rivers Sextet [AR]

June 29, 1974, 11:00pm + 2:00am / Studio RivBea Summer Festival, Studio RivBea, New York City

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Ferguson (fl, reeds), Olu Dara (tp), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Hakim Jami (b), Doug Hammond (dr)

—Anonymous tape information and another reference in Jazz Magazine (in French) by Chris Flicker on p.17,
 has Sinclair Acey and Charles Stephens on trumpets and omits Daley and Dara.

{Village Voice Jun 27 p.54; CODA p.32, festival report by Randy Hutton, no issue info; Anonymous 06.01.01}


  • 74.06.30 - The Jazz-Op Ensemble: Emory "Ed" Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Robert "Bob" Donaldson (Tenor),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason, Lydia Payne, and Lillie Andrews (Soprano), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp),
    Kasa (el-p), Scoby Stromen (dr), Bill Davis (unknown) / 7:00pm, The Harlem Cultural Center, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 74.07.01 - Sam Rivers' Orchestral Explorations: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), others... /
    11:00pm + 2:00am, Studio RivBea Summer Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 27 p.54; CODA festival report p.33, no issue info]
    —"There are about 50 involved, 12 played this night. It was totally made up of wind instruments: two tenors, two altos,
     three sopranos (one Eb, two Bb), one trumpet, two flutes, one piccolo, two trombones, one clarinet, one bass clarinet."
  • 74.07.04 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Ferguson, Paul Jeffrey, Danny Carter, and Gene Ghee (reeds),
    Richard Williams, Ted Daniel, and Norman Spiller (tp), Charles Stephens and Dick Griffin (tb), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
    Gregg Maker (b), Warren Smith (dr) / 11:00pm + 2:00am, Studio RivBea Summer Festival, NYC
    [Village Voice Jun 27 p.54; CODA festival report p.33, no issue info; Jazz Magazine Chris Flicker p.17, no issue info]
    —"There are 35 or so people involved, this night it was a 12-piece band..."

Wi

74.07.05 • Jazz Opera Ensemble [BR]

July 5, 1974 / Studio RivBea Summer Festival, 9:00pm + 12:00am, Studio RivBea, New York City
—WNYU-FM Broadcast on August 7, 1974
 "Radio station WYNU taped the nights of July 5 and 6 for broadcast..."

1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
Emory Taylor (Baritone, Dir), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Beverly Mason and Lydia Payne (Soprano)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Kasa (el-p), Ronnie Boykins (b), Scoby Stromen (dr),
CODA had "Ed" Taylor.

{Village Voice Jun 27 p.54; CODA festival report p.33, no issue info; Billboard Aug 10, 1974 p.25}


74.07.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—90:08]

July 6, 1974, 11:00pm + 2:00am / RivBea Summer Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
—WNYU-FM Broadcast, "Jazz Expansions" 11:35pm, August 21, 1974

RivBea Archive / Cassette #151:
1. improvisation [52:37]  (incomplete, fades in, split track fade in&out at 11:53, split track fade in&out at 45:05)
 (ts section–16:00; ts+voc–0:56; voc, b→b solo→b, dr—1:45; fl+voc section–28:25; b+dr w/ SR-voc—2:32; ss section–4:48; SR ann—1:27)
2. improvisation [35:51]  (incomplete, cuts in, cuts out at end)
 (ss section–23:09; b+dr w/ SR-voc—1:37; fl+voc section–11:05)
"In announcement at the end of the first set, Sam says that either Dewey Redman or Rashied Ali is next...
This locates it at Rivbea. According to the Rivbea master schedule: July 6, 1974." —Ed Hazell
—Improv #2 was probably the 2:00am show. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, ss, voc), Hayes Burnette (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

 —Burnette "Due to the unavailability of Dave Holland and Cecil McBee..."

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #151; track detailing RL 19.08.19; Village Voice Jun 27 p.54;
Billboard Aug 10, 1974 p.25; The New York Times Aug 21; Ed Hazell 18.09.10}


  • July, 1974:

    Harris Eisanstadt: Was it a regular group with two drummers or just once in a while?
    Barry Altschul: There was a bunch of projects with Sam and two drummers. It was another project of Sam's. I worked with two different drummers, both playing drumsets, me and Bobby Battle; me and Warren Smith; me and Charlie Persip.
    [Destination Out Guest Post: Barry Altschul interviewed by Harris Eisanstadt, January 2013]
    —This two-drummer configuration is noted on various gigs from 74.07.07 through 77.10.19.
    ———


74.07.07 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR]

July 7, 1974 / RivBea Summer Festival, Studio RivBea, New York City

[2] improvisations [ : ]
—There is no mention of this session in either the CODA festival report by Randy Hutton or the Jazz Magazine report by Chris Flicker
 cited in the Festival entries above. May have been a late fill-in, or an after festival jam session. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Hayes Burnette (b), Rashied Ali and Barry Altschul (dr)

{Anonymous 06.01.01}


74.07.00 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA—30:45]

July, 1974, probably / unknown venue, New York City

1. improvisation [29:49]  (split track at 16:58)
 (ts section–4:25; fl+voc section w/ perc–8:30; b+dr–0:49; p section–3:36; p section w/ tribal vocals–1:40;
 ss section–5:10; fl+voc section–2:35; ts section–3:04)
—RBA Cassette #100: "Sound quality is poor. Bass is way up in the mix and the drums are way back. Track drop out on most tracks
 of performance. Cassette is in bad shape, it caught during the piano section... However, the band sounds great!" —Ed Hazell

—This cassette is undated. The two-drummer "project" seems to have happened off-and-on between July 1974 and late 1977;
 the last known Harold Smith gig previous to this is on Crystals in March 1974 (he reappears in '83); Warren Smith was around
 for the entirety of the '70s; and McBee's last known date is July 6, 1974 (he reappears in '85). —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Warren Smith and Harold E. Smith (dr, perc, voc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS-90 #100; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.07.11}


74.07.26 (1) • Dave Holland Quartet [BVR—25:31]

July 26, 1974 / Festival de Jazz d'Antibes, Palazzo dei Congressi, Juan les Pins, Antibes, France
—3eChaine del'ORTF Broadcast

1. Four Winds—Q & A [25:18]  (incomplete, cuts in, Broadcast voice-over from 0:00 to 2:00)
—European Tour "...started at Antibes." —Sam Rivers, forgetting Piazza on the 24th, WKCR-FM Interview, October 5, 1974

Anthony Braxton (as, ss, cbsx), Sam Rivers (fl, voc), Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{DVD; Braxton references this in Impetus 6 1977 p.249; Timo Hoyer 03.11.03; Musica Jazz Oct 1974 pp.22-24 concert reviews, Andrea Puppo}


  • 74.07.26 (2) - After-hours jam session: Sam Rivers, others... / Late night, unidentified jazz club, Antibes, France
    [Sam Rivers Interview, WKCR-FM, October 5, 1974]
  • 74.07.28 - Dave Holland Quartet (-1): Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) ...Braxton was taken ill and missed the gig. /
    Molde Kino, Molde, Norway [www.moldejazz.no/hoved/historie/list_musikere.php3]
    —"We jumped from Perugia to... Molde, Norway, via five changes of planes... We had to be there the next night."

74.08.01 • (V/A) Sam Rivers "Freedom" Trio: Jazz In Piazza—Umbria Jazz 1974

1974: RaiTV Documentary by Pino Adriano (Film, B&W, 80min) Italy
—Broadcast February 27, 1975
 [Includes tracks by Charles Mingus; Keith Jarrett; Gerry Mulligan; Sonny Stitt; Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Sextet; others...]

August 1, 1974 / Umbria Jazz Festival, Piazza 4 Novembre, Perugia, Italy

1. improvisation [4:20]
 (ts section–2:06, incomplete, fades in under Altschul interview; voc section–0:46; fl+voc section–1:28, fades out)
—This broadcast has been circulating misdated 74.07.24.
—Mario De Simoni's YouTube video excerpts have this (split) at the 11:32 marker in Part 5, ID #C2AZR8kq-Dk,
 and briefly at beginning of #YoTCzEY_mBQ.

"During the encore [not included in this documentary], which featured Rivers on flute, pianist Don Pullen (who had performed earlier
with the Charles Mingus group) unexpectedly came onto the stage and sat in with the trio." —Veniero Rizzardi

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Broadcast DVD, track detailing RL 19.04.05; Poster, The RivBea Archive; www.umbriajazz.com/popup/media/1974;
www.teche.rai.it/varieta-1974-1975/ Library of Congress, memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.jots.200016631;
Musica Jazz Oct 1974, pp.9-13 concert reviews by Arrigo Polillo; Veniero Rizzardi 12.01.03 + 19.03.06}


  • 74.08.31 + 09.01 - The Quartet: Anthony Braxton (multiple reeds), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr /
    10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Aug 29 p.57]
  • 74.09.30 - Bill Cole Ensemble: Cole (Chinese musette, Indian Shenai, Korean Sona), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Vishnu Wood (b,oud, perc),
    Warren Smith (dr, perc) / John Coltrane Memorial World Music Series, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    [Boston Globe Sep 27 p.19+40; The Dartmouth Oct 1 clipping p.2, The RivBea Archive]

74.10.05 • Sam Rivers Interview [BR—66:18]

—WKCR-FM, Live Broadcast; WKCR-FM Re-Broadcast on May 22, 2007 (at 8:04am) during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

October 5, 1974 / "Jazz Projections," WKCR Studios, NYC

 Interview [30:06]
—This interview was followed by a two-minute intro from the rebroadcast on May 22, 2007, and then the album Crystals.

—Rivers mentions current workshops "for woodwinds and brass instruments" every Sunday at 6:00pm. Asked if "these are all your compositions?"
 SR: "Well, no, this is another project which is different, this is something else... It's, how do you say? It's a communal type music,
 creative process. Everyone contributes... I hope I'm vague, because that's what I want to be. [laughter]

Sam Rivers (speaking)

{Re-broadcast CDr, detailing RL 19.08.20}


    Creative Music Studio Fall Term—October 15 through December 15, 1974

    Karl Berger, Jack DeJohnette, Stu Martin, Dave Holland, Bob Moses, Sam Rivers, Lee Konitz, and others /
    Group and Orchestra Workshops, Development Studies for Rhythm and Sound (fundamental and advanced),
    Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    [Unidentified, undated clipping "p.21" + Cardstock CMS handbill, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Oct 10 p.46]

    —Moving their main facility from Manhattan: "Starting October 15, 1974, The Creative Music Studio Woodstock will be a permanent
     study center for the creative musical arts." [CMS Woodstock press release, The RivBea Archive]

    "I do workshops now and then... I haven't been up there yet this year." —Sam Rivers Interview, WKCR-FM, October 5, 1974

74.00.00 (1) • (V/A) New American Music, Volume 1

1975: Smithsonian Folkways Records FTS 33901 (LP)
1992: F-33901 (CDr & CS)

Late 1974 / Studio RivBea, New York City
—Tom Lord Jazz Discography has this as "early 1970," [R3966] but this is more likely
 the time period when this composition was being written.
1. Shadows [11:00]  "for tenor sax, flute, soprano sax, and synthesizer."
"Shadows" is an extended composition for woodwinds in four parts. The opening
statement is for tenor sax, flute, soprano sax, and synthesizer. It is the shortest
and only completely improvised section—themes stated here are the basis for
the remaining three parts which are written although not heard in the section
recorded here. —From the uncredited liner notes

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, synth / overdubs, Comp)

{FTS 33901; F-33901; personnel and overdubs info via Mr. Sam Rivers}

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74.11.01 • Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan [AR]

November 1, 1974, 11:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. Shadows [ : ]
"Super sophisticated sounds that swing." —Village Voice Centerfold

"A new composition by Sam Rivers. One section will be used in a project made possible by the Creative Artists Program Service." —RivBea schedule
—In the WKCR interview on October 24, Rivers says that the composition will be premiered on November 1st and 2nd.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Marvin Blackman and Joe Ferguson (ts, as, ss, fl), Gene Ghee (ts, bar, fl, cl), Daniel Carter (ts, as, fl, cl),
Keshauan Maslik (ts, ss, fl), Paul Jeffrey (ts, cl, ob, bsn), Lauren Brown (ts, ob),
Hillary Schmidt (as, fl), Trevor Kohler (bar, fl), Fred Kelly (bar, fl, pic)

 —Andrew Galloway undated correspondence had this as "Reeds of Harlem," added Gary Gordon (ss, fl), Hillary Schmidt (as, fl),
  and Ron Scott (bar, fl), and omitted Gene Ghee, Nancy Jannesan, and Fred Kelly.

{Studio RivBea October-November Schedule (two versions), The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Oct 31 Centerfold p.68; Andrew Galloway}


  • 74.11.02 - Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan: as above / 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 74.11.15 - Sam Rivers Sextet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Ferguson (ts, as), Olu Dara (tp), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
    Ronnie Boykins (b), Doug Hammond (dr) / 10:00pm + 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea October-November Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Oct 31 p.68;
    Sam Rivers Interview on WKCR-FM, October 5, 1974]


  • Charlotte Moorman's 11th Annual Avant-Garde Festival : : : November 16, 1974, 1:00pm to Midnight, Shea Stadium, Queens, NY

    —This was the first mention of the Sam Rivers Hologram. ... etc.


  • 74.11.16 (2) - Sam Rivers Sextet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Ferguson (ts, as), Olu Dara (tp), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
    Ronnie Boykins (b), Doug Hammond (dr) / 10:00pm + 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea October-November Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Oct 31 p.68;
    Sam Rivers Interview on WKCR-FM, October 5, 1974]

74.11.19 • Harlem Opera Society's Solomon and Sheba [AR]

November 19, 1974, 7:30pm / The Harlem Cultural Council, New York City

1. Solomon and Sheba [ : ]
—RBA Reel #14 is a 7-inch 1.5 Mylar 1200-ft. tape that is marked "Solomon and Sheba," the names Ed Taylor
 and Sam Rivers, and "Possibly at Studio RivBea."

Emory Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Beverly "Abby" Mason and Von Ray (Soprano), EE Ray and Lydia Payne (voc),
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, el-p, synth, Comp), Joe Ferguson (ts, as, fl), Lawrence Evans (b), Ombe (perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #14; Flyer + Program, The RivBea Archive}


  • 74.11.27 + 11.28 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (perc) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Dec 2 p.99]

74.11.29 • Sam Rivers Trio +1 [AR—65:45]

November 29, 1974, 10:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. improvisation [65:45]  (split track at 45:52, incomplete, cuts in at beginning and out at end)
 (ts section–26:04; fl+voc section–22:54; fl section–16:37)
—Unclear whether the Rivers interview implies that all of the trio dates for this weekend were the +1 version ("and a surprise addition"). —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Olu Dara (tp), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.08.19; Sam Rivers Interview on WKCR-FM, October 5, 1974}


    74.11.29 + 11.30 (cancelled?) - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Gene Ghee (ts, fl, cl), Daniel Carter (as, fl), Joe Ferguson (ss, fl),
    Paul Jeffrey (ss), Ted Daniel, Richard Williams, and Norman Spiller (tp), Charles Stephens and Dick Griffin (tb),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Gregg Maker (b), Warren Smith (dr, perc) / 10:00pm + 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea October-November Schedules (two versions), The RivBea Archive, Sam Rivers Interview on WKCR-FM, October 5, 1974]
    —It is unclear whether these Harlem Ensemble gigs ever happened. References are both from a month previous; and a Village Voice
     display ad from this week (Dec 2 p.99) has the Trio "Wed. - Sat. 27-28-29-30" with no mention of the Harlem Ensemble. If they happened
     at all, it may have been an earlier set preceding the trio. —RL

  • 74.11.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (perc) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Dec 2 p.99]


  • December 4, 1974 : : :
    Under the honorary presidency of Georges Auric and Stéphane Grapelli, and in the presence of Henri Sauguet, Michel de Bry,
    Charles Delauney, and members of Honor, the jury of the Jazz Academy, meeting December 4, 1974 at 'Knights of the Temple,'
    33 rue des Rosaiers, awarded: 'L’Oscar du Jazz d’Avant-garde' to Sam Rivers, for the album In Montreux—Streams,
    Impulse AS9251 / Pathé-Marconi).
    [Award certificate, suitable for framing, The RivBea Archive; www.academiedujazz.com/palmares-1974.html]



    74.12.08 - (CANCELLED) Sam Rivers & Barry Altschul Duo / Annex Theatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    [CODA Dec 1974 #134 pg.26, "Around the World" column]
    —Anthony Braxton Trio, w/ Dave Holland and Altschul: "Details from Coda 1/75 pp.26, 35-36. This trio was a replacement
     for the scheduled duo of Sam Rivers and Altschul." [Anthony Braxton Discography at www.jazzdiscography.com]


  • 74.12.07 to 12.09 - Harlem Opera Society's Solomon and Sheba: Emory Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Beverly "Abby" Mason and Von Ray (Soprano),
    EE Ray and Lydia Payne (voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, synth, Comp), Joe Ferguson (ts, as, fl), Kasa Allah (p),
    Lawrence Evans (b), Ombe Carter (perc) / 7:30pm (4:00pm on Sunday the 8th), The Harlem Cultural Council, NYC
    [Flyer + Program, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Dec 9 p.94]
  • 74.12.21 + 12.22 - Sam Rivers: unknown ensemble, probably the trio, maybe the sextet / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]


    Creative Music New Year's Studio—December 27, 1974 through January 5, 1975

    "Guiding Artists include... Sam Rivers" / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    —"Group and orchestra workshops..." [CODA Dec 1974 #134 p.27]

74.12.29 • Sam Rivers Trio + Karl Berger [AR—106:37]

December 29, 1974 / Live At Woodstock Town Hall, Woodstock, NY

 1. improvisation [100:49]  (split track at 52:34)
 (ts section–24:39; b solo w/ dr–3:21; fl section–4:43; dr solo w/ SR voc–4:57; fl+voc section–13:37; voc+b+dr–1:17;
 ss section–20:07; dr solo–2:52; fl section–11:32 (Berger in at 7:00); p+b+dr–2:06; b solo–4:00; ts section–6:37)
 After-show Interview with Sam Rivers [3:28]
—Also circulating truncated at 75:21. At 41:05 in there is a cut in the flute section, and the abrupt start of the soprano sax section. There is a gap
 of several minutes that has led to references to a "2nd Set," but this is one continuous performance. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Karl Berger (el-p, in at 83:34), Dave Holland (b), Stu Martin (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.20; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; Heinrich Smejkal}


1975 : : :


  • 75.01.02 - Beverly Mason Recital: Beverly Mason (Soprano), Sam Rivers ("accompanist," probably piano) /
    Room 200, Shepard Hall, City University of New York, NYC [Program, The RivBea Archive]
  • 75.01.03 - Beverly Mason Recital: as above / 3rd Floor, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NYC [ibid]
    —[Both dates above] Program III: Perfomance of "Song Poems," by Sam Rivers
     1. To a Singer (text by S. Sonchez); 2. The Water of Your Bath (text by Ahmasi);
     3. Ego Trippin'—There May Be a Reason Why (text by N. Giovanni)
     Recital also included pieces by Schubert, Verdi, and others, all accompanied by Kathy Cerami

    Creative Music Studio Winter Term—January 15 through March 15, 1975

    Karl Berger, Jack DeJohnette, Stu Martin, Dave Holland, Bob Moses, Sam Rivers, Lee Konitz, and others /
    Group and Orchestra Workshops, Development Studies for Rhythm and Sound (fundamental and advanced),
    Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    [Cardstock CMS handbill, The RivBea Archive; CODA Dec 1974 #134 p.27]
    "Group and orchestra workshops..." Rivers was in residence at various times during the Winter Term,
    most likely after the late January Carman Moore production in California.

    —Around this time the CMS was also "[continuing] a series of concerts at the Washington Square Church on the first Friday and Saturday
     of each month, featuring a workshop program consisting of Karl Berger, Dave Holland, Ing Rid [aka Ingrid Sertso aka Ingrid Berger],
     Sam Rivers, Garrett List, Frederic Rzewski, and Lee Konitz, among others."
     [Downbeat Jan 30, 1975 clipping (no page#), The RivBea Archive]

    "[Carman Moore's ‘Gospel Fuse’] will be recorded by DGG." —Michael Cuscuna Record World Dec 7 '74 p.35

  • 75.01.22 + 01.23 - Carman Moore's "Gospel Fuse": Seiji Ozawa (Cond), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Sam Rivers (ss),
    Dennis Moorman (p), Paul Griffin (org), Cissy Houston and Barbara Washington-Grant (Soprano), Ann Duquesnay (Contralto),
    Maeretha Stewart (Mezzo-Soprano), others / 8:30pm the 22nd; 2:00pm the 23rd, The Opera House, San Francisco, CA
    "Seiji Ozawa conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, with a gospel quartet led by Cissy Houston,
    and a small ensemble featuring soprano saxophonist Sam Rivers."
    [The Argus Jan 17 p.39; Billboard Jan 18 p.38; San Francisco Examiner Jan 23 p.25]

    "Moore's ‘Gospel Fuse’ will have its first performance on Wednesday night in San Francisco under Ozawa.
    The, piece, which Moore describes as ‘almost a church service,’ has a saxophone soloist (Sam Rivers) taking a kind of preacher's role
    in one movement, with the orchestra responding like a congregation. Later on, a gospel quartet led by Cissy Houston, lead singer
    of the Sweet Inspirations, gets into the action. ‘At first I thought of Aretha Franklin but Cissy is fantastic. She's Dionne Warwick's aunt,
    and taught her to sing.’
    According to Moore, the New York Philharmonic, which was accused of bias ... several years ago, ‘is still typical of the whole orchestral
    scene.’ But he feels more strongly about the San Francisco situation. ‘I wouldn't do this piece for the San Francisco Symphony. I did it
    for Ozawa and if he left the orchestra tomorrow he could take it with him.’ The sticky situation in San Francisco developed this season
    when a black woman timpanist, Elayne Jones, was refused tenure by the players committee, in what was considered a direct slap in the face
    to Ozawa, who hired her. Moore has decided to make a musical comment on the controversy: ‘In my revised version of ‘Gospel Fuse,'
    there is a big timpani solo in the first few measures. I think that will get the message across out there.’
    [Donal Henahan "This Week's Most Wanted Composer: Carman Moore" The New York Times Jan 19 p.105]

75.01.24 • Carman Moore's "Gospel Fuse" [BR]

January 24, 1975, 8:30pm / The Opera House, San Francisco, CA
—KKHI-FM+AM Live Broadcast

1. Gospel Fuse [22:00]
Carman Moore's "Gospel Fuse": Seiji Ozawa (Cond), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Sam Rivers (ss), Dennis Moorman (p),
Paul Griffin (org), Cissy Houston and Barbara Washington-Grant (Soprano), Ann Duquesnay (Contralto), Maeretha Stewart (Mezzo-Soprano), others

{The Argus Jan 17 p.39; The San Francisco Examiner Jan 22 The Arts p.36}


  • 75.01.25 - Carman Moore's "Gospel Fuse": as above / 8:00pm, Flint Center, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
    [The Argus Jan 17 p.39; Billboard Jan 18, 1975 p.38; The San Francisco Examiner Jan 22 The Arts p.36]


  • "I played with Sam his first two visits to Keystone Korner in San Francisco in 1974 and 1975 [actually January and October of '75].
    It was a trio both times with myself on double-bass and Eddie Marshall on drums." —Chris Amberger

  • 75.01.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Armberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr) /
    Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [San Francisco Bay Guardian Jan 25 p.27; San Francisco Examiner Jan 28 p.21; Chris Amberger 08.01.29 + 03.17]
    —An unusual one-night stand at Keystone between a Stitt/Hutcherson Quintet run and an Ahmad Jamal run.

    "[Rivers] could as easily play with Charlemagne Palestine, the improvising bell-ringer at Manhattan's St. Thomas Church, as he could create duets
    with barking seals or a bebop band." [Philip Elwood "Free-flowing Volcano of the Saxophone" San Francisco Examiner Jan 28 p.21]


  • 1970s, San Francisco, CA:
    "[Pianist George Duke] played at two local clubs, the Halfnote and the Both/And, where he and his trio were used as the rhythm section
     for such artists as Letta Mbulu, Bobby Hutcherson, and Sam Rivers." [Billboard Jan 14, 1978 p.21]


  • 75.02.14 + 02.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (perc) / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Feb 17 p.94]
  • 75.02.22 - Sam Rivers: (no ensemble noted) / Revolution & Social Change theme, 10:00am, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
    [W.S. Tkweme "Vindicating karma: jazz and the Black Arts movement" (2007) p.219, Doctoral Dissertation; The Onyx Feb 15 p.10]
    —"Straight Ahead w/ Archie Shepp, Sam Rivers..." —W.S. Tkweme
    —There is a "Black Weekend" photograph dated "1975 Feb 21" in the Amherst archives of Rivers, Professor Lester, and Dr. Poussa1nt.
    [Amherst College Photographer Negatives Folder #275-23-3, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst College Library]

    —Conference ran the 21st and 22nd, and may have included the performance below.
  • 75.02.00 - Bill Cole Trio: Cole (exotic winds), Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Warren Smith (dr, perc) / Amherst, MA
    [Upper Valley News Jul 30 clipping, The RivBea Archive—which quotes a CODA review]
    —Not clear if this is 75.02.22 above.
  • 75.03.08 - George Russell: Russell (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers, Bill Pierce, and Jimmy Giuffre (reeds), Carl Atkins (bar, Asst Cond),
    Stanton Davis, Jimmy Owens, Victor Paz, and Charles Sullivan (tp), Wayne Andre, Garnett Brown, Jack Jeffers, and Eddie Bert (tb),
    John Clark (frh), Stanley Cowell (p), Alan Pasqua (el-p), Patricia Brown (org), Sam Brown (g), Miskey Bass and one unknown (b),
    Warren Smith (perc), Tony Williams (dr) / 8:00pm, Carnegie Hall, NYC
    [New York Jazz Repertory Company production sheet, The RivBea Archive; Giuseppe Dalla Bona Musica Jazz May 1975 p.28]
    —Eddie Bert was named in review, but not on production sheet, which also had only one bass player listed.
    "...Included three percussionists, three keyboard instruments (acoustic piano, electric piano, organ), two basses (acoustic and electric),
    a dozen wind instruments, and two simultaneously functioning conductors. They performed two long compositions by Mr. Russell—
    ‘Living Time’ (50 minutes) and ‘Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature’ (1 hour, 5 minutes)—as part of the New York Jazz
    Repertory Company's series of concerts." —John S. Wilson "Russell Presents His Episodic Jazz" The New York Times Mar 10 p.40
  • 75.03.24 to 03.30 Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:00pm, (+ Sunday the 30th matinee at 4:30pm), Jazz Workshop, Boston, MA [Boston Globe Mar 23 p.C16 + Mar 30 p.B14]

    Creative Music Studio Spring Term—April 1 through May 31, 1975

    "Guiding Artists include..." Karl Berger, Jack DeJohnette, Stu Martin, Dave Holland, Bob Moses, Sam Rivers, Lee Konitz, and others /
    Group and Orchestra Workshops, Development Studies for Rhythm and Sound (fundamental and advanced),
    Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    [Cardstock CMS handbill, The RivBea Archive; CODA Dec 1974 #134 p.27]

  • 75.04.04 + 04.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    10:00pm, New Foxhole Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 4, 1975 p.20; Philadelphia Daily News Apr 4 p.38]
    —Same dates on RivBea Calendar below were cancelled.
  • 75.04.11 + 04.12 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 10:00pm and 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea April-May-June 1975 Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 75.04.18 + 04.19 - Sam Rivers Trio / 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea April-May-June 1975 Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Apr 21 p.100]
    Village Voice display ad had dates incorrectly as "April 19 & 20."
  • 75.04.25 - Sam Rivers Trio / 10:00pm and 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea April-May-June 1975 Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Apr 28 p.104]
    —RivBea calendar date for the Trio on 75.04.26 was cancelled.
    Village Voice display ad has "Student workshops begin May 5th."

  • okay


  • 75.04.26 - African-American Music-Dance-Song: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ray Copeland (tp, flg), Randy Weston (p),
    Bev Rohlehr (voc, p, g), Vishnu Wood (b, Dir), Clifford Jarvis (dr), four unknown (dance), + The World Music Workshop of Stockbridge School,
    The PrehleMemorial AME Zion Church Gospel Choir featuring 11-year-old Paul "Mr. Down Home Keele (p) /
    Patriots Arts Festival, 8:00pm, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; The Berkshire Eagle Apr 24 p.6 + Apr 29 p.6]
      Guest Speaker and Introductory Remarks—Ike Williams, University of Massachusetts
     1. African Rhythms  (World Music Workshop of Stockbridge School)
     2. Calypso: West Indies  (Weston, Wood, and Jarvis)
      Traditional "St. Thomas"
     3. Spirituals  (AME Zion Choir)
     4. Work Songs  (Bev Rohlehr)
      "Bid'em In" by Oscar Brown; "Work Song" by Cannonball; "Watermelon Man" by Oscar Brown
     5. Blues—Traditional  (Bev Rohlehr)
      "CC Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey; "Mother Earth" by Memphis Slim
     6. New Orleans Marching Bands, 1900s, 1920s  (Trio or Quartet)
      Traditional "When the Saints Go Marching In"
     7. The 1930s Early 1940s  (Trio or Quartet)
      "Jumpin' at the Woodside" by Count Basie; "C Jam Blues" by Duke Ellington
     8. The 1950s  (Rivers, Wood, and Jarvis)
      "Well You Needn't" by Thelonious Monk
     9. The 1960s—Avant Garde  (improvisation, Rivers, Wood, and Jarvis)
    10. Renewal of African Influences  (Quartet, Children's Gospel Choir, and Percussion Ensemble)
      "African Cookbook"


  • 75.05.01 (1) - Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, and Barry Altschul: Lectures in various classes /
    Michigan State University and Lansing Community College, East Lansing, MI
    [Lansing State Journal Apr 29 p.33]
  • 75.05.01 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:00 & 10:30pm, McDonel Kiva, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
    [Lansing State Journal Apr 29 p.33; Henry Kuntz, ©2009 bells/Network: free-jazz.net]
    "Two concerts a night Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in the kiva (a small circular auditorium in the MSU dormitory complex)." —Henry Kuntz
  • 75.05.02 (1) - Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, and Barry Altschul: Lectures in various classes /
    Michigan State University and Lansing Community College, East Lansing, MI
    [Lansing State Journal Apr 29 p.33]
  • 75.05.02 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:00 & 10:30pm, McDonel Kiva, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
    [Lansing State Journal Apr 29 p.33; Henry Kuntz, ©2009 bells/Network: free-jazz.net]
  • 75.05.03 (1) - Open Workshop: Sam Rivers Trio / 2:00pm, McDonel Kiva, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
    [Lansing State Journal Apr 29 p.33]

75.05.03 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

May 3, 1975, 8:00 & 10:30pm / McDonel Kiva, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
—"We caught the earlier performance on Saturday night..." —Henry Kuntz

1. Early Show—improvisation [ : ]
 (ts section; b solo; p section; fl+voc section; dr solo; ss section)
2."two unknown medleys" [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Anonymous; Henry Kuntz at free-jazz.net; Reviews by David Wild, BELLS Magazine Jul '75, p.1; CODA #144 August 1975, p.38}


    75.05.05 - Dave Holland Quartet: Holland (b), Altschul (dr), probably Rivers, unknown other / Fordham University, NYC
    [Village Voice May 5 p.78]
    The trio was just coming off the road, and may have added Braxton for this.
    —Billed as "Dave Holland Quartet, with Barry Altschul."


  • 75.05.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 10:00pm & 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [May-June 1975 Studio RivBea Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice May 12 Centerfold p.65]
  • 75.05.10 (1) - Reading and Reception: Sam Rivers, Larry Neal, Gilbert Sorrentino, and James McElroy /
    A Conference of Editors & Writers, 8:30pm, New York Studio School, NYC [Program, The RivBea Archive]
  • 75.05.10 (2) - Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 10:00pm & 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [May-June 1975 Studio RivBea Schedule, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice May 12 Centerfold p.65]
  • 75.05.30 (1) - The Harlem Opera Society, in Black Cowboys—A Horse Opera in Jazz Form: Emory Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir, Writer),
    Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura), Robert Donaldson (Tenor), Beverly "Abby" Mason and Von Ray (Soprano), Rawn Spearman (voc),
    Michael Faulkner (actor), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Ray McKinley (p), Ronald Boykins (b), Scoby Stroman (dr) /
    Harlem Cultural Council, 7:30pm, Harlem Performance Center, NYC [Program + Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
    —Act I: Prologue; Shadows; Estavanico; York; River Wild; Black Cowboy Blues; Mary Fields and Freinds; Stage Coach Mary; Lonesome Rider /
     Act II: Shenandoah; Confidence Man; Square Dance; Con Game; Hoo Doo Tone Poem; Red and Black; Belly Up to the Bar;
     I Hate Him; Proposition; Gun Fight; Love Duet; Finale.
    "In the presentation this evening all the traditional Cowboy songs that you will hear: Chisholm Trail, Getting Up Holler, Dink's Song, Home on the Range, Buffalo Gals, When I Was a Cowboy, Motherless Child, and Shenandoah were created and sung by Black People in the old West.

  • 75.05.30 (2) - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: unknown personnel / 10:00pm & 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [May-June 1975 Studio RivBea Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 75.05.31 (1) - The Harlem Opera Society, in Black Cowboys—A Horse Opera in Jazz Form: see 75.05.30 (1) above /
    Harlem Cultural Council, 7:30pm, Harlem Performance Center, NYC [Program + Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 75.05.31 (2) - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: unknown personnel / 10:00pm & 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [May-June 1975 Studio RivBea Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 75.06.01 (1) - The Harlem Opera Society, in Black Cowboys—A Horse Opera in Jazz Form: see 75.05.30 (1) above /
    Harlem Cultural Council, 7:30pm, Harlem Performance Center, NYC [Program + Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

75.06.01 (2) • Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR—60:07]

June 1, 1975 / Studio RivBea, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast during the "Loft Jazz Festival" January 10 through 15, 1994

 Broadcast announcement [0:22]
1. "untitled" composition [59:31]
 Broadcast announcement [0:17]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), others unknown [See 75.07.01]

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.08.21}


  • 75.06.03 to 06.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / Edmonton Jazz Society,
    Yardbird Suite, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [www.yardbirdsuite.com/archives/index-shows.htm]
  • 75.06.13 + 06.14 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble: unknown personnel / 10:00pm & 12:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [May-June 1975 Studio RivBea Schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 75.06.15 - "Party in Harlem For Coltrane Book:" Sam Rivers, George Braith, others... / Harlem Performance Center, NYC
    "A book party celebrating a biography of John Coltrane, the jazz saxophonist, attracted several of his colleagues yesterday to entertain
    at the Harlem Performance Center in a benefit for the Schomburg Collection of Black History and Literature in Harlem.
    The Schomburg Collection... accommodates one of the world's largest assemblages of works on Afro-American and African art and literature.
    Sam Rivers, the jazz pianist, who knew John Coltrane; George Braith, John Coltrane's student, who plays alto and soprano saxophones
    at the same time; and Dr. Cuthbert Ormond Simpkins, author of the new book, ‘Coltrane, a Biography,’ drew a crowd of 200 to the event."
    [The New York Times Jun 16, 1975 p.21]

75.06.19 + 06.20 • Illuminated Workingman [Film—13:08]

June 19 & 20, 1975 / City Hall, Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY
—"Elaine Summers' Experimental Media Foundation presents...
  The Illuminated Workingman—An Intermedia Performance in Dance, Film, Slides, Video, and Music"

1. Illuminated Workingman [10:51]
 (SR ts solo in at 0:17–5:12; voc + perc–0:39; SR fl + ensemble–4:50; SR ts + ensemble–)
—This is a video excerpt of one of the two days of performance film from this production.
—Composition: "The Illuminated Workingman for 11 Instruments and Tape," by Carman Moore.
 (Excerpt from the 19th at Moore's skytime.org/IlluminatedWorkingmen.mp3)

"Sam Rivers, who recently appeared in Buffalo..." [Buffalo Jazz Report Sep 1975 p.4]

"Thirty minutes of dancefilm was projected across a 120-foot-wide screen suspended
on the columns of City Hall. The film projected onto the screen captures the faces, feet,
and actions of Buffalo workingmen, from a man guiding a huge airliner into position
at Greater Buffalo International Airport to a Buffalo Sabres hockey player gliding
across Memorial Auditorium's ice. Elaine choreographed and directed the intermedia
film footage, Tony Bannon filmed this beautiful documentary footage..." —elainesummersdance.com

"Miss Summers prefers the term 'intermedia' to 'multimedia' because she is concerned
with the integration of her media, not merely the multiple projection of films juxtaposed
with a live dancer. 'The best intermedia effect is the rainbow, because it's a combination
of light and water, and it exists only if those things combine in that particular way,'
she said." —Anna Kisselgoff

Elaine Summers (Chor, Dir), Carman Moore (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
Allen Sigel (reeds), Elliot Randall (g), Linda Buehler, Robert Carapetyan,
William Falbusch, and Mary Sue Wells (ce), Nicholas Molfese (b),
Lynn Harbold and Erik Johnson (perc),
+ Dancers: Linda Swiniuch (Coordinator), James Auwae, Edward Bhartonn,
Wendy Biller, Wendy Braitman, Tedrian Chizik, Connell Clark, Robert Coe,
Richard Fromm, Sandy Getz, Harold Hamilton, Lori Indyke, Cheryl Johnson,
Francis Maraschiello, Betsy Wagner, Anne Waxman, Stephen Porter,
and Karl Singletary and his Dancers

{Program sheets, The RivBea Archive; vimeo.com/4085491;
Anna Kisselgoff "Cooking With Intermedia" The New York Times Feb 18 1977 p.C12;
Woodwind Music of Black Composers, Compiled by Aaron Horne,
Music Reference Collection Number 24, p.46, Greenwood Press, 1990}


KM: So it first was made as a tribute to the workingman of Buffalo?
ES: Yes. The thing about working men and women is that they wear costumes. They
have to signal with their hands because they can’t talk to each other. In Buffalo, I went
to the railroad yards and saw that they all wore bright flowered cotton hats of red and
blue so that they could be seen. So it was like a banquet of beautiful people doing
everyday things... The square where it was performed in Buffalo was huge. So it won’t
be that big in New York. In Buffalo, people who own the construction companies had
just bought brand new giant machines—bright yellow—and I thought if I could just
have those for the stages. And they gave them to me! They had never been used.
The dancers danced on top of them.
okay

—Photo by © Paula Court 1975
—From "Gardens of Light and Movement: Elaine Summers in conversation with Kristine Marx" PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art,
 PAJ 90 (Volume 30, Number 3), September 2008 p.31 (MIT Press)]
 "We edited a short [2:15] video of Illuminated Workingman for Elaine's interview on the Performance Art Journal."
 [YouTube video ID# fLpKC06gF2k]

okay

—Poster by © D. Herring

    Creative Music Studio Intensive Festival—June 20 through June 22, 1975

    Sam Rivers, Karl Berger, Lee Konitz, and others... / Studio RivBea, NYC
    "Will include concerts, workshops, discussions as well as Development Studies in Rhythm + Sound and Body Awareness."
    [Creative Music Studio Festival 75 flyer, The RivBea Archive]

75.06.22 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—68:46 & BR—54:15]

June 22, 1975 / Creative Music Studio Intensive Festival, Studio RivBea, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast during the "Loft Jazz Festival" January 10 through 15, 1994

Audience Recording:
1. improvisation [68:38]  (split track at 18:52, fades out and back in; split at 61:12)
 (ss section–29:58; b solo–4:11; fl+voc section–20:09; dr solo–8:14; ts section–9:00)
—Audience Recording circulating dated "1975 or 1976."
—Broadcast Recording is incomplete and cuts in 17:26 after beginning of set.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Broadcast & Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.08.21; Creative Music Studio Festival 75 flyer, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Jun 23 p.103}


    Studio RivBea Summer Music Festival '75 Festival—June 27 through July 27, 1975

    "Two performances each night... 30 groups." [Announcement handbill mock-up, The RivBea Archive]

    "If you missed the summer festival at Studio RivBea, WKCR (89.9 FM) will be providing instant replays through Friday, August 15,
    between 6 and 9 p.m. Among those recorded were Sam Rivers, David Murray, Jimmy Lyons, and Anthony Braxton."
    [Gary Giddins "RivBea Highlights" Village Voice Aug 18 p.99]

75.07.01 • Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR—88:00]

July 1, 1975, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight / Studio RivBea, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast "The RivBea Tapes," August 14, 1975

1... compositions [88:00]
Sam Rivers, Larry Nothington, Bill Saxton, Will Connell, Kay Shaven, and Fred Kelly (reeds), Gary Gordon (ss, fl),
Lauren Brown and Paul Jeffrey (ss), Hamiet Bluiett (bar), Ron Scott (bar, fl)

{Anonymous 06.01.01; Village Voice Jun 30 p.102}


  • 75.07.02 - Jass-Op Ensemble: Emory Taylor (Dir), Geanie Faulkner, Beverly "Abbey" Mason, Von Ray, and Robert Donaldson (voc),
    Sam Rivers (reeds, p, Comp, Arr) / Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea Summer Music Festival '75 flyer mock-up, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Jun 30 p.102]
    —Flyer has Geanie "Faulke," "Jonathan Donnson," and "Abbe Mason."
  • 75.07.03 - Sam Rivers' Harlem Ensemble: unknown personnel / Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea July Calendar mock-up, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Jun 30 p.102]


  • 75.07.04 - Sam Rivers' Wind Ensemble: "ten woodwinds," unknown personnel / Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea schedule paste-up text fragment, The RivBea Archive]
    —This is not included on full-page schedule mock-up, which shows only a Byard Lancaster group for this date.

75.07.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—131:35]

July 5, 1975, 10:00pm, & 12:00midnight / Studio RivBea, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast "The RivBea Tapes," August 10 + 14, 1975, + during "Studio RivBea Day" of the "Loft Jazz Festival," January 10-15, 1994
—The DJ first gives the date as June 5, then later as July 5. The Trio was in Edmonton June 3rd through 7th.

2 Sets:
1. improvisation [69:48]
 (fl section–5:10; ts section–25:48; b solo–3:05; fl+voc section–24:21; dr solo–3:19; ss section–7:04)
2. improvisation [60:39]
 (ss section–18:34; b solo–4:33; ts section–21:13; dr solo–4:24; fl section–11:55)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.08.22; The SOHO Weekly News clipping Jul 3, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Jul 7 p.91; James Lindbloom}


    July 7, 1975 - The world premiere of for Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf,
    a Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange, takes place on this day at Studio RivBea. I think that's worth mentioning. —RL
    —"An evening of Poetry, Music, Dance—Nfozake [sic] Shange, Paula Moss, Thulani Nkadinde, & Friends."
    [Studio RivBea July Calendar mock-up, The RivBea Archive]

75.07.08 • Sam Rivers Solo [RBA—53:07]

July 8, 1975 / Live at WKCR, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast during the "Loft Jazz Festival" January 10 through 15, 1994

RivBea Archive / Unnumbered Reel
 Interview [38:16]  (program breaks at 15:22 and 23:28)
1. Composition on a Rainy Day for the Rain God part 1 [4:10]
2. Composition on a Sunny Day for the Sun God part 2 [8:27]
 (ss section–3:12; fl+voc section–5:15)
 Interview [1:17]
—Also circulating without interview segments at 13:05.

Transfer of an unnumbered Scotch 10" Reel of 1950s vintage, recorded ½-track at 15 ips. Written on back is "Copy of Op 59 FM 26 Event 46 (7-15-57)
Copy on 10-21-58 by J.O.L & F.M.C," etc. The reel contains a recording of a radio interview of Sam Rivers during the Studio RivBea years
and two short solo pieces. Digitized and transferred to CDr. —Joe Washek July 2008.

Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-2, fl-2, voc-2)

{RivBea Archival Recordings unnumbered CDr; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.08.22}


  • 75.07.19 - Sam Rivers Sextet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Ferguson (reeds), Olu Dara (tp), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
    Hakim Jami (b), Doug Hammond (dr) / 10:00pm & 12:00midnight, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Rivers Interview segment from 75.07.08; Studio RivBea flyer July Calendar mock-up, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Jul 21 p.88]

75.07.20 • Shelly Rusten Trio [RBA—130:44]

July 20, 1975 / Studio RivBea, NYC

1. improvisation [61:21]  (incomplete, cuts in, split track at 36:40, cuts out during outro and introductions)
 (ss+voc section–21:51; ts section–6:11; b solo–3:33; ts section–5:14; dr solo–4:17; fl+voc section–20:42)
2. improvisation [69:03]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 (ts section–29:04; fl+voc section–29:34; dr solo–3:26; ss section–6:59)
—RBA Cassette #5 is misdated "9/20/1995 or 09/20/1975" and has Set 1; #212 is dated "unknown."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Rick Kilburn (b), Shelly Rusten (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #5, 149, 186, and 212, + CDr #7 and 8; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.06.09; RivBea Recordings log}


  • 75.07.26 - Sam Rivers Sextet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Ferguson (reeds), Olu Dara (tp), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
    Hakim Jami (b), Doug Hammond (dr) / 10:00pm & 12:00midnight, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice Jul 28 p.89]
    —Rivers WKCR Interview segment from 75.07.08 and a Studio RivBea July Calendar mock-up in The RivBea Archive had this previously as
     "Sam Rivers Brass Ensemble" w/ Rivers (Cond, Comp), Sinclair Acey, Ahmed Abdullah, John D'earth, Marshall Farr, and Charles Miller (tp),
     Sam Burtis, Marty Cook, Bill Lowe, and Charles Stephens (tb), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bob Stewart (tu), Sharon Freeman and Sarah Larson (frh)

75.08.01 • Bill Cole: The First Cycle

1980: Music from Dartmouth D100 (LP)

August 1, 1975, 8:00pm / Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH


1. First Cycle [20:48]  (A-side)
2. First Cycle [21:52]  (B-side)
Bill Cole (Ghanian flute, Chinese musette, Indian shenai, voc),
Sam Rivers (ts, p), Warren Smith (dr, kettledrum, mba, perc)



    "The John Coltrane Memorial World Music Series"

    "Our goal is to play a totally improvised music!"


"Besides his performance in the Coltrane Series, [Rivers] will also take part
in a summer workshop at Dartmouth on African-American music taught by Cole."
Upper Valley News

{D100; Program + Upper Valley News clipping Jul 30, The RivBea Archive;
Bennington Banner Jul 18 p.9}

okay

  • 75.08.02 - Jazz Improvisation Lecture and Demonstration: Bill Cole, Sam Rivers, Warren Smith, possibly others... /
    8:00pm, Tracy Hall, Norwich, VT [Bennington Banner Aug 2 Vermont Summer insert p.3]
  • 75.08.22 + 08.23 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), James Ulmer (g), Dave Holland (b),
    Warren Smith (perc), Barry Altschul (dr) / 11:00pm & 1:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Aug 25 p.83]
  • 75.09.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / Belvedere de Santa Croce, Allesio, Italy
    [La Stampa Aug 14, 1975 p.6 & August 19, 1975 p.6]
  • 75.09.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Festival Nazionale de l'Unita Firenze 1975, 21:00hr, Antifeatro, Florence, Italy
    [l'Unità Aug 29 p.11]
  • 75.09.19 + 09.20 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith and Barry Altschul (dr) /
    11:00pm & 1:00am, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Sep 22 p.113]

75.09.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—89:46]

September 24, 1975 / Notre Dame des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris, France
—ORTF-FM Broadcast "Musiques extra européennes : Sam RIVERS" October 5, 1975.
—Recording is also circulating mis-dated 75.09.06; and 75.09.26 at "80:00".

1. Shapes of Paris [88:49]  (incomplete, fades in; Radio voice-over for beginning 0:10; split track (fades) at 34:05)
 (ts section–10:58; b solo w/ occasional voc+dr–9:01; fl+voc section–18:26; fl+voc solo–2:13;
 fl+voc section–17:16; dr solo w/ SR fl+voc now and again–7:39; fl+voc section–3:14; ss section–19:52)
—CDr circulating at 61:48 (incomplete, cuts in at beginning and out during drum solo).

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Soundfiles + CDr, track detailing RL 19.08.25; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09;
Le Quotidien de Paris Sep 24 unknown p.#; Giuseppe Dalla Bona concert review, Musica Jazz Nov 1975 pp.45-46;
L'Independant du Jazz Jan 6 brief review 1976}


  • 75.09.25 to 09.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / Notre Dame des Blancs-Manteaux, Paris, France
    [Le Quotidien de Paris Sep 24 unknown p.#; Musica Jazz Nov 1975 pp.45-46; L'Independant du Jazz Jan 6 brief review 1976]
    L'Independant du Jazz has this run misdated as the 26th to 29th.

75.10.00 • Carman Moore: Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon, Tone Roads to Hong Kong '76

1976: The Hong Kong Trade Development Council HKTDC-A1 (LP)
    "This is an LP... released in celebration of the American Bicentennial.
1985: The Hong Kong Trade Development Council HKTDC-A1 (LP, Silk Box Limited Presentation version)

Late 1975 / unknown studio, New York City
—Rivers was in NYC in early October as well as all of November and December.

1. 1st Movement—Pastorale [13:29]
2. 2nd Movement—Urban Walk [14:16]
3. 3rd Movement—Colours [13:48]
4. 4th Movement—Folk Energy [12:15]
—Live performances took place on on 76.02.28 (Hong Kong), 76.03.18 (Los Angeles), and 76.03.24 (New York City).
"We do not have such records in our archive. I’m afraid that our records don’t go that far back; we have changed location
several times in the past five decades, so my guess is that a lot of that sort of information was deemed no longer relevant
and thrown away." —Sebastian Danila, Library Manager, American Symphony Orchestra 20.01.21

Carman Moore (Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Elliott Randal (el-g, pípa), Kenneth Bichel (p, harpschrd, el-p, synth),
Richard Davis (b, elb), Warren Smith (dr, perc), + Isaiah Jackson (Cond), and The American Symphony Orchestra

{HKTDC-A1; Michelle Poirier "Hong Kong Plans Swinging Dragon Year Fashion Show," syndicated feature The Salt Lake Tribune Mar 4 p.2C;
Brass Music of Black Composers: A Bibliography, Aaron Horne, Greenwood Press; Gloria Noda The Japan Times Apr 8}


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Original 1976 A Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon LP Cover

The rather unusual (uncredited) Liner Notes from this disc : : :

Tone Roads to Hong Kong '76

Fashion is no longer simply what you wear. Like music, fashion is a lifestyle in itself; reflecting the mood of an era. It is inspired by, and in turn inspires
all aspects of the visual and aural media. And, as new fashion constantly evolves, so does new music.

In this presentation, the cross-stimulation and the cross-fertilization of the two separate elements—fashion and music—has resulted in an experimental
and totally new artform... fashion inspiring music and music inspiring fashion. The result—"Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon."

In this attempt, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council is in the vanguard of not only expanding the form of fashion, but of also producing an avant
garde musical form, which itself combines the classical symphonic, the traditional Chinese, and the modern rhythm-and-blues idiom. In a sense, it is the
creation of an international atmosphere, an environment, in which many "art" elements stimulate each other; a dual mirror image of society—one visual
and the other aural.

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council, as a patron of the project, considers that in its endeavours to promote the fashions emanating from
its designers and its garment industry, it is launching a unique fashion statement. And this endeavour has presented an ideal opportunity for us
to pay tribute to the United States of America"a country that has provided Hong Kong with a means to develop its fashion industry. And, having
accepted the output of that industry so readily now as it has in the past, we hope that it will accept this gesture of goodwill in America's Bicentennial
Year. We hope the music in this long playing record will be both a fitting and lasting tribute.

To emphasize our gratitude, two of America's exciting new musicians were commissioned to execute the musical element of the presentation...
The choice of American musicians has a double significance as a great deal of the new music of this century has evolved from the traditional
American musical idioms.

This year, in which America celebrates its 200th Anniversary, is an extremely auspicious year. For 1976, according to the Chinese Lunar Calendar, is the
Year of the Dragon. The Dragon, one of the four fabulous creatures of good omen, symbolises prosperity, fertility, and energy, expressions which typify
our hopes for America. It is widely held that new projects undertaken in the Dragon Year will meet with great success, which we hope is prophetic for
our venture. It is for these reasons we have chosen the title—"Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon."

Almost as if celebrating the power and energy of this mythical and benevolent creature, the show presented is a synthesis of the dual artistic concepts
of fashion/music and music/fashion. The project was conceived by Len Dunning, Executive Director of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.

Inspired by the creativity, the industry and the poetic imagination of the Chinese, composer Moore, in collaboration with fashion co-ordinator, Julius
Schofield of London, created this new work, based on the colours, the designs and the feeling of the new fashions from Hong Kong's 1976 collection.

Chinese classical instruments and the traditional Chinese musical idiom are mixed with contemporary music and the symphonic tradition in this
unprecedented new musical form. The complete presentation was first staged at the 9th Hong Kong Ready-to-Wear Festival in February 1976.

On this recording, conductor, Isaiah Jackson, the Associate Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic, is conducting the American Symphony Orchestra,
which was founded by one of his mentors, Leopold Stokowski, in 1962. The ASO is one of the world's only major self-governing orchestras. Based at
Carnegie Hall, the orchestra is noted for its interpretations of new music. The five soloists joining the orchestra in this work are each highly-acclaimed
throughout the world for their mastery of improvisation in contemporary music forms.

A festival of Hong Kong fashion inspired the "Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon." The clothes, representing four different feelings,
four modes of fashion, complement and in turn are complemented by the four movements of Carman Moore's music.
  • 1st Movement—Pastorale: A rustic mood. The sophisticate's dream of the uncomplicated country life. Petticoats and baskets,
    aprons and shawls; or tough and sturdy workwear that takes mountains and city canyons in equal stride.
  • 2nd Movement—Urban Walk: The mood of the metropolis. The City Girl—neat little heels clattering through busy streets;
    satchel slung over one shoulder, flannels fluttering.
  • 3rd Movement—Colours: A warm, luxurious mood. Fluffy knits—soft and cuddly. Wrappings to nestle in; warmed and soothed
    against winter's chill.
  • 4th Movement—Folk Energy: The exotic mood. The nomad, the wanderer, wild and free; swathed in brilliant garb that marks
    her trail from the Yucatan to Madagascar.


In addition to the "regular" LP produced for this event, there is this:

"I found a copy... Very attractively bound in a red silk book with a show program... I found it where I get most of my records, Goodwill.
It has a gold dragon, on a red silk background, with pinkish clouds. Well Sam's playing has never really been for me, but I am a very big
fan of Jazz Music. And this has such unusual packaging, so I spent $1. The Record was in a V.R.P. Sleeve so somebody must have thought
something of it." —Mark Frederick 08.02.27 + 08.12.12

"Housed in a Thick Record Sized Silk Red Cover with Pink Clouds and a Gold Dragon in the Center. It was used for a fashion show
on January 10th, 1984 at the Imperial Ballroom, The Sheraton Centre, New York City. Complete with program, and a circular paper
disc advertising the record dated 1976. Made by the Hong Kong Trade Council. Record is made in the USA, everything else is made
in Hong Kong." —"JazzElectronicus" forum posting 12.12.14

The Red Silk Book and Label
1985 release
—Images courtesy
 Mark "Grumpy" Frederick
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75.10.16 and 75.10.17 • Don Pullen featuring Sam Rivers: Capricorn Rising

1976: Black Saint BSR 0004 (LP) It; JC 3504 (LP) Jpn;
1993: 120004-1 (LP) It; 120004-2 (CD) It; 12004-4 (CS) It;
2016: BSGG002-2 (CD, "Vinyl Replica") Eur
  • Don Pullen: The Complete Remastered Recordings
    2012: C.A.M. Jazz BlackSaint/Soul Note BXS 1017 (7-CD Box Set) It
  • (V/A) You Need This—An Introduction To Black Saint & Soul Note (1975-1985)
    2017: BBE Records BBE415CLP (3-LP Set—Remasters) UK

October 16 & 17, 1975 / Generation Sound Studios, New York City

1. Break Out (Rivers) [12:35]  (ts—ss)
2. Capricorn Rising (Pullen) [11:48]  (ts—ss—fl—ts—ss)
3. Joycie Girl (Pullen) [6:36]  (ss)
4. Fall Out (Rivers) [15:04]  (ts—fl—ss)
You Need This has track 3.

Don Pullen (p), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Alex Blake (b), Bobby Battle (dr, tamb)

{BSR 0004; BS 120004-2; www.camjazz.com/boxsets/don-pullen.html}


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  • 75.10.21 + 10.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Chris Amberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr), possible other... /
    7:30 & 10:30pm, New Varsity Theatre, Palo Alto, CA
    [Stanford Daily Oct 17 p.2 + Oct 28 p.5; The San Francisco Examiner Oct 19 p.36 + Oct 20 p.28; Chris Amberger 08.01.29 + 03.17]
    —"Two hour-long improvisations." —Stanford Daily; also a display ad: "The John Coltrane of the '70s."


  • 75.10.24 + 10.25 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:00 & 10:00pm, New Foxhole Cafe, Philadelphia, PA [Philadelphia Inquirer Oct 24 p.32]
    —"Rescheduled from two weeks ago..." Nov 6 Philadelphia Daily Pennsylvanian announcement for 75.11.07 + 75.11.08 below.
    —WKCR-FM Archive claims a Broadcast Recording for a session 75.10.25 at Keystone Korner in San Francisco, which is likely
     just a broadcast date of the January sets. Engagement below began on the 28th. [WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31]


  • 75.10.28 + 10.29 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Chris Amberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr) /
    Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Berkeley Barb Oct 31-Nov 6 p.16; Argus Oct 31 p.14; San Francisco Bay Guardian Oct 24 p.26; The San Francisco Examiner Oct 19 p.36]
    "The Keystone program starts and ends each night with Fortune [Sonny's Quintet]; Rivers takes an extra long set in the middle."
    [Philip Elwood "Two Conceptual Masters..." The San Francisco Examiner Oct 30 p.34]


  • 75.10.30 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / "Jazz with Sam Rivers," 9:00pm, WBAI Free Music Store, Studio C, BAI Church, NYC
    —Cited in both New York Magazine Nov 3, 1975 p.30, and The New York Times "Events Today" Oct 30 p.49


  • 75.10.30 to 11.02 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Amberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr) /
    Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Berkeley Barb Oct 31-Nov 6 p.16; Argus Oct 31 p.14; The San Francisco Examiner Oct 19 p.36 + Nov 2 p.6; Chris Amberger 08.01.29 + 03.17]

    "On one night at Keystone a drummer named Augustus Collins played [Collins was with The Pyramids (Kashta Idris Ackamoor,
    Margo Ackamoor, and Donald Robinson), who were booked on the 3rd]. The weather that day was cold and possibly precipitation
    in the air or fog in San Francisco. I wore a brown leather dahshiki and Sam did too, and Eddie had a tee on. It was a hot,
    hot set that people to this day come up to me and talk about..." —Chris Amberger


75.11.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR]

Between October 28 and November 2, 1975 / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Armberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr)

—WKCR Archive had this with Holland and Altschul, as did other print sources, but they were not on this west coast jaunt.

{WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31; The San Francisco Examiner Oct 19 p.36}


  • 75.11.07 + 11.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:00 & 10:00pm, New Foxhole Cafe, Philadelphia, PA [Philadelphia Daily News Nov 7, 1975 p.66]
  • 75.11.10 to 11.12 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Ratso's, Chicago, IL
    [Chicago Daily News Nov 8 Panorama p.22 + Howard Mandel "Sounds of Rivers Runs Deep" Nov 12 p.54]

  • December 1975:

    "Sam Rivers was playing at the Five Spot, and I went down to see him one night...
    Look Sam, I'm coming back tomorrow night with my violin."
    [Billy Bang feature Down Beat Sep 1981 p.28]
    ———


75.12.00 • Sam Rivers Quintet [AR—45:49]

December, 1975 / Five Spot, New York City

1st Set:
1. composition [24:41]
 (ts section–15:54; g quartet–5:30; ts section–3:17)
2. composition [20:10]  (fl+voc section)
—"Thank you... That was a couple new compositions that we just premiered here tonight."

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Ronald Prince (g), Dave Holland (b, elb-2, ce-2), Warren Smith (dr, vb-2, perc-2), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.09.08}


75.12.02 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—30:00]

December 2, 1975 / Five Spot, New York City

1... improvisations [30:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), "three unknown"

{Anonymous}


  • 75.12.03 + 12.04 - Sam Rivers Quintet: (no personnel listed) / Five Spot, NYC [The New York Times Nov 30, 1975 p.D24]

75.12.05 • Sam Rivers Quintet [Warren Smith Archival Recording]

December 5, 1975 / Five Spot, New York City

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Ted Dunbar (g), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith (dr, vb, perc), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{Warren Smith Archive cassette}


  • 75.12.06 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Altschul (dr), unknown others... /
    Five Spot, NYC [The New York Times Nov 30 p.D24]
  • 75.12.07 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    2:00pm, Kresge Auditorium, MIT University, Cambridge, MA
    [Boston Globe Dec 5, 1975 p.43]
  • 75.12.07 (2) - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Altschul (dr), unknown others... /
    Five Spot, NYC [The New York Times Nov 30 p.D24]

75.12.09 • Sam Rivers: Sizzle

1976: Impulse! ASD 9316 (LP) [+ White label Promo]; IMPL 8025 (LP) UK;
    Melody Park ABC/Impulse! YQ-8509-AI (LP, OBI, covered labels) Jpn

December 9, 1975 / Generation Sound Studios, New York City

** Special shout-out to Randy Aranson of MCA for walking through the vaults
  while on the phone with me and nailing the long-lost session date!

1. Dawn [12:38]
2. Flare [8:53]
3. Flame [12:20]
4. Scud [9:59]
Samthology has track 3.
—This is the only instance of the composition "Flair" with this alternate visual-signal
 spelling. Rivers' composition list and all subsequent instances—not seen again
 until 01.07.04—use the style-centric version, with Rivers pointing it out on
 numerous occasions.

Sam Rivers (ts-4, ss-2, fl-1, p-3, voc, Comp),
Ted Dunbar (g), Dave Holland (ce, b),
Warren Smith (dr, vb, tympani), Barry Altschul (dr)

{ASD-9316; Samthology; Randy Aranson}

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  • 75.12.09 to 12.11 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Altschul (dr), unknown others... /
    Five Spot, NYC [The New York Times Dec 7 p.D32]

75.12.12 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—71:59]

December 12, 1975 / Five Spot, New York City

1. improvisation [60:20]  (split track at 44:36)
 (p section–34:19; dr solo–2:47; ts section–13:39; tp section–4:37; ts section–4:46)
2. encore [11:21]  (incomplete, cuts in, cuts out out)
 (fl+voc section–6:26; dr solo–4:35)
Sam Rivers (ts, p, voc, fl), Leo Smith (tp, perc), Karl Berger (vb-1,2, el-p-2), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.09.08}


  • 75.12.13 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Altschul (dr), unknown others... /
    Five Spot, NYC [The New York Times Dec 7 p.D32]

75.12.14 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR]

December 14, 1975 / Five Spot, New York City

[3] improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Leo Smith and Woody Shaw (tp), Barry Altschul (perc)
—Some sources inexplicably have Leo Smith as "Lawrence" Smith.

{Anonymous 06.01.01}


  • 75.12.16 and 75.12.17 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Altschul (dr), unknown others... /
    Five Spot, NYC [The New York Times Dec 14 p.D37]

75.12.18 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR]

December 18, 1975 / Five Spot, New York City

[5] improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Leo Smith (tp, perc), Peter Warren (b), Barry Altschul (perc)

{Anonymous 06.01.01}


  • 75.12.19 and 75.12.20 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Altschul (dr), unknown others... /
    Five Spot, NYC [The New York Times Dec 14 p.D37]

75.12.21 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR]

December 21, 1975 / Five Spot, New York City

[2] improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Leo Smith (tp, perc), Peter Warren (b), Barry Altschul (perc)

{Anonymous 06.01.01; The New York Times Dec 21 p.D33}


  • 75.12.26 - Black Cowboys—A Jazz Opera: Emory Taylor (text), Sam Rivers (reeds, Comp), others... (see 75.05.30) /
    Black Bicentennial Celebration, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC [The New York Times Dec 26 p.L52]
    "The Harlem Cultural Council will present a Black Bicentennial program that includes excerpts from ‘Black Cowboys,’ a jazz opera
    based on original black cowboy tunes. The excerpts will be offered by the Harlem Opera Society. The mixed-media production
    was written by Emory Taylor with music by Sam Rivers.


  • Creative Music Studio New Year's Intensive—December 27, 1975 through January 5, 1976

    Ing Rid aka Ingrid Berger aka Ingrid Sertso, Karl Berger, Dave Holland, Ed Blackwell, Leroy Jenkins, George Russell, Sam Rivers,
    Charlie Mariano, Jack DeJohnette, Attila Zoller, Stu Martin, Kalaparusha Ahrah Difda, Bob Moses, Jumma Santos, Peter Warren,
    Garrett List, Tom Schmidt, and Sara Cook / 82.Concert & Workshop Program, Creative Music Studio, Mt. Tremper Campus, Woodstock, NY
    [The Kingston Daily Freeman Dec 18 p.20]


  • 75.12.31 Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    "I was a student at Creative Music Studio starting in 1975... I'm not sure if it was recorded. Sam also did a workshop
    with the participants, and Barry did a workshop on drumming." [Danny O. 12.01.09]

1976 : : :


75.00.00 or 76.00.00 • Sam Rivers & Rashied Ali Duo [BR—15:57]

1975 or 1976 / Ali's Alley, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 22, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

1. improvisation [15:57]  (incomplete, cuts in, fades out)
Sam Rivers (ts), Rashied Ali (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.08.22}


76.01.01 • Sam Rivers [BR]

January 1, 1976, 8:00pm / The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, NYC
—WBAI Radio Broadcast, 7:30pm, February 20, 1976. Program was three-and-a-half hours long.

1... improvisations [ : ]
"And tonight, to support these year-round ventures, [The Poetry Project] is having an appropriate blowout.
Poets, musicians and dancers will perform at the church... for about six hours."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), unknown others...

 "Among the poets, musicians, and dancers performing will be" John Cage, Sam Rivers, Allen Ginsberg, Helen Adam,
 John Ashberry, Kenneth King, Jackie Curtis, Joel Oppenheimer, Patti Smith, John Giorno, Douglas Dunn, Maureen Owen,
 Robert Wilson, Anne Waldman, Ted Greenwald, Taylor Mead, "and many others..."

{The New York Times Jan 1 p.12; Pacifica Radio Archive WBAI Folio February 1976 p.3+12}


  • 76.01.10 - Elaine Summers' "An Invitation to Secret Dancers, Nondancers, Artists, and Nonartists" : Summers (Chor, Dir),
    Carman Moore, Philip Corner, and Phil Niblock (Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others... /
    2:00-10:00pm, The Experimental Media Foundation, NYC [Village Voice Jan 12 Centerfold p.56 + Arthur Sainer review Apr 5 pp.126-27]

    "On Saturday the marathon intermedia festival with Elaine Summers Dance and Film Company at Elaine's loft... The lounging on the floor, the sometime joining in with the dancers, the meeting with artists who are one's peers... The Sam Rivers-Elaine Summers new works, 'City Corners' and 'Rivers for Rivers,' structured for sax, clarinet, and flute while visual projections of city streets and various rivers bombard walls and ceilings... Rivers, gangling jazz man in skull cap and maroon pantslike long knickers is deadpan—he gives us the poignant, often street-smart harshness, sometime obscenity of the musical instrument, but, otherwise, keeps himself to himself."

  • 1976:

    "While working with Stan Getz, Holland also began to play with reedsman Sam Rivers and the players that assembled for [Holland's]
    first ensemble record as a leader. Conference of the Birds (1972), comprised, he says, his ideal group... That group played some concerts
    together, but the contrasting approaches of Braxton and Rivers proved incompatible. Holland didn't want to play with anyone else;
    so, because he couldn't have them both in his group, he split his time between the groups that they led. Then, in 1976, when
    the double-bookings became impossible, he devoted his time exclusively to the Rivers band: a decision related... to the pull of free
    improvisation. Sam's thing was wide open, we never played a note of music that was written in the small group. ‘Sam used to say,
    play all the music, play vamps, play free, play everything. I said, well, this is the finishing school for me’"
    [Dave Holland feature, WIRE #50 April, 1988 p.49]
    ———


  • 76.01.30 + 01.31 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (b), Altschul (dr) / 8:00 and 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea Jan-Feb-Mar-Apr-May 1976 Calendar, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Feb 2 p.103]
  • 76.02.00 ("early February") - George Coleman, Sam Rivers, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins, others... / somewhere in Italy
    [Musica Jazz Jan 1976 p.22, on-line index]
  • 76.02.10 to 02.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (b), Altschul (dr) / 10:00pm, Village Vanguard, NYC
    "Sam Rivers, who is appearing through Sunday at the Village Vanguard, plays some of the longest tenor saxophone solos imaginable.
    He began his first set Tuesday evening with a 35-minute workout that would have left most younger saxophonists exhausted;
    then he performed on the flute and soprano saxophone for another half hour."
    [Robert Palmer The New York Times Feb 12 p.37; Village Voice Feb 9 p.95 + Feb 16 p.134]

76.02.17 + 02.18 • Dave Holland/Sam Rivers: Vol. 1

1976: Improvising Artists Inc. IAI 37.38.43 (LP); Phonogram/IAI RJ-7143 (LP) Jpn;
1992: IAI 123843-2 (CD) It

76.02.17 + 02.18 • Sam Rivers/Dave Holland: Vol. 2

1977: Improvising Artists Inc. IAI 37.38.48 (LP);
1992: IAI 123848-2 (CD) It

February 17 & 18, 1976 / Big Apple Studio, New York City
—IAI releases all have February 18 as the lone recording date, but Producer
 Paul Bley's IAI archives differ. (See The Paul Bley Fonds notes below)

Volume I:
1. Waterfall [17:08]
2. Cascade [21:19]
Volume 2:
3. Ripples [23:49]
4. Deluge [23:23]
Sam Rivers (ts-2, ss-1, fl-3, p-4; Comp),
Dave Holland (b)

{IAI 373843, IAI 373848, IAI 123843-2, + IAI 123848-2}




For those, like me, aesthetically inclined and hopelessly fastidious, the CD cover art
may be escaped by opening the booklets, turning them inside out, and reinserting them
into the jewel box, thus exposing the studio photos within, which are, we must hope,
to be preferred to the cover art outside. The LPs offer no such solace. —RL

"This album is the face of two people by illustration, but something is creepy."
—Google Translate of a blog review at www.asahi-net.or.jp



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    The Paul Bley Fonds / Addenda to the Rivers/Holland IAI Recordings : : :

    Library and Archives Canada search codes: MUS = Repository (Music section); 297 = Fonds # (Paul Bley Fonds); J = Series; 62 = File.

    MUS 297/J,62
    Sam Rivers, Dave Holland and Sam Rivers, Dave Holland Vol. 2, IAI 37.38.43 and 37.38.48. (1976, 1992)
    6 audio reels (ca. 2 hrs 28 min.): polyester, 38 cm/sec., Dolby A; reels: 25 cm.
    Sound recordings (masters) of performances by Holland (double bass) and Rivers (soprano and tenor saxophones, flute, and piano)
    of "Waterfall," "Weirdness," and other compositions identified only by the instrumentation. Also includes studio talk.
    Recorded on 17 and 18 February 1976, possibly at the Basement Recording Studio Incorporated, NYC, and produced by Paul Bley.
    The numbering indicates that there were originally eight reels.
    Fourth reel: "Pno & bass now complete 9/17/92 db".
    Reels 1 to 4: 4 track, multitrack, 1.3 cm width.
    Reels 5 and 6: 2 track, 0.6 cm width.
    Reference numbers: T10 W5 357 to T10 W5 360, T10 4431, T10 4432.

    MUS 297/J,63
    Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, IAI 37.38.43. (1976)
    2 audio reels (ca. 38 min. 27 sec.): polyester, 38 cm/sec., stereo, Dolby A; reels: 25 cm.
    Sound recordings (copies of master mixes) of the performances by Holland (double bass) and Rivers (tenor and soprano saxophones),
    released as sides A and B of this LP: Waterfall and Cascade.
    Recorded on 17 February 1976 and produced by Paul Bley; jacket and cover by Carol Goss.
    According to the take sheets on the boxes, the recording took place at Big Apple Studios, NYC;
    however, the masters use take sheets from the Basement Recording Studio, NYC.
    Reference numbers: T10 4433, T10 4434.

    MUS 297/J,64
    [Sam Rivers, Dave Holland?] and Sam Rivers, Dave Holland Vol. 2, IAI [37.38.43?] and 37.38.48. (1976)
    2 audio reels (ca. 1 hr 47 min.): polyester, 19 cm/sec., 2 track; reels: 25 cm. – 1 textual record.
    File containing: sound recordings of performances by Holland (double bass) and Rivers (flute, piano, and saxophone)
    of unidentified compositions, as well as studio talk; and notes on durations and instrumentation (original).
    Recorded on 17 February 1976 at the Basement Recording Studio Incorporated, NYC, and produced by Paul Bley.
    Generation of recordings not clear; variously labelled "master," "copy," and "safety monitor mix".
    Although labelled as IAI 37.38.48, the recordings possibly also contain music from IAI 37.38.43.
    Reference numbers: T10 4435, T10 4436.

    MUS 297/J,65
    Sam Rivers, Dave Holland Vol. 2, IAI 37.38.48. (1976)
    2 audio reels (47 min. 12 sec.): polyester, 38 cm/sec., 2 track, stereo, Dolby A; reels: 25 cm.
    Sound recordings (copy master) of performances by Holland (double bass) and Rivers (flute and piano) of unidentified compositions.
    Copy created on 1 December 1976.
    Apparently an assembly; labelled "side A" and "side 2".
    Reference numbers: T10 4437, T10 4438.

    —Mentions of "1992" and "Basement Recording Studio" in the Paul Bley Fonds listings are likely references to the 1992 remaster release.

    [The Paul Bley Fonds—Numerical List David Fraser (Ottawa ©2005),
    Library and Archives Canada, MUS: Repository (Music Section), MUS 297 pp.162-3]

76.02.00 • Joe Cocker: Stingray

1976: A&M Records SP-4574 (LP); SP-4574 (LP; SP-4574 (LP, Promo);
    SP-4574 (LP, Pitman pressing); 27 145 XOT (LP) Neth; L 35811 (LP) NZ;
    SP-4574 (LP) Can; LPS-88.641 (LP) Vnz; 27 145 XOT (LP) Benelux;
    SA&MX-2179 (LP) Brz; 27 145 XOT (LP) Ger; 985 033 (LP) Fr;
    AMP-2002 (LP) Jpn; AMLH 64574 (LP) Gr; 27145-I (LP) Sp;
    SLAM 64574 (LP) It; AMLH 64574 (LP) UK; L 35811 (LP) Aus;
    PGP RTB Records/A&M LP-55-5607, 4574 (LP, 1st edition—1500 copies) Yug;
    GP-2010 SP-4884 (LP, gate) Jpn; SP-4574 (LP, Promo) Can;
1991: A&M 394 574-2 (CD) UK;
1992: Il Grande Rock De Agostini CDDEA 2300 (CD) It [Title "Joe Cocker"];
2016: A&M MOCCD13271 (CD) Eur;
unknown: A&M 8T-4574 (8Trk!, 1-sided); 394 574-2 (CDr, Unofficial) UK
  • The Jealous Kind b/w You Came Along
    1976: A&M Records 1830-S (7" Single);
        1830/1830-S (7" Mono/Stereo, Promo, "The Jealous Kind" A&B-Sides);
        AMS 7243 (7" Single) UK; AMS 7243 (7" Single, Solid-center) UK;
        16848 AT (7" Single) Neth
  • Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits
    1976: A&M Records LP 4670 (LP); SP-4670 (LP, Promo); LP 4670 (LP, White Promo);
    1977: A&M SP 4670 (LP) [+Canada]; A&M-Columbia House SP 4670 (LP);
        A&M-RCA SP 4670 (LP); 8T-4670 (8Trk!); SP 69923 (LP);
        CS-4670 (CS); A&M-Columbia House CS-4670 (CS);
        A&M-Columbia House CS-4670 C 124404 (CS); CS-3257 (CS);
        CS-3257 (CS, clear-case); A&M-Columbia House CS-3257 (CS);
        SP 69923 (LP, Black label) Can [+ White label reissue]; SP 69923 (LP) Can;
        A&M of Canada Limited, Columbia House CS-4670 (CS) Can;
    1982: A&M SP-3257 (LP, Indianapolis pressing);
    1987: A&M CD 3257 (CD) [+ Reissue '98]; A&M-Columbia House CD 3257 (CD);
    1996: A&M 750213257-2 (CD) 1996 Vnz;
    1998: A&M CS-69923 (CS, Black casing) Can;
        CD 69923 (CD) Can [+ "546838T 569923" spine only]; 393 257-2 (CD) UK;
    unknown: A&M CS-69923 (CS, Value) Can; AMCS-69923 (CS) Can
  • Joe Cocker: Classics Volume 4—A&M Records 25th Anniversary Series
    1987: A&M Records CD 2503 (CD) [+ Can]; A&M CD-2053 (CD);
        A&M 83603 2503 4 (CS)
  • Joe Cocker: The Long Voyage Home—The Silver Anniversary Collection
    1995: A&M Records 31454 0238 2 (4-CD)
  • Joe Cocker: The Anthology
    1999: A&M Records 069 490 390-2 (2CD);
        A&M 490 390-2 (CD) Eur [+ Reissue unknown date]
  • The Best Of Joe Cocker: 20th Century Masters—The Millennium Collection
    2000: A&M Records 314 541 606-2 (CD) [+ Can];
        A&M B0007761-02 (CD, PaperFoam® digipak) [+ Ecopack™ digipak];
        A&M 314 541 606-4 (CS)
  • Joe Cocker: Greatest Love Songs
    2003: Hip-O Records 440-069-887-2 (CD)
  • Joe Cocker: The Singles
    2003: BR Music CDBX 545-2 (CD) Neth
  • Joe Cocker: Gold
    2006: UMe/Hip-O Records/Chronicles B0006142-02 (2CD);
        Hip-O Records 0249840763 (2CD) Can
  • Joe Cocker: Legends of Rock
    2011: Golden Collection no issue# (2CDr, Unofficial, MP3) Ukr

  • Images, top to bottom:
    Stingray LP cover
    The Jealous Kind (7" Mono/Stereo, Promo)
    The Jealous Kind 7" Single (Neth)
    Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits LP cover;
    Joe Cocker: ЛЕГЕНДЫ РОКА (Legends of Rock) 2CDr (Ukr)

February, 1976 / Record Plant, New York City

1. The Jealous Kind (Bobby Charles) [3:48]
The LP has Dynamic Sounds Studio in Kingston, Jamaica for the main session locale,
but Rivers recorded his part in NYC (confirmed in conversation with Sam Rivers—RL).
Village Voice Mar 1 p.89 has "Recorded mostly in Jamaica with the New York studio crew
and now awaiting last-minute overdubs and mixing at the Record Plant... You can catch
Cocker with the band tonight or tomorrow (February 25 and 26) at Mickell's. 'We'll
probably be here,' says Cornell Dupree, 'till a half-hour before the plane leaves.'"
Cocker was touring with this band (sans Rivers) in March '76 to promote it, playing
"material that would appear on his Stingray LP the following month."
[The Great Rock Discography by Martin C. Strong]

Joe Cocker (voc), Sam Rivers (ss), Cornell Dupree, Eric Gale (g),
Richard Tee (keys), Gordon Edwards (b), Flaco (cga), Steve Gadd (dr)

{A&M SP-4670; A&M 394 574-2; Mr. Sam Rivers; discogs.com; Asya Ayrapetov-Robertshaw;
concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/joe-cocker-concert/20051191-3408.html}

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  • 76.02.28 - Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon: Carman Moore (Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
    Elliot Randall (g), Kenneth Bichell—"Michel" in articles (p, synth), Edward DeMatteo (b), John Beck (dr, perc),
    + Isaiah Jackson (Cond), and The University of Sorbonne Orchestra / Port Authority, Hong Kong
    [Michelle Poirier "Hong Kong Plans Swinging Dragon Year Fashion Show" syndicated feature, Indianapolis Star Mar 4 p.28+31;
    Gloria Noda The Japan Times Apr 8; Elliott Randall 09.12.11]
    —This was the World Premiere performance.

    "At the Hong Kong Festival it was played by the University of Sorbonne Orchestra (flown in from Paris for the event)..."
    The Japan Times

    "A stereophonic record has already been made by the American Symphony Orchestra." —Michelle Poirier, Agence France-Presse

    "I love these guys (and the Symphony of the Sorbonne, conducted by the marvelous Isaiah Jackson). Poor Elliott—I scored the piece
    so he had to take up the Pi'pa (Chinese lute) in addition to his guit-fiddle, and he was, of course, brilliant at it. A decent recording
    was made with the American Symphony Orchestra, and that exists. —Carman Moore 2012



  • 76.03.11 + 03.18 - [CANCELLED] Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: (no personnel listed) / 8:00 & 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea Jan-Feb-Mar-Apr-May 1976 Calendar, The RivBea Archive]
    —Schedule printed well before the fact...


76.03.11 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—47:18]

March 11, 1976 / Bergamo Jazz VIII, Palasport, Bergamo, Italy
—Recording is circulating mis-dated 76.03.16. Bergamo Jazz VIII ran 03.11 to 13.13.

1. improvisation [42:47]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 (ss section–8:39; p section–9:53; fl+voc section–13:19; dr solo–1:55; ts section–9:01)
2. encore (fl section) [4:12]  (incomplete, cuts in)
—Brane Roncel review in the RBA Slovenian newspaper clipping had this on the 13th; Stampa Sera and l'Unita imply the same.
 "[The Quest session, 76.03.12 + 03.13] took place the day after the triumphant reception Rivers recieved at the 8th Bergamo Jazz Festival..."
—Franco Fayenz, liners from 1977 PAUSA release.
 "The tracks that appear on The Quest... Presented, a few days before being recorded, at the Bergamo Festival."
 —Bruno Schiozzi, liners from 1979 Fabbri Editori release.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.09.10; Slovenian newspaper clipping, The RivBea Archive;
Stampa Sera Feb 17 "Spettacoli" p.13; l'Unita Mar 16 "Spettacoli-Arte" p.9}


76.03.12 + 03.13 • Sam Rivers: The Quest

1976: Red Records VPA 106 (LP) It;
1977: PAUSA Records PR 7015 (LP) It
  • Sam Rivers: Vision
    1977: Tobacco Road B/2512 (LP, "American Jazz & Blues History Vol. 12") It
  • Sam Rivers con Schiano, Altschul e Holland
    1977: Gong N° 6 Anno 4° di (magazine + vinyl 7" EP) It
        GONG: Monthly Music and Progressive Culture
        July/August 1977 720.pp, Supplemento
        —1st Session: [See also 77.04.28]
  • Sam Rivers: I Grandi del Jazz
    1979: Fabbri Editori GDJ-15 (LP) It
  • Just Jazz: Earl Hines/Sam Rivers
    1980: Fabbri Editori DLP 1012 (2-LP Box, Just Jazz Series) It
        —GDJ-03 (Earl Hines) + GDJ-15 Packaged together.
  • Just Jazz: Dizzy Gillespie Jam/Sam Rivers
    1981: Fabbri Editori DLP 1019 (2-LP Box, Just Jazz Series) It
        —JS-09 (Gillespie) + GDJ-15 Packaged together.
  • (V/A) I Grandi del Jazz: L'Avanguardia
    1981: Fabbri Editori no release# (8-LP Box—2nd in a 13-Box, 104-LP set) It
  • (V/A) Just Jazz Vol. 1
    1981: Fabbri Editori no release# (5-LP Box) It
        —Hines, Albert Ayler, Rivers, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton

March 12 & 13, 1976 / Rassegna Internazionale Jazz, Palazzo dello Sport, Milan, Italy
—Liners for Red Records VPA 106 and Fabbri Editori GDJ-15 have this recorded
 on the 12th and 13th, but Franco Fayenz on the PAUSA Records PR 7015 release
 begs to differ: "The recording took place in Milan the day after the triumphant
 reception Rivers received at the 8th Bergamo Jazz Festival."

1. Expectation [6:35]
2. Vision [12:20]
3. Judgement [10:15]
4. Hope [6:55]
Quest session complete on all of the Fabbri Editori editions. —RL
—PAUSA PR 7015 has the tracks reversed. Side A has tracks 1 [10:10] and 2 [6:51];
 Side B has tracks 3 [6:28] (titled "Tudgement") and 4 [12:15].
GONG 7" EP has excerpts of tracks 2 [2:00], 3 (mislabeled "Tudgement") [2:35],
 and 4 [2:05].
Images, top to bottom:
Original Red Records LP cover (1973)
GONG Supplemento Al N° 6 Anno 4° sleeve
GONG EP label
Fabbri Editori I Grandi del Jazz 13-Box set (left)
Fabbri Editori GDJ-15 LP cover (right)

Sam Rivers (ts-4, ss-1, fl-2, p-3, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

On the Fabbri Editori editions:
"Part of a series of more than 100 LPs sold not in record stores but in newspaper
stands in the '80s. Every record was issued weekly and packaged as a booklet of LP size
+ record. The publisher was Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Brothers Press), ...in Italy
that works in the field of ‘serial encyclopedias’ sold in stands. They started the series
in late 1979. It was laid out in several [embossed linen and fiberboard slipcases] of eight
records each. The second box was entitled ‘L'Avanguardia’. The seventh record of the
box (the 15th from the start, so its catalogue number is GDJ 15) was the Rivers one...
[The Earl Hines was GDJ 03]. The Fabbri published these records licensed by several
labels. The Rivers record is the exact reprint of the Red Records’ The Quest, with same
tunes, personnel, etc.... Recorded after a concert with the trio in Bergamo, near Milan,
where there was a jazz festival."
—Stefano Zenni

"There's no catalogue numbering on the slipcases for the Fabbri Editori records. This
appears to me an American, Canadian, or perhaps British marketing project wherein
the records were collected six at a time in the slipcovers as a sales approach, since all
the record jackets and sleeves are in Italian while the slipcases are in English."
—Rick Wallach

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{GdJ-15; PAUSA PR-7015; VPA 106; Lukas Notaras (GONG photos); Stefano Zenni, Giovanni Zanoni, and Rick Wallach;
Musica Jazz Mar 1976 p.20, Apr 1976 p.25, May 1976 pp.13-16}


    "Sam Rivers and Company jetted into Washington Sunday evening from the Bergamo Jazz Festival in Milan..."
    —W.A. Brower The Washington Post Mar 16

  • 76.03.14 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Jazz Connoisseur Series, 8:00pm (changed from 6:00pm), The Hirshhorn Auditorium, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
    [The Washington Post clippings Mar 7 p.F12 + Mar 12 ("SOLD OUT") + Jazz at Smithsonian Program, The RivBea Archive]


  • 76.03.18 - Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon: Carman Moore (Comp), Sam Rivers (reeds),
    Elliot Randall (g), Kenneth Bichell—"Michel" in articles (p, synth), Edward DeMatteo (b), John Beck (dr, perc),
    + Isaih Jackson (Cond) and "the 43-piece California Symphonic Orchestra" / Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA
    [Michelle Poirier "Hong Kong Plans Swinging Dragon Year Fashion Show" syndicated feature, Indianapolis Star Mar 4 p.28+31;
    Stella Zadeh AP review, Honolulu Star-Bulletin Mar 19 p.A4; Alan Cartnal "Enter the Fashion Dragon" The Los Angeles Times Mar 22 pp.1+7]
    The Los Angeles Times had "50-piece symphonic orchestra."
    —Michelle Poirier of Agence France-Presse in "Hong Kong Plans Swinging Dragon Year Fashion Show" and multiple preview articles
     mistakenly have the "Rochester Philharmonic" noted for the performances on 03.18 and 03.24, a bit of confusion caused by Isaiah Jackson's
     regular position as conductor of the Rochester Symphony.
    —Copyright for composition entered "18Mar76."
     [N31072 in Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series Vol.30 Parts 12-13 Number 1, Sound Recordings Jan.-Jun. 1976 p.385]
    —Studio RivBea monthly schedule printed well before the fact also has Sam Rivers' Winds of Manhattan at Studio RivBea on this date
     (and weekly, see 76.03.11 + 76.03.25).

    "'This was a once-in-a-lifetime show,' said Academy Award-winning designer Edith Head. 'The music was superb, the clothes were superb,
    and the show was just unbelievable.'" —Stella Zadeh Honolulu Star-Bulletin

    "Models from the runways of Paris, London, New York, and Rio—including a Vietnamese princess, twins who bill themselves as the Brazilian
    Bombshells, and U.S. supermannequin Billie Blair—starred in the spectacle... The mixture of exotic sounds and the feeling of the models
    created great moments rather than great clothes. It was an incredible array of apparitions that at times suggested a DeMille epic and at others
    the alienation of women in the city. It was abstract art in fashion—the kind of sociological impact that hasn't been in a fashion show
    since Gernreich's 1968 retrospective at the Mark Taper Forum." —Alan Cartnal Los Angeles Times

  • 76.03.24 - Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon: Carman Moore (Comp), Sam Rivers (reeds),
    Elliot Randall (g), Kenneth Bichell—"Michel" in articles (p, synth), Edward DeMatteo (b), John Beck (dr, perc),
    + Isaih Jackson (Cond) and The American Symphony Orchestra / 11:30am, The Grand Ballroom, Waldorf Astoria, NYC
    [Syndicated feature "Hong Kong Styles Dazzle New York" The Press Democrat Apr 1 p.12; Bernadine Morris The New York Times Mar 25 p.L44]
    —Dianne Smith "Styles Go Dragon" Long Beach Independent Apr 2 life/style p.A17 mistakenly had "43-piece California Symphonic Orchestra."

    "At a cocktail party in New York they actually handed out albums of a symphony the Council commissioned..."
    NEA syndicated article, Ellie Grossman "Hong Kong Designs Exported" The Evening Sentinel Jul 22 p.8


  • 76.03.25 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: unknown personnel / 8:00 and 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]


  • Harlem Opera Society's Solomon and Sheba was on tour at this time, but the 76.03.26 date in Columbus, 04.02 in Memphis,
    and the Winston-Salem performance on 04.03 all had Roland Alexander on reeds, with Rivers, who was not present, was credited
    as "lead musician and composer."
    [Harlem Opera Society clippings, the RivBea Archive; Columbus Citizen-Journal Mar 27; Winston-Salem Chronicle Mar 20 p.11;
    Memphis Press-Scimitar Apr 3; The Commercial Appeal Apr 3]


  • 76.03.27 - The Second Cycle—Tribute to John Coltrane: Bill Cole (Chinese musette, Indian shenai, Ghanian flute),
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jayne Cortez (poetry), Vishnu Wood (b, oud), Warren Smith (perc) /
    8:30pm, Center Theater, The Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    [Bennington Banner Mar 18 p.9; Rutland Daily Herald Mar 21 Sec.6 p.2]
    "The second of seven programs conceived by Dartmouth faculty member Bill Cole... presented over seven years, representing
    the seven stages of reincarnation in the beliefs of the Ibo tribe of southeastern Nigeria."
    (See The First Cycle 75.08.01 and The Fourth Cycle 78.09.24. No Third Cycle accounted for... yet.)
  • 76.04.02 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:00 & 10:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Apr 5 p.113]

76.04.03 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

April 3, 1976, 8:00 & 10:00pm / Studio RivBea, New York City

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Village Voice Apr 5 p.113; Anonymous 06.01.01}


    Creative Music Festival : : : June 5 through 7 & June 12 through 14, 1976
    "In Woodstock, NY... two three-day weekends... [excluding Sundays] The performers will include Dave Holland, Karl Berger,
    Ing Rid [aka Ingrid Berger aka Ingrid Sertso], Sam Rivers, Anthony Braxton-Richard Titelbaum Duet, Leo Smith, Oliver Lake,
    Ed Blackwell, David Izenzon, and more. A full schedule of workshops and discussions will run alongside."
    [Cash Box Jun 5 For the Record]


  • 76.04.07 (1) - Sam Rivers, Barry Altschul, and Dave Holland Workshop /
    Composers' Forum (April 5-12), 1:00-3:00pm, Room 120, Fine Arts Building, State University College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
    [The Stylus Mar 4 p.35]
  • 76.04.07 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Composers' Forum, 8:00pm, Fine Arts Theater, State University College at Brockport, Brockport, NY
    [The Stylus Mar 4 p.35; Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Apr 4 p.85]

76.04.09 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—70:00]

April 9, 1976, 9:00 & 11:00pm / WXPN-FM Benefit, New Foxhole Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
—Live Broadcast, WXPN-FM, 11:30pm

RivBea Archive / Reel #25
1... improvisations [70:00]
—RBA Reel #25 has date, venue, personnel, timing, "7½ ips," and "Second Set, Dubbed 12/29" on Box; Spool lists Rivers mistakenly
 on "alto sax" instead of soprano, and has "From WXPN" and "Tails Out" (end of tape on outside rather than at hub).

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #25; Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 4 p.172; Philadelphia Daily News May 7 p.44}


76.04.10 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—68:12 & BR]

April 10, 1976, 9:00 & 11:00pm / WXPN-FM Benefit, New Foxhole Cafe, Philadelphia, PA
—Live Broadcast, WXPN-FM 11:30pm
—Audience Recording also mistakenly circulating dated April 19, 1976, at "The Empty Foxhole."

Audience Recording:
1. improvisations [68:12]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Jakob Blumenthal 10.07.16; Patrick Clare 13.03.28; Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 4 p.172; Philadelphia Daily News May 7 p.44;
centrostudi.sienajazz.it/archivioSonoroRisultati.asp, #DT0042 "part 1" + #DT0043 "part 2," both misdated 76.04.19}


  • 76.04.16 to 04.19 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Amberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr) /
    Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Syndicated ad Reno Gazette-Journal Mar 29 p.5; San Francisco Bay Guardian Apr 9 p.21; Berkeley Barb Apr 16-22 p.14]
    San Francisco Bay Guardian excludes the 19th and has run as April 16-18 and 20-25.
    —Some notices have this listed with Holland and Altschul, neither of whom made this trip.

76.04.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

April 20, 1976 / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
—KPFA Live Broadcast

RivBea Archive / Reel Box "T"
1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel Box T: "Unnumbered white box containing tape of unknown manufacture on a 10' storage reel. I was not able to play this reel...
 To do so, it will be necessary to use a special transfer reel... Written on the back of the box is ‘Sam Rivers Trio Recorded Live by KPFA
 At Keystone Korner, San Francisco April 20, 1976, Sam Rivers/soprano+soprano sax, flute, piano, Chris Amberger/bass, Eddie Marchall/drums,
 recorded in Dolby stereo by bob Rosenberg, Henry Peters, Randy Thom.’ Below is written ‘(DUB).’ —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Amberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel Box T; Syndicated ad Reno Gazette-Journal Mar 29 p.5;
San Francisco Bay Guardian Apr 9 p.21; Berkeley Barb Apr 16-22 p.14}


  • 76.04.21 to 04.25 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Amberger (b), Eddie Marshall (dr) /
    Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Syndicated ad Reno Gazette-Journal Mar 29 p.5; San Francisco Bay Guardian Apr 9 p.21; Berkeley Barb Apr 16-22 p.14]
  • 76.05.02 - Four Movements for a Fashionable Five-Toed Dragon: Carman Moore (Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Kenneth Bichell (p, synth),
    Eliot Randall (g), Edward DeMatteo (b), John Beck (dr, perc), Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and Isaih Jackson (Dir),
    Garth Fagan (Chor, dance), Ronniev Baxter, Ron Blanco, Steve Humphrey, Bonnie Atkins, Pricilla Scott, Mary Greely,
    John Gourdine, Dana Ricks, and kathy Newcomb (dance) / Eastman Theater, Rochester, NY
    [Jackie Farnan "The Dance Beat: Preparing a Major New Work" Rochester Democrat and Chronicle May 2 p.G1+G6-7]

  • May, 1976:

    Heavy-hitting producers make things happen with a single phone call, usually because they know who to call. Douglas rang Cuscuna,
    knowing he was already working with many of the better-known musicians playing in the lofts. However, Cuscuna found Douglas' initial
    concept of placing a tape machine in several lofts for weeks at a time—and subsequently sifting through hours and hours of tape—to be
    unwieldy and cost-inefficient. Instead, Cuscuna persuaded Douglas to collaborate with Rivers, then in the process of programming Studio
    Rivbea's Spring Festival. Additionally, it was decided that the best performances would be gleaned for a multi-volume anthology and
    the tapes that failed to make the cut would be returned to the artists. Douglas decided to name the series "Wildflowers" after consulting
    a dictionary, and to issue the series as five separately sold LPs, not as a box set.

    Douglas then engaged former Hendrix engineer Ron Saint-Germain, who, upon seeing the bare bones ground-floor performance space,
    convinced the producers that a recording booth was needed; with the festival beginning in a matter of days, Saint-Germain, Rivers,
    and others built a loft over the bandstand. Coda reviewer Vladimir Simosko described the loft being "occupied by a master control board,
    tape recorders, and recording technicians, while the recessed, box-like bandstand became a maze of wires, microphones, and (between sets)
    technicians adjusting microphones and levels for the next group." Even though the logistics were simplified by using a single venue with
    a dedicated loft for recording, the task for the production team remained daunting; as 28 ensembles were scheduled to play over the course
    of two weekends, there were 28 opportunities for everything to go wrong in front of a paying audience.
    [Jazz in the 1970s: Diverging Streams Bill Shoemaker (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) p.145]
    ———


76.05.15 • (V/A) Wildflowers I

1977: Douglas/Casablanca NBLP 7045 (LP, The New York Loft Jazz Sessions Series)
    —Part one of a five LP series (Douglas NBLP 7045-7049);
    Douglas NBL-87045 (8Trk!); Douglas/Nippon Phonogram RJ-7307 (LP) Jp;
  • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA] Reel 24
  • (V/A) Wildflowers—The New York Loft Jazz Sessions Sampler
    1977: Douglas SMP 300 (LP)
  • (V/A) New York City Jazz 1
    1983: Polydor 815104-1 (LP, La Serie Douglas) Fr
  • (V/A) 1 Wildflowers—The New York Loft Jazz Sessions
    1995: Gravity 30 00 332 ARC 384 (CD) Fr;
        30 00 332/342/352 (3-CD Set) Fr
  • (V/A) Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions Complete
    1999: Knit Classics KCR-3037 (3-CD Box)
  • (V/A) Wildflowers: Loft Jazz New York 1976
    2005: Douglas AD-10 (3-CD) Fr

May 15, 1976 / Spring Music Festival (May 14-23), Studio RivBea, New York City

Wildflowers:
1. Rainbows [10:00]
RivBea Archive / Reel 24
1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel #24: "This a 10-inch reel in an Ampex box. The tape is 1-inch wide
 and is probably multitrack. On The spine of the box is written, Loft Jazz 5/15/76
 SAM RIVERS 1 DBX." There are no other notations on the box... I do not have
 multi-track equipment to play this tape. DBX was a noise reduction system that
 was used in the mid 70-80s. To play the tape, it would be necessary to find
 the proper model DBX machine." —Joel Washek

Images:
Original US release LP cover (1973)
Loft Jazz New York 1976 3-CD cover Douglas AD-10 (2005)

Sam Rivers (ss, Comp), Jerome Hunter (b), Jerry Griffin (dr)

{NBLP 7045; NBL-87045; KCR-3037; Douglas AD-10;
RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #24; Village Voice May 17 p.114;
Joel Washek 10.10.21; discog.piezoelektric.org}

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: : : On the Studio RivBea Wildflower Series : : :

"A welcome documentation of an important part of the contemporary musical landscape... [presenting] a comprehensive cross-section of the New York
loft session movement. Wildflowers is destined to become an important benchmark of '70s music. By documenting the work of many of the most
important exponents of black oriented free music, it presents a fair picture of what's currently happening in lower Manhattan's lofts."
[Chuck Berg Down Beat Magazine Aug 11 '87]
Wildflowers 1 —Douglas/Casablanca NBLP 7045 (LP); Polydor 815104-1 (LP) 1983 Fr
A1. Jays [6:17]
   —(05.16) Kalaparusha: Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (ts, Comp), Chris White (b, elb), Jumma Santos (dr)
A2. New Times [7:45]
   —(05.21) Ken McIntyre: McIntyre (as, Comp), Richard Harper (p), Andy Vega (cng), Andrei Strobert (perc)
A3. Over the Rainbow (Harold Arlen) [5:48]
   —(05.14) Sunny Murray & the Untouchable Factor: David Murray (ts), Byard Lancaster (as),
        Khan Jamal (vib), Fred Hopkins (b), Murray (dr)
B1. Rainbows [10:24]
   —(05.15) Rivers (ss, Comp), Jerome Hunter (b), Jerry Griffin (dr)
B2. USO Dance [8:26]
   —(05.22) AIR: Henry Threadgill (as, Comp), Fred Hopkins (b), Steve McCall (perc)
Wildflowers 2 —Douglas/Casablanca NBLP 7046 (LP); NBL 57046 (CS); NBL-87046 (8-trk); Polydor 815 111-1 (LP) 1983 Fr
A1. The Need to Smile [10:45]
   —(05.23) Flight to Sanity: Byard Lancaster (ts), Art Bennett (ss), Olu Dara (tp), Sonelius Smith (p, Comp),
        Benny Wilson (b), Don Moye (cng), Harold Smith (dr)
A2. Naomi [6:31]
   —(05.21) Ken McIntyre: McIntyre (as, Comp), Richard Harper (p), Andy Vega (cng), Andrei Strobert (perc)
B1. 73°-S Kelvin [6:41]
   —(05.15) Anthony Braxton: Braxton (as, cbs, cl, Comp), George Lewis (tb), Michael Jackson (g),
        Fred Hopkins (b), Phillip Wilson (perc), Barry Altschul (dr)
B2. And Then They Danced [7:14]
   —(05.16) Marion Brown: Brown (as, Comp), Jack Gregg (b), Jumma Santos (cng)
B3. Locomotif No. 6 [6:24]
   —(05.23) Leo Smith & the New Delta Ahkri: Oliver Lake (as), Smith (tp), Anthony Davis (p, Comp),
        Wes Brown (b), Paul Maddox and Stanley Crouch (dr)
Wildflowers 3 —Douglas/Casablanca NBLP 7047 (LP); Douglas RJ-7308 (LP, Promo) Jpn; Polydor 815 112-1 (LP) 1983 Fr
A1. Portrait of Frank Edward Weston [9:17]
   —(05.15) Randy Weston: Weston (p, Comp), Alex Blake (b), Azzedin Weston (cng)
A2. Clarity 2 [6:09]
   —(05.15) Michael Jackson: Oliver Lake (ss, fl), Jackson (g, Comp), Fred Hopkins (b), Phillip Wilson (dr)
A3. Black Robert [5:43]
   —(date unknown) Dave Burrell: Burrell (p, Comp), Stafford James (b), Harold White (dr) —Not on schedules.
B1. Blue Phase [12:35]
   —(05.22) Abdullah: Charles Brackeen (ts, ss), Ahmed Abdullah (tp, Comp), Mashujaa (g),
        Leroy Seals (elb), Rickie Evans (b), Rashied Sinan (dr)
B2. Short Short [7:00]
   —(05.23) Andrew Cyrille & Maono: David Ware (ts), Ted Daniel (tp), Lyle Atkinson (b), Cyrille (dr, Comp)
Wildflowers 4 —Douglas/Casablanca NBLP 7048 (LP); Polydor 815109-1 (LP) 1983 Fr
A1. Tranquil Beauty [5:45]
   —(05.16) Hamiet Bluiett: Bluiett (cl, bs, Comp), Olu Dara (tp), Butch Campbell and Billy Patterson (g),
        Juney Booth (b), Charles Bobo Shaw and Don Moye (dr)
A2. Pensive [9:54]
   —(05.16) Julius Hemphill: Hemphill (as, Comp), Abdul Wadud (cel), Bern Nix (g), Don Moye (perc), Phillip Wilson (dr)
B1. Push Pull [5:32]
   —(05.21) Jimmy Lyons: Lyons (as, Comp), Karen Borca (bsn), Hayes Burnett (b), Henry Maxwell Letcher (dr)
B2. Zaki [9:53]
   —(05.15) Oliver Lake: Lake (as, Comp), Michael Jackson (g), Fred Hopkins (b), Phillip Wilson (dr)
B3. Shout Song [2:45]
   —(05.14) David Murray: Murray (ts, Comp), Olu Dara (tp, flg), Fred Hopkins (b), Stanley Crouch (dr)
Wildflowers 5 —Douglas/Casablanca NBLP 7049 (LP); Polydor 815110-1 (LP) 1983 Fr
A1. Something's Cookin' [17:02]
   —(05.14) Sunny Murray & the Untouchable Factor: David Murray (ts), Byard Lancaster (as, fl),
        Khan Jamal (vib), Fred Hopkins (b), Murray (dr, Comp)
B1. Chant [25:22]
   —(05.22) Roscoe Mtchell: Mitchell (as, Comp), Jerome Cooper (perc, saw, dr), Don Moye (dr)
Also released as:
—"Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions Complete" Knit Classics KCR-3037 (3CD Box Set) 1999;
—"Wildflowers: Loft Jazz New York 1976 Douglas AD-10 (3CD) 2005 Fr;
—"Wildflowers: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions" Volume I Gravity/Douglas 30 00 332 [ARC 384] (CD) 1995;
 Volume II Gravity/Douglas 30 00 342 [ARC 384] (CD) 1995; Volume III Gravity/Douglas 30 00 352 [ARC 384] (CD) 1995

The tracks "Jays," "And Then They Danced," "Blue Phase," and "Tranquil Beauty" are presented here in their entirety. They fade rather than
end with applause because they are both part of a continuous set where one composition followed into the next. Due to technical live recording
problems, the beginning of "The Need to Smile" was not properly recorded. The producers felt the performance strong enough to include it with
a logical beginning at the soprano saxophone solo. "73°-S Kelvin" and "Short Short" are each excerpts of continuous performances.

[Douglas AD-10; Village Voice May 17 p.114 + May 24 p.107 clippings, The RivBea Archive; discogs.com]

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    76.05.22 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan / Summer Music Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Village Voice May 17 p.114 + May 24 p.107 clippings, The RivBea Archive]
    Village Voice display ad in the May 17 issue had this scheduled; display ad the following week dropped it.


    "Originally intended as an 'energy center' where Rivers could play, study, conduct workshops, and explore new art forms with other artists,
    RivBea became a performance loft when the Rivers decided to provide an alternative to Newport for the growing number of avant garde jazz
    musicians. After the many triumphant evenings of the Spring Music Festival, what's next for the Studio RibvBea? Sadly, for the many who
    have enjoyed the Rivers' ambience and the always exciting music, the Studio will disappear in the near future. According to Sam, he and Bea
    would like to find anotherspace where he could devote more of his time to study workshops and to those ever present kids."
    [Stephen Israel "A Step Ahead of Newport" The Villager May 27 1976 p.18]
    —First mention of this "idea." —RL


    Creative Music Studio June Intensive—June 1 through June 14, 1976

    Karl Berger, Ed Blackwell, Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, David Holland, David Izenzon, Garrett List, Oliver Lake,
    Ing Rid aka Ingrid Berger aka Ingrid Sertso, Sam Rivers, Jumma Santos, Leo Smith, Richard Tietelbaum, others... /
    Creative Music Studio, Mount Tremper Camp, Woodstock, NY [Kingston Daily Freedom Jun 1, 1976 p.14]
    —"Two weeks of concerts, workshops, rehearsals, and discussions." Included Creative Music Festival Concerts on June 4-6 and 11-13.



    Loft Jazz Celebration—June 4 through June 6, 1976
    [Jazz Magazine Fall 1976 Vol.1 No.2 clipping, The RivBea Archive]


  • 76.06.05 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), possibly Joe Daley (tu/eu), possibly Syd Smart (dr), possibly Dave Holland (b) /
    8:30pm, Creative Music Studio, Mount Tremper Camp, Woodstock, NY
    [Kingston Daily Freedom Jun 3, 1976 p.12; Joe Daley 18.02.03]

76.06.05 (2) • Sam Rivers and Rashid Sinan Duo [CMS Archival Recording—72:06]

June 5, 1976 / Creative Music Studio, Mount Tremper Camp, Woodstock, NY
CMS Archival Recording: (RBA CS #81)
1. improvisation [71:50]  (split track at 45:17)
 (ss section–29:01; SR voc + dr solo–1:13; fl+voc section–30:56; SR voc + dr solo–3:09; ts+voc section–7:31)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Rashid Sinan (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Cassette #81; track detailing 19.10.20; WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.21}


    "Alan Douglas, a record producer whose projects have included the Last Poets, Jimi Hendrix's posthumous recording releases
    and the first American disks by the jazz-rock guitarist John McLaughlin, recorded the entire spring festival at Studio RivBea
    and plans to issue a series of loft jazz anthology records [Wildflowers 76.05.15]. Rivbea will be presenting the same lineup
    of groups at its summer festival, July 1-10, with three groups performing each night."
    ["Loft Jazz Goes on a Three-Day Toot" The New York Times Jun 4, 1976 p.C1+C17]

  • 76.07.03 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Syd Smart (dr) / Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Summer Music Festival 76 Schedule + undated Village Voice clipping, The RivBea Archive; Joe Daley 18.02.03]
    —Ed Hazell's Muntu Sessionography, from MUNTU Recordings booklet (NoBusiness Records) has this on the 4th,
     which may have been an additional session not on the RivBea schedule or Village Voice notice.

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    okay Photos by Tom Marcello
    Who also provided the session date.
    www.flickr.com/photos/tommarcello/


  • 76.07.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr) /
    52nd Street Jazz Fair, 11:00am to 4:00pm, Broadway from 50th to 54th Streets, NYC [The New York Times Jul 5, 1976 p.9]
    —"With Gary Bartz Quintet, Hannibal's ‘Sunrise,’ Beaver Harris' 360 Degree Music, Roy Haynes' Hip Ensemble, Machito's Band,
    Joe Newman Quintet, Original Traditional Jazz Band, New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band, [and] Zoot Sims Quintet..."
  • 76.07.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (flute, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Syd Smart (dr) /
    Arti e Mestieri Camarillo Brillo, Festival Internazionale del Jazz, Torino, Italy
    [Musica Jazz Jun 1976 p.25; October 1976 pp.17-19 concert reviews, Giuseppe Dalla Bona, on-line index]


  • 76.07.09 - [CANCELLED] Rivers - no ensemble noted / scheduled at RivBea this night during the Newport Jazz Festival.
    [The Village Voice Jul 5 Voice Choices p.32]
    "Studio RivBea, 24 Bond Street, where saxophonist Sam Rivers is winding up a ten-day jazz festival tonight and tomorrow..."
    [The New York Times Jul 9 p.48]

76.07.11 (1) • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR—46:56]

July 11, 1976 / Pescara Jazz Meeting 76, Unità Musicale, Penne, Italy

1. improvisation [46:25]
 (ts section–11:19; SR voc + tu/eu + perc–1:01; fl+voc section–16:04; p section–10:21; trio voc + perc–0:47; ss+voc section–6:53)
"This concert was taped the last evening of the Pescara Festival (07.11), but was held
in Penne, a little town near Pescara." —inconstantsol.blogspot.com

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu, voc), Sidney Smart (dr, perc, voc)

{Sound files, track detailing RL 19.10.20; inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2009/11/sam-rivers-trio-live-in-pescara-76.html;
Musica Jazz Jun 1976 p.25, and July 1976 p.2 (on-line index) mistakenly have dates as 76.07.08-10;
Marcello Piras concert reviews, Musica Jazz Oct 1976 pp.12-13}


76.07.11 (2) • (V/A) After Hours 2° / The Great Pescara Jam Sessions

2000: Ecamlab Produzioni Musicali Ports Song CD L1006 (CD) It;
    Philology Jazz Records W96-2 (CD, retitle "The Fabulous Pescara Jam Sessions")

July 11, 1976 / Pescara Jazz Meeting 76, Tortuga Club, Pescara, Italy

1. African Call (traditional/Rivers) [3:25]
2. Blue Moon (R. Rodgers) [1:55]
"The best of the [first] piece is sung by someone in the public(!)"
—Lucio Fumo (translated by Diego Conti)

Release is of after-hours jam sessions during the Pescara Jazz Festival. The Rivers
tracks, according to Lucio Fumo's liner notes, are from a rehearsal. —Stefano Zenni

First track is a weak percussion vamp with an African vocal over it, indeed the "best of
the piece." Second track sounds as if it were played at the tail-end of a very long party,
perhaps around 5:17am, after much drink and merriment. Very loose, sloppy,
and plodding, with much laughter, conversation, and miscellaneous noise. Both are,
if I may be so bold, "unusual" choices for release. —RL

Sam Rivers (ss-2, perc-1, voc-2), Joe Daley (tu/eu-2, perc-1),
"unknown" (p-2), Sidney Smart (dr, perc)

 —Rivers is mis-credited in the liners as playing tenor on the second track.

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{CD L1006; Stefano Zenni; session date via Angelo Valori of Ecamlab; www.ecamlab.it/diskafter2.html; www.depanorama.net/dems/2000-2.pdf}


  • 76.07.16 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Syd Smart (dr) /
    "1976 manifestzione organizzata dal giornale Fronte Popolare," Festival di MLS, Parco Ravizza, Milano, Italy
    [Musica Jazz Aug-Sep 1976 p.28; October 1976 p.39; November 1976 pp.20-23 concert reviews, Arrigo Polillo, on-line index]
  • 76.07.17 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Rassegna Internazionale del Jazz di Pisa, Italy
    [Musica Jazz Jul 1976 p.27, on-line index; l'Unità Jun 23 p.11]
  • 76.07.18 - Sam Rivers Trio / Festival di La Spezia, Italy [Musica Jazz Jun 1976 p.25, on-line index; l'Unità Jun 23 p.11]

76.07.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—57:08]

July 20, 1976 / Festival di Verona, Teatro Romano, Verona, Italy

1. improvisation [15:12]  (incomplete, cuts in)
2. improvisation [38:54]
 (ts section–8:43; p section–10:33; dr solo–1:17; fl+voc section–6:42; ss+voc section–11:39)
3. improvisation [2:39]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 (fl+voc section—possible ending of encore)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.09.14; Musica Jazz Jun 1976 p.25, July 1976 p.27, + October 1976 Giancarlo Roncaglia review pp.14-17;
l'Unità Jun 10 "Spettacoli-Arte" p.9}


76.07.23 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:04:34]

July 23, 1976 / Festival del Jazz di Ravenna 1976, Rocca Branca Leone, Ravenna, Italy

1. improvisation [64:34]
 (ts section–16:27; p section–13:43; fl section–14:19; ss section–8:08)
2. improvisation [11:21]  (fl section)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr)

{Jakob Blumenthal 07.08.09; Musica Jazz June 1976 p.25, July 1976 p.27, + Giuseppe Dalla Bona review October 1976 pp.17-19; l'Unità Jul 24 p.9}


76.07.24 • Sam Rivers: Black Africa! Villalago

1977: Horo HDP 3/4 (2LP, Black Africa 1) It
    —1st Session: [See also 76.07.25];
2008: Movie Gold no release# (CDr, Unofficial, original cover art) Eur;
2009: Atomic Records 76813 (CD, Unofficial) Andorra
  • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR—66:14]

July 24, 1976 / Umbria Jazz Festival, Villalago, Italy

1. Black Africa (Soprano Section) [19:54]
2. Black Africa (Piano Section) [19:56]
3. Black Africa (Flute Section) [19:58]
4. Black Africa (Flute section) [11:04]
—All releases include announcements and applause, + the "Finale" from 76.07.25.
—Atomic Records release has track 2 as "piano & flute section," track 3
 as "flute & tenor section," and track 4 as "Encore."
—Movie Gold release duplicates the LP cover art (HORO logo and all), and misspells
 the subtitle as "Villalargo" on both spines, the disc, and the back cover.
Soundboard Recording:
1. improvisation [51:05]  (+ opening announcement; ending applause w/ intros)
 (ss section–12:28; p+voc section–9:41; SR voc + SS dr+voc–1:09;
 fl+voc section–20:35; trio voc + perc–1:37; ts section–5:59; Pullen 4tet–4:18)
2. improvisation/encore [7:50]  (fl+voc section + ending applause)
"Umbria Jazz certainly has got to be one of the most unique jazz events in the world...
This festival is a mini tour by both participating musicians and the public of the little
towns in the region. The performances take place in the piazzas or parks of the village,
and no entrance fee is charged. A nominal charge is made for bus transportation to the
villages. These two double albums document the performances by the Sam Rivers tour:
the villages of Villalago and Perugia."
—Carl Brauer, Cadence Vol.4 no.4, June 1978

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Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc, Comp), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Don Pullen (p-3), Sidney Smart (dr, perc, voc)

{HDP 3/4; Atomic Records 76813; Soundboard Digital files, track detailing RL 19.05.05; Umbria Jazz '76 schedule, The RivBea Archive;
Musica Jazz Jun 1976 p.25, July 1976 p.27, + October 1976 Pino Candini review pp.8-12; l'Unità Jul 16 p.12;
DMG mailing 09.11.20; Peter Losin 19.05.04, www.plosin.com; Lasse Nikkarev 19.05.09}


76.07.25 • Sam Rivers: Black Africa! Perugia

1977: Horo HDP 5/6 (2-LP, Black Africa 2) It;
2008: Movie Gold no release# (2CDr, Unofficial, original cover art) Eur
    —There was no 2009 Atomic Records release of this Perugia session.
  • Sam Rivers: Black Africa! Villalago
    1977: Horo HDP 3/4 (2LP, Black Africa 1) It;
    2008: Movie Gold no release# (2CDr, Unofficial, original cover art) Eur     —2nd Session: [See also 76.07.24]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR—82:19]
  • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—51:37]

July 25, 1976 / Umbria Jazz Festival, Perugia, Italy

1. Black Africa—tenor section [19:55]
2. Black Africa—piano section [19:47]
3. Black Africa—flute & soprano section [16:26]
4. Black Africa—tenor section [21:04]
5. Black Africa—finale [11:03]
—Horo Black Africa! Perugia release has tracks 1 through 4.
—Horo Black Africa! Villalago has track 5.
—Movie Gold release duplicates the LP cover art (HORO logo and all), and spreads
 all five tracks over two CDs.
Soundboard Recording:
1. improvisation [50:18]  (+ opening announcement and ending applause)
 (ts section–16:07; p+voc section–10:59; SR voc + perc–0:51;
 fl+voc section–15:13; SR voc + dr solo–1:19; ss section–5:49)
2. improvisation/encore [11:06]  (fl+voc section + ending introductions)
3. improvisation/2nd encore [4:56]  (ss section + ending applause)
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  —Audience Recording is incomplete, cuts in on tenor section and out after soprano sax section.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr, perc)

{HDP 5/6; Soundboard Digital files & Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.10.26; Umbria Jazz '76 schedule, The RivBea Archive;
DMG 09.11.20; l'Unità Jul 27 review p.9}


  • 76.07.26 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr, perc) /
    Festival del jazz di Palermo, Palermo, Italy [Musica Jazz Aug-Sep 1976 p.26, on-line index]
  • 76.07.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Festival Internazionale del Jazz di La Spezia, 21:15hr, Teatro Civico, Spezia, Italy
    [Oversized poster, The RivBea Archive; Musica Jazz Jun 1976 p.25; October 1976 Emanuele Di Matteo reviews pp.19-20, on-line index]
  • 76.08.03 + 08.04 - Sam Rivers Trio / Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, Germany [display ad, unknown source, The RivBea Archive]


  • "[Rivers is] contemplating terminating his days as a new-wave booking agent, in favour of devoting his studio place to the teaching
    of his students, who often comprise part of his occasional big band."
    [Steve Lake "Jazzscene," Melody Maker Aug 14 1976, The RivBea Archive]
    —Second mention of this "idea." —RL


  • 76.08.07 - Sam Rivers Trio / 7:00pm, Hnita Jazzklub, Torengebouw, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
    [Spectator Nr.14 2 Apr 1977 clipping, The RivBea Archive]

76.08.08 • Sam Rivers Trio [AVR—4:00]

August 8, 1976 / Hammerveld Jazz Festival, Roermond, Netherlands

1. An Evening in Roermond [4:00]  (part of flute section)
—The complete session lasted about an hour.

Sam Rivers (fl), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr)

{Video; date and session time from Peter Verhagen}


  • 76.08.00 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr, perc) /
    Festival del Jazz Moderno, Anversa, Italy [Musica Jazz Oct 1976 p.38, on-line index]
    —Festival from 76.08.10 through 08.14.
  • 76.08.00 (2) - Sam Rivers: Rivers (flute, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Syd Smart (dr) / Festival del Jazz, Arles, France
    [Musica Jazz Oct 1976 p.37, on-line index]

76.08.22 • Hugo Heredia Quartet [AR]

August 22, 1976 / Jazz Festival, Chateauvallon, France

1. Para Dona Pabla [13:19]  (ts)
2. Medley of Heredia compositions [52:58]  (fl, ts)
 (Cimaron, El Malon, Carmen Piquena, Tunita, and La Despedida)
7. Rivers' Theme [10:54]
 (ss solo–2:22; (Heredia p solo); ts solo–2:38; fl+voc solo–1:39)
Hugo Heredia (ts, fl), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Franco D'Andrea (p), Peter Frei (b), Peter Schmidlin (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.10; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09}


76.08.23 • Sam Rivers Solo [AR—11:14]

August 23, 1976 / Jazz Festival, Chateauvallon, France

1. improvisation [11:14]
 (ss solo–2:31; p solo–3:32; ts solo–2:56; fl+voc solo–2:14)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc)

{CDr ???}


76.08.27 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—108:56]

August 27, 1976, 20:00hr / Jazz Festival Willisau '76, Willisau, Switzerland

1. improvisation [59:54]  (split track at 46:28)
 (ss section–32:14; dr solo–1:32; p section–26:08)
2. improvisation [27:07]  (ts)
3. improvisation [9:13]  (fl+voc)
4. encore [10:52]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Warren Smith (dr, perc)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.10.19; Luzerner Neuste Nachrichten Nr.198 Aug 26}


  • 76.08.00 (3) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Sidney Smart (dr, perc) /
    Festival del Jazz d’Avanguardia, Rimini, Italy [Musica Jazz Jun 1976 p.25, on-line index]
    —Festival 08.25-29, so 25, 26, 28, or 29.
  • 76.09.01 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Warren Smith (dr) /
    The Kroeg, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    [de Volkskrant Aug 30 clipping + NRC Handelsblad Sep 2 and de Volkskrant Sep 3 typed review MSS, The RivBea Archive]

76.09.02 • The Tuba Trio: Essence—The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz, Vol.I

1977: Circle Records RK 2976/1 (LP) Ger;
2015: RivBea Music RB90827 (digital download)

The Tuba Trio: Essence—The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz, Vol.II

1977: Circle Records RK 2976/2 (LP) Ger;
2015: RivBea Music RB61200 (digital download)

The Tuba Trio: Essence—The Heat and Warmth of Free Jazz, Vol.III

1977: Circle Records RK 2976/3 (LP) Ger;
2015: RivBea Music RB11191 (digital download)
  • Sam Rivers Tuba Trio: Jazz of the Seventies + Earl Cross: Una Muy Bonita
    1977: Circle Records RK 7376/6 (LP, split) Ger
  • Sam Rivers & James Newton: Flutes!
    1977: Circle Records RK 7677/7 (LP, split) Ger
  • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR—109:58 & BR—39:31]

September 2, 1976 / Live in the Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 1. Essence Part I—instrumental solo of the tenor sax [3:20]
 2. Essence Part II—instrumental solo of the tuba [3:15]
 3. Essence Part III—instrumental solo of the drums [4:20]
 4. Essence Part IV—group with the tenor sax,
              dramatic intrusion of a second tenor sax player [11:10]
 5. Essence Part V—group with the flute [16:25]
 6. Essence Part VI—group with the soprano sax [20:20]
 7. Essence Part VII—group with the piano, with a tuba and a drum solo [19:30]
 8. Essence Part VIII—group with the tenor sax [18:05]
 9. Essence Part IX—drums interlude, group with the piano [14:10]
10. Essence Part X [8:05]
11. Essence Part XI [13:07]
The Tuba Trio, Vol.I has tracks 1 through 5.
The Tuba Trio, Vol.II has tracks 6 and 7.
The Tuba Trio, Vol.III has tracks 8 and 9.
Jazz of the Seventies has track 10 as track A1, + an Earl Cross Sextet
 session on track A2 and Side B.
Flutes! has track 11 as Side A, + James Newton solo session on Side B.

"The three original LPs, as issued, reversed the entire sequence of the music
as played, i.e. LP3 (sides 5 & 6) comprised the first set, LP2 (sides 3 & 4)
comprised the second set, and LP1 (sides 1 & 2) comprised the third set."
—Graham L. Rogers, inconstantsol.blogspot.com
 [Rogers was in attendance and made a private recording of this concert. He has
 the actual performance order as Essence Parts VIII and IX, Essence Parts VI
 and VII, and Essence Parts I through V, with no mention of parts X and XI.]
Soundboard Recording:
1. ts solo [3:07]
2. tu/eu solo [3:04]
3. dr solo [4:29]
4. improvisation [9:58]
 (ts section–7:56; ts section + intrusion of 2nd tenor sax–2:02)
5. improvisation [15:45]
 (fl+voc, wood flute, perc–3:50; fl+voc section–11:55)
6. improvisation [39:34]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 (ss section–20:24; p+voc section–16:46; dr solo–2:24)
7 . improvisation [31:00]
 (ts+voc section–17:41; dr solo–1:27; p and dr–4:29; p, frh, and dr–2:52; p and dr–5:21)
—A Broadcast Recording is circulating with only tracks 1 through 5
 (Essence Parts I through V), and is often misdated 76.11.23.
Images, top to bottom:
Essence Vol. I
Essence Vol. II
Essence Vol. III
(keeping it simple)

Jazz of the Seventies and Flutes! below.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, fl, voc), Mr. Dramatic Intrusion (ts),
Joe Daley (tu/eu, frh, perc, pipe), Warren Smith (dr, perc)
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{RK 2976/1; RK 2976/2; RK 2976/3; RK 7376/6; RK 7677/7; Broadcast and Audience soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.11.17; Ernst Nebhuth 19.11.24 }


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: : : The Discographer's Life Encapsulated—June through November, 1999 : : :
  —From Bimhuis 25, Stories of twenty five years at the Bimhuis
   (Edited & Compiled by Kevin Whitehead, w/ Herman te Loo and John Corbett) pp.82-83

"I don't believe that G-d exists, but if he does, he is most certainly in the details." (—RL)

I began compiling the Sam Rivers Sessionography in February of 1997. It was the first of six, with a seventh on the way, and yes it sounds as if
I'm telling you about my children. I learned how by simply doing it, and it all suited me perfectly—the detective work; the search; the formalism.
Add to this the creation of something worthwhile, and my complete lack of interest in leisure time almost becomes reasonable.

One of the most tenacious details I had to track down was the mystery performer on Volume I of the Sam Rivers Tuba Trio recordings. Recorded live
at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam on September 2, 1976, with drummer Warren Smith and tuba-man Joe Daley, the trio suddenly became a quartet during
"Part IV" of the piece being performed, with the LP credit of this mini-event appearing simply as "dramatic intrusion of second tenor sax player."

This was not good enough for me. If it were a known player, someone who'd been invited onstage, then I felt it only right to identify and credit them.
Then again, perhaps it was someone who definitely had not been invited. Some stumbling interloper crashing the stage? I had to know.

In late June of 1998 I received my first lead from San Francisco pianist Graham Connah, who had heard "speculation that this could be the guy who
is always at the Bimhuis hanging out. He runs sessions ... and does a lot of drinking. I believe the guy's name is Sean Bergin..."

Adding this detail to my search list in early July got it forwarded by Boston saxophonist Allan Chase to Kevin Whitehead, who in turn passed it along
to Huub van Riel at the Bimhuis. Mr. van Riel turned out to be away, so this proved to be a dead end. Four days later, Kevin wrote to inform me that
he had contacted Bergin via Joost Buis, and that Sean had said it was not him. Following a few more dud missiles, the correspondence went quiet.

Late September had me firing off another dying quail to van Riel at the Bimhuis. I followed this with the last of several requests to Rivers and
his manager Matt Gorney at RivBea Sound, but everyone was far too busy, harassed, and preoccupied by their own lives to be able to afford me
help with mine.

Finally, while at a Sam Rivers Trio concert at The Painted Bride in Philadelphia on 3 October '98, I had an opportunity to ask Mr. Rivers himself,
and he informed me that it had been a fellow named "Ronald Schneider," though when he saw me write it down like that he cautioned me: "No, no,
it's not spelled like that, it was some strange European spelling..."

After another few weeks trying to confirm this, I received an e-mail from Matt Gorney filling me in on the recent happenings in New York City
during the Sam Rivers 75th Birthday celebration. Gorney: "I spoke with Joe Daley about Mr. Dramatic Intrusion. He laughed and recalled it was
an African-American/European who popped out of the crowd or wings to play onstage. It doesn't seem like anyone recalls this guy being a ‘name’
musician. Joe said that he continued playing while trying to limit the tenor player's real estate and move him off the stage."

The listing for this session still has "Mr. Dramatic Intrusion (ts)" listed in the personnel. Barring the miraculous and unlikely
appearance of a Bimhuis audience member from that night 22 [now 43] years ago, I'll try to be satisfied with that.
—Rick Lopez / 99.03.10, in Bimhuis 25


Postscript...

"For the record, after reading this, I left a phone message for
the Surinam-born flutist Ronald Snijders, who in the '70s also
played soprano saxophone, to ask if he might be Mr. Dramatic
Intrusion. I never heard back."

—Phil Allgaps (pianist with the Robin Bastard Orchestra)


Bimhuis 25
—Transclucent dust jacket (left)
—Book cover (right)
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76.09.03 • Sam Rivers Tuba Trio [Warren Smith Archival Recording]

September 3, 1973 / De Kroeg, Amsterdam, Holland

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Warren Smith (dr, perc)

{Warren Smith Archive cassette}


  • 76.10.01 - Sam Rivers Workshops: General Session for All Students / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Village Voice Sep 20 p.97 + Sep 27 p.86]
    "Sam Rivers is offering a comprehensive course in traditional and contemporary modern American music for intermediate
    and advanced students... Composition, Improvisation, Arranging, Lectures... Workshops for Large and Small Ensembles...
    Individuality Development."

    —No mention of an impending schedule here, and the next reference is in the February '77 RivBea schedule, which announces this
     on Mondays throughout the month. Probable that it kicked in on Monday October 4th, and continued weekly. Possible dates include
     October 4, 11, 18, and 25, November 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, and December 6, 13, 20, and 27 of 1976; and January 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31
     of 1977. See 77.02.07 (1) for next notice. —RL

76.10.10 • Kazuko Shiraishi: Dedicated to the Late John Coltrane

1977: Musicworks 3001 (LP);
2004: Musicworks BRIDGE-024 (CD, "OTOKO TACHI YO!" Series) Jpn

October 10, 1976 / New York City

1. My Tokyo [12:10]   (ts)
2. Dedicated to the Late John Coltrane [13:10]  (ss)
3. Once Again the Season of the Sacred Lecher [24:22]  (p, fl)
—Musicworks 3001 has tracks as above;
—Musicworks BRIDGE-024 has the order of first two tracks switched.

From Ms. Kazue Yokoi, a freelance jazz journalist:
"You can find English translation of the poems on the following book: Seasons
of Sacred Lust
by Kazuko Shiraishi, Edited and with an introduction by Kenneth
Rexroth (New Directions). Kazuko Shiraishi is one of the greatest poet in the world.
Born in Vancouver, Canada 1931, return to Japan before World War 2nd, graduated
Waseda University. She received several prizes. Published over 20 poetry books,
and essay, short story, etc. Her poems have been translated, appeared in collections
and anthologies in various language. She was invited to poetry festivals including
the Rotterdam Poetry Festival (the most important poetry festival in the world)
many times. She has performed with jazz musicians like Sam Rivers, Leo Smith,
Peter Brötzmann, Michel Pilz, Itaru Oki, Kazutoki Umezu, Masahiko She Sato,
Nobuyoshi Ino, and many others. —Kazue Yokoi, Tokyo, 97.12.14
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Kazuko Shiraishi (voc, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, perc), Buster Williams (b), Abdul Wadud (ce), Andrei Strobert (perc)

{Musicworks 3001; BRIDGE-024; Kevin C. White 05.08.22}


76.10.12 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—44:48]

October 12, 1976 / Studio RivBea, NYC

1. improvisation [44:46]  (incomplete, cuts in/cuts out)
 (ts section–21:26; dr solo–2:55; voc + dr solo–1:30; fl + pipe section–3:04; fl section–15:51)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu, pipe), Warren Smith (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #6; track detailing RL 19.12.07; Ed Hazell 18.08.14; Village Voice Nov 15 pp.98-99}


  • 76.11.11 - Harlem Opera Society: Emory Taylor (Baritone voc, Dir, Writer), Jeanne "Geanie" Faulkner (Lyric Coloratura),
    Robert Donaldson (Tenor), guest artist Abraham Lind-Oquendo (Baritone), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), + "2 dancers and 4 musicians" /
    "The Gwendolyn Brooks Cultural Center presents," Grand Ballroom, University Union, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
    [Langston Hughes' Common Bond Oct 1 p.10]

76.11.13 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

November 13, 1976, 9:00pm & Midnight / Union Auditorium, Student Union Building, SUNY at Stony Brook, Long Island, NY

1. improvisation [ : ]
"The concert was in a room like a large tiered lecture theatre with a stage at the bottom... It was used quite a lot for concerts at the time. (Robert Palmer
performed there two weeks later, on 9 Dec '76.) The entry in my 1976 diary has 12:00pm written alongside it, which, assuming it relates to that concert,
I take to mean mid-day. If so, I've no idea why it was a daytime gig. It was, however, a full concert... I also vaguely remember Sam Rivers playing with
Mingus at some point during that concert..." —Christopher Smith 07.05.27

"Metamorphosing, pulsing, live JAZZ exploded at Stony Brook Saturday night. The Sam Rivers Trio and the Charles Mingus Quintet gave high-quality
performances in their contrasting styles for two full-house audiences in the Union Auditorium...
In the opening act, reedsman Rivers appeared with a new group featuring Joe Daley on tuba and bass horn and Bobby Battle on drums... Rivers directed
his trio... wailing on soprano sax (his primary instrument), pounding out complex piano solos, playing both haunting and piercing flute lines, and yelping
and chanting vocal parts. —Tom Vitale, The STATESMAN Nov 17, 1976, Proscenium p.1A

"There's no mention in The Statesman review of any musicians being shared between Rivers and Mingus, so I must have been wrong about that,
but I'm pretty sure that Rivers returned to the stage to play with Mingus at some point." —Christopher Smith 09.02.15

"And I have the tapes to prove it..." —said Ralph Pantuso on 06.02.24 at Stereophile Forums02.04.0

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bobby Battle (dr)

{Village Voice Oct 25 p.86; Christopher Smith 07.05.27; dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu}


    76.11.13 (2), but porobably not... Charles Mingus Quintet + guest Sam Rivers /
    Union Auditorium, Student Union Building, SUNY at Stony Brook, Long Island, NY
    [Christopher Smith 07.05.27 and 09.02.15; Ralph Pantuso 06.02.24 Stereophile Forums; home.earthlink.net/~lpogost/mingus.htm#1976]
    "I also vaguely remember Sam Rivers playing with Mingus at some point during that concert..." —Christopher Smith 07.05.27
    "I'm pretty sure that Rivers returned to the stage to play with Mingus at some point." —Christopher Smith 09.02.15
    "And I have the tapes to prove it..." —Ralph Pantuso 06.02.24 Stereophile Forums
    —Len Pogost has "The 2nd show, and Rivers is not on it."
     Pogost's "Charles Mingus Live Recordings 1973-1977" has "For Harry Carney" [13:00]; "Remember Rockefeller At Attica" [11:00];
     "Sue's Changes" [31:00, incomplete]; and "Ko-Ko—Cherokee [1:00], with no mention of Rivers.


  • 76.11.19 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Studio RivBea, NYC [The Village Voice Nov 15 Voice Choices p.97]
  • 76.11.20 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 10:00pm, Ethical Society, Philadelphia, PA
    [Philadelphia Inquirer Nov 19 p.22; Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 76.12.00 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Tom Varner (frh), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    "late December" Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY [Anonymous correspondence]

1977 : : :


  • 77.01.01 - Sam Rivers Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Paul Jeffrey (ts, cl, fl, ob), Gary Gordon (as, fl), Lauren Brown (ts, ob),
    Fred Kelly (bar, fl, pic), Jack Walrath, Eddie Preston, and Oliver Beamer (tp), Charles Stephens and Willie Vasquez (tb),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Monette Sudler (g), Dave Holland (b, ce), Warren Smith (dr, vbs, tym, perc) /
    8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; The Village Voice Jan 3 p.49]
    —RivBea flyer has Oliver "Beano" for Beamer.


  • 77.01.05 to 02.12 - FESTAC '77, The 2nd Annual Black & African Festival of Arts & Culture in Lagos, Nigeria /
    "A 500-member US contingent of talent." [Professor J. Southern The Black Perspective in Music Vol. 5, No. 1 (Spring, 1977), pp.104-117]
    "The American delegation which at Dakar [1966] included Louis Armstrong and James Baldwin is making do with the likes of the National
    Black Theater of New York, the Denver-Ensemble, the Flying Soul Trapeze of Los Angeles and the Milford Graves Music Ensemble..."
    ["FESTAC: Culture, Confusion, and Dust" Washington Post Jan 24]

    —The Sam Rivers Archive includes an over-sized poster of this event, and he is mentioned in preliminary lists of attendees,
     but he did not make the Festival. [Confirmed by Ahmed Abdullah 19.11.30]

    "The opening of the Festival... is less than a month away, and the lack of funds is cutting down on participation."
    [Village Voice Dec 27 p.69]
  • 77.00.00 (1) - Sam Rivers: no personnel details / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    [Musica Jazz "Jazz insegnato a Woodstock" January 1977 pp.28-29]

77.00.00 (2) • (V/A) Silver Burdett's Pipeline Volume 5 Number 5

1977: Silver Burdett's Pipeline Recording AVM-13335 PV-13335 (7-inch vinyl EP)
  • Sam Rivers Solo [BR—9:05]
1977 / unknown venue, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 22, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."
1. Sounds of Saxophones and Improvisations [7:23]
 (tenor sax improv–1:23)
  Tenor fades to background and narrator announcement begins at 0:28 in:
  "You are listening to the saxophone music of Sam Rivers, one of the world's
  greatest masters of improvisation. Although he also plays flute, piano, and viola,
  as well as saxophones, today Sam Rivers will demonstrate three instruments
  of the saxophone family, and his unique approach to improvisation."
  ...and ends at 0:50, tenor back to volume.
SR: "This is the sound of the B-flat soprano saxophone..." (0:04)
 (soprano sax improv–0:20)
SR: "The E-flat alto saxophone sounds like this..." (0:03)
 (alto sax improv–0:31)
SR: "The B-flat tenor saxophone, the one I learned on, and my favorite,
   sounds like this..." (0:05)
 (tenor improv–0:45)
SR: "I'm going to improvise for you, on the B-flat tenor saxophone,
   but first, before I begin, I shall play the melody for you, so that you will
   recognize when I improvise." (0:12)
 (melody on tenor–0:25)
 (tenor improv on melody–0:19)
SR: "You will notice of course, that I stayed very close to the melody,
   when improvising. This time, I will stay close to the melody and do a rhythmic
   improvisation..." (0:12)
 (tenor improv–0:22)
SR: "And finally, I am going to improvise, by going further away from the melody.
   see if you can still recognize the tune..." (0:10)
 (tenor improv–1:47)
   Tenor fades to background, narrator announcement begins at 1:17 in:
   "We have heard the saxophone improvisations of Sam Rivers, and we thank
   him for sharing his artistry with us today."
   ...and ends at 1:24, when Rivers' tenor swells as it ends and plays out.
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Broadcast Recording includes an intro of 2:15 by WKCR DJ Jordan Paul where he reads from the "teaching guide" included in the EP liners:
 "Play Side 1 again and discuss the following points: Notice the unusual sound Sam makes on his saxophone in the opening section. He obviously
 is a musician who likes to experiment... The melody on which Sam improvises is 'Go Down Moses.' At the end, Sam uses the flatted rather than
 the raised 7th in his interpretation. The first and second improvisations are really similar in that they both do not go far from the melody. The final
 improvisation is embellished much more, but the harmonies are implied and can be supplied by the mind's ear. Snatches of the melody are woven
 in here and there. Your students might want to know that several melodies were suggested to Sam for his improvisation during the recording session.
 He simply said, 'sing it for me and I'll do it.' This was improvising in the purest sense, the artist not knowing until that moment which tune he was
 going to play. Also, these improvisations all represent the first take, which might give some insight into this artist's tremendous facility both
 musically and technically."
—The Sam Rivers piece is side A; Side B has track excerpts by Alvin Lee, Paul Winter, John Handy, Weather Report, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Sam Rivers (ts, as, ss), + unknown narrator

{CDr copy of EP + Broadcast Recording, track detailing RL 19.11.30; WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31;
Library of Congress Database, "Shelf no. Pipeline BVS-13335—1 sound disc: 33 1/3 rpm; 7-inch"}


77.01.00 • Sam Rivers [AR—2:12]

January, 1977 / unknown venue, New York City

1. interview segment [2:12]  (!)
SR: "Well I'm a third-generation musician. My Grandfather's a musician and my father and mother were both musicians and so I'm a musician.
   It was just natural that I should be a musician 'cause I was born into the family. So my mother taught me and I learned piano, studied piano,
   and took saxophone up in high school, in the marching band and then into college. I studied music and into the service, you know I'm
   studying, so... And my early influences I'd say were, well, just about all the old great masters like Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, naturally
   Charlie Parker, and quite a few others that are still around like Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis and Illinois Jacquet and of course my great friend
   Dexter Gordon. And so I mean I just can't think of any of the great musicians of the past that I haven't really been influenced by. So I mean,
   I guess I mean by being influenced by all of them I sort of am a sort of a whole conglomerate of everyone, you know, coming out in myself,
   which I think is urgent."
Host: "But you have continued to change and develop and go into new things year after year."
SR: "Yes well I suppose it's the way, I mean, I suppose it's my philosophy of music as I think of it, and there's really no way for me to do but develop.
   Once I make a record, I don't play that music any more you see, so I have to do something else. And so, I mean, I have made that one of my policies
   never to play anything that I've already put on record. So I constantly have to keep creating, y'know that's one of the things, and aside from the fact
   that I guess it's just my natural tendency to create so I just, you know, it's really just part of my nature I suppose just to keep trying to do things
   differently. Myself I just finished doing some work with the San Francisco Symphony and so I was a soloist with that orchestra last year, I'm
   going to be a soloist with the New World Symphony next month. So I also do some of the classical European-style things. It's the rounded
   kind of knowledge that the rest of the musicians also in the group have the same kind of background."

Sam Rivers (speaking)

{CDr, detailing RL 19.11.30}


  • 77.01.24 - Sam Rivers Big Band: Sam Rivers (ts), Paul Jeffrey (ts, ob), Gary Gordon (as, fl), Lauren Brown (reeds),
    Fred Kelly (bar), Oliver Beener, Eddie Breston, and John Eckert (tp), Willie Vasquez And Bill Ohashi (tb),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Monette Sudler (g), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith (perc) / Storyville, NYC
    [Daily News Jan 21, 1977 p.24; New York Post Jan 21 p.27;
    Hazziezah "Sam Rivers: Making a Powerful Musical Statemnent" NY New Amsterdam News RAVE review Feb 5 p.D2]
    "The big band was one night. I don't recall playing consecutive nights." —Monette Sudler 18.08.22
    New York Post mistakenly has this as the 23rd.
  • 77.01.25 to 01.28 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
    Dave Holland (b, ce), Barry Altschul and Bobby Battle (dr, perc) / 10:00pm, Storyville, NYC
    [Village Voice undated clipping, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Jan 31 p.57; New York Magazine Jan 31, 1977 p.19]

77.01.29 • Sam Rivers Quintet [RBA—22:22]

January 29, 1977, 10:00pm / Storyville, New York City

1. improvisation [9:01]  (End of 2nd Set; incomplete, cuts in)
 (tu, b+ce, dr–2:19; ts section–6:42)
2. improvisation [11:48]  (End of 3rd Set; incomplete, cuts in)
 (dr solo w/ SR voc–4:05; fl section–0:16; b solo–2:49; fl+voc, b, BB wood flute, BA perc+dr–4:38)
—RBA Cassette #53 is a Scotch C-60. Both sets end with applause and introductions.

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b, ce), Bobby Battle (dr, wood flute), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #53; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.11.30; Ed Hazell 19.06.29}


  • 77.02.01 - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: Compositions for Jazz Orchestra /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    —These open rehearsals (as well as the ones on Thursdays; see 77.02.03) may have begun after initial meeting in October of '76.
  • 77.02.02 - Sam Rivers Workshops: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 77.02.03 - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
    —Sam Rivers is also named as a performer in preview press for the Hampton, VA performance below.
  • 77.02.04 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b, ce),
    Barry Altschul and Bobby Battle (dr, perc) / Winter Festival of New Music, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 77.02.06 - Noel DeCosta's "Ceremony of Spirituals": DeCosta (vn, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Barbara Grant (Soprano),
    The New World Symphony conducted by Leon Thompson, J. Weldon Norris' Howard University Choir / Carnegie Hall, NYC
    [John Rockwell "Music by Da Costa in Premiere" The New York Times Feb 7 p.25; Billboard Feb 26 p.40]
  • 77.02.07 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshops: "A comprehensive course in modern music for intermediate and advanced students." /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    —Initial meeting was on October 1, 1976.
  • 77.02.07 (2) - Sam Rivers Big Band: unknown personnel / Storyville, NYC
    [Robert Palmer "Jazz: Lavish Sam Rivers" The New York Times Feb 23 p.39]
    —"Rivers... has been leading a big band on Monday nights at Storyville."
  • 77.02.08 (1) - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: Compositions for Jazz Orchestra /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]

77.02.08 (2) + 02.09 (1) • Barry Altschul: You Can't Name Your Own Tune

1977: Muse MR 5124 (LP);
2000: 32 Jazz 32192 (CD)

February 8 & 9, 1977 / Rosebud Studio, New York City

1. You Can't Name Your Own Tune (Altschul) [7:52]
2. For Those Who Care (Altschul) [4:53]
3. Natal Chart (Altschul) [3:42]
4. Cmbeh (Abrams) [6:13]
5. Hey Toots! (Altschul) [5:07]
6. King Korn (Carla Bley) [4:40]
Sam Rivers (ts and ss-1,3,6, fl-2), George Lewis (tb-1,2,3,6),
Muhal Richard Abrams (p-1,3,4,6), Dave Holland (b-1,3,4,6, ce-2),
Barry Altschul (dr, perc, gong-5, waterphone-5)

{MR 5124}

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Barry Altschul: That band was an all-star band and didn't work. We had a couple of gigs to warm-up up for the record date. One was at Sam's loft
and the other was at Fischer's loft—Environ or something like that. We did a couple of little gigs before the record date. First we rehearsed at my house,
then we did a couple gigs to see how we could play with the music in performance.
Harris Eisenstadt: One-day session?
BA: Six hours.
HE: Remember the session going real easy?
BA: Very.
HE: You'd been playing with these guys a bunch...
BA: It wasn't just that. I was also the least astute musically of the group. I mean, here you got Sam Rivers, a great composer, Muhal Richard Abrams,
you know, George Lewis, a motherfucker at 21, and Dave Holland, these are my first compositions, and they were beautiful to me, they showed me
all the respect in the world, there was no bad vibe at all, the date went down smooth, no problems whatsoever.
HE: But that quintet never worked?
BA: No, it was a record date.
[Destination Out Guest Post: Barry Altschul interviewed by Harris Eisanstadt, January 2013]
  • 77.02.09 (2) - Sam Rivers Workshops: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.02.10 - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 77.02.13 - Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Bill Cole (exotic reeds and flutes), Jayne Cortez (poetry, voc), Warren Smith (dr, perc) /
    Winter Festival of New Music, 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive; The Village Voice Feb 14 p.99]
  • 77.02.14 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshops: "A comprehensive course in modern music for intermediate and advanced students." /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.02.14 (2) - Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others / Storyville, NYC
    [Robert Palmer "Jazz: Lavish Sam Rivers" The New York Times Feb 23 p.39]
  • 77.02.15 - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: Compositions for Jazz Orchestra /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.02.16 - Sam Rivers Workshops: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 77.02.17 - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]

77.02.19 • Elaine Summers—Windows in the Kitchen [Elaine Summers Archival VR—61:00]

February 19, 1977, 8:30pm / The Kitchen Center for Video and Music, New York City
—½-inch Video Reel, Sound, Color

1. Windows in the Kitchen [61:00]
 Windows —Summers (film) and Turney (dance), premiere
 Solitary Geography —Turney solo
 Geography for One or More —Turney + Elaine Summers Dance and Film Company (dance), and video
 City Corners for Sam Rivers —Summers (design), Paula Court (slides), Sam Rivers (as)
The Villager has "8:30 (integrated concert of live dance and music with film and video), 9:00 (film and video only),
 9:30 and 10:00pm (programs repeat)."

"An intermedia concert of dance, film, video, and music, 1977 February 19... The concerts will be given at night, but Miss Turney
will be seen dancing in the daytime, in a film projected against a window and intended to suggest sunlight filtering through the glass
by night. 'The Kitchen has these large windows,' Miss Summers explained. 'The film is projected to fit the window. Then, in addition
to the film image, Matt will join in, in front. It will be a duet, with herself... For the final section of the concert, Sam Rivers,
a musician who will play alto saxophone throughout the evening, will be the sole live performer as Miss Summers has five
projectors 'flood' the space with slides of street corners." —Anna Kisselgoff

Elaine Summers (Chor, Prod), Sam Rivers (as, Comp), Matt Turney (dance), Paula Court (slides), unidentified dancers,
+ Davidson Gigliotti and John Trainer (video)

{The Kitchen February 1977 calendar tear-sheet, The RivBea Archive; Anna Kisselgoff "Cooking With Intermedia" The New York Times Feb 18 p.C12;
The New York Public Library, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, "Windows in the Kitchen" The New York Public Library Digital Collections, 1977,
Elaine Summers Video Archive, call number MGZIDF 6168, digitalcollections.nypl.org; The Villager Feb 17 p.12;}


    77.02.20 - The Kitchen February 1977 calendar tear-sheet found in The RivBea Archive also had Elaine Summers'
    "Windows in the Kitchen" scheduled for the 20th, but there is no further reference. —RL


  • 77.02.20 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan / Winter Festival of New Music, 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea February schedule, The RivBea Archive; The Village Voice Feb 14 p.99]
  • 77.02.21 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshops: "A comprehensive course in modern music for intermediate and advanced students." /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.02.21 (2) - Sam Rivers Big Band: unknown personnel / Storyville, NYC
    [Robert Palmer "Jazz: Lavish Sam Rivers" The New York Times Feb 23 p.39]
  • 77.02.22 - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: Compositions for Jazz Orchestra /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.02.23 - Sam Rivers Workshops: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 77.02.24 - Sam Rivers Open Rehearsal: unknown ensemble / 5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 77.02.26 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), probably Holland and Altschul, and an unknown other /
    8:00pm, New England Life Hall, Boston, MA [Boston Globe Feb 24 p.A9]
  • 77.02.28 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshops: "A comprehensive course in modern music for intermediate and advanced students." /
    5:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea February '77 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.02.28 - Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others / Storyville, NYC
    [Robert Palmer "Jazz: Lavish Sam Rivers" The New York Times Feb 23 p.39]

77.00.00 (3) • Sam Rivers Ensemble [Unissued Studio Recording]

Early 1977 / Blank Studios, NYC

1... improvisations [ : ]
"I produced [the] session... It was a collection of very short pieces to be used as 'incidental' music for some fashion institute in Japan. I don't know
if it was directly connected to the album he did of Carman Moore's music [See 75.10.00]... but I believe that session led to this thing... I'm pretty
sure it was a quartet... There may have been a guitarist also—Ted Dunbar or Bobby Broom? ... The segments were so short and had to be specific
in length, so I had to use a stopwatch and signal Sam before I clicked it. One time I cut it too close and the click sounded like a Japanese percussion
sound, so we decided to use it as part of the music." —Marty Khan

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ted Dunbar or Bobby Broom (g), Mike Nock (p, elp, synth), Marty Khan (stopwatch), Bobby Battle (dr, perc, gongs)

{Marty Khan 11.03.16 + 18.06.24}


  • 77.03.05 (1) - 1977 Hong Kong Ready-to-Wear Gala: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Gheorghe Zamfir (Pipes of Pan), Mike Nock (p, elp, synth),
    John Campo (g), Dave Holland (b, elb), Warren Smith and Bobby Battle (dr, perc, gongs) /
    10th Anniversary Show #1, 2:30pm, The Palace, Hong Kong
    [Program, The RivBea Archive; South China Morning Post Mar 6 p.1+3; The Star Mar 7 p.9]
  • 77.03.05 (2) - "Impromptu Jazz Session:" Sam Rivers and Henry Francisco (ts), Len Tracey (tp), John Campo (g), Bobby Battle (dr),
    + "The Hong Kong and China Jazz Company" / "afternoon," Dickens Bar, Hong Kong
    [Program, The RivBea Archive; Hong Kong Standard Mar 7 p.6]
    —Fit the session in between the two Gala shows.
  • 77.03.05 (3) - 1977 Hong Kong Ready-to-Wear Gala: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Gheorghe Zamfir (Pipes of Pan), Mike Nock (p, elp, synth),
    John Campo (g), Dave Holland (b, elb), Warren Smith and Bobby Battle (dr, perc, gongs) /
    10th Anniversary Show #2, Convention Centre, Hong Kong
    [Program, The RivBea Archive; South China Morning Post Mar 6 p.1+3; The Star Mar 7 p.9]

77.03.14 • Sam Rivers Quintet [Warren Smith Archival Recording]

March 14, 1977 / Ready-to-Wear Fashion Gala, Tokyo, Japan

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Mike Nock (p), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith and Bobby Battle (dr, perc)

{Warren Smith Archive cassette}


  • 77.03.17 through 77.03.20 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle /
    9:30 & 11:30pm, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [The Argus Mar 11 p.24; Daily Independent Journal Mar 12 p.54; San Francisco Chronicle review (of Mar 18 performance) Mar 19 p.32]


  • The Tokyo dates below with Shiraishi were obviously cancelled. We have a review of the March 18th gig at Keystone,
    along with multiple references to the Keystone stand from March 17 through 20. —RL

    77.03.18 - Kazuko Shiraishi and the Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Shiraishi (poetry), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith (dr, perc) /
    7:00pm, Ochanomizu, Tokyo, Japan [Makoto Sato 18.10.21; Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive]
    "Original Lost Sound Burning!!"

    77.03.22 - Kazuko Shiraishi and the Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 7:00pm, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan [ibid]


    Studio RivBea Spring Festival of New Music April 77—April 1 through April 30, 1977

    This was a rare instance in which RivBea ran a full festival schedule while Sam was off of the continent (which he mentions during the 77.04.16 interview).
    Performances on Friday and Saturday nights by David Murray/Stanley Crouch, Alex Foster Quartet, Shelly Rusten Quartet,
    AIR, Shelly Rusten Trio, Hamiet Bluiett Duo, Shelly Rusten Trio (again), Jimmy Lyons Quartet, Sunny Murray/Byard Lancaster,
    and Lowe/Shaw/Bowie, in that order.


  • 77.04.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Atschul (dr) / Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl]
  • 77.04.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 7:00pm, Hnita Jazzklub, Torengebouw, Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium
    [Spectator Nr.14 2 Apr 1977 clipping, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.04.12 - Sam Rivers Trio / 9:00pm, Vera, Groningen, Netherlands
    [Event poster, Charles Carville 19.06.12]


  • 77.04.13 to 04.16 - CODA has the Sam Rivers Trio (w/ Holland & Altschul) in Vancouver on these dates. They were in fact in Europe.
    Probably a mistaken reference to the first two weeks of May (4th through 15th). [CODA #156 July-August 1977 p.29]


  • 77.04.14 - The Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:00pm, Foyer Barbey, Bordeaux, France [International Herald Tribune Apr 8, p.5]
  • 77.04.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 20:30hr, Palais des Glaces, Paris, France
    [L'Humanite Apr 15 p.9 + Jazz Magazine review Jun 1977 + Poster, The RivBea Archive]

77.04.16 • Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [BR—48:33]

April 16, 1977 / Studio Radio France, Paris, France
—Radio France Live Broadcast "de l'émission : Les samedis de France Musique."

 Broadcast announcement [1:44]
 Rivers and Holland Interviewed [6:19]
 SR: "No, we haven't decided. We just, um, play as we usually do. Try to always create, try to create something different each time."
1. improvisation [38:43]
 (p+b–4:52; b solo–0:50; ss+b–5:56; ss solo–0:21; b solo–1:32; ts+b–2:51; ts solo–0:30; ts+b–2:14;
 b solo–1:58; fl+b–5:58; b solo–0:30; p solo–1:08; p+b–3:47; p solo–0:30; p+b–4:58)
 Broadcast announcement [1:46]
—Also circulating (with only a 10-second interview fragment) at 38:32.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (b)

{Soundfiles + CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.13; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09}


77.04.18 • Sam Rivers: Paragon

1977: Fluid Records Fluid-101 (LP) Fr;
2015: RivBea Music RB52090 (digital download)

April 18, 1977 / Davout Studio, Paris, France

1. Ecstasy [5:38]  (ts)
2. Bliss [6:23]  (fl)
3. Rapture [5:10]  (ss)
4. Tingle [7:28]  (p)
5. Paragon [12:15]  (ss–fl–ts)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, ss, p, Comp),
Dave Holland (b, ce),
Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{Fluid-101}

okay

  • 77.04.19 + 04.20 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Atschul (dr) /
    22:30hr, Riverbop Jazz Club, Paris, France [Handbill, The RivBea Archive, which gives Baryy "Altschuld"]
  • 77.04.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 21:00hr, Cercle Nantais du Jazz, Nantes, France
    [Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive]

77.04.28 • Sam Rivers & Mario Schiano: Rendez-vous

1977: Red Records/Vedette VPA 8375 (LP) It
  • Sam Rivers con Shiano, Altschul e Holland
    1977: Gong N° 6 Anno 4° di (magazine + vinyl 7" EP) It
        GONG: Monthly Music and Progressive Culture
        July/August 1977 720.pp, Supplemento
        —2nd Session: [See also 76.03.12]

April 28, 1977 / Sciascia Sound Studios, Milano, Italy

1. Rendez-vous (Rivers/Schiano) [2:55]  (ts/as duo)
2. Brother Sam (Rivers/Schiano) [9:48]  (ts)
3. Lover Man (Ramirez/Davis/Sherman) [11:58]  (ts)
4. Earth Dance (Rivers/Schiano) [8:33]  (ss)
5. Sunrise (Rivers/Schiano) [6:21]  (fl)
6. Cross Current (Rivers/Schiano) [6:23]  (p)
GONG has opening excerpts of tracks 2 [2:31] and 4 [3:09].

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Mario Schiano (as),
Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr, vb, perc)
okay

{VPA 8375; Gong 7" EP; Lukas Notaras and Giovanni Zanoni; Corriere Della Sera Apr 30}


    The following Trio tour dates in Canada during the first few weeks of May were previously listed
    with Holland and Altschul as sidemen, which was incorrect.

     "I was at the gig, Wadud and Battle are the correct sidemen—Holland and Altschul were definitely
     not in town for the gig or workshop. Trust me!!" —Norm Westbrook, Kamloops, BC

  • 77.05.04 to 05.06 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Abdul Wadud (ce), Bobby Battle (dr) / Vancouver Jazz Society,
    "Spring '77 Concert Series," Old Heritage Hall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    [The Vancouver Sun May 5; CODA #154 Apr 1977 p.28; CODA # 156 Aug 1977 p.29;
    vancouverjazz.com/vjs/index.php; Norm Westbrook 09.10.19]
  • 77.05.07 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Afternoon Workshop, Old Heritage Hall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [ibid]

77.05.07 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—90:00]

May 7, 1977 / Vancouver Jazz Society, Old Heritage Hall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

1. improvisation [90:00]
—RBA Cassette #13 has "Part of 2nd Set" and "Recorded by Brian Nation."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Abdul Wadud (ce), Bobby Battle (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #13; The Vancouver Sun May 5; Brian Nation; Norm Westbrook 09.10.19}


  • 77.05.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Abdul Wadud (ce), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    8:00pm, Masonic Temple, Seattle, WA [Seattle Daily Times May 5 p.E6]
  • 77.05.13 + 05.14 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / The Hovel, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    [www.yardbirdsuite.com/archives/index-shows.htm; Norm Westbrook 09.10.19; Edmonton Journal May 9 p.30 + review May 14 p.53]

    "The Edmonton Jazz Society's loss has turned out to be The Hovel's gain. EJS, backing out of a deal to bring the Sam Rivers Trio
    to town May 13-15, has had The Hovel step into the protruding breach. Dates for the concerts are the same. The tenor saxman planned
    to appear with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul. But when Holland and Altschul became unavailable, EJS withdrew
    from the planned presentation." [Edmonton Journal May 7 p.42]
    —Holland and Altschul did not make this tour.

  • okay

    Amazingly, this poster had been hanging
    on my wall for about five years before
    I realized I hadn't entered the session dates.
    —RL



    Edmonton Journal May 19 p.38 + May 20 p.45 also has the Trio at The Hovel on the 20th through 22nd,but the display ad
     is identical to the previous week's ("Next weekend, Paul Hann"), and there are no other references. —RL

77.05.15 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—60:00]

May 15, 1977 / The Hovel, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

1... improvisations [60:00]
—RBA unnumbered Reel is a 10.5-inch EMITAPE packaged with a $35.00 dubbing receipt from Radzion Recording Systems
 in Edmonton. The receipt has "Sam Rivers Trio," "1 hour dub," and is dated "15 May 77."
—This Reel is not in the RivBea database.

Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Abdul Wadud (ce), Bobby Battle (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings unnumbered Reel; Edmonton Journal May 9 p.30 + review May 14 p.53;
www.yardbirdsuite.com/archives/index-shows.htm; Norm Westbrook 09.10.19}


77.05.24 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—151:02]

May 24, 1977 / The Cellar Door, Washington, DC
—Originally a "two-night engagement [included the 23rd] cut down to one by transportation problems." —Washington Star

Early Show:
1. improvisation [29:07]  (ts section)
2. improvisation [40:05]
 (p section–37:36; dr solo–2:29, split track at 17:29)
Late Show:
3. improvisation [31:22]  (ss section)
4. improvisation [46:44]  (fl section)
—Recording had Sets reversed, with tracks 3 and 4 followed by tracks 1 and 2.

"The Cellar Door was a very small, but great room that held about 200 people packed in like sardines. Years later the DC Fire Marshall forced
the club to reduce their capacity to about 125 people. The club tried to continue, but financially couldn't do it... This was the third concert I ever taped.
It was something I never would have gone to see if it hadn't been for my friend Paul, who was a jazz musician... We had come to The Cellar Door
the previous night, but there had been transportation problems, and Sam didn't make his scheduled appearance for his two-night stand. Luckily,
the group was able to salvage one night..." —Audience Recording source "bpthree."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Abdul Wadud (ce), Bobby Battle (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.12.09; Evening Star May 22 p.G17; Washington Star May 25 p.B8; Eric Devin 09.12.17}


  • 77.05.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Drie Dagen Jazz Marathon, 20:15hr, De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands
    [Jazz Marathon program, The RivBea Archive; NRC Handelsblad May 26 p.6]
    —Program had this as a Rivers/Holland Duo.


  • "The Harlem Opera Company presented Sam Rivers' (music) and Emory Taylor's (libretto) opera "Solomon and Sheba"
    on May 27 at the Beacon Theatre" (Sam Rivers was not in the ensemble) [CODA #156 August 1977 p.32]


  • 77.05.28 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 6th International New Jazz Festival, Schlosspark, Moers, Germany
    [Musica Jazz Jun 1977 pp.25-26 (on-line index); www.moers-festival.com/history/chronik1976_78.html; The Stars and Stripes Apr 30 p.19]
    —Preceded earlier in the day by a production of Samuel Beckett's Play as part of the Jazz Fest at the Schlosstheater Moers,
     which I just have to mention since I was a Beckett scholar in a past life... [www.bb10k.com/Beckett.html]
  • 77.06.01 - Sam Rivers Trio / Sinkkasten, Frankfurt, Germany [Sinkkasten Programs Mai 1977 + Juni - Juli 1977, The RivBea Archive]


  • —Of note: Broadcast of June 3, 1977, "Sam Rivers Orgy: recordings of the '60s & '70s," on WHRB-FM Boston at 10:00am.
     [Boston Globe Jun 3 p.51]

77.05.00 or 06.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—37:02]

May or June, 1977 / unknown venue, somewhere in Europe
—This trio configuration was active in 1977 from late March (and possibly into very early April) in the US,
 and in Europe from late May to mid-June. From the sound of the crowd this was likely a European performance.

RivBea Archive / Reel #26:
1. improvisation [28:41]  (fl section)
2. improvisation/encore [6:04]  (ss section)
—RBA Reel #26: "The tape is a 10-inch reel and is in an Agfr-Geveart box. Other than 'Sam Rivers' written on the front
 in magic marker [and] '26' written in pen, there is no info on the box." —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ss, fl), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recording Reel #26; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.12.07}


77.06.04 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—60:22]

June 4, 1977, 17:00hr / Feldberghalle, Altglashütten, Germany
—SWF Jazz Session Broadcast

1. Sketches 1 [7:53]  (ts section)
2. Sketches 2 [12:51]
 (b solo–3:08; p section–9:43)
3. Sketches 3 [11:08]
 (dr solo–4:45; ss section–6:23)
3. Sketches 4 [10:27]  (fl section)
4. Traces [9:15]  (ss section)
5. encore [7:03]  (p section, incomplete)
—Track titles as received on recording. These are relatively short improvisations, as opposed to the usual set-long improvs.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.10; Flyer, The RivBea Archive}


  • 77.06.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Dürener Aktionen, 19:30hr, Kuhgasse, Düren, Germany [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

77.06.12 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—59:51]

June 12, 1977 / Lovere Jazz 1977, Sports Arena, Lovere, Bergamo, Italy
—Audience Recording circulating misdated 77.06.13 (including at centrostudi.sienajazz.it).

1. improvisation [48:08]
 (ts section–p section–ss section–fl+voc section)
2. encore [11:42]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{Festival program, The RivBea Archive; Musica Jazz Jun 1977 p.27; l'Unità Jun 14 review p.9; Billboard Jun 25 1977 p.69;
Jakob Blumenthal 11.02.19; centrostudi.sienajazz.it/archivioSonoroRisultati.asp, #DT0133}


77.06.15 • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR]

June 15, 1977 / Orpheum, Haus der Jugend, Graz, Austria

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (reeds), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{Dietrich Heinz Kramer 02.07.14; 08.08.20}


okay okay
okay okay
okay okay

Photos courtesy Dietrich Heinz Kramer, reproduced with permission.


77.06.17 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & BR—55:47]

June 17, 1977, 20:00hr / The 18th International Festival Ljubljana, Krizanke, Laibach, Slovenia
—German Radio Broadcast, originally broadcast from Yugoslavia

Broadcast Recording:
 Broadcast announcement [0:37]
1. Earth Dramas [55:47]  (split track at 50:29; incomplete, fades out)
 (ts section–22:41; b solo–3:09; p section–7:33; p solo–2:32;
 p section–5:34; dr solo–4:25; ss section–9:03)
—RBA Cassette #235 (number assigned by RL) is missing; jewel box had this session date, but contained Cassette #144 (73.12.24).
—Title of improvisation as given in Broadcast announcement.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #235; Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.10; Festival Schedule, The RivBea Archive}


  • 77.06.23 to 06.25 - Elaine Summers' Experimental Media Foundation Presents...
    The Illuminated Workingman—An Intermedia Performance in Dance, Film, Slides, Video, and Music: Elaine Summers (Chor, Dir),
    Carman Moore (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others /
    12:30pm, Lower Plaza of the McGraw-Hill Building, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, NYC
    [The New York Times June 23, 1977 p.60]
    —See extensive notes on 75.06.19 + 06.20.


Studio RivBea 1977 Summer Festival of Music—June 24 through July 4, 1977


77.06-07.00 • Sam Rivers & Stanley Crouch Duo [Street Fight—00:01]

Between late June and July 4, 1977 / Soho, New York City
1. smooth uppercut [0:01]
Sam Rivers (probably a right), Stanley Crouch (on the chin)

"I saw Stanley Crouch get decked by Sam Rivers one time, that was a great experience, Sam Rivers laid him out cold right on the stage."
—Eugene Chadbourne [WIRE #117 November 1993 p.40]

"The book begins with thumbnail sketches of the various jazz styles that have evolved over the past century—bop, boogie-woogie, cool,
free improv, etc.—and concludes with longer essays on history and genre, the earlier ones mostly by Scott Yanow and some excellent later ones
by Eugene Chadbourne including 'Loft Jazz,' the 'NYC Scene 1980-2000' and the 'Chicago Scene 1980-2000'. Chadbourne explains how tension
rose as critic Stanley Crouch and saxophonist Sam Rivers organised rival loft festivals in Summer 1977; in a fight on the streets of SoHo, Rivers
got the better of Crouch, which some believe began the latter's dislike of avant garde jazz."
All Music Guide To Jazz reviewed by Andy Hamilton [WIRE #232 p.82]

"What some considered the death knell of the loft jazz scene came in the Summer of 1977, which found Sam Rivers and Stanley Crouch organizing
festivals scheduled for the same time, on the same street. Rivers noticed that many of the same musicians he was presenting were advertised for Crouch's
surprise event, and delivered an ultimatum that anyone participating in Crouch's festival would be cancelled from RivBea. Since Crouch's was strictly a
door-money deal (no guarantees), many musicians bowed out of Crouch's festival. At least one musician opted for RivBea, not because of the ultimatum,
but upon learning of plans to tape his show & possibly make a record (without working out pay for the musicians who'd be recorded). Tensions
heightened, and finally climaxed on the streets of Soho when a fight broke out, and Sam Rivers purportedly delivered a ‘smooth uppercut’
to the competition; an event that some believe to be the source of Crouch's dislike of avant-garde jazz."
—Eugene Chadbourne [www.allmusic.com]

"Let's set the record straight. I was there, in front of Joe Lee Wilson's The Ladies Fort, taking photos. Sam did come hustling up 2nd Street
and confronted Crouch, but no punches were thrown by either party. Sam was particularly mad that Crouch had decided to put on a festival
at the Tin Palace in conflict with the one Sam had going on around the corner at Rivbea. Joe Lee was also booked. The problem was not only
the temporal overlap, but the musician overlap. Crouch was trying to take over the scene. He was succeeding. That night at Sam's, Hamiet Bluiett
came out solo, dressed in a dashiki, and angrily lectured the audience on 'free music.' 'My music ain't free; you got to pay,' he insisted.
He then blew away the house. That was the death knell for Rivbea."
—William Ellenberg 12.12.24

"I've spoken to three people who were there for the... brawl in front of the Tin Palace. Roy Campbell was one.
And all three told the story the same way." —Ras Moshe Burnett 14.09.28

Sam Rivers confirmed to me in conversation that he had indeed knocked Stanley down. Embrace the mythology. —RL

{Eugene Chadbourne; WIRE #117 November 1993 p.40; WIRE #232 p.82; www.allmusic.com}


    77.07.02 [CANCELLED] - Sam Rivers (no personnel details) / 9:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea 1977 Summer Festival of Music flyer, The RivBea Archive; The Village Voice Jul 4 p.65]

    77.07.04 [CANCELLED] - Sam Rivers Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), David Murray (ts), Julius Hemphill and Oliver Lake (as),
    Hamiet Bluiett (bar), Olu Dara (tp), and others... / 9:00pm, Studio RivBea Festival, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea 1977 Summer Festival of Music flyer, The RivBea Archive; The Village Voice Jul 4 p.65 + p.79;
    Robert Palmer "Other Jazz Pests in Manhattan" The New York Times Jun 24 p.66]
    —RivBea program had this as "The Ensemble."
    "A big band made up of some of the most provocative musicians in New York"

    "Two of the major lofts—Studio RivBea and Ladies' Fort—had published full schedules of concerts. Music by artists with
    heavy reputations... would be heard daily from mid-afternoon until long after midnight. So it seemed; and for a few days, it was so...
    On the whole, the first five days of Newport week found the loft musicians living up to the published enthusiasms of their supporters...
    Yet by mid-festival something had obviously gone wrong."
    [JR Taylor "In the Lofts: Bond Street Breakdown" Village Voice Jul 18 pp.50-52]


77.07.18 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—46:34]

July 18, 1977, 8:00pm / Grendel's Lair Cabaret Theater, Philadelphia, PA

—Broadcast on WXPN "Blues Genesis," 10:30pm, July 31, 1978
—Also circulating dated 72.01.01 and "unknown, 1972" [Plosin], but Holland's comments above the Conference of the Birds session (72.11.30)
 indicate his associaton with Rivers does not begin until late 1972. See also the somewhat confusing Barker interview:
 [Barker, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM NYC, November 18, 1985] before the WAVES session on 78.08.08.

 "This concert took place much later than '72. I was there, and it was broadcast on the radio
 at a date soon after. My cassette says 7/77." —Danny O.
1. improvisation [46:34]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
 (ts section–15:36; b+perc–4:14; p section–6:12; dr solo–3:33;
 ce+perc–3:40; p section–5:45; ce+perc–2:16; ss section–5:18)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, inadequately amplified piano), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (mba), Barry Altschul (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.11; Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Philadelphia Daily News Jul 15, 1977 p.36;
The Philadelphia Inquirer Jul 31, 1978 p.C19; "Danny O." 12.01.09; www.plosin.com/milesAhead}


  • 77.07.22 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: unknown personnel /
    WKCR Benefit, 8:00pm, Wollman Auditorium, Columbia University, NYC
    [Village Voice Jul 25 Centerfold p.44; CODA #157 October 1977 p.29]
  • 77.07.31 - Sam Rivers—New Music of the Seventies: unknown ensemble /
    Morgan Park Summer Music Festival, 8:15pm, Glen Cove, Long Island, NY [Program, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.08.02 to 08.06 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Abdul Wadud (ce),
    Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / Sweet Basil, NYC
    [Village Voice Jul 11 p.68]
  • 77.08.09 to 08.13 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Abdul Wadud (ce),
    Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 10:00pm, Storyville, NYC
    [Flyer, Teb Drinkley archive; The New York Times Aug 7, 1977 p.D25; New York Magazine Aug 8, 1977 p.20; Village Voice Aug 15 p.65]
    NYT + Village Voice both bill this as a sextet and name Bobby Battle (dr), and Mike Nock (p).

    "I am holding in my hands a flyer I saved from 26 years ago—August of 1977 I was in NYC ... This flyer has Sam Rivers Quintet
    the 9th thru 13th... I saw one night of this run." —Graham Connah 03.03.10

77.08.00 • Sam Rivers Quintet [BR—30:52]

August 9th to 13th, 1977, 10:00pm / Storyville, New York City
—WKCR-FM Broadcast

1. improvisation [30:36]  (incomplete, cuts in and out)
  (ts section–9:13; b solo–4:39; ss section–16:00; dr solo–0:44)
—Received as "Late June or July," but the Village Voice Storyville ads during those months make no mention.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Abdul Wadud (ce), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.14; Robert Palmer "Lavish Sam Rivers" The New York Times Feb 23, 1977 p.39;
Patrick Clare 09.11.24 + 19.12.13; CODA #157 October 1977 p.29}


77.08.18 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—82:49]

August 18, 1977 / Festival de Musiques Ouvertes de Chateauvallon, Chateauvallon, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Festival de Châteauvallon : Concerts du 18 août 1977." Complete broadcast was 2 hours and twenty minutes long.
—This is circulating mis-dated August 19.

1. "East Wind" [15:43]  (ss section)
2. "Lights" [14:28]  (p section)
3. Aurora [17:42]
 (b solo–4:41; fl section–13:01)
4. "Crest" [21:48]
 (dr solo–6:16; ts section–15:32)
5. improvisation/encore [11:06]  (fl+voc section)
"Of the three or four great things that have happened this year in Chateauvallon, this was one of them, without appeal or grievance."
—Rui Neves Musica&Som

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Oliver Johnson (dr)

 —No information on why Altschul was absent on this date.

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.11; Jazz Magazine No.259 November 1977 pp.16-17+19, The RivBea Archive;
Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09; Musica&Som No.17 p.37}


    September 2, 1977 : : : The Other Sam Rivers

    —Born this day, the bassist and backing vocalist of the relatively famous nu-metal rap/rock band "Limp Bizkit" [sic],
     (whose Wiki page "may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guidelines"), forever trashing any hopes I may have had
     for efficient Google search results for The Actual Sam Rivers.

    Studio RivBea's Summer Festival of New Music, August 30 through September 4, 1977
    [CODA #157 October 1977 p.29]

  • 77.09.03 - Sam Rivers Quartet: / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Robert Palmer The New York Times Sep 3, 1977 p.6; The Village Voice Aug 29 p.81 + Sep 5 p.66]
    "Studio RivBea, the Bond Street jazz loft which abruptly canceled its traditional summer festival early in July because of competition
    from newer lofts and other factors, was back in business this week. The belated summer festival concludes tonight and tomorrow night
    with performances by Sam Rivers, the Studio's founder and a formidable tenor saxophonist."
  • 77.09.04 - Sam Rivers Orchestra: / 8:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [ibid]

77.09.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—67:04]

September 6, 1977, 21:15hr / Festival Nazionale dell'Unità-Modena, Arena Spettacoli, Modena, Italy

1. improvisation [15:46]  (ss section)
2. improvisation [16:54]
 (p solo–3:04; p section–13:56)
3. improvisation [32:00]
 (b solo–6:35; fl+voc section–26:25)
—Pre-publicity for this tour had a quintet with Joe Daley and Abdul Wadud added, but the Trio made these dates. —lUnità Jul 22 p.9

Sam Rivers (ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr, vbs)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.11; l'Unità "Il Programma del Festival" insert Sep 2}


  • 77.09.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr, vbs) / Festival dell'Unità,
    21:00hr, Piscina Costoli (Municipal Pool), Firenze, Italy [l'Unità Sep 7 p.13]

77.09.19 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

September 19, 1977 / Brussels, Belgium

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel V has "1st Part by Michael Hvon? 19cm/sec - 2 Tracks / Minutes Unknown," and "It's just the tape running
 after the mixing personnel then sorry for the quality of the balance."
—RBA Reel U has "2nd Part by Michael Hvon? 19cm/sec - 2 Tracks / Unknown."
—RBA Reels U and V both have "Shamrock Recording Tape ½-mil - ¼-inch x 2400ft / 7 Inch Reel / Unknown,"
 and "1150 Brussels, Belgium."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr, vbs)

{RivBea Archival Recordings unnumbered Reels U and V + Recordings database}


77.09.24 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—88:46]

September 24, 1977, 8:00pm / Southeastern Massachussetts University Auditorium, Dartmouth, MA

1. improvisation [83:29]  (split track at 45:06)
 (ts section–14:33; b solo–4:28; p section–21:59; dr solo–3:56; ss section–25:18; fl+voc section–13:13)
2. improvisation/encore [4:55]  (fl section; incomplete, fades out)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu, bamboo-fl), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (perc)

 —Abdul Wadud is included in pre-concert press, but this session was a quartet.

{2CDr, track detailing RL 18.07.09; The Torch Sep 23 p.15, The RivBea Archive; Mattapoisett Presto Press Sep 21 p.35}


    Creative Music Studio 1977-78 Season—September 26 through December 17, 1977

    Sam Rivers, others / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY [CODA #157 October 1977 back cover]


    Studio RivBea Early Autumn Festival of Contemporary American Music : : : September 30 through October 2, 1977

    okay

  • 77.09.30 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [Studio RivBea flyer, Ed Hazell 10.09.25; Village Voice Oct 3 p.76]
  • 77.09.30 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Chico Freeman (ts), Kalaparusha McIntyre (reeds)
    Frank Gordon, Ahmed Abdullah, and Youseff Yancy (tp, flg), George Lewis and Charles Stephens (tb), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Abdul Wadud (ce),
    Dave Holland (ce, b), Brian Smith (b), Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr) / Midnight, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea flyer, Ed Hazell 10.09.25; Village Voice Oct 3 p.76 + Gary Giddins review Oct 10 p.67]
    —Personnel from Giddins review, which does not name the trumpet players, or the string and percussion sections;
     ensemble may have also included George Adams, Byard Lancaster, and Rene McLean on reeds.
  • 77.10.01 (1) - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (ce, b) / 9:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [ibid; CODA Dec 1977 #158 p.32]
  • 77.10.01 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestra: Rivers, George Adams, Byard Lancaster, Kalaparusha McIntyre, and Rene McLean (reeds),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), George Lewis (tu), Frank Gordon, Ahmed Abdullah, and Youseff Yancy (tp, flg), Abdul Wadud (ce),
    Dave Holland (ce, b), Brian Smith (b), Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr) / Midnight, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [Studio RivBea flyer, Ed Hazell 10.09.25; Village Voice Oct 3 p.76]
  • 77.10.02 (1) - Sam Rivers—Solo Piano / 9:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
  • 77.10.02 (2) - Sam Rivers Orchestra: Rivers, George Adams, Byard Lancaster, Kalaparusha McIntyre, and Rene McLean (reeds),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), George Lewis (tu), Frank Gordon, Ahmed Abdullah, and Youseff Yancy (tp, flg), Abdul Wadud (ce),
    Dave Holland (ce, b), Brian Smith (b), Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr) / Midnight, Studio RivBea, NYC [ibid]
    —Personnel from RivBea monthly schedule.
    "Last performances before European Tour."

  • 77.10.07 Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce,b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Quaker City Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Tower Theater, Upper Darby, Philadelphia, PA
    [Philadelphia Daily News Sep 2 p.43; The Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 11 p.F4; The Daily Pennsylvanian Nov 3 "34th Street" p.2]

  • 77.10.09 - "Sam Rivers' jazz opera, 'Solomon and Sheba' opens the Brooklyn Philharmonia's 'New Music by Black Composers' series tonight."
    [Village Voice Oct 10 p.57]
    —Unlikely that composer Rivers was in the ensemble.



    October 10, 1977 : : :

    okay

    [Charles Kaiser "SST Foes Roll at Speed of Snail..." The New York Times Oct 10, 1977 p.56]



: : : Nancy Jazz Pulsations '77—New Music by the Loft Generation of New York : : :

    On the JNP Recordings: "Transfered directly from French radio archive master tapes." These were all aired same day as the concert.
    Instrument credits from Radio France archive among the reeds and brass are varied, but I'm not sure of the source and so am unwilling
    to commit, and, oddly, Rivers is credited on alto sax on all of the Orchestra recordings.
    Orchestra titles Images (#219) and Inspiration (#240) are on the RivBea Archive composition list, but Pulsations, Cosmos, Birds, Atlas,
    and Hurricane had likely been assigned by the broadcasters, as they are wont to do.

77.10.11 (1) • Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [BR—25:14]

October 11, 1977 / Nancy Jazz Pulsations 1977, Salle Poirel, Nancy, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Concerts du 11 octobre 1977." Broadcast total length was over four hours.

1. "Pulsations" [25:14]
 (ts + b–12:12; b solo–2:01; fl+voc + b–11:01)
—This duo performance was not listed on the festival schedule, but took place before the "Quartet et Quintet de RivBea of New-York"
 (Kalaparusha Quartet and the Don Pullen Quartet).
—Two other versions are circulating: One version with track as as above received misdated "October 13th, 1977 (mics recording)."
 Another version with the bass solo omitted and the tenor and flute sections reversed; a first track excerpted from the beginning
 of the flute section at 8:27 (incomplete, fades in under Broadcast announcement); and a second track excerpted from the beginning
 of the tenor section at 6:34 (incomplete, cuts in; fades out under Broadcast announcement). A third track is included excerpted
 from the 77.10.11 (2) Orchestra set below.

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b)

{Sound files + CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.10; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09}


77.10.11 (2) • Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR—43:38]

October 11, 1977 / Nancy Jazz Pulsations 1977, Salle Poirel, Nancy, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Concerts du 11 octobre 1977." Broadcast total length was over four hours.

1. Images [43:38]
—A brief excerpt of the beginning of this piece (at 10:23, incomplete, fades in under brief Broadcast announcement; fades out)
 is circulating along with two excerpts from 77.10.11 above.

Sam Rivers (ts, Comp), Chico Freeman (ts), Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Byard Lancaster, and Rene McLean (reeds),
Ahmed Abdullah, Frank Gordon, and Yousef Yancey (tp, flg), Charles Stephens (tb), George Lewis (tb, tu), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
Don Pullen (p), Abdul Wadud (ce), Dave Holland (ce, b), Brian Smith (b), Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr)

{Soundfiles + CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.10; "Programme Definitif" + "Evaluation of the Avant-Garde Leader,"
Spectator Nr.42 Oct 15 p.15, The RivBea Archive; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09}


  • 77.10.12 - "Barry Altschul Band featuring Sam Rivers" in Le Journal Nancy Jazz Pulsations 1977 [The RivBea Archive] had Rivers, Uri Caine,
    Santi DeBriano, and Altschul. The actual lineup was Altschul with Byard Lancaster, George Lewis, and Dave Holland.

    77.10.12 - Original NJP schedule also had "Duo et Trio du RivBea New-York."

77.10.12 • Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR—31:36]

October 12, 1977, 19:30hr / Nancy Jazz Pulsations 1977, Salle Poirel, Nancy, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Concerts du 12 octobre 1977." Broadcast total length was around an four-and-a-half hours.

1. Inspiration [31:36]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss. fl, Comp), Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Byard Lancaster, Chico Freeman, and Rene McLean (reeds),
Ahmed Abdullah, Frank Gordon, and Yousef Yancey (tp, flg), Charles Stephens (tb), George Lewis (tb, tu), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
Don Pullen (p), Abdul Wadud (ce), Dave Holland (ce, b), Brian Smith (b), Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr)

 —George Adams credited on reeds from festival report in Jazzpodium Dec, 1977 pp.18-20, but Ahmed Abdullah says otherwise.
 —Another source has Charles Defense (tu), and Brian Smith (p).
 —Broadcast Recording circulating omits Yousef Yancey (tp) and has Yousef Chauncey mistakenly credited on french horn.

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.11; "Programme Definitif" + "Evaluation of the Avant-Garde Leader,"
Spectator Nr.42 Oct 15 p.15, The RivBea Archive; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09;
Norbert Kreutzer 05.11.01; Ahmed Abdullah; Ed Hazell 16.11.06}


    77.10.13 - Also, the "Soliste du RivBea of New York" earlier in the day (no participants named).

77.10.13 • Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR—31:36]

October 13, 1977 / Nancy Jazz Pulsations 1977, Salle Poirel, Nancy, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Concerts du 13 octobre 1977." Broadcast total length was over six hours.

1. "Cosmos" [42:07]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss. fl, Comp), Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Byard Lancaster, Chico Freeman, and Rene McLean (reeds),
Ahmed Abdullah, Frank Gordon, and Yousef Yancey (tp, flg), Charles Stephens (tb), George Lewis (tb, tu), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
Don Pullen (p), Abdul Wadud (ce), Dave Holland (ce, b), Brian Smith (b), Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.10.11; "Programme Definitif" + "Evaluation of the Avant-Garde Leader,"
Spectator Nr.42 Oct 15 p.15, The RivBea Archive; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09}


77.10.15 (1) • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—15:13]

October 15, 1977 / Nancy Jazz Pulsations 1977, Chapiteau, Nancy, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Concerts du 15 octobre 1977." Broadcast total length was over four hours.

1. "Birds" [15:13]
—Audience Recording circulating at 33:00.

Sam Rivers (fl), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.11; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09; Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


77.10.15 (2) • Sam Rivers Orchestra [BR—31:36]

October 13, 1977 / Nancy Jazz Pulsations 1977, Salle Poirel, Nancy, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations: Concerts du 15 octobre 1977." Broadcast total length was over four hours.

1. "Atlas" [34:37]
2. "Hurricane" [16:35]
—Second track is included in archival information, but is not on Broadcast Recording.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Byard Lancaster, Chico Freeman, and Rene McLean (reeds),
Ahmed Abdullah, Frank Gordon, and Yousef Yancey (tp, flg), Charles Stephens (tb), George Lewis (tb, tu), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
Don Pullen (p), Abdul Wadud (ce), Dave Holland (ce, b), Brian Smith (b), Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.11; "Programme Definitif" + "Evaluation of the Avant-Garde Leader,"
Spectator Nr.42 Oct 15 p.15, The RivBea Archive; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09}


77.10.19 • Sam Rivers Orchestra [SBR—92:25]

October 19, 1977 / Centré Culturel Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Brussels, Belgium

Two Sets:
1. composition [45:42]
2. composition [46:07]  (incomplete, cuts out)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Byard Lancaster, Chico Freeman,
and Rene McLean (reeds), Frank Gordon, Ahmed Abdullah, and Yousef Yancey (tp),
Charles Stephens (tb), George Lewis (tb, tu), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Don Pullen (p),
Abdul Wadud (ce), Brian Smith and Dave Holland (ce, b),
Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip (dr, perc)

 —On the recording in circulation, Yousef Yancey (tp) is omitted; "Youseff Chauncey"
  is incorrectly credited on french horn; Chico Freeman (reeds) is omitted; George Adams
  is incorrectly listed on sax (in pre-concert print sources as well).
  "How do I know? I was very fortunately there." —Ahmed Abdullah

okay

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.15; "Evaluation of the Avant-Garde Leader" Spectator Nr.42 15 Oktober p.15, The RivBea Archive;
Poster image from Patrick Clare 10.09.01; Ahmed Abdullah at bigozine2.com 11.04.09; Ed Hazell 16.11.07}


  • 77.10.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) / 21:00hr, Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France
    [Daniel Soutif "En direct: Le Totem" Jazz Magazine #261 Jan 1978 pp.9–10 + Serge Loupien "En direct: Lowe/Rivers" p.13]
  • 77.10.25 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Jazz a Aix, La Fontaine d'Argent, Aix-en-Provence, France
    [Terre de Provence Oct 21 p.8, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.10.29 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul and Charles Persip (dr, perc) /
    9:00 & 10:30pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [The Villager Oct 27 p.20; Village Voice Oct 31 p.54]
    "Making their last New York appearance before leaving for Berlin and a European tour." —The Villager
  • 77.11.00 - Sam Rivers: Joe Daley (Duo? or same as 77.11.06 below?) / Giornate del Jazz, Berlin, Germany
    [Musica Jazz Jan 1978 pp.6-8 concert reviews, Joachim Ernst Berndt, on-line index]
    —Festival ran between 11.02 and 11.06, so this was the 2nd or 3rd of November.
  • 77.11.04 + 11.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Sigma 13, Alhambra, Bordeaux, France
    [La Dépèche du Midi Nov 12 clipping, The RivBea Archive; archives.bordeaux-metropole.fr]

77.11.06 • Sam Rivers Quintet: Zenith

2019: NoBusiness Records NBCD 124 (CD, Sam Rivers Archive Project Volume 2) Lth
  • Sam Rivers Quintet [BR—53:18]

November 6, 1977 / Jazztage Berlin 1977, Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany
—Berliner Jazztage 1977 rebroadcast on November 16, 2012, RBB Kulturradio

  Zenith
 1. Universal Message

  Broadcast Recording:
 1. Universal Message

 2. Universal Message

 53:19


 35:52

 17:02




 (ts section–17:04; b solo–2:09;
 fl+voc section–16:39)
 (p section–5:27; tu/eu section–3:44;
 ss section–3:26; dr duo–1:56; ss section–2:28)

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul and Charles Persip (dr)
okay

{NBCD 124; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.10.12; Jakob Blumenthal 09.09.18 + 19.10.08;
archiv.berlinerfestspiele.de/jazzsuche; Stars and Stripes Oct 29 p.17}


77.11.13 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—19:03]

November 13, 1977 / Jazz van 3 tot 3, Grote Zaal, de Doelen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
 "The name of the festival was ‘Jazz van 3 tot 3’. The schedule ran from 3:00pm to past 3:00am,
 —so technically Rivers did play on November 13, but the date of the festival was November 12." —Pierre Crépon 17.03.24

 Broadcast announcement [1:14]
1. Waves (p section) [17:23]  (incomplete, fades in and out)
 (p section–5:47; p solo–1:10; p section–6:48; dr solo w/ occasional piano thunder–3:38)
 Broadcast announcement [0:16]
—Radio announcement mentions a "four-part composition"—duration of the complete performance about 68:00,
 but only the piano section was broadcast. —Heinrich Smejkal

Sam Rivers (p), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.22; Gérard Rouy "En direct: Rotterdam" Jazz Magazine Jan 1978 p.9; Heinrich Smejkal}


  • 77.11.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    21:00hr, Salle Benoit XII, Avignon, France
    [Le Dauphiné libéré Nov 17 C84 p.11 + Le Meridional Nov 17 + La Provence Dec 16 clippings, The RivBea Archive]
  • 77.11.23 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 22:00hr, Jazz au bar Totem, le Stadium, Paris, France
    [le Stadium Novembre/Décembre 1977 schedule, The RivBea Archive]


  • 77.11.25 - (CANCELLED) Sam Rivers Quintet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc ), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b),
    Altschul (dr), possibly Persip (dr) / Two Nights of New Music Festival, DAR Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
    [Baltimore Sun Nov 3 p.29 + Nov 24 p.48; Evening Star Nov 20 p.G5]
    "Dave Holland announced they'd be out in fifteen minutes, yet the removal of their equipment foreshadowed the next announcement:
    Two Nights of New Music would not continue due to lack of ticket sales."
    CODA #160, April '78 p.30 had this as a Trio in Odessa, Ukraine, USSR...


    Studio RivBea 1977 Winter Festival of New Music : : : December 22, 23,24 & 29, 30, 31

  • 77.12.22 to 12.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b, ce), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:00 & 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC [The Village Voice Dec 19 p.109 + Dec 26 p.86; Jeff Schlanger 16.08.07]

    okay

    —Jeff Schlanger musicWitness® "Original art 22.5x30" made Live"


  • 77.12.26 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia, PA [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; The Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 25, 1977 p.G8]


  • Creative Music Studio New Year's Intensive—December 28, 1977 through January 6, 1978

    Sam Rivers, others... / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY [CODA #157 October 1977 back cover]


  • 77.12.29 to 12.31 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b, ce), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:00 & 11:00pm, Studio RivBea, NYC
    [The Village Voice Dec 19 p.109 + Dec 26 p.86; Ed Hazell 16.11.08]
    —The original Studio RivBea Winter Festival schedule had the Sam Rivers Orchestra scheduled exclusively on the 31st,
     but subsequent weekly The Village Voice display ads had changed the date to the quartet.
    "The text of a review [Jean-Loup Bourget "Jazz en direct: Sam Rivers" Jazz Magazine Feb, 1978 p.12] mentions the presence
    of a crew filming the performance." —Pierre Crépon 17.03.24

1978 : : :


78.01.01 • Sam Rivers Quintet [AR]

January 1, 1978 / Studio RivBea, New York City
—This may have been an after-midnight set during the New Year's Eve line-up on 77.12.31. Lewis had been scheduled
 to appear with the Orchestra before the schedule changed to the quartet.

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), George Lewis (tb), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Anonymous 06.01.01, who also noted a vague Village Voice reference that was nowhere to be found}


  • 78.01.04 + 01.05 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:10 & 11:10pm, The Bottom Line, NYC [The Village Voice Jan 2 p.54+80 + Jan 9 p.71]

  • 78.01.10 + 01.11 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:30pm, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [San Francisco Chronicle Jan 8 Date Book p.12; Billboard Jan 14 p.32; Berkeley Barb Jan 13-19 p.14]

78.01.12 • Sam Rivers Trio: Ricochet

2020: NoBusiness Records NBCD 128 (CD, Sam Rivers Archive Project Volume 3) Lth

January 12, 1978, 9:30pm / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

 1. Ricochet     52:14

—This master RivBea Archival Recordings Cassette is not listed in the database.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr)
okay

{NBCD 128; San Francisco Chronicle Jan 8 Date Book p.12; Billboard Jan 14 p.32; Berkeley Barb Jan 13-19 p.14}


  • 78.01.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:30pm, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [San Francisco Chronicle Jan 8 Date Book p.12; Billboard Jan 14 p.32; Berkeley Barb Jan 13-19 p.14]

78.01.14 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

January 14, 1978, 9:30pm / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Cassette #37 was dated "1/14/77," but Rivers was in New York in January of '77, and there are no other references
 of any Keystone appearances from this month.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr, vbs)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #37; San Francisco Chronicle Jan 8 Date Book p.12}


  • 78.01.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    9:30pm, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [San Francisco Chronicle Jan 8 Date Book p.12; Billboard Jan 14 p.32; Berkeley Barb Jan 13-19 p.14]
    Berkeley Barb only had this through the 14th.
  • 78.01.17 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:15 & 10:30pm, Boon's Treasury, Salem, OR
    [Oregonian Jan 11 p.A10; The Capital Journal Jan 12 p.17]



Sam Rivers Trio Artists-in-Residence with the University of Utah Department of Music : : : January 20 through 23, 1978


78.01.20 • Sam Rivers Trio: The World of Sam Rivers [RBA & BR—18:39]

—1st Session: [See also 78.06.30; 78.10.02; 78.10.00; 79.04.27; 79.06.22]

January 20, 1978, 12:00noon / Union Ballroom, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
—National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" The World of Sam Rivers, Broadcast December 2, 1979 & July 19, 1981

Broadcast Recording:
 Ed Bradley NPR Broadcast announcement [0:19]
1. improvisation [18:18]  (incomplete, cuts out; radio announcer voiceover last 0:11)
 (ss section–17:51; b solo–0:12)
—"Originally scheduled to play at the Club Blue Note..."
—Concert lasted for two hours.

Sam Rivers (ss), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #143; Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.27; The Daily Utah Chronicle Jan 18 p.2 + Jan 20 p.9;
Down Beat Jul 1981 p.12; Norbert Kreutzer 05.10.31; Ed Hazell}


    78.01.20 (2) - Master Bass Clinic: Dave Holland / 4:30pm, Room 200, Music Building

  • 78.01.21 - Sam Rivers Trio—Seminar / 2:00pm, Room 200, Music Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
    [The Daily Utah Chronicle Jan 18 p.2 + Jan 20 p.9] "Informal rap and jam sessions."
  • 78.01.23 - Sam Rivers Trio—A Session on Jazz Improvisation / 1:10pm, Room 302, Music Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
    "Sam Rivers... and backup musicians Barry Altschul, percussionist, and Dave Holland, bassist, are sweeping the States
    with their first American tour." —Mike Watkiss
    [Mike Watkiss "Sam Rivers and Company Will Add a Touch of Class" The Daily Utah Chronicle Jan 20 p.9]


  • "[1977] was a year distinguished... more by a decline in spirit than anything else; 1976 was the year loft activity peaked. After the RivBea-Ladies' Fort
    debacle last summer, the scene all but withered away. What happened to the audience?" —Gary Giddins Village Voice Jan 23, 1978 p.48


  • 78.01.25 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (ce, b) / Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX
    [Austin American-Statesman Jan 24 p.21]
  • 78.01.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Holland (ce, b), Altschul (dr) / 8:00pm, Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX
    [Michael Kelly 07.05.25; Poster, eBay listing; Austin American-Statesman Jan 27 p.44; Austin Daily Texan Jan 30 p.18-19]
    "90 minutes of continuous music..." —Austin Daily Texan
    —The Trio was at Record Town at the Dobie Mall at 4:30pm for a public meet-and-greet.
  • 78.01.29 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:00pm, The Blue Onion, Norman, OK
    ["Rivers Speaks Out" Down Beat interview taken in Chicago; The Daily Oklahoman Jan 29 p.7]
    —Rivers also makes mention of an appearance in Tulsa, OK. [The Soho Weekly News Mar 9 p.17]
  • 78.01.31 - Sam Rivers Trio / Sangamon State University presents, Crows Mill School, Springfield, IL
    [Lizanne Poppens "Sounds" State Journal-Register Feb 4 no page#]
    "They have come, hastily, to an even more hastily-prepared performance that Rivers has agreed to give
    in Springfield [before] playing sets at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago." —Lizanne Poppens
  • 78.02.01 to 02.04 - Sam Rivers Trio / 9:00 & 11:00pm + 1:00am 3rd and 4th, Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL
    [Chicago Daily News Feb 1 p.15; Chicago Tribune Feb 3 p.21]

78.02.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—78:43]

February 5, 1978 9:00pm, 11:00pm, & 1:00am / Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL

1. improvisation [78:43]
 (ss section–20:12; dr solo–4:12; ts section–17:12; b solo–4:54;
 p section–8:36; p solo–4:36; p section–3:43; fl section–15:18)
—Another version is circulating incomplete, fades out at 74:04.

Contrary to rumors, "Kevin Eubanks was NOT there... I recorded the whole thing."
—Michael McLaughlin

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{CDr + Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.12.24; Chicago Daily News Feb 1 p.15;
Chicago Tribune Feb 3 p.21; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21 and 09.07.01; Michael McLaughlin 13.03.10}

okay

78.02.10 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

February 10, 1978 / Eclipse Jazz Winter 1978 Series, Power Center, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, MI

1. improvisation [ : ]
 (ss section; p section; ts section; fl section)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Lansing Star Jan 27-Feb 16 p.12; CODA #160 April '78 p.28; Patrick Clare}


  • 78.02.11 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Eclipse Jazz Winter 1978 Series, Power Center, Ann Arbor, MI
    [Lansing Star Jan 27-Feb 16 p.12; CODA Feb 1978 #159 p.31; Winter Jazz Series 1978 poster; Patrick Clare]
  • 78.02.12 Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Gilly's, Dayton, OH [Dayton Daily News Feb 11 p.47]
    —Multiple sources have "Sam Rivers & Dave Holland" billed, but it was the trio.
  • 78.02.00 - Sam Rivers Trio / Bloomington, IN [Plain Dealer interview Feb 17 p.12]
    —Interview taken for 02.16-02.18 Oberlin gig "by phone to Bloomington, Ind., where his trio was performing."
  • 78.02.16 to 02.18 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio Workshops / Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
    [Ned Rothenberg interview, The Orlando Sentinel Feb 13, 1998 Calendar p.6]

    "I recall the trio with Barry and Dave was at Oberlin for two or three days—it was a mini-residency. Each of them gave a group workshop,
    and I got a short private lesson with Sam. I brought in the Oliver Nelson ‘Patterns for Saxophone’ book and he said ‘You want to sound
    like Oliver Nelson or like yourself? Write your own goddamn patterns!’
    I have no idea whether Sam's workshop was the day of the gig at Finney Chapel or a day or two before. Dave Holland also gave an incredible
    workshop. I don't remember Barry's, I think it was with the percussionists.
    They were hired by the student social board (which I was on) for the concert, and Wendell Logan at the conservatory got money for the
    workshops. I wonder if there is an archival recording of the concert..."
    —Ned Rothenberg 19.03.07

  • 78.02.18 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:30pm, Finney Chapel, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Plain Dealer Feb 17 p.12]


  • Creative Music Studio 1977-78 Season Spring Session—March 6, 1978 through May 27, 1978

    Sam Rivers, others... / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    [CODA #157 October 1977 back cover]



    There are several French tour dates during March noted below that were cancelled. Vigilant researcher Pierre Crépon had sent me
    a Totem Bar chronology he had done ["Gérard Terronès: Totem (1977–1979)"] in Current Research in Jazz Volume 10 (2018),
    at crj-online.org. I questioned the timeline of these dates since they did not seem to fit with Rivers' other stateside activity during
    this time, and Pierre helped me sort this out.
    "I think we can safely conclude that all of Rivers's French appearances for March were cancelled, as there are no reviews of anything,
    and no other big concerts aside of the also cancelled Rouen appearance which would justify flying to Europe (and if there had been
    in neighboring countries, you'd know about them)." —Pierre Crépon 19.01.21+22
    [See 78.03.14, 78.03.16, 78.03.21, 78.03.28, 78.03.29, and 78.03.31]

    78.03.14 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France [Jazz Magazine no. 262 February 1978]
    Jazz Hot no. 350 June 1978 had the Trio at Nìmes; no. 349 May 1978 had this as a Quintet at Nìmes Festival;
     no. 348 April 1978 had the same with no date mentioned.

    78.03.16 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France [Jazz Hot no. 347 March 1978]


  • 78.03.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Bob Northern (tu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    Boston Globe Jazz Fest, 11:00pm, Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
    [Boston Globe Feb 19 p.32 + feature Mar 23 p.19; The Real Paper review Apr 1, The RivBea Archive]

78.00.00 (1) • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—9:23]

unknown date, 1978 / Studio RivBea, New York City

1. improvisation [4:23]  (incomplete, fades in and out; “And you see him here playing piano, saxophone, and flute,” over first 5 seconds of fade-in)
 (p + voc section–0:55; ts section–3:28)
 Interview segment [0:40]  (discussing playing: “It’s a very complicated situation”)
2. improvisation [4:15]  (incomplete, cuts in and out; split track at 0:03)
 (tu, b, dr trio–0:54; p section–3:21)
—A rare instance of a tape-trader chop job.
—Rivers is not actually seen or heard on flute.
—Received as "Interview, Music, 13:00."

Sam Rivers (ts, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.23}



    78.03.21 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France [Jazz Magazine no. 262 February 1978]
    Jazz Hot no. 347 March 1978 had this as the 24th.

    78.03.23 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio: Holland, Altschul / Rouen Jazz Action, 21:00hr, Rouen, Normandie, France
    [www.rouenjazzaction.asso.fr/concert/1978-03-23-sam-rivers-trio]

    78.03.24 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France [Jazz Hot no. 347 March 1978]

    78.03.28 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France [Jazz Magazine no. 262 February 1978]

    78.03.29 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / Salle Sainte-Croix-des-Pelletiers, Rouen, France
    [Jazz Magazine no. 262 February 1978; Jazz Hot no. 347 March 1978]
    Jazz Hot adds "Théatre d'Angoulème, Angoulème, France" and has "both have been announced!"


  • 78.03.29 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / 11:00pm, Public Theatre, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Mar 27 p.48 + Apr 3 p.61; The Villager Mar 9 p.21; The New York Times Mar 26 p.D35]

78.03.30 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—69:49 & AR—29:10]

March 30, 1978, 11:00pm / Public Theatre, New York City
—Broadcast by WKCR-FM, "Monday Live Jazz Alternatives"

Broadcast Recording:
 Ethan Singer WKCR announcement [1:09]
1. improvisation [68:05]  (incomplete, fades out)
 (ts section–19:50; b solo–4:45; ss section–16:26; dr solo–3:44; p section–5:52; p solo–3:47; p section w/ tu solo–6:10; fl section–7:27)
 Ethan Singer WKCR announcement [0:33]
Audience Recording:
1. piano solo [13:00]  (incomplete)
2. piano solo [16:10]  (incomplete)
—Announcer identifies Broadcast as "first reel" of this concert performance, and suggests that the second
 may be aired in the future. Also circulating as "Audience Recording: 54:00," although it, also, is the Broadcast at 70:00 long.
—Truncated version of Broadcast [32:05] cuts in at the 10:12 mark of the tenor sax section and out less than a minute into the drum solo.
 How these things happen...
—Audience Recording in circulation—noted as "Sam Rivers piano solos, Mid '70s, Public Theatre, NYC, 28min."—is actually
 two excerpts of Rivers' piano section work with the quartet. The first 13:00 piece is from this session (at around 44:00 in on the Broadcast);
 the second 16:10 piece is unidentified, possibly from the second reel mentioned in the Broadcast.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{Broadcast CDr + Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.12.26; Flyer, The RivBea Archive; WKCR-FM Archive; Village Voice Mar 27 p.48 + Apr 3 p.61;
The Villager Mar 9 p.21; The New York Times Mar 26 p.D35; CODA #161 June 1 p.33}


    78.03.31 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio / Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France [Jazz Hot no. 347, March 1978]


  • 78.03.31 + 04.01 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    10:00pm & 12:00am, Cabaret, Public Theatre, NYC
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Village Voice Mar 27 p.48 + Apr 3 p.61; The New York Times Mar 26 p.D35;
    The Villager Mar 9 p.21; CODA #161 June 1, 1978 p.33]


  • Studio RivBea Early Spring Concert Series : : : April 7 through April 29, 1978

    [Concert Series schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    —There are no Rivers gigs on this April schedule.


  • 78.04.26 + 04.27 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Residency & Workshops / New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
    [Stephen Shepard Bay State Banner Apr 27 p.14]
    "At the New England Conservatory, Sam Rivers... will be in residence April 26th and 27th for workshops on the composition
    and performance of contemporary music. Rivers will be joined by bassist David Holland for a joint recital completing
    the two-day workshop."
  • 78.04.27 (2) - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Holland (b, ce) /
    4:00pm, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA [The Boston Herald American Apr 25 p.16]
  • 78.04.29 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    New Haven's Celentano School Benefit, 8:00pm, Lyman Auditorium, Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, CT
    [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Hartford Courant Apr 23 p.5G + May 1 p.26]
  • 78.05.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:00pm, ACUSD Coffee House, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA
    [Poster, The RivBea Archive]
  • 78.05.06 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:00pm, Zellerbach Auditorium, University of California at Berkeley, CA
    [The San Francisco Examiner May 5 p.21; Berkeley Barb May 5-11 p.11]
    —Double-bill with Dexter Gordon...
  • 78.05.10 to 05.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Edmonton Jazz Society,
    Room at the Top, Student's Union Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    [Edmonton Journal May 11 p.35 + May 13 p.H6; www.yardbirdsuite.com/archives/index-shows.htm]
  • 78.05.16 to 05.20 - Sam Rivers Trio / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [San Francisco Chronicle May 18 review p.59; CODA #162 August 1, 1978 pp.30-31]
  • 78.05.21 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio / "Improvisation Workshop," Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
  • 78.05.21 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [CODA #162 August 1, 1978 pp.30-31; Keystone Korner "Spring Jazz" poster]


  • 78.05.22 to 05.24 - Sam Rivers Trio / Yardbird Suite, Edmonton, Canada
    —The www.yardbirdsuite.com shows index had this three-day engagement, but I've found no press references,
     and the Detroit gig below interferes.


  • 78.05.24 - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:00pm, Punch & Judy, Detroit, MI [Detroit Free Press May 24 p.F10]

78.06.18 • Sam Rivers [RBA]

June 18, 1978 / South Lawn, The White House, Washington, DC

1. SR announcement [ : ]
—RBA Cassette #41 has "Tape 3;" Cassette #82 has "Tape 2."

—This was a celebration of the 25th year of the Newport Jazz Festival, which was to be held the following week. The event was broadcast
 live on WBUR-FM radio for NPR with host Billy Taylor. In his introduction, Taylor says that there will be "performances by some 40
 of the giants of jazz," and that there were "600 invited guests" (Rivers is named among them) in attendance. A recording is circulating
 that has segments from the day, including comments by Jimmy Carter, and performances by Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins,
 McCoy Tyner, and others. Rivers did not perform, but did make an introduction (after being introduced himself by George Wein) of the
 Rollins, Tyner, Max Roach, and Ron Carter quartet.

Sam Rivers (making introductions), + a cast of hundreds...

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #41 + 82; Down Beat Nov 16, 1978 p.21; Musica Jazz Aug-Sep 1978 p.26, on-line index;
Margot Hentoff "An American Lawn Party" + Gary Giddins "Jazz at Jimmy's" Village Voice Jun 26 pp.1 and 24-25}


  • 78.06.19 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Barry Altschul (dr) /
    8:30, 10:30pm, & 12:30am, Grendel's Lair, Philadelphia, PA
    [The Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 16 p.D20]

  • "A World Premiere as The Duo. Two Nights Only."

  • 78.06.23 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Holland (b) / 9:00 and 11:00pm, DC Space, Washington, DC
    [Flyer + The Washington Star clipping Jun 24 p.B5, The RivBea Archive; Down Beat Jul 13, 1978 p.62; CODA #161 June 1, 1978 p.34]
    CODA mistakenly had this as the 22nd and 23rd.

78.06.24 • Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [AR—119:52]

June 24, 1978, 9:00 and 11:00pm / DC Space, Washington, DC

1. improvisation [56:47]  (split track at 47:50)
 (ss section–19:44; b solo–6:39; p section–8:44; p solo–4:26; p section–4:34; fl+voc section–12:20)
2. improvisation [61:44]  (split track at 47:00)
 (ts section–17:41; b solo–6:54; p section–8:13; p solo–1:13; p section–9:53; b solo–5:50; fl section–10:35)
"This was the only time I went to DC Space, which was essentially a row home. They had a restaurant or bar downstairs, and the upstairs
was used for the performances. None of the instruments were mic'd, so it was like you were sitting in your living room, and the guys came
in to play for you. They did have a P.A. for announcements, and that was it. While the sound was good, you also unfortunately pick up other
noises that would have been drowned out if the instruments had been amplified. This includes my camera shutter, and some odd noise,
especially on the second show, that sounds like a minor loose connection, or something rubbing against the mic. It's not horrible by any
means, but it is noticeable. I seem to remember there was little or no seating, and my friend Paul and I sat on the floor in front of Sam
and Dave. (No relation to the great soul band!)" —‘bpthree,’ source recording

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.12.28; Flyer + The Washington Star clipping Jun 24 p.B5, The RivBea Archive; CODA Oct 1978 #163 p.28}


78.06.25 • Sonny Rollins Quintet [BR—10:36]

June 25, 1978, 7:00pm / 25th Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, New York City
—Polish Radio Broadcast

 Broadcast introduction [2:03]
1. Sunnymoon for Two [8:01]
"The date I now have for this is 25 June 1978, obtained from the Carnegie Hall Archive... However, please note that in communication
with the archivist about the data on the archive when I was double checking some Charlie Parker dates, I was informed that some of
the information is obtained from the concert logs of Carnegie Hall, however the logs are far from complete, and they are using
external sources to supplement that, meaning that in the latter case they are not an indisputable authority and that errors can be
creeping into their database." —Allan Sutherland

Sonny Rollins and Sam Rivers (ts), McCoy Tyner (p), Ron Carter (b), Max Roach (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.04; Columbia Daily Spectator Summer Spectator Vol.CII No.115 Jun 22 pp.6-7;
Allan Sutherland 13.07.25 + 19.12.04}


78.06.30 (1) • Sam Rivers Quintet: The World of Sam Rivers [BR]
78.06.30 (2) • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: The World of Sam Rivers [BR]

—2nd Session [See also 78.01.20; 78.10.02; 78.10.00; 79.04.27; 79.06.22]

June 30, 1978 / 25th Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, New York City
—National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" The World of Sam Rivers, Broadcast December 2, 1979 & July 19, 1981

Sam Rivers Quintet—1st Program
1. Hong Kong Suite [ : ]
 Joy—Sophistication—Serenity—Fun
Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra—2nd Program
2. Evocation (four sections) [ : ]
—The "Hong Kong Suite" was written a year after the Hong Kong Trade Development Council's Carman Moore/American Symphony
 recording [70.10.00], and was commissioned by the HKTDC "to enhance their 1977-78 fashion exhibit." [Rivers' notes]
—Rivers' original notes also have an instance of "Hong Knog Suite" as the header, which I really like saying outloud.

"The 'Hong Kong Suite' consists of eight pieces, ten minutes in duration. Four in the tradition and four in the Avant Garde.
For this program, we will concentrate our energies on the four pieces in the Jazz tradition, rewritten for concert performance."

This was the "World Premiere Performance" of Evocation, "A Jazz Composition Orchestrated for Performance by fourteen Musicians."
"This recently completed composition, six months in creation, conceived and written in Free Jazz form..."

Quintet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Mike Nock (p and synth), Ted Dunbar (g), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr)
RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Chico Freeman (ts), Hamiet Bluiett (bar), Ricky Ford, and JD Parran (reeds),
Jack Walrath, Malachi Thompson, Oliver Beamer and Frank Gordon (tp), Ray Anderson (tb),
Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith (dr and perc) + possibly Bobby Battle

 —Program notes have Barry Altschul and Charlie Persip on percussion instead of Warren (Battle noted in quartet only);
  omitted Thompson, Beamer, and Gordon in the trumpet section; and added Charles Stephens on trombone.

{Sam Rivers' five-page typed program notes, The RivBea Archive; RL's Hong Kong Suite chat with Sam Rivers;
The Village Voice Jul 17 p.61; Down Beat Nov 16, 1978 p.39 + Jul 1981 p.12; CODA #162 Aug 1, 1978 pp.30-31}


    Studio RivBea's Early Summer Concert Series : : : July 1 through July 8, 1978

    [Concert Series schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    —There are no Rivers gigs on this July schedule.


  • 78.07.09 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Player's Tavern, Westport, CT
    [New Haven Advocate undated review clipping, The RivBea Archive; Westport Fairpress Jul 5 p.C8; Daily Advocate Jul 8 p.B11]
  • 78.07.00 - Sam Rivers "Quintet": Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr), + unknown other /
    Jazz Festival du Nimes (July 11-16), Arenes des Nimes, Nimes, France
    [Stars and Stripes Jul 8 p.19]
  • 78.07.12 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France
    [Undated newspaper clipping "Music/by Doctor Jazz: Jazz Beat," The RivBea Archive; Pierre Crépon 19.01.21
    Crépon's Totem Bar chronology, "Gérard Terronès: Totem (1977–1979)" Current Research in Jazz Volume 10 (2018), crj-online.org]
    "There was only supposed to be a 9 p.m. concert, but so many people showed up that Rivers agreed to give a second one at 11...
    [and] ended up playing until 2:30 a.m., with only a half-hour break between sets... nearly five hours of the most joyous jazz
    anyone could ever hope to hear." —Doctor Jazz

78.07.16 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA—100:20]

July 16, 1978, 23:30 / Northsea Jazz Festival, Palazzo dei Congressi, Bon Bini Zaal, Den Haag, Netherlands

RivBea Archive / Reel 23
2 Sets:
 tune-up [0:56]
1. improvisation [43:31]
 (ts section–6:02; dr solo–7:25; p section–7:24; p section w/ tu solo–5:19; b solo–8:15; fl section–8:56)
2. improvisation [46:17]  (split track, incomplete, fades out during b solo, cuts back in during fl section as set ends)
 (ss section–12:50; tu solo–5:40; p section–3:20; p solo–3:24; p + dr –2:09; p section–7:26; dr solo–7:41; b solo–4:41; fl+voc section–0:46)
3. encore [7:00]
 (fl solo–2:37; fl section–4:23)
—RBA Reel #23: "The tape is on 10-inch reel and is in an Ampex box of the type used for 1-inch multitrack tapes... Recorded 2-track at 7.5 ips.
 All that is written on the box is 'Sam Rivers' and '23.' There are apparently two sets on this reel. At the end of... Set 1, Sam can be heard
 saying, 'We'll be back [in two minutes].' There is then a break in the recording and it starts up again with about five minutes of tuning
 and mic checking, which I have eliminated, before... Set 2 begins. Side 1 of the tape runs out during a bass solo. Side 2 begins after what
 must have been a considerable gap, with Sam on flute accompanied by the whole group. The set comes to an end and Sam introduces
 everyone, there is a break in the recording, and an apparent encore follows." —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #23; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.12.29; Joe Washek 10.10.21; Jakob Blumemthal 11.01.11;
Luciano Federighi festival review Musica Jazz Oct 1978 pp.13-16 on-line index; CODA Oct 1978 #163 p.31;
www.northseajazz.com/en/program/1978/sunday-16-july/timetable}


78.07.22 • Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR—77:47]

July 22, 1978 / Festival Internazionale del Jazz, Teatro Comunale dell'opera, Nervi, Genoa, Italy

1. improvisation: "Una Giornata a Genova" [75:03]  (incomplete, fades in; split track at 41:16—gap at 5:17 into fl solo + split track at 51:09)
 (ss section–16:15; dr solo–5:29; p section–2:47; p solo–2:03; p section w/ tu solo–4:40;
 b solo–4:45; fl section–15:10, ce solo w/ dr–3:36; ts section–20:18)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b, ce), Bobby Battle (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.29; Musica Jazz Aug-Sep 1978 p.29 + pp.32-33 festival review, Giorgio Lombardi;
centrostudi.sienajazz.it/archivioSonoroRisultati.asp, #DT0201 + #CCL0337}


78.07.23 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—46:57]

July 23, 1978 / Festival del Jazz, Auditorium del Parco Marsaglia, San Remo, Italy

1. improvisation [46:12]
 (ts section–4:11; b solo–4:39; ss section–15:04; dr solo–6:43; p section–3:30; p section w/ tu solo–4:02; fl section–8:13)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.29; Musica Jazz Oct 1978 p.36 festival review, Arrigo Polillo, on-line index}


  • 1978:

    Panken: And later that year you recorded with Sam Rivers.
    Thurman Barker: That's right. What happened was that the AACM gave its first concert on New York territory in 1976, right here
    at Columbia University. We were able to perform our first jazz festival right here in New York. And in the audience, of course, was
    Mr. Sam Rivers. I had performed with some of the groups and with the Big Band. So Sam was in the audience—and this was in '76.
    A few years later, I get this call right out of the blue. It was Sam Rivers, and he was asking me to come to New York and to make
    a record. Of course I was floored! I said, "Sure, when are the rehearsals and when can we get together, because I need to learn
    your music." He said, "Look, we'll just rehearse in the studio. But can you be here by this particular date?" I said, "No problem."
    So my very first contact with Sam Rivers was in the studio, and we made the record that we are about to hear called Waves
    on Tomato Records. Of course, I am now very familiar with Sam Rivers in terms off what he's done, and all the Blue Note
    records that he appeared on with Andrew Hill and Tony Williams—the early Blue Note dates.
    Panken: Not to mention that he had used Braxton's previous bass and drums.
    TB: Exactly. Now here I go, I'm beginning to think that I'm in a circle here, because somehow Anthony Braxton's rhythm section
    went with Sam Rivers—and we're speaking of Barry Altschul and Dave Holland. At the time I joined Sam, Dave Holland was still
    there. This recording features Joe Daley on brass, Dave Holland on bass and cello, and myself on drums and percussion, and Sam Rivers.
    Like I say, I was really back, because this was my first contact with Dave Holland and Sam, and here I am getting ready to make a record.
    So it was quite a special event for me.
    [Music: S. Rivers, "Surge"]
    TB: ...after the Waves record, we went on tour.
    [Barker, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM NYC, November 18, 1985, www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php?read=panken13]
    ———


78.08.08 • Sam Rivers: Waves

1979: Tomato Records TOM-8002 (LP);
1988: Affinity AFF 186 (LP) UK;
1989: Tomato 2696491 (LP) [+Ger];
    Tomato 2696492 (CD) Hol; Tomato 2696494 (CS) Hol
2002: TOM-2030 (CD, Green Tomato Series)
August 8, 1978 / Big Apple Studio, New York City
1. Shockwave [14:41]  (p solo–p, b, dr–p 4tet–tu, b, dr–ts 4tet–dr solo)
2. Torch [6:56]  (fl 4tet)
3. Pulse [10:22]  (tu, b, dr–ss 4tet)
4. Flux [6:03]  (p, tu, ce–p 4tet)
5. Surge [5:13]  (ts 4tet)
Samthology has track 2.
The Tomato Sampler contains a 5:13 excerpt of track 2.
—Both Tomato LPs (including German release) have "Shockwave"
 as the title on the spines only.
RivBea Archival Recording / Cassette #207
1. tenor [8:00]
2. soprano [7:00]
3. flute [7:00]
4. piano [6:00]
5. soprano (take 2) [5:00]
6. piano/tenor/soprano [23:00]
—RBA CS #207 has "Tape 1." Track info above as given in RivBea database.
okay

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Dave Holland (b, ce-4), Joe Daley (tu-2,3,4, eu-1,5), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

[Tomato Records TOM-8002, 2696491, 2696492, 2696162, + Samthology; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #207;
Session date, Sam Rivers feature Down Beat Nov 16, 1978 p.49; "Daniel Gr" 18.06.19}


okay okay


  • 78.08.11 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Holland (ce, b) /
    Martha's Vineyard Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, The Tabernacle, Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Grounds, Martha's Vineyard, MA
    [Boston Globe Jul 28 p.26; Evening Star Aug 4 p.E1]


  • Studio RivBea's Summer Concert Series : : : August 18 through August 26, 1978
    [Village Voice Aug 14 p.80; Down Beat Nov 16 1978 p.48]
    —There were no Sam Rivers performances at RivBea during this short series.


  • 78.08.22 - Sam Rivers & the Studio RivBea Orchestra: (no personnel given) / 1st Harlem Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Vincent's Place, NYC
    [Program book + schedule, The RivBea Archive; The Record Aug 10 p.B21; Village Voice Aug 21 p.98
    New York Magazine Aug 28, 1978 p.29; Billboard Aug 28, 1978 p.29]
  • 78.08.26 - "Sam Rivers featuring Dave Holland..." / Harlem Jazz Festival, Small's Paradise, NYC [ibid]
  • 78.08.27 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc) /
    Left Bank Jazz Society, 5:00pm, Famous Ballroom, Baltimore, MD
    [Flyer + Unicorn Times display ad August 1978, The RivBea Archive; Baltimore Sun Aug 4 p.18; Baltimore Afro-American Aug 26 p.15]
    Baltimore Afro-American mistakenly has Barry Altschul on drums in an Aug 4 edition display ad.
  • 78.09.10 - The Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, p), Vishnu Wood (b, oud), Bobby Battle (dr), Andrew Salkey,
    Bob Marquez, and Robert Ruff (poetry) / "Tribute to Malcolm X," 7:00pm, Robert Crown Center, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
    [Massachusetts Daily Collegian Sep 8 p.4 + Sep 13 p.4]
    "The Tribute combined Black Classical music, poetry, and taped speeches of Malcolm X, as the musicians and poets relived events
    of Malcolm's life. The 280 people on hand heard Malcolm's voice open the Tribute... The 'Trio' provided musical improvisations...
    Vishnu Wood played a solo on the oud... and after the Tribute he said he had written the piece for the occasion and that he would
    name it 'Malcolm.' Bobby Battle also did a solo on drums, accompanied by Wood's vocal improvisations... The evening closed with
    a taped song by Bernice Reagon, 'We Gonna Rumble Through the Streets of Soweto.' The Trio played a song dedicated to the memory
    of Malcolm, and his voice was heard at the end." —Terrell Evans Massachusetts Daily Collegian Sep 13

78.09.23 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—53:16]

September 23, 1978, 9:00 & 11:00pm / International House, Philadelphia, PA

1. improvisation [52:59]  (split track at 28:47)
 (ts section–16:33; b + dr–1:29; p section–1:36; p solo–4:10; p section w/ tu solo–5:05; dr solo–2:41;
 ss solo–2:35; ss section–7:07; tu solo–2:51; fl+voc section–8:52)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, perc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.30; The Philadelphia Inquirer Sep 22 p.54}


  • 78.09.24 - Bill Cole—The Fourth Cycle, Tribute to John Coltrane: Cole (Korean sona, Indian shenai, Chinese muzette, Ghanaian flute),
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Julius Hemphill (as, fl), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Alanis Obomsawin (voc)"Blood" [James Ulmer] (g), Abdul Wadud (ce),
    Warren Smith, Abraham Adzinyah, Farel Johnson Jr. [Hafiz Shabazz], and Jerry Gonzalez (perc),
    + The Dartmouth College West African Drumming Ensemble / The John Coltrane Memorial World Music Series,
    8:00pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    [Bill Cole "My Approach to Playing Music" in Harmolodic Programmes Bottlecap Press 2012 p.14
    "Fourth Cycle Honors Fanny Lou Hamer" Bennington Banner Sep 22 p.9;]
    Bennington Banner omits Alanis Obamsawin from credits.

    "Three events in two days dedicated to one of the south's most indominable freedom fighters, Fanny Lou Hamer... There will be three parts
    to the program, each introduced with poetry read by Jayne Cortez... The second part will feature native American music by Alanis Obamsawin...
    The program will conclude with African music, including several traditional Ghanaian pieces."
    (See The First Cycle 75.08.01 and The Second Cycle 76.03.27. No Third Cycle accounted for... yet.)

78.10.02 • Sam Rivers Quartet: The World of Sam Rivers [BR—16:28]

—3rd Session [See also 78.01.20; 78.06.30; 78.10.00; 79.04.27; 79.06.22]

October 2, 1978 / The Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX
—National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" The World of Sam Rivers, Broadcast December 2, 1979 & July 19, 1981

1. improvisation [16:28]  (incomplete, fade-out by Radio announcer)
 (ts + tu duo–2:34; ts section–12:51; b solo–0:57; fl section–0:06)
—Recording is circulating with a lead-in first track at 6:12—a rather lame piano quartet, with the tenor sax in at 4:09 (over the piano quartet).
 This is not part of this Sam Rivers session, but something that must have been tagged onto the broadcast track.

"The quartet began in unison and played continuously for almost two hours..." —Austin Daily Texan

Ticket!

A ticket to the event...

Courtesy Rick Barrett.

"We do indeed house the archives for the Armadillo World Headquarters... I searched through [the] finding aid and found two boxes that
contained information on Anthony Braxton: Box 2U217 and Box 2U221... Box 2U221 includes a Daily Texan article from October 4, 1978
commenting on his performance at the Armadillo World Headquarters in a concert shared with Sam Rivers. It also includes an article from
Friday September 29, 1978 talking about the performance that was going to occur on that Monday..."
—A very helpful Amelia Brunskill / Reference Services, The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.31; Austin Daily Texan Oct 4 p.12; Down Beat Jul 1981 p.12; Norbert Kreutzer 05.11.06; Ed Hazell}


78.10.00 • Sam Rivers Quartet: The World of Sam Rivers [BR]

—4th Session [See also 78.01.20; 78.06.30; 78.10.02; 79.04.27; 79.06.22]

October, 1978 / probably Southern University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
—National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" The World of Sam Rivers, Broadcast December 2, 1979 & July 19, 1981

1. improvisation [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, perc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{Down Beat Jul 1981 p.12; venue Bret Sjerven 18.05.22}


  • 78.10.05 Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, perc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc) /
    Neeb Hall, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
    [Poster, Christopher Carville archive; Arizona Republic Oct 1 p.N5; New Times Weekly Oct 4-10 p.8]

78.10.07 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

October 7, 1978, 2:10pm / Acrosanti Festival '78, Main Stage, Cordes Junction, AZ

1... improvisations [ : ]
"In 1978, Bruce Joseph asked me again to manage and coordinate the site for the next Arcosanti Arts Festival—another all-star
lineup that brought a huge audience from Phoenix and beyond. Ritchie Havens, Gary Burton, Anthony Braxton, Bernard Prudie,
Bill Evens, Liebman and Beirach, Stephen Stills, Sam Rivers, Oregon, Kenny Rankin, Freddy Waits, and Todd Rundgren gave
a stunning set of performances on the big and small stages.
The theme of this year’s event was ‘Sky Art’—coloring the landscape and building site with large scale visuals.
Environmental artists such as Anders Holmquist and Otto Piene painted on a very large easel that year. But the largest
coloring display in the desert sky that year was mine.
A rogue fire broke out in a field we were using for overflow parking, and over 100 cars were consumed in this art exhibit,
creating a Very Black cloud that stood starkly against the beautiful blue sky of our desert, and settling eventually upon
the sad shoulders of the insurance companies." —George Madaraz

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, perc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #228; Arizona Daily Sun Oct 4 p.6; CODA Oct 1978 #163 p.34;
madaraz.com/events/arcosanti-78}


  • 78.10.10 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc) /
    9:30 & 11:30pm, and 1:00am, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Poster, The RivBea Archive; San Francisco Examiner Bay Calendar Oct 9 p.19; San Francisco Chronicle Oct 12 p.3;
    Bay Area Reporter Oct 12 Sec.2 p.28]
    —The Chronicle on the opening night: "The Rivers band... improvised a 90-minute sequence of moods and styles...
     After the Rivers set, Braxton appeared alone to play a 45-minute solo set on just the alto.... For the third and final set,
     Braxton joined the Rivers band for further special adventures."
    —A newspaper clipping (unidentified, dated Oct 13) of an article by Ira Steingroot ("Avant-garde Duo at Keystone") marks
     the only time I have ever come across a writer (referring to the years between 1964 and 1973) making this kind of claim:
     "Heroin damaged the good start he had gotten and also kept him from performing in New York City."
     (Picture a busy little kitty covering that sentence with sand.)


    "Came across a very old trading list that provides what are I think previously unknown live recordings of [Braxton]. A few gigs were known
    but weren't confirmed as taped: '1977 San Francisco, CA / Braxton, Anthony private tape: Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, quintet.' Now, be
    aware that I have found numerous errors elsewhere in this list, so..." [Michael Fitzgerald to AnthonyBraxtonProject Group 06.03.04]
    —"1977 San Francisco, CA" is likely a mis-dated recording of one of these '78 sessions. In a WIRE magazine interview/feature article
     [#50 April, 1988 p.49] Holland says that the two reed players had stopped performing together by '76, and there are no references to any
     Braxton/Rivers meetings between August, 1974, and this engagement. —RL

78.10.11 • Sam Rivers Quartet & Anthony Braxton [BR—58:45]

October 11, 1978 / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
—KPFA-FM Broadcast during the week following the session.
—This is circulating misdated October 15, but the Stanley Peters broadcast announcement has it "from last Wednesday evening," the 11th.

1. improvisation [57:35]  (split track at 28:12 and 29:32)
 (ss + as section–3:15; ss section–3:18; p + as section–4:05; p section w/ tu solo–3:45;
 p + as section–4:14; p section w/ tu solo–3:59; p + as section–and continues endlessly transforming...)
 Broadcast announcement [0:52]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Anthony Braxton (as), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.31; San Francisco Examiner Bay Calendar Oct 9 p.19; Berkeley Barb Oct 12-25 p.18}


  • 78.10.12 to 10.14 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc) /
    9:30 & 11:30pm, and 1:00am, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Poster, The RivBea Archive; San Francisco Examiner Bay Calendar Oct 9 p.19; San Francisco Chronicle Oct 12 p.3;
    Bay Area Reporter Oct 12 Sec.2 p.28]

78.10.15 • Sam Rivers Quartet & Anthony Braxton [AR—54:18]

October 15, 1978 / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

1. improvisation [53:49]  (incomplete, cuts in; split track at 46:31)
 (ss + as section–9:10; dr solo–4:32; ss + as section–9:58; b solo–5:15; p + as section–7:02;
 p section w/ tu solo–13:26; p + as section–1:26; p solo–3:00)
Sam Rivers (ss, p), Anthony Braxton (as), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.01; San Francisco Examiner Bay Calendar Oct 9 p.19; Berkeley Barb Oct 12-25 p.18}


okay

Photo by Kathy Sloane (with permission) / Keystone Korner: Portrait of a Jazz Club

  • 78.10.20 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), David Holland (ce, b), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Workshop, 2:00pm, Cornish Institute, Seattle, WA [Seattle Daily Times Oct 19 p.D3]
  • 78.10.22 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / 8:30pm, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    [VECC Newsletter, The RivBea Archive; The Province Oct 23 p.11; Vancouver Sun Oct 25 p.C3;
    CODA Oct 1978 #163 p.24; vancouverjazz.com/vjs/index.php]

78.10.23 • Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR—46:52 & 85:33]

October 23, 1978 / Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Soundboard / Brian Nation:
1. improvisation [46:52]  (incomplete, cuts in, fades out)
 (ts section–11:27; tu + dr–2:35; p trio–5:46; p section w/ tu solo–3:07; p trio–2:43;
 p solo–3:18; b solo–6:01; ss section–8:29; dr solo–3:32)
Soundboard / Condition West Recordings:
1. improvisation [41:41]  (incomplete, cuts in and out; split track at 33:48–missing end b solo, ss section, beginning dr solo–split again at 34:04)
 (ts section–11:25; tu + dr–2:35; p trio–5:46; p section w/ tu solo–3:07; p trio–2:43;
 p solo–3:18; b solo–4:54; [gap] dr solo–0:51; fl+voc section–7:17)
2. improvisation [47:09]  (incomplete, cuts in and out)
 (p section–20:23; b solo–4:55; ts section–10:59; tu trio–2:25; ts section–0:16)
—Shorter Soundboard sourced from Brian Nation is continuous and without gaps; longer version from Condition West is chopped to bits.
—Longer Soundboard also had a tagged-on end segment of 5:20 which was a random excerpt of track 1 that cuts in at the gap in the drum solo
 and fades out during the flute section.

"I generally didn't record performances. After the first night's gig Sam asked if I'd recorded it and I said no. ‘Why not?’ he asked.
So I had the second night recorded, probably by Tinker, the sound guy. There was a cassette which I eventually gave to Sam."
—Brian Nation

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.01; conditionwestrecordings.bandcamp.com/; VECC Newsletter, The RivBea Archive;
Brian Nation 11.12.30 + 19.12.10; Vancouver Sun Oct 25 p.C3; CODA Oct 1978 #163 p.24; vancouverjazz.com/vjs/index.php}


"Sam Rivers Quartet photographed next to the Oceanside Hotel on Pendrell, where they stayed during their appearance
at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, October 1978." —Brian Nation

okay The Quartet in Vancouver
Photo by Brian Nation

  • 78.10.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), David Holland (ce, b), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    8:30pm, At The Earth, Portland, OR [The Oregonian Oct 15 p.F2]

78.10.25 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—61:18]

October 25, 1978 / Egyptian Moore Theater, Seattle, WA

1. improvisation [43:57]
 (ss section–10:06; b solo–4:16; p section–3:49; p solo–2:57; p section w/ tu solo–5:00;
 p section–2:02; ts section–8:57; dr solo–3:21; fl section–3:29)
2. encore/improvisation [16:03]
 (fl, b duo–3:12; fl, b, pipe–1:12; fl section–11:49)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr, pipe)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.23; Seattle Daily Times Oct 8 p.12; Norbert Kreutzer 05.10.31}


    October through November, 1978: Sam Rivers Quartet "completed, in November, a long tour through Italy."
    —Lugano [78.10.29], Brescia [78.10.31], Padova [78.11.06 + 07], Milano [78.11.11 through 17], Vercelli [78.11.00 (1)], Palermo [78.11.00 (2)].
    Also Varese, Saronno, and Bergamo, which are all nestled in the triangle between Milan, Lugano to the north, and Brescia to the east.
    [Musica Jazz Nov 1978 p.22 + Rivers interview, Dec 1978 pp.8-10]



  • 78.10.29 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    "Festival L'improvvisazione," 21:30hr, Aula Magna Trevano, Lugano, Switzerland
    [Multiple-format posters + Program, The RivBea Archive; Musica Jazz Dec 1978 pp.39-40]

78.10.31 • Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR—89:25]

October 31, 1978 / Supercinema, Brescia, Italy

1. Tides (Maree) Suite [79:53]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 (ss section–28:45; dr solo–3:17; ce solo–4:53; ts section–21:59; b solo–6:25; fl+voc section–14:34)
2. encore [9:04]  (fl section)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{Sound files, track detailing RL 19.04.22; centrostudi.sienajazz.it/archivioSonoroRisultati.asp, #DT0088; Pat Clare 11.07.13}


  • 78.11.00 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc) /
    Nel 24° Festival Viottiano, Vercelli, Italy [Musica Jazz Dec 1978 p.14, on-line index]
    —"Encounter with Jazz" three evenings of concerts and an introductory conference.
  • 78.11.00 (2) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Brass Club di Palermo, Auditorium SS Salvatore, Palermo, Italy
    [Brass Club Program, The RivBea Archive; Musica Jazz Jan 1979 p.17, on-line index]

78.11.06 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA—34:00 & AR—120:00]

November 6, 1978 / Centro d'Arte degli Studenti dell'Università di Padova Presents..., Teatro Tenda al Foro Boario, Padova, Italy

RivBea Archive / Reel 17
1. improvisations [34:00]
Centro d'Arte Padova Archive:
1. improvisation [15:12]  (incomplete, cuts in on ts section, ends w/ applause)
—Centro d'Arte Padova Soundcloud has an excerpt of... 0-1512 / begin ts section to app

—RBA Reel #17: "This tape is in a Revox box. The only notation on the box is on the spine, which reads: 'Sam Rivers Padova Nov 6 1978'.
 It is a ten-inch reel recorded at 15 ips, 2-track stereo. The recording runs approximately 34 minutess and is of only the soprano
 and part of the piano sections of a set. It cuts off abruptly a minute or two into the piano section. ...[Not sure if] the rest
 of the show is in the archive. Given that the recording cuts off with plenty of tape left on the reel, I'm not optimistic." —Joe Washek

"A recording from the mixing table exists in the archive of the promoter, the Centro d'Arte degli Studenti dell'Università di Padova.
It used to be on a reel-to-reel tape (so this may explain the archival copy of the Rivbea Studio), now on CDr. At that time our
archival recordings were made sometimes on a Revox reel-to-reel machine, sometimes with a 'pro' cassette machine (Nakamichi),
but eventually transferred on reel." —Veniero Rizzardi

"120' private audience recording exists." —Heinrich Smejkal

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, pipes)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #17; soundcloud.com/centrodarte, track detailing RL 20.01.05; Joe Washek 09.03.29;
Veniero Rizzardi 12.01.03 + 19.03.06; Heinrich Smejkal 04.01.12}


78.11.07 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—2:00:00]

November 7, 1978 / Centro d'Arte degli Studenti dell'Università di Padova Presents..., Teatro Tenda al Foro Boario, Padova, Italy

1. improvisations [120:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr)

{Veniero Rizzardi 12.01.03 + 19.03.06}


  • 78.11.11 to 11.17 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Cinema Teatro Ciak, Milano, Italy
    [Musica Jazz Jan 1979 p.20 concert reviews on-line index; Spettacoli Nov 15 review clipping, The RivBea Archive]
  • 78.11.29 + 11.30 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    [Horseshoe Tavern November schedule; The Globe and Mail Oct 28 p.31]
  • 78.12.05 - Sam Rivers Quartet / 8:00 & 10:30pm, Jonathan Swift's, Cambridge, MA
    [Boston Globe Nov 30 p.A32 + Dec 3 p.A15]
  • 78.12.06 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b) / 8:00 & 10:30pm, Jonathan Swift's, Cambridge, MA
    [Boston Globe Nov 30 p.A32 + Dec 3 p.A15; Boston Phoenix Dec 19 p.6+13]
    "[Barker] missed this second gig." —Boston Phoenix
  • 78.12.09 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    8:30pm, Theatre de I'lle, Hull, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
    [The Ottawa Citizen Dec 9 p.36]

78.12.11 • Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [BR—92:31]

December 11, 1978, 8:00 & 10:00pm / Theatre de L'lle, Hull, Quebec, Canada
—CKCU-FM 93.1 Ottawa Broadcast "In a Mellow Tone," host Ron Sweetman

1. improvisation [27:37]  (incomplete, fades in)
 (b solo–0:42; p + b–4:16; p solo–3:59; p + b–2:10; p solo–0:43; b solo–1:50; fl + b–12:29)
2. improvisation [49:54]  (split track at 16:42 and 30:55)
 (ts + b–15:37; b solo–1:05; [gap] p + b–2:26; p solo–4:09; p + b–7:37; [gap] p + b–4:03;
 p solo–1:31; b solo w/ occasional p conflagrations–3:18; fl + b–7:07)
3. improvisation [14:42]  (incomplete, fades in, fades out)
 (ss + b)
—This session is circulating with 4 tracks [56:10] of non-Rivers filler claimed to be Rivers with a larger ensemble, same date.
 Rivers is not present on these tracks. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (b)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.01; CODA #166 April 1979 p.30; The Ottawa Journal Dec 7 p.54; The Ottawa Citizen Dec 12 p.62;
"S. Baum" at pong.tamu.edu/˜baum}


  • 78.12.15 + 12.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    "Joseph Papp Presents," Midnight Sat; 9:30pm Sun., Circle in the Square Downtown, NYC
    [Village Voice Dec 11 p.95 + Dec 18 p.104; New York Magazine Dec 18 p.42]
    New York Magazine had this mistakenly as the 16th and 17th.


  • 78.12.26 to 77.01.07 - Harlem Opera's "Hodges & Co." and "Solomon & Sheba" "in repertory."
    Hodges & Co. was another jazz opera composed by Sam Rivers. Performances on December 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, and
    January 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 at Entermedia Theater, NYC
    [Village Voice Dec 25 p.91; Daily News Dec 26 p.90]
    —Rivers is listed as composer but did not perform.

1979 : : :


  • 79.01.12 + 01.13 - Sam Rivers: no personnel details / Stars, Philadelphia, PA / Stars, Philadelphia, PA
    [The Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 31 p.9-H]
  • 79.01.21 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Holland (ce, b) /
    9:30, 11:00, & 12:30am, Lulu White's, Boston, MA
    [Undated newspaper display ad clipping, The RivBea Archive; Boston Globe Jan 18 p.A13; Boston Herald American Jan 19 p.14
    Gay Community News Vol.6 no.25 Jan 20 p.21]
    —The display ad has Sam Rivers and "Dave Collins;" Boston Herald American has this as a quartet.

79.01.24 • Sam Rivers Big Band [AR]

January 24, 1979 / Storyville, New York City

1... compositions [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), others...

{WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31, reference of 2CDr}


  • 79.01.28 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Michael Carvin (dr) /
    Hartford Jazz Society, 7:00pm, Opera Room, Sheraton Tobacco Valley Inn, Windsor, CT
    [Hartford Courant Jan 21 p.G7; CODA #166 April 1979 p.36]
    "Two loosely structured pieces, each which ran well past an hour."
    —Preview ads had Thurman Barker on drums, review noted Carvin.
  • 79.01.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b) /
    Great Black Music Series, 8:00pm, Town Hall, St. Lawrence Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    "The trio played but one piece... Eighty minutes..." —Mark Miller
    "Opening the series... Unfortunately percussionist Thurman Barker chose an African tour in preference to the inclement winter." —CODA
    [Flyer + oversize poster, The RivBea Archive; Mark Miller review The Globe and Mail Jan 31 p.F10; CODA #166 April 1979 p.29]

  • February, 1979:

    "As far as the studio went, I cut back on activities in '78. I was doing things down there, but not on a regular basis.
    I did a few things in '79, and then that was it."
    [Fred Goodman interviews Sam Rivers NYC Jazz Feb.4-Mar.3, 1980 p.4]
    ———

    Rivers closed the performance space in February, 1979.
    "When the Public Theater started the same program we were doing with more money behind it, I didn't see any need to keep RivBea open.""
    [Keith Raethern interviews Sam Rivers The Albuerque Tribune Feb 6, 1980 p.4]
    ———

      —Michael Scholnick, Mag City #1 (New York); voices.revealdigital.com



The Kent Winter Jazz Festival : : : February 3 and February 4, 1979

    "Musicians' workshops, an open jam session in the Student Center Rathskellar, and other special events."
    Billboard Feb 3 p.65+90 has the Orchestra on both the 3rd and 4th, but I only find references to the 4th elsewhere.

  • 79.02.04 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    7:00pm, Student Center Ballroom, Kent State University, Kent, OH [ibid]
    [Elyria Chronicle-Telegram Jan 19 p.13; Billboard Feb 3, 1979 p.65+90]
    "Followed by the Chico Freeman Quartet, the Hamiet Bluiett Trio, and the entire Rivers' Jazz Festival Orchestra." —Billboard
    "A series of four ensembles and quintets that lasted more than five hours." —Elyria Chronicle-Telegram

79.02.04 (2) • Sam Rivers' New Jazz Festival Orchestra [AR—54:10]

February 4, 1979, 10:30pm / Student Center Ballroom, Kent State University, Kent, OH

1. composition [10:30]
2. composition [10:54]  (piano solo intro of 2:57)
3. composition [15:53]  (bass solo intro of 2:48)
4. composition [15:23]
"After listening to the Sam Rivers New Jazz Festival Big Band from 79.02.04, there's no question in my mind that the musicians listed in the different
papers are not substitutions but additions to the band and that everyone mentioned is in the group. There are definitely two trumpet players, a trombonist,
and a second drummer in the band. I think it would be safe (accurate even) to add... Anderson, and Barker to the personnel list. —Ed Hazell

Sam Rivers, (ts, ss, fl, voc), Hamiet Bluiett, Chico Freeman, and Ricky Ford (reeds), Jack Walrath and Frank Gordon (tp), Ray Anderson (tb),
Joe Daley (tu/eu), Jay Hoggard (vb), Abdul Wadud (ce), Don Pullen (p), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker and Warren Smith (perc)

 —The The Plain Dealer display ad omitted Frank Gordon.
 —The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram had a "10-piece" Orchestra with Gordon, Hoggard, and Wadud omitted (Jan 19);
 —and had an "18-piece" Orchestra, but no personnel noted (Feb 9).

{CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.04; The Plain Dealer Feb 2 p.82+84 and also a year-end wrap review Dec 28, 1979 Friday supplement p.8;
Kevin Skotnicki; JAM 9134-2; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; Elyria Chronicle-Telegram Jan 19 p.13 + Feb 9 p.16;
Billboard Feb 3, 1979 p.65 + 90; Ed Hazell 19.04.18}



[Also, sort of:]
  • Hamiet Bluiett / Muhal Richard Abrams: "Saying Something for All"
    Just a Memory Records JAM 9134-2 (CD) 1998 CAN

    February 4, 1979 / Kent Winter Jazz Festival, Kent State University, Kent, OH

    Contrary to the liner notes and credits on this disc, there is not a single note played by or with
    Sam Rivers or his Big Band. The track noted below, "recorded with the Sam Rivers Big Band
    on February 4th, 1979," is a Bluiett solo without any accompaniment. Nor is Rivers doing
    the introduction, as has been suggested. That being said, this is a fine recording, with five
    other tracks, all Abrams/Bluiett duets, and a cover I really like, which I've included here
    just for the hell of it. —RL

    1. Requiem for Kent State (Bluiett) [10:49]
    Hamiet Bluiett (bar)
Saying Something for All


    February through March, 1979
    "Some dates with an 18-piece group, and toured in duo with Holland" [Down Beat Mar 22, 1979 Sam Rivers Blindfold Test p.29]
    —There is no evidence of the February 25th gig at Gross Pointe (below) in the Punch & Judy concert database. —RL



  • 79.02.12 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (b) / 9:30pm, Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
    [Flyer + The Athens Observer Feb 8 p.5B, The RivBea Archive]
  • 79.02.13 (1) - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Workshop / 3:00pm, Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA [ibid]
    "An intensive workshop for musicians with jazz experience."
  • 79.02.13 (2) + 02.14 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (b) /
    9:00 & 11:00pm, DC Space, Washington, DC [Evening Star Apr 13 p.D6; District Star Apr 13 p.DC2]
  • 79.02.16 (1) - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland: Presentation followed by a workshop /
    2:00pm, Packard Hall, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO [The Catalyst Feb 9 p.5]
  • 79.02.16 (2) - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (b) /
    8:15pm, Packard Hall, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO [ibid]
  • 79.02.19 (1) - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Workshop / 1:00pm, University of Georgia Music Department, Athens, GA
    [The Athens Observer Feb 8 p.5B, The RivBea Archive]
    "This workshop will be free, not as intensive [as 79.02.12], and oriented a bit more for the layman."
  • 79.02.19 (2) - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (b) / 9:30pm, Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
    [Flyer + The Athens Observer Feb 8 p.5B, The RivBea Archive; The Atlanta Constitution Feb 24 p.83]
  • 79.02.23 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: as above / Golden Spur, Russell House, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
    [Baltimore Sun Feb 23 p.37; dalesmoak.com/2017/10/23/50-bands-ive-seen]
    —"Two shows... Tour of five Southern cities."
    "Sam Rivers and Dave Holland. A duo performance at the Golden Spur, the watering hole in the Russell House at the University
    of South Carolina, February 1979. I remember the month and year because I had the flyer taped to my bedroom wall for years.
    It was an uncompromising, full-throttle show despite the environment, for what I remember as an appreciate audience. Talked
    to Rivers a little; he's tied with drummer Kenny Washington and trumpeters Richard Kelley and Rich Given as the nicest man
    in the world." —Dale Smoak
  • 79.02.24 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo / 10:00pm, Stimson Hall, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD [ibid]


  • 79.02.25 - "Tentative," likely cancelled - Sam Rivers Orchestra: (no personnel details) / New Music Festival,
    Punch & Judy Theatre, Gross Pointe, MI [Down Beat Mar 8, 1979 p.47]


  • 79.02.26 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Holland (b) / Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA
    [Atlanta Journal and Constitution Feb 24, 1979 p.T-37]
  • 79.02.00 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: as above / "And later to Memphis..." Memphis, TN [ibid]

79.03.01 (1) • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR]

March 1, 1982, 8:00pm / Jazz Series Concert No. 3, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
—LIVE Broadcast on KSJN-FM, "The Jazz Image," hosted by Leigh Kamman

1... improvisations [ : ]
—Opening act, followed by Chico Freeman Trio, Hamiet Bluiett Trio, and Sam Rivers New Jazz Festival Orchestra.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr)

{Showcase "Magazine of the Minnesota Orchestra and Orchestra Hall," March 1 to 24 Vol.XI no.7 p.43, The RivBea Archive;
The Minneapolis Star Sep 12, 1978 p.10C; news clipping stamp-dated "Feb 25" on back of eBay listing promo photo}


79.03.01 (2) • Sam Rivers New Jazz Festival Orchestra [BR]

March 1, 1982, 8:00pm / Jazz Series Concert No. 3, Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
—LIVE Broadcast on KSJN-FM, "The Jazz Image," hosted by Leigh Kamman

1... compositions [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Hamiet Bluiett, Chico Freeman, Ricky Ford, and JD Parran (reeds), Jack Walrath, Frank Gordon, and Oliver Beener (tp),
Ray Anderson and Craig Harris (tb), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Abdul Wadud (ce), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker and Michael Carvin (perc)

{Showcase "Magazine of the Minnesota Orchestra and Orchestra Hall," March 1 to 24 Vol.XI no.7 p.43, The RivBea Archive;
The Minneapolis Star Sep 12, 1978 p.10C; news clipping stamp-dated "Feb 25" on back of eBay listing promo photo}


  • 79.03.04 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Grenoble Jazz Festival, 17:00hr, Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France
    [Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive; Festival web-site]
  • 79.03.06 + 03.07 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Envenements-Jazz of Metz 1979, Le Caveau Des Trinitaires, Metz, France
    [Oversize poster + unknown newspaper clipping Feb 18 + "Grande Région" Mar 8 clipping, The RivBea Archive]
  • 79.03.08 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl]
  • 79.03.09 - Sam Rivers Quartet / International Jazz Focus Festival, Entrepôt Laîné, Bordeaux, France
    [Pierre-Henri Ardonceau "Jazz en direct: International Jazz Focus" Jazz Magazine Jun, 1979 p.11;
    "Où jouent-ils?" Jazz Magazine Mar, 1979 pp.20-21; archives.bordeaux-metropole.fr]
    —Roger Lafosse Photo archive has "6 images (32A-37A) of Sam Rivers Quartet... Sam Rivers on [clarinet]." —I'm skeptical.
  • 79.03.13 - Sam Rivers Quartet / 20:45hr, Théatre de Montbéliard, Montbéliard, France
    [Oversize poster + unknown French newspaper clipping Mar 13 p.3, The RivBea Archive]

79.03.15 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—75:58]

March 15, 1979, 20:30hr / Totem Bar, Le Stadium, Paris, France
—Radio France Broadcast, "Concert de jazz—Jazz Stadium : Concerts du 15 mars 1979." Complete Broadcast was three-and-a-half hours long.

1. "Thèmes enchaînés" [75:58]
 (ts section–10:17; dr solo–5:28; p section–2:40; p solo–1:57; p section w/ tu solo–6:28;
 b solo–5:15; fl section–21:40; ce solo–3:40; ss section–18:33)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.11; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09; Pierre Crépon 17.03.24;
Le Stadium Feb-Mar schedule, The RivBea Archive; Bernard Amiard "Jazz en direct: Motian/Harper/Rivers" Jazz Magazine May, 1979 pp.15-16}



    Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg on 04.11.29: "Professional recording engineer Michael W. Huon... [a] trio concert
    the year after [1978] in Antwerpen with Barry and Dave...."
    —Probably the session below... —RL


  • 79.03.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Hnita Jazz Club, Heist op de Berg, Antwerp, Belgium
    "The only concert of about 40 years ago that I remember vividly, if only because I did not understand it at the time."
    —Photos and info from Jef Vandebroek, FB posting on February 6, 2018.

  • okay okay


  • 79.03.22 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    Round House, London, UK [Arts Guardian Mar 23 p.12, The RivBea Archive]
  • 79.04.19 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    9:00 & 11:00pm, DC Space, Washington, DC [Poster, The RivBea Archive; Evening Star Apr 15 p.D6 + Apr 20 p.C1]
    —Poster has Thurman Barker on drums.
    "There were fewer than 25 persons on hand... for the quartet's opening set." Evening Star Apr 20

79.04.20 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—58:20]

April 20, 1979, 9:00 & 11:00pm / DC Space, Washington, DC
—WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 22, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

1. improvisation [58:20]  (incomplete, cuts out)
 (ts section–14:01; b solo–4:40; b + dr–1:56; b solo–2:14; p section–4:40; p section w/ tu solo–11:11; dr solo–5:09; fl section–14:28)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.04; Poster, The RivBea Archive; Washington Star Apr 20 p.C5; Evening Star Apr 20 p.C1}


  • 79.04.21 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    9:00 & 11:00pm, DC Space, Washington, DC
    [Poster, The RivBea Archive; Ben Young, WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31; Washington Star Apr 20 p.C5; Evening Star Apr 20 p.C1]
  • 79.04.23 + 04.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Tyrone's O.C., Athens, GA [Atlanta Journal and Constitution Apr 14 p.T-4; Variety Apr 11 p.74]

79.04.27 (1) • Sam Rivers Quartet: The World of Sam Rivers [BR—35:52]

—5th Session [See also 78.01.20; 78.06.30; 78.10.02; 78.10.00; 79.06.22]

April 27, 1979, "Midnight till Dawn" / Jazz & Blues Festival, "Dew Drop Inn '79," New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
—National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" The World of Sam Rivers, Broadcast December 2, 1979 & July 19, 1981.

 Broadcast announcement [0:23]
1. improvisation [28:15]
 (p solo–2:33; p section–1:21; ts section–9:11; dr solo–2:22; fl+voc section–12:50)
 Broadcast announcement [0:15]
 Rivers interviewed by Michael Cuscuna [5:16]
 Broadcast announcement [0:14]
—This is the first or second section of this broadcast, which, as NPR's Billy Taylor says in the final announcement, will continue
 with "quartet and orchestra performances". The next segment of the program is Session 78.10.02, the quartet in Austin, TX.

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr, perc, whistles)

{CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.05; The Times-Picayune Apr 20 p.5; 1979 Jazz Fest Program Book p.31, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com
Martin Milgrim 05.02.17; Norbert Kreutzer 05.11.06}


  • 79.04.27 (2) - Sam Rivers meets Kidd Jordan: perhaps with SR Quartet, as in 79.04.27 /
    New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, "Midnight till Dawn," "Dew Drop Inn '79," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    [1979 Jazz Fest Program Book p.31, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com; The Times-Picayune Apr 20 p.5 + Apr 28 Sec.2 p.3]
  • 79.04.28 - Sam Rivers meets keyboard magician Henry Butler: perhaps with SR Quartet, as in 79.04.27 /
    New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, "Midnight till Dawn," "Dew Drop Inn '79," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    [1979 Jazz Fest Program Book p.31, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com]
    —Also, a pre-show radio interview on WWNO-FM for Coril Joseph's "Elements" program. [The Times-Picayune Apr 28 Sec.2 p.3]
  • 79.04.29 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 6:15pm, Jazz Tent, Fairgrounds, New Orleans, LA
    [1979 Jazz Fest Program Book p.31, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com; Times-Picayune Apr 20 JAZZ supplement p.9 + + Apr 28 Sec.2 p.3]

  • 79.05.09 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc) /
    21:00hr, Teatro Olimpico, Rome, Italy
    [l'Unità May 9 p.11; Yves Thébault, Jazz Magazine Jul-August, 1979 pp.15-16;
    Pierre Crépon 17.03.24]

  • 79.05.12 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    20:00hr, Hotel Mohren, Willisau, Switzerland
    [Kevin White 02.10.21; www.troxlerart.ch/pages/posters.php]



  • —"As illustrated on the Niklaus Troxler poster
     in OREOS Collection Jazz—Niklaus Troxler Jazz Posters, p.95."
okay

79.05.15 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—117:53 & BVR]

May 15, 1979 / Studio 10, Hamburg, Germany
—NDR JAZZ WORKSHOP Nr.:145 (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) Radio/TV Broadcast

 Broadcast announcement [0:31]
1. An Evening In Hamburg, Part I [57:40]
 (ts section–18:57; dr solo–3:34; p solo–4:16; p section w/ tu solo–7:25; b solo–5:33; fl section–17:55)
 Broadcast announcement [0:29]
2. Blossoms Part I + II [57:52]  (incomplete, fades out)
 (ss + tu + b trio–7:23; ss section–25:24; b solo–10:26; p section w/ tu solo–12:56; tu solo–1:33)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.05}


79.05.21 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

May 21, 1979, 21:00hr / Rouen Jazz Action, Mount Saint Aignan, Faculté de Lettres, Rouen, Normandie, France

RivBea Archive / Reel #21
1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel #21 magnetic tape is in a large, white, water-stained envelope and is marked "21," "Concert Rouen, 21 May, 1979,"
 and "TAKE CARE, Only Tape, No Spool." ... tragedies, tragedies.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #21; Program, The RivBea Archive; Rouen Jazz Action Archive, ww.rouenjazzaction.asso.fr}


  • 79.05.23 + 05.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Totem, Le Stadium, Paris, France
    [Crépon's Totem Bar chronology, "Gérard Terronès: Totem (1977–1979)" Current Research in Jazz Volume 10 (2018), crj-online.org;
    Pierre Crépon 19.01.21]
  • 79.06.01 to 06.03 - Sam Rivers Quartet / 9:00pm, The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, CA
    [LA Weekly Jun 1-7 p.14; Los Angeles Times Jun 5 p.66; CODA Aug 1979 #168 p.32]
  • 79.06.05 to 06.09 - Sam Rivers Quartet / 9:00 & 11:00pm, + 1:00am the 8th and 9th, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [The Berkeley Gazette Jun 1 p.30; Billboard Jun 2, 1979 p.66; Todd Barkan 18.06.12]
  • 79.06.10 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet / 4:00pm, Pete Douglas Beach House, Miranmar Beach, Half Moon Bay, CA
    [The Berkeley Gazette Jun 8 Weekend Vistas p.8]
  • 79.06.10 (2) - Sam Rivers Quartet / 9:00 & 11:00pm, + 1:00am the 8th and 9th, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Billboard Jun 2, 1979 p.66; Todd Barkan 18.06.12]
okay


"We've got a new place that we're fixing up. The old place was a lot smaller. We'll be able to do a lot more things at the new place;
I want especially to get into larger groups, orchestral works, things like that. I should be opening around November."
—Sam interviewed backstage at Keystone by JN Thomas [The Berkeley Gazette Jun 8 Weekend Vistas p.8]
  • 79.06.11 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    8:00pm, Seattle Concert Theater, Seattle, OR [Seattle Daily Times Jun 10 p.K13]

79.06.12 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—158:14]

June 12, 1979, 8:00 & 10:00pm / The Gnu Deli, Olympia, WA

1. improvisation [66:58]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 (ts section–16:30; dr solo–6:17; p section–15:21; b solo–10:53; fl+voc section–17:57)
2. improvisation [87:37]  (split track at 46:32 and 70:43)
 (ss section–19:02; tu solo w/ dr brush backing—5:10; p section–3:38; p solo–3:51; p section–7:39;
 b solo–10:30; fl+voc section–13:30; dr solo w/ circus backing–7:17; fl+voc section–16:54)
—Around 9:00 into the 2nd set flute section Rivers goes off with his multiphonics and is accompanied by a carnivalesque
 chorus of euphonium, slide-whistles, bird-calls, whistles, and kazoos that sounds like a Three-Ring Psychotic Duck Circus
 with the insane uncle of Tom Waits as the ring-master. The crowd laughs out loud, and I did too.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu, kazoo maybe), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr, perc, flutes, whistles)

{3CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.05; Poster, The RivBea Archive; Norbert Kreutzer 05.11.01}


  • 79.06.15 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    7:00pm, Waterfront Park, Portland, OR [The Oregonian Jun 15 p.E1 + E10 + Jun 19 p.A13]
    "Portland Center for the Visual Arts... in case of rain." —The Oregonian Jun 15

79.06.17 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA—97:31]

June 17, 1979, 3:00pm / Third Annual San Antonio Jazz Festival, Carver Community Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX

RivBea Archive / Reel #8A
 Soundcheck [4:37]  SR: "Tuba in the monitors, please."
1. improvisation [84:03]  (split track at 68:38)
 (ts section–14:13; dr solo–9:30; p trio–5:46; p section w/ tu solo–12:09; b solo–7:39;
 ss section–15:07; tu solo w/ minimal perc–4:14; fl-voc section–15:25)
2. improvisation/encore [5:34]  (incomplete, cuts out)
 (p solo–3:09; p section–2:25)
—RBA Reel #8A: "3,600 ft. 10-inch reel at 7.5 ips, half-track. This was apparently the closing set of a jazz festival.
 I tracked the intro and tuning as one track. The music was continuous and ran over 80 minutes, and I had to make the flute
 section and the encore a second disc. The tape runs out before the encore is finished." —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bobby Battle (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #8A; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 20.01.06; Joe Washek 10.10.21; San Antonio Light Jun 15 Weekend p.8}


  • 79.06.22 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Studio RivBea Festival, Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, NYC
    [The New York Times Jun 17 p.D41 + Robert Palmer "Jazz: RivBea Festival" Jun 25 p.C14]
    "This year, with new jazz more established as a concert draw and most of the musician-run lofts closed, the RivBea Festival...
    was held at Joseph Papp's Public Theater. There were four shows on Friday night, with Mr. Rivers leading a 30-piece orchestra at each
    performance and using various groups drawn from the orchestra as opening acts. Mr. Rivers opened the first show with his quartet."
    —Robert Palmer

79.06.22 (2) • Sam Rivers & The Studio RivBea Orchestra: The World of Sam Rivers [BR—30:23]

—6th Session [See also 78.01.20; 78.06.30; 78.10.02; 78.10.00; 79.04.27]

June 22, 1979 / RivBea Festival, New Jazz at the Public Theatre, New York City
—National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive" The World of Sam Rivers, WKCR-FM Broadcast "Live from Public Theater" 11:00pm June 22, 1979
 NPR Broadcast December 2, 1979 & July 19, 1981.

 Broadcast announcement [0:09]
1. "An excerpt from his orchestral suite." [28:58]
 Broadcast band intro [0:56]
"Played one movement from a larger work by the leader... a march-like feel in the ensemble sections... alternating looser soloistic sections."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Steve Coleman (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar), Jimmy Vass, John Stubblefield, John Purcell,
Ron Bridgewater, Lee Rozie, Bill Cody, James Ware, and James Stewart (reeds),
Jack Walrath, Oliver Beamer, Frank Gordon, and Ted Daniel (tp), Ray Anderson, George Lewis, Charles Deffinitz, and Richard Harper (tb),
Vincent Chancey, John Clark, and Greg Williams (frh), Joe Daley and Bob Stewart (tu),
Abdul Wadud, Pat Dixon, and Muneer Abdul Fataah (ce), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker and Warren Smith (perc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.06; The New York Times Jun 17 p.D41 + Jun 22 p.C28; Daily News Jun 22 p.18;
Norbert Kreutzer 05.11.06; CODA Aug 1979 #168 p.34; Anonymous 06.01.01}


  • 79.06.23 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Studio RivBea Festival, Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, NYC
    [The New York Times Jun 17 p.D41 + Robert Palmer "Jazz: RivBea Festival" Jun 25 p.C14]
  • 79.06.23 (2) - Sam Rivers & The Studio RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Steve Coleman (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    Jimmy Vass, John Stubblefield, John Purcell, Ron Bridgewater, Lee Rozie, Bill Cody, James Ware, and James Stewart (reeds),
    Jack Walrath, Oliver Beamer, Frank Gordon, and Ted Daniel (tp), Ray Anderson, George Lewis, Charles Deffinitz, and Richard Harper (tb),
    Vincent Chancey, John Clark, and Greg Williams (frh), Joe Daley and Bob Stewart (tu),
    Abdul Wadud, Pat Dixon, and Muneer Abdul Fataah (ce), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker and Warren Smith (perc) /
    Studio RivBea Festival, Joseph Papp's Public Theatre, NYC
    [The New York Times Jun 17 p.D41 + Robert Palmer "Jazz: RivBea Festival" Jun 25 p.C14;
    Daily News Jun 22 p.18; New York Magazine Jun 25, 1979 p.28]


  • Marathon Tribute to Miles Davis July 1, 1979, 3:00pm—July 6, 1979, 9:00pm

    "A 125-hour Miles Davis festival is being broadcast around the clock by the Columbia University radio station until midnight Thursday.
    All the recordings made by the trumpet player, most of them cut between 1945 and 1975, will be heard on WKCR-FM (89.9 megahertz).
    There will also be a number of interviews with the jazzman's contemporaries, including Sam Rivers, Percy Heath and Bill Evans.
    The festival, the longest the station has ever broadcast, was put together by the WKCR jazz department, under the direction of Bill
    Goldberg. Other recent festivals have included Eric Dolphy, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Cecil Taylor, and Sonny Rollins."
    ["125 Hours of Miles Davis Being Carried on WKCR" The New York Times Jul 2 p.C15;
    WKCR Miles Davis Festival Handbook, compiled by Bill Goldberg]
    —Rivers' contribution was a pre-recorded interview (no info on when this was taken) + a live tape from
     Kyoto, Japan (64.07.14), broadcast on July 5 from 12:30am to 1:00am.

79.07.05 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR]

July 5, 1979 / Kent State University Jazz Festival, Kent, Ohio
—Broadcast WCBN-FM Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan, on "Reel Live Music,"

1... compositions [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Don Pullen (p), Dave Holland (b), others...

{Anonymous}


  • 79.07.13 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Bobby Battle (dr) /
    6:30pm, 4th International North Sea Jazz Festival, Carrousel Zaal, Congresgebouw, Den Haag, Netherlands

79.07.13 (2) • Archie Shepp & Sam Rivers Double Quartet [BR—37:56]

July 13, 1979, 8:15pm / 4th International North Sea Jazz Festival, Carrousel Zaal, Congresgebouw, Den Haag, Netherlands
—Circulating misdated 79.07.14.

1. improvisation [37:28]  (incomplete, fades in; w/ Broadcast announcement over opening few seconds)
 Broadcast announcement [0:20]
"According to the searchable archive... from the festival website, the exact date would be July 13, 1979 (so not the 14th).
The venue was called Carrousel Zaal, Congresgebouw, Den Haag (Carrousel Hall, Congress Center, The Hague).
That evening, on 6:15 PM the Sam Rivers Quartet played in that hall, followed at 7:15pm by the Archie Shepp Quartet.
On 8:15pm, both groups were joined together on stage." —Sander Piek 07.02.08

Archie Shepp (ts, ss), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Siegfried Kessler (p),
Dave Holland and Yon Takahashi (b), Clifford Jarvis and Bobby Battle (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.06; Franz Herzog 06.03.23; Stars and Stripes Jun 2 p.19; Billboard Jun 2, 1979 p.61; www.northseajazz.nl}


79.07.14 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

July 14, 1979 / 4th International Northsea Jazz Festival, Congress Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1... compositions [ : ]
—RBA Reel #57, 58, and 59: [Same on all reels] "A 10-inch reel in a Pyral Professional box. The tape is 3 inches wide
 and is definitely multitrack. On the back of the box is written, 'RivBea Orchestra 4/7/79 [sic] The Hague.' There are no other
 notations on the box... I do not have multitrack equipment to play this tape." —Joe Washek
—Reel #57 is marked "Reel No. 1" on the back; #58 has "Reel No. 2;" #59 has "Reel No. 3."
—RivBea database had all three of these misdated "4.7.1979" following Washek's lead, but boxes are marked the 14th.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Steve Coleman (as), Hamiett Bluiett (bar), Chico Freeman and Dwayne Armstrong (reeds),
Ted Daniels, Olu Dara, and Jack Walrath (tp), George Lewis and Ray Anderson (tb),
Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reels #57, 58, + 59; Festival Program + recording 24-track sheet, The RivBea Archive;
Joe Washek 10.10.21; Billboard Aug 18, 1979 p.39}


  • 79.07.20 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    4th International Wiesen Jazz Festival, Wiesen, Austria [Stars and Stripes Jul 14 p.19]
  • 79.08.08 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra / 1:00pm, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, NYC [New York Magazine Aug 13, 1979 p.25]


    Sam Rivers Quartet Cornish Institute for the Allied Arts Residency, August 20 through August 24, 1979 : : :

  • 79.08.20 to 08.22 (1) - Sam Rivers Quartet Workshop: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) / Cornish Institute, Seattle, WA
    [Seattle Post-Intelligencer Aug 23 p.C6 clipping + undated Down Beat review of the Residency, The RivBea Archive;
    CODA Aug 1979 #168 p.37]
  • 79.08.20 to 08.22 (2) - Sam Rivers Quartet + The Seattle Composers & Improvisers Orchestra /
    Evening Rehearsals, Cornish Institute, Seattle, WA
    [Undated Down Beat review of the Residency, The RivBea Archive]

79.08.23 • Sam Rivers Quartet with The Seattle Composers & Improvisers Orchestra [AR—113:43]

August 23, 1979, 8:00pm / "The Cornish Institute Presents," Moore Egyptian Theater, Seattle, WA

1. composition [60:39]  (split track at 46:35)
 applause, announcement [1:24]
2. composition [51:38]  (music fades out and back in at 43:16)
—"Two Holland tunes..."
—Audience Recording has CIO on "track 1 only," probably the two Holland pieces, with the quartet playing set two.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr),
+ The CIO: Denney Goodhew (as), two unknown (reeds), James Knapp and Doug Canning (tp),
unknown (tb), unknown (frh), unknown (tu), unknown (g), unknown (vn), unknown (ce), unknown (elb)

{Seattle Post-Intelligencer Aug 23 p.C6 clipping + undated Down Beat review of the Residency, The RivBea Archive;
Seattle Daily Times Aug 20 p.A16; Norbert Kreutzer 06.01.16; CODA Aug 1979 #168 p.37}


  • 79.08.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet Workshop: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Cornish Institute, Seattle, WA
    [Seattle Post-Intelligencer Aug 23 p.C6 clipping + undated Down Beat review of the Residency, The RivBea Archive]


79.11.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—31:00 & BVR—15:46]

November 6, 1979 / Teatro CIAK, Milano, Italy
—"Schlegge/Raitre" TV Broadcast

Broadcast Audio Recording:
1. Evening Breeze [30:57]  (incomplete, chopped all to hell: cuts in; cuts out during dr solo; cuts in on p section; cuts out at end)
 (ts section–9:28; dr solo–0:21; p section–8:23; fl+voc section–12:32)
Broadcast Video Recording:
1. Evening Breeze (excerpt) [15:46]  (incomplete, cuts in; cuts out during dr solo; cuts in on p section)
 (ts section–8:49; dr solo–0:17; p section–6:40)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr)

{CDr + DVD, track detailing RL 20.01.06}


  • 79.11.10 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr) /
    Jazz Cascais '79, 9.° Festival Internacional, 21:30hr, Cascais, Portugal
    [Unidentified full-page magazine ad and profile, The RivBea Archive]

79.11.15 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—148:17 & AVR—59:34]

November 15, 1979 / Loft, München, Germany
—AVR is posted on Youtube in six parts and mis-dated as the 14th.

Audio Recording:
1. improvisation [70:10]
 (ts section–27:02; dr solo–6:56; p section–11:56; b solo–8:36; fl+voc section–15:55)
2. improvisation [76:30]
 (ss section–24:30; b solo–14:10; p section–16:55; dr solo–5:55; fl+voc section–15:00)
—Video Recording is the opening 58:16 of 1st Set, includes 1:18 of pre-game setup, and cuts out around five minutes into the flute section.
 Video ID #J83DsYQJ_D0 [9:58], n_Q1c60JoaM [9:58], E3EqShzeCIs [9:41], 0ASd7s_Ycmw [9:57], j6zVWimr3_8 [9:57], hHCv6tjhQbE [9:54].

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, ss, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{2CDr + DVD, track detailing RL 20.01.07; YouTube videos by "hughenmatt"}


79.11.17 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—2:28:00]

November 11, 1979, 20:00hr / The Loft, Munich, Germany

1. improvisation [148:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, ss, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Thurman Barker (dr, perc)

{Loft schedule + Jazzpodium Stefan Weskott review Jan 1980, The RivBea Archive; Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


79.11.20 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR—89:43]

November 20, 1979, 21:00hr / Piemonte Autunno Jazz 79, Palasport, Turin, Italy

1. composition [28:52]
2. composition [39:02]  (split track at 15:25)
3. composition [20:28]  (incomplete, fades out)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp, Cond), Chico Freeman, Steve Coleman, Hamiet Bluiett, and Duane Armstrong (reeds),
Malachi Thompson, Jack Walrath, and Oliver Beamer (tp), Malachi Thompson (cor), Charles Stevens and Craig Harris (tb),
Richard Ancell [or Pincell] (tu), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr)

 —Pre-concert promo had drastically different players credited, substituting Ted Daniel, Rank Gordon, and Olu Dara for the three trumpets;
  George Lewis and Ray Henderson for the two trombones; Joe Daley for the tuba; and Ricky Ford in place of Duane Armstrong on reeds.
  [www.centrojazztorino2.it/index.php/1979j/piemonteautunnojazz1979]

{2CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.11; inconstantsol.blogspot.com/; Patrick Clare 13.04.04; track detailing RL 18.08.14}


  • 1979:

    Thurman Barker: ...after the Waves record, we went on tour. Contrasts was also done while we were on tour...
    [Barker, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM NYC, November 18, 1985, www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php?read=panken13]
    ———


79.12.04 and 79.12.05 • Sam Rivers: Contrasts

1980: ECM 1162 (LP) Ger; ECM-1-1162 (LP); ECM-M5E-1162 (CS);
    ECM/Trio Records PAP-9227 (LP, Obi, Promo only) Jpn;
2014: ECM 1162 (CD, Re:solutions Series) Ger [+ LP, same configuration];
    ECM Records, no release# (7xFile, FLAC, 24-Bit Remaster) Ger;
    ECM Records 3743508 (CD) UK;
    ECM 1162 (7xFile, AIFF, 24-Bit Remaster)
  • (V/A) ECM Sampler 7
    1980: ECM PRO-E-895 (LP, Promo only)
  • (V/A) The Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time: Contemporary Currents
    1986: Franklin Mint Record Society Jazz 25 (4-LP)
        [+ (4-LP) Swd, Red Box and Vinyl]
  • (V/A) Re:solutions Series (ECM Reissues 2014/I)
    2013: ECM no release# (CDr, Promo only) Ger
  • (V/A) Re: Seoul
    2013: ECM 2365 (CD, Promo only) Ger
        Exhibition Special Sampler in Seoul, South Korea
        "ECM—Think of your ears as eyes"
  • (V/A) Ecm—The Story of Our Listening
    2014: Musica Jazz ECM/MJCD 1278 (CD) It
        Supplement to Musica Jazz Magazine, Issue No.4 December 2014
  • (V/A) Top Jazz 2014
    2014: Musica Jazz MJCD 1288 (CD) It
        Supplement to Musica Jazz Magazine, Issue No.1 January 2015
  • Sam Rivers: Samthology
    2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
       —9th Session: [See also 61.12.14; 67.03.17; 71.02.13; 73.08.03;
                   73.11.10; 74.03.04; 75.12.09; 78.08.08; 92.01.12]

December 4 and 5, 1979 / Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg, Germany

1. Circles [4:10]
2. Zip [4:42]
3. Solace [6:54]
4. Verve [7:09]
5. Dazzle [9:12]
6. Images [3:48]
7. Lines [7:15]
Ecm—The Story of Our Listening, Re:solutions Series,
 and Re: Seoul have tracks 1 and 3.
ECM Sampler 7 and Samthology have track 2.
Top Jazz 2014 has track 4.
Contemporary Currents has track 6.

"A colleague in Munich went digging in the old files and found old documentation
suggesting that the Contrasts recording session was on December 4 and 5, 1979.
He said they may even have added December 6 as a recording day, but that is
not clear." —Tina Pelikan

"Dear Subscriber: All good things must come to an end, and here is the final album
in your collection of The Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time... This extra-special
collection must go out in a blaze of glory. So here is an album full to bursting
with fascinatin' rhythms of all kinds."
—The Franklin Mint Record Society letter, The RivBea Archive

Images, top to bottom:
Original release LP cover
Re: Seoul CD cover, 2013 ECM Promo
Contemporary Currents LP Box, Franklin Mint Society (1986)

Sam Rivers (ts-2,5, ss-1,3,6,7, fl-4,6, Comp),
George Lewis (tb),
Dave Holland (b),
Thurman Barker (dr, mba)

okay

okay

okay
{ECM 1-1162; ECM PRO-E-895; Franklin Mint Jazz 098A; Samthology; Tina Pelikan (ECM publicist) via John Chacona 19.04.11}


    79.12.09: First Broadcast of 78.06.30 mistakenly circulating under this date.


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  • 1980:

    "Now in smaller quarters at 442 Tenth Avenue, Studio RivBea continues to function as it was originally intended to:
    as a rehearsal and instruction studio."
    [Fred Goodman interviews Sam Rivers, NYC Jazz Feb 4-Mar 3 p.4]
    ———

    "In his new studio, Rivers rehearses a big band of 35 musicians called the Young Musicians' Orchestra seven nights a week.
    He also continues to write for his 12-piece RivBea Orchestra and practice with his small ensemble."
    [Keith Raether "Sam Rivers Jazz Concert Planned for KiMo Feb. 16" feature/interview The Albuquerque Tribune Feb 6 p.4]
    ———


    January 16, 1980 - "The Sam Rivers Orgy," 10:00am on WHRB-FM in Boston, MA. Starting your day off right.
    [The Boston Globe Jan 16 p.19]


  • 80.02.14 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr) / 9:00pm, Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin, TX
    [Patrick Clare 08.11.05; Austin American-Statesman Feb 3 p.169]

    Ticket! A ticket to the event...
    Courtesy Patrick Clare

  • 80.02.16 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop / 9:00am, KiMo Theater, Albuquerue, NM [Albuquerque Journal Feb 15 p.103]

80.02.16 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—45:36]

February 16, 1980, 8:00pm / KiMo Theater, Albuquerue, NM

RivBea Archive / Reel #40
1. improvisation [44:44]  (incomplete, beginning moments cut off)
 (ts section–20:13; dr solo–5:37; fl+voc section–11:27; b solo–5:00; fl+voc section–2:27)
—RBA Reel #40: "A ½-track recording at 7.5-ips, 10.5" reel; ‘#40’ written on box and circled, ‘Sam Rivers Trio Reel II 2/16/1980 Albuquerue, NM.’
 It was spliced about half way through and the splice was broken." —Joe Washek, June 2008
—RBA Reel #39 has no notes other than "Reel I."

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

 —Santa Fe New Mexican mistakenly has Thurman Barker on drums pre-concert.

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #39 and 40; CDr copy of #40, track detailing RL 19.04.20;
Concert flyer + The Albuquerque Tribune Feb 6 p.4 + Feb 23 clippings, The RivBea Archive; Albuquerque Journal Feb 15 p.103;
Santa Fe New Mexican Feb 15 Weekend p.9}


80-81.00.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—91:31]

1980 to '81, 10:00pm / unknown, probably Europe
—The trio was overseas for several mini-tours between 80.02.19 and 81.01.25.

1. improvisation [80:34]  (split track at 21:01, 24:12, 26:56, and 45:26)
 ts section–12:08; ts solo–3:57; ts section–4:56; dr solo–5:54; p section–6:24; p solo–5:59;
 p section–6:08, incomplete, cuts out; b solo–7:45; fl+voc section–14:09; fl solo–3:54; fl+voc section–9:14)
2. improvisation/encore [9:49]  (ss section; incomplete, cuts out)
—RBA Cassette #203 is a C-120: "Box is marked Karl Berger and Friends, Studio Rivbea, April 14, 1973, Sam Rivers (ss); Karl Berger (p, vibes);
 Ingrid Berger (vocal, perc); Dave Holland (b); Steve Haas (dr)... A trio session of unknown date. It’s a marvelous performance, well recorded
 from the audience. Sam’s opening ts section is some of the most lyrical and energized playing I’ve heard from him. A beautifully shaped
 solo with a long unaccompanied cadenza. Piano solo is knotty and severe at first, but turns lyrical with blues and gospel in it. A terrific Dave
 Holland solo. The flute section is really intense and there’s another lovely cadenza. From the size of the audience and the personnel...
 I would say it was recorded in a big European hall... in 1980." —Ed Hazell

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #203, track detailing RL 19.07.11; Ed Hazell}


80.02.19 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—60:00]

February 19, 1980 / Bloomdido Jazz Café, Brussels, Belgium

1. improvisation [60:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


80.02.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:11:40]

February, 1980 / Gluepot Tavern, Auckland, New Zealand

1. improvisation [71:34]  (incomplete, fades in)
 (ts section–15:32; b solo–8:57; el-p section–14:38; dr solo–7:26; ce solo–6:17; fl+voc section–18:44)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, el-p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.20}


  • 80.03.09 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Holland (ce, b) / 9:00pm, Lulu White's, Boston, MA
    [The Boston Globe Mar 9 p.2B]

80.03.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—2:49:00]

March 20, 1980 / Ülm, Germany

1. improvisation [169:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


  • 80.03.00 (21st or 23rd) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    "Urban Jazz in the Ballroom," Wiener Jazz Frühling, Wiener, Germany [www.lps.at/festivals/wrjazz.html]

80.03.22 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—97:01]

March 22, 1980 / Jazzclub Schlachthof-Geststätte, Karlsruhe, Germany

1. improvisation [66:41]
 (ts section–20:33; dr solo–7:08; ss section–22:12; b solo–8:25; fl+voc section–8:23)
2. improvisation [28:33]
 (ss section–17:07; b solo–5:51; ts section–5:35)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.21}


80.03.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:28:55]

March 24, 1980, 22:00hr / Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany

1. improvisation [64:28]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
 (ts section–26:36; p section–20:29; fl+voc section–17:21)
2. improvisation [64:27]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
 (ts section–32:13; p section–32:04)
—A few seconds are missing at end of track 1 and "about eight minutes are missing" from track 2 due to tape run-outs.

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)
Das Magazin bits all have Thurman Barker expected to appear on drums.

{Undated pre-concert Das Magazin clippings + Jürgen Engelhardt review "Musikalische Protestplakate" Berliner Mar 26, The RivBea Archive;
Recording info Mario Grenz 18.12.26}


  • 80.03.25 - Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    22:00hr, Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany [ibid]
    "A two day engagement at the Quasimodo on Monday and Tuesday, March 24 and 25, 1980."
  • 80.03.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 22:00hr, Club Malteserkeller, Aachen, Germany
    [Aachener Musik Forum Nummer 3 1980 clipping, The RivBea Archive]

80.03.28 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—35:26]

March 28, 1980 / Bunker Ulmenwall, Bielefeld, Germany

1st Set:
1. improvisation [35:14]  (incomplete, fades in, cuts out)
 (ts section–26:29; dr solo–7:15; p section–1:30)
Sam Rivers (ts, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.21}


  • 80.03.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    20:00hr, Restaurant Lindenhof, Braunschweig, Germany [Braunschweig Mar 26 clipping, The RivBea Archive]

80.04.01 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—132:47]

April 1, 1980 / Basel, Switzerland

1st Set:
1. improvisation [61:17]
 (ts section–18:23; dr solo–4:44; p section–13:18; b solo–8:08; fl+voc section–16:44)
2nd Set:
2. improvisation [56:47]
 (ss section–13:26; ce solo–9:23; p section–5:08; dr solo–7:54; fl+voc section–20:56)
3. encore [13:27]
 (p section–2:42; b solo–3:09; p interlude—0:17; dr solo–7:19)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.21}


80.04.11 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—87:00]

April 11, 1980 / Public Theatre, New York City

1. improvisation [87:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Jan Ström 11.01.11; CODA #173 June 1980 p.34}


80.04.12 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR—23:38]

April 12, 1980 / Public Theatre, New York City

1. unknown composition [22:42]
—Recording ends with introductions and thank-yous, indicating this was the final composition of the evening.
—Most circulating copies (but not mine) are followed by: "title/faded-in [17:56]; title [7:10]."
 "[These additional titles] Misinterpreted as Sam Rivers Orchestra but in my opinion is additional material
 from..." George Russell Orchestra 78.05.08 at Village Vanguard, NYC. —Norbert Kreutzer

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Chico Freeman, John Purcell, Marty Ehrlich, and Bobby Eldridge (reeds),
Oliver Beamer, Malachi Thompson, and Stanton Davis (tp), Charles Stevens and Craig Harris (tb),
Bob Stewart (tu), Dave Holland (b), Freddie Waits (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.21; Norbert Kreutzer 05.12.26}


  • 80.04.19 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    "Evening," Centro Jazz St. Louis, Rome, Italy [l'Unità Apr 22 p.12 + Apr 25]

80.04.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—90:00]

April 20, 1980, 5:30pm / Centro Jazz St. Louis, Rome, Italy

1. improvisation [90:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{centrostudi.sienajazz.it/archivioSonoroRisultati.asp, #DT0112; l'Unità Apr 22 p.12}


80.04.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—75:42]

April, 1980 / Perugia, Italy

1st Set:
1. improvisation [69:38]  (incomplete, split track at 46:16)
 (ts section–29:45, cuts off; dr solo–8:51; p section–10:01;
 b solo–6:59; b + dr duo–2:36; fl+voc section–13:09)
2nd Set:
2. improvisation [46:35]
 (ss section–30:58, cuts out and back in at 15:14; ce solo–11:52, w/ p+dr comp 31:45-39:45; p solo–0:18, incomplete, cuts out)
—Timings above are from CDr (1st Set, which is cut up more into segments) and Video (2nd Set).

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce-2, b-1), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Marco Renzini YouTube video ID #s b37Z9yTvrEw, C5dLHCW-YtU, 8Trsde9CVU4, EInfiNCbpWg, + dy_OgwR-Mr4, track detailing RL 19.04.22;
CDr of 1st Set, track detailing RL 19.12.14}


  • 80.04.24 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce-2, b-1), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    City Hall Café, Naples, Italy [l'Unita Apr 6 p.13 + Apr 26 p.13]
    "Braxton finished his concert, and with all those from the Jazz Club he went to the Corso Vittorio Emanuele to say hello to Sam Rivers."
  • 80.04.25 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 21:15hr, Calabria Jazz, Teatro Comunale, Reggio, Italy
    [Gazetta del Sud Anno 29 n.109 "Spettacoli" Apr 23 p.10 + Anno 29 n.113 Apr 27 clippings + Calabria Jazz postcard, The RivBea Archive]
  • 80.04.26 + 04.27 - Sam Rivers Trio / "Evening," on the 26th; 5:30pm on the 27th, Centro Jazz St. Louis, Rome, Italy
    [Roberto Sasso l'Unita (review of 04.19-20) Apr 22 p.12]
    "The St. Louis Jazz Center offering four evenings. Two this weekend and two next."
  • 80.04.29 - Sam Rivers Trio / Rassegna Jazz, Centro di Cultura Popolare, 21:00hr, Cinema King, Bari, Italy
    [Poster, The RivBea Archive; Musica Jazz May 1980 p.32 + October 1980 p.27]

80.04.30 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—79:34]

April 30, 1980 / Foggia, Italy

1. improvisation [78:58]  (split track at 45:10)
 (ts section–22:58; dr solo–8:42; ss section–7:20; ss solo–2:17; ss section–3:53;
 b solo–8:17; fl+voc section–9:18; voc section w/ introductions–14:20; fl section–1:53)
—Digital files of a "shorter" version at 66:42 is actually this session sped up (i.e., the tenor sax version of 22:58 on CDr is at 19:41 on the digital). The formerly "unknown" vocalist doing the scat solo in between the two flute sections is actually Rivers, who is easily identifiable in the longer version. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), unknown (voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{CDr (+ Digital sound files), track detailing RL 19.12.14; inconstantsol.blogspot.com; Ernst Grgo Nebhuth 19.04.25}


  • 80.05.01 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Ente Corsa All'Anello, Manifestazioni Artistico Culturali 1980, 21:00hr, Auditorium San Domenico, Narni, Italy
    [Festival flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 80.05.02 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / On the Road Rassegna Jazz, 21:00hr, Teatro Scuola, Modena, Italy
    [Festival program, The RivBea Archive]
  • 80.05.03 + 05.04 - Sam Rivers Trio / "Evening," on the 3rd; 5:30pm on the 4th, Centro Jazz St. Louis, Rome, Italy
    [Roberto Sasso l'Unita (review of 04.19-20) Apr 22 p.12]
  • 80.05.06 through 80.05.10 - Sam Rivers (no personnel details) / 9:30 and 11:30pm + 1:15am Friday and Saturday, Fat Tuesday's, NYC
    [The New York Times May 4 p.167 + May 6 p.C17; New York Magazine May 12, 1980 p.117]


  • 80.05.13 - Composers' Composers: Jacob Druckman and Sam Rivers present Jan Radzynski and Abdul Wadud in concert /
    8:00pm, The Drawing Center, NYC [The Record May 9 p.B3]


  • 80.05.17 - Sam Rivers Solo / New Jazz Benefit Concert Series, 10:00pm, Public Theatre, NYC
    [New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater press release, The RivBea Archive; Flyer from Patrick Clare archive;
    The New York Times May 11 p.D38 + May 16 p.C1; CODA #173 June 1980 p.34]
    CODA mistakenly has this as April 17.
    "Since the suspension of the regular season of New Jazz at the Public due to funding problems, a special series of benefit concerts
    have been planned and will begin on May 17. Proceeds from these concerts will be used to underwrite future Ne Jazz events."
    —Public Theater press release
  • 80.05.23 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Holland (ce, b) /
    9:00 and 11:00pm, DC Space, Washington, DC [The RivBea Archive]

80.05.24 • Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [AR—125:09]

May 24, 1980, 9:00 and 11:00pm / DC Space, Washington, DC
—Also circulating mis-dated 78.06.24.

1. improvisation [58:31]  (split track)
1. improvisation [66:38]  (split track)
"Two shows."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b)

{Jakob Blumenthal 10.10.12; Michael McLaughlin 04.01.05}


  • 80.05.29 + 05.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) / The Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
    [Jazz Gallery May schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 80.06.03 to 06.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Edmonton Jazz Society, 8:30pm, Espace Tournesal, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    [Edmonton Journal Jun 3 p.17 + review Jun 4 p.13]
  • 80.06.08 - Sam Rivers Trio / 9:00pm, The Showbox, Seattle, WA [Patrick Clare 12.01.26; Show flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 80.06.10 + 06.11 - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:30 & 10:30pm + 12:30am 13th and 14th, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Keystone Korner June schedule + San Francisco Examiner Jun 11 p.39 clipping, The RivBea Archive; Bay Area Reporter Jun 5 p.28]

80.06.12 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

June 12, 1980 / Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA

1. improvisation [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #21; Keystone Korner June schedule + San Francisco Examiner Jun 11 p.39 clipping, The RivBea Archive}


  • 80.06.13 to 06.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    8:30 & 10:30pm + 12:30am 13th and 14th, Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA
    [Keystone Korner June schedule + San Francisco Examiner Jun 11 p.39 clipping, The RivBea Archive; Bay Area Reporter Jun 5 p.28]
  • 80.06.16 - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:00pm, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA [The Californian Jun 14 p.36]
  • 80.06.19 Sam Rivers Trio / "The Jazz Musician Presents," 8:00 & 10:30pm, De Anza Hotel, San Jose, CA [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 80.06.20 to 06.22 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Holland (b) / 9:00pm, The Lighthouse, Hermosa Beach, CA
    [LA Weekly Jun 20-26 p.58; San Bernadino Sun Jun 20 p.49]

80.06.28 • Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo [SBR—52:40]

June 28, 1980 / Festival de Pisa, Pisa, Italy

1. improvisation [52:40]  (split track at 23:08 and 45:21)
 (ts,b—11:30; b solo–5:39; p,b—5:46; p solo–2:39; ce solo–0:57; ss,ce—7:32; ce solo–5:30; fl,ce—2:49; fl+voc solo–1:45; fl,b—7:53)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.27; CODA #175 October 1 1980 p.37; "Pisa Jazz, Scopre l'Esotico" l'Unita Jun 25 p.10}


    Summer Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center : : :
    —Improvisation and Composition Workshop; One major concert; Three informal duet concerts.

  • 80.08.06 - Sam Rivers & Warren Smith Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Smith (dr, perc) / Duo Concert #1,
    7:30pm, Faulkner Recital Hall, Music Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH [ibid]
    —Also Duo Concerts #2 (80.08.20) and #3 (80.08.27).
  • 80.08.09 - Sam Rivers and The Dartmouth Summer Jazz Ensemble with Guest Artists, Dan Glasgo (Dir)
    + Special Guests Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith (perc) /
    8:30pm, Spaulding Auditorium, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH [ibid]

    —Part I—The Dartmouth Summer Jazz Ensemble with Sam Rivers, Guest Artist
    1. This Bass Was Made for Walkin' (Thad Jones)
    2. Concerto for Cootie (Duke Ellington)
    3. Angel Man (Jimmy Heath)
    4. Self Portrait in Three Colors (Charles Mingus)
    5. Hora Decubitus (Charles Mingus)
    6. Home Fries (Don Glasgo)
    7. Green Dolphin Street (Klaper/Glasgo)
    8. Oye Como Va (Tito Puente)
    9. Para Los Rumberos (Tito Puente)
      Sam Rivers (ts-4,5,7, ss-6, fl-3), The Dartmouth Summer Jazz Ensemble: Jay Clemens (ts), Mike Gelich (ts, cl, fl),
      Tim Macaulay (as, ss, fl), Kevin MacNeil (as, fl), Glenn Grube (bar),
      Jeff Zimmerman and Robert Schell (tp), Dave Ellis and John Carrington (tp, flg), Mark Klarich (tp, perc),
      Kerek Frierson, Peter Desrosiers, Paul Becker, and Mike Kremer (tb), Dave Silbersweig (tb, perc),
      Paul Yelder (p), Kyle Grimes (g), Doug Andrews (b), Julian Bull and Mary Glaser (perc)

    —Part II—SHADES
    1. Shades Parts I, II, and III (Rivers)
      The Dartmouth Summer Jazz Ensemble (as above), + Sam Rivers (reeds, Cond), Jim Filiano (ss), Mary Fusco (cl), Susan Ringler (fl),
      Don Glasgo (v-tb), Richard Van Kleeck and Helen Lukash (frh), Guest Artists Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (b), Warren Smith (perc)

    —Part III—The Sam Rivers Quartet
    1. improvisation
      Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Dave Holland (ce, b), Warren Smith (perc)

    [Event program + Dartmouth College Hopkins Center press release dated July 29 1980, The RivBea Archive;
    The Brattleboro Reformer Aug 6 p.5]

  • 80.08.10 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b) /
    Real Art Ways' RAW August Jazz Festival, 9:00pm, Old State House Green, Hartford, CT
    [RAW August Jazz mailer, RAW monthly schedule, + The New Haven RegisterAug 3 clipping, The RivBea Archive;
    Hartford Courant Aug 3 p.G1 + Aug 8 p.55]
  • 80.08.11 through 80.08.14 - Carman Moore with Sam Rivers, others... / Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden, NYC
    [Billboard Aug 30, 1980 p.94]

    okay


  • 80.08.15 and 80.08.16 - Festival of Innovative Music conceived by Carman Moore presenting works by Sam Rivers /
    9:00pm, Lenox Arts Music Center, Hartford, CT
    [Hartford Courant Aug 7 p.7, Aug 9 p.7, + Aug 15 p.62; Berkshire Eagle Aug 16 p.5]
    "Sam Rivers will premiere new music and dance."
  • 80.08.20 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Holland (ce, b) / Duo Concert #2,
    7:30pm, Faulkner Recital Hall, Music Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    [Dartmouth College Hopkins Center press release dated July 29 1980, The RivBea Archive]
    —Also Duo Concerts #1 (80.08.06) and #3 (80.08.27).
  • 80.08.27 - Sam Rivers & Joe Daley Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Daley (tu/eu) / Duo Concert #3,
    7:30pm, Faulkner Recital Hall, Music Department, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH [ibid]
    —Also Duo Concerts #1 (80.08.06) and #2 (80.08.20).
  • 80.09.29 Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    The Basement, Sydney, Australia [Chris Frazier 14.02.20]
  • 80.09.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:30pm, The Met, Melbourne, Australia [The Age Sep 29 p.36 + Oct 3 review p.10]
  • 80.10.01 - Sam Rivers Trio / The Creole Room, Adelaide, Australia [J.A.M. Oct 1980 p.15]

80.10.02 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—44:18]

October 2, 1980 / The Cellar, Brisbane, Australia

RivBea Archive Reel #36
1. improvisation [44:14]
 (ts section–9:58; b solo–8:47; el-p section–12:45; dr solo–7:06; ss section–5:19, incomplete, cuts out)
—A 10.5" reel, "#36" written on box and circled, "Sam Rivers 2 Oct 2 80 [?] Brisbane The Cellar Compliments,"
 and a man's name and address, also written on box. —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, el-p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #36; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.05.03; Joe Washek, June 2008}


  • 80.10.03 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, el-p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr) / 8:30pm, The Met, Melbourne, Australia
    [The Age Sep 29 p.36 + Oct 3 review p.10]

80.10.04 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR]

October 4, 1980, 5:00pm / Australian National University Arts Centre, Canberra, Australia
—Recorded by Public Broadcasting Association of Australia for broadcast on affiliates only until October 4, 1981.
J.A.M. had this mistakenly as the 5th.

1. improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{J.A.M. Oct 1980 p.15; Poster + PBAA letter of agreement dated 4/10/1980, The RivBea Archive}


80.10.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—81:00+]

October 5, 1980 / The Basement, Sydney, Australia

1st Set:
1. improvisation [81:00+]
 (trio—20:20; b solo–8:20; b+dr duo—2:50; trio—6:48; p solo–4:27; trio—3:15, split track at 46:00;
 dr solo–7:50; trio—4:25; ce solo–6:25; trio—5:50; fl+voc—2:25; trio—8:05, incomplete, fades out)
2nd Set / no track times:
2. improvisation [ : ]
 (ss section; dr solo; p section)
—Recording has each return-to-trio section in this continuous performance arbitrarily track-marked as a "Movement:"
 1st Set has "Improvised Piece #1," followed by "Second" through "7th" Movements;
 2nd Set has "Improvised Piece #2," followed by "Second" through "Fourth" Movements.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Chris Frazier 18.04.02}


okay

  • 80.10.06 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    The Basement, Sydney, Australia [Chris Frazier 18.04.02]
  • 80.10.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:30pm, Ponsonby's Gluepot, Auckland, New Zealand
    [Rip It Up feature Oct 1980 + Aukland Star Oct 7 display ad clippings, The RivBea Archive; The Auckland Star Oct 16 p.15]
    "Last week's packed audience..."

80.10.00 • Sam Rivers [AR—7:10]

October, 1980 / Stockholm, Sweden

1. Interview segment [6:48]  (incomplete, cuts in)
—Possibly misdated and done in conjunction with the Stockholm gig on November 16.
—Rivers makes mention of a lecture given the day preceding the interview.

Sam Rivers / Interview given in conjunction with a session or tour by Rivers, Dave Holland, and Steve Ellington.

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.03}


  • 80.10.29 through 80.11.01 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Paris Jazz Festival, at the Dreher, Paris, France
    [Jazz en Sous-Sol au Dreher October-December schedule, The RivBea Archive; CODA Feb 1981 #177 p.36]

80.11.03 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—122:23]

November 3, 1980, 8:00pm / Praxis Jazz '80, Theatro Alambra, Athens, Greece

1. improvisation [77:17]  (incomplete, fades in; split track at 60:01)
 (ts section–10:24; ts solo–3:21; ts section–2:00; b solo–8:04; p section–11:25; dr solo–7:21;
 ss section–10:22; ce solo–8:13; fl+voc section–4:16; fl+voc solo–5:08; fl+voc section–6:35)
2. improvisation [36:43]
 (ss section–13:20; dr solo–7:16; ts section–4:10; b solo–7:58; fl+voc section–4:07)
3. encore [6:36]  (fl section, incomplete, fades out )
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.03; TZAZ #10 4ème Annee. Nos 34 + Praxis Jazz '80 Program, The RivBea Archive; John Chacona 18.08.10}


  • 80.11.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    National Jazz Party, 19:00hr, University Concert Hall, Jyvaskylä, Finland
    [Keskisuomalainen Kulttuuri Nov 10 p.7; Jazzpäivät Jyväskylässä Program, The RivBea Archive]


  • 80.11.15 - Sam Rivers' Studio RivBea Ensemble / Hopkins Center, Dartmouth, NH [CODA #176 December 1, 1980 p.38]
    —This never happened. The Rutland Daily Herald [Oct 28 feature p.7] had this as the "Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble," and goes on
     to say that the group had "a first-ever summer session when many of its musicians performed with artist-in-residence Sam Rivers
     as the Dartmouth Summer Jazz Ensemble," so this was clearly a CODA mis-read of the situation.

80.11.16 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:00:00]

November 16, 1980 / Club Fashing, Stockholm, Sweden

1... unknown titles [60:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Jan Ström 11.01.11}


  • 80.11.20 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    21:00hr, Caveau des Trinitaires, Metz, France
    [Unidentified newspaper clipping "Spectacles" Nov 15, The RivBea Archive]

80.11.21 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

November 21, 1980 / Caveau Des Trinitaires, Metz, France

1... unknown improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel #27, database notes: "Enregistrement Stereo, 2 Pistes Vitesse, 38 cm/s, Debut 2 Tartie [sic],
 Sam Rivers Caveau Des Trinitaires Metz 21 Nov 1980."
—Reel #30, database notes: "Enregistrement Stereo, 2 Pistes Vitesse, 38 cm/s, Fin de la 1 Partie,
 Sam Rivers Caveau Des Trinitaires Metz 21 Nov 1980, Bande Inteerrorn que an Milieu"
—Reel #31, notes per Joe Washek: "...10-inch reels in an Agfa-Gevaert box. On the back of the box is written, ‘Enregistrement Stereo,
 2 Pistes, Vitesse 38 cm/s,Sam Rivers Caveau Des Trinitaires Metz [21] Nov 1980, Fin de la 2° Partie, incomplete avec problimes de defilement.’
 There are no other notations on the box. Unfortunately, the tape is not wound on a standard reel but is instead wound around a steel disc.
 Apparently, the steel disc is designed to be clipped into a specially made reel which I do not have. The tape is already starting to come off
 the disc and it would be a very difficult and time-consuming job to transfer it manually to a standard reel. Also the chances of manually
 winding 2,400 feet of tape without reversing it or breaking it are slim. Unless I can find a clip-in reel, the tape cannot be played
 (at least by me)." —Washek's notes have date as "27 Nov 1980."
—Reel #56, database notes: "Enregistrement Stereo, 2 Pistes Vitesse, 38 cm/s, Fin de la 2 Partie, Debut 1 Partie [also],
 Sam Rivers Caveau Des Trinitaires Metz 21 Nov 1980."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel database #27, 30, 31, and 56; Joe Washek 10.10.21}


80.11.28 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:34:00]

November 28, 1980 / unknown venue, Munich, Germany

1. improvisation [94:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


  • 80.12.01 to 12.19 - Sam Rivers: "Resource Staff" with George Lewis, Pauline Oliveros, Edward Blackwell, Lee Konitz,
    Dave Holland, others; Artistic Director Karl Berger / The Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
    "The Winter Cycle 1980-81 Advanced Studies in Improvisational..."

    "[My] involvement here at Banff started in 1981. I came here with a pilot program that actually became the Creative Music Studio...
    [Berger] ...put together a collection of people... and we came up here and did about ten days around Christmas time."
    —Dave Holland interview w/ Bill Smith [CODA #229 December 1989 p.6]

    "I'm sure you got Dave's quote right, but what he said is wrong. Yes, Dave was at the pilot program in Banff, but that was in 1980, not '81.
    He actually was referring to another entry on your webpage. [80.12.01-19] I know this, because I was one of the people Karl Berger brought
    to the program. And technically, this was not part of Creative Music Studios (although many of the people there were from CMS, myself
    included). CMS was founded in the early '70s and was located near Woodstock, NY; and I have no idea what Dave meant by saying the Banff
    pilot project actually became the Creative Music Studio.’" —Bob Selcoe 04.06.29

    "If, by chance, the walls of Banff Centre had collapsed recently, the mountains surrounding that Jericho of High Art would have ben alive
    with the sound of chicken squawks, radar beeps, and primal honks. Making the rude noises were 25 young musicians from Canada, the US,
    and Europe, gathered together for 19 days in the Rocky Mountain resort to explore the agonies and ecstasies of improvisational composition
    with 10 of its most illustrious exponents... By the start of the project's third week, many performers and instructors were looking rather forlorn,
    the result of having donned the same T-shirt six days in a row, of chatting, jamming, rehearsing, writing until three in the morning, only to
    collapse for a meager five or six hours sleep before stumbling into a nine o'clock practice session or seminar with Berger, Rzewski, or Sam
    Rivers. One musician, a trumpet player from Brooklyn, became so ‘neurotic’ about his ability to read charts that he left Banff four days
    before the project's completion." —James Adams Edmonton Journal

    [Advertisement, CODA Aug 1980 #174 p.37; James Adams "Discipline bedevils Banff Jazz Forum" Edmonton Journal Dec 26 pp.E2+E6]


  • 80.12.16 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Holland (ce, b) /
    8:00pm, Margaret Greehnam Theatre, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada [Edmonton Journal Dec 12 p.D6]
  • —"Daily after hours sessions at Melissa's Missteak Restaurant in downtown Banff." [The Golden Star Dec 3 p.13]


    Creative Music Studio New Year's Intensive—December 27, 1980 through January 4, 1981

    "The 1980/1981 New Year's Intensive with Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, Joe Daley, and Special Guests" / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, NY
    [CODA #176 December 1, 1980 p.34; display ad clipping, The RivBea Archive]


1981 : : :


80.12.31 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—15:00]

December 31, 1980 / Creative Music Studio, Woodstock, New York
—WKCR Broadcast

1. improvisation [15:00]
—Circulating mistakenly crediting Barry Altschul on drums, and dated 81.01.01, but this is announced as a "New Year's Eve" set.

"For the New Years' concerts at Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio, Dave Holland also played with Lee Konitz,
and was very ill afterwards. He had a tooth infection that traveled into his heart and required life-threatening open-heart
surgery and put his career temporarily on hold." —Patrick Clare

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

{CDr; Ed Hazell; Patrick Clare 09.11.24}


81.01.06 • Sam Rivers [RBA]

January 6, 1981 / Zelda Bloomdido's, Northampton, MA

RivBea Archive / Reel 35
1... unknown titles [ : ]
—"‘10½-inch Reel ‘#35’ written on box and circled, ‘Bloomdido Set 1/1, 01 06 81, DBX 155, 7.5 ips, Quadrophonic, 4 tracks,’
 and an illegible name also written on box." —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Barry Altschul (perc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #35; Joseph Washek June 2008}


    Contemporary Music Network Spring Tour 1981—Sam Rivers Trio : : : January 11 through 25, 1981

  • 81.01.11 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (ce, b), Steve Ellington (dr) / 7:30pm, Round House, London, UK
  • "[Rivers] started off with 25 minutes on the tenor... but after that concentrated entirely on the flute and—more surprisingly—the piano...
    Holland, in fact, contributed two of the concert's highspots: his bass solo halfway through the first half, his cello solo halfway through
    the second... Each set is a continuous performance, lasting about an hour, with Rivers signalling a change of tack by playing a little trill
    or rhthmic figure." —Charles Fox, Statesman
  • 81.01.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:00pm, Solent Suite, Southampton, UK
  • 81.01.14 - Sam Rivers Trio / 7:45pm, Warwick University Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
  • 81.01.17 - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:00pm, Arnolfifi Gallery, Bristol, UK
  • 81.01.18 - Sam Rivers Trio / 7:30pm, Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, UK
  • 81.01.19 - Sam Rivers Trio / 7:30pm, Playhouse, Leeds, UK
  • 81.01.21 - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:00pm, Lyons Concert Hall, York University, York, UK
  • 81.01.23 - Sam Rivers Trio / 7:45pm, Birmingham and Midland Institute, Birmingham, UK
  • 81.01.24 - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:00pm, Hurlfield Arts Campus, Sheffield, UK
  • 81.01.25 - Sam Rivers Trio / 8:00pm, Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, UK

  • [CMN January UK Tour schedule clippings, flyers, The Times review Jan 12, + Statesman review Jan 16, The RivBea Archive]

  • 1981:

    "In 1976, ...[Holland] devoted his time exclusively to the Rivers band: a decision related... to the pull of free improvisation.
    ‘Sam's thing was wide open, we never played a note of music that was written in the small group. Sam used to say play all the music,
    play vamps, play free, play everything. I said, well, this is the finishing school for me.’ The finishing school finished in 1981."
    [WIRE #50 April 1988 p.49, Dave Holland feature]

    "Rivers, Holland, and Steve Ellington will be touring mid-Western Universities in February..."
    [CODA #176 December 1, 1980 p.38]
    This tour ended up as a quartet to-do with Skip Bey on bass instead of Holland,
    who moved on at some point after the January '81 UK tour.
    ———

81.01.30 • Ramsey McLean's Lifers + Sam Rivers [RBA & AR—51:39]

January 30, 1981 / Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
—Received misdated the 81.01.31; Also circulating misdated 82.05.05.

Audience Recording:
1. improvisation [51:25]  (incomplete, fades in / split track at 29:10)
 (ts section–25:19; b+dr duo–1:51; b+dr+keys–8:27; fl section–26:07)
"Subject to final confirmation as Wavelength goes to press, saxophonist Sam Rivers plans to fly in from New York on January 30
to play with his former student Ramsey McLean, who will augment his band, The Lifers, by adding a second drummer."
Wavelength January 1981 p.4, scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/3

Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Larry Sieberth (p, keys), Ramsey McLean (b, ce, perc), Johnny Vidacovich and Alvin Fielder (drums)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #133; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.13; Bret Sjerven 18.05.22}


    81.02.08 - (CANCELLED) Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo / Children's Theater, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
    [Down Beat Jan 1981 p.70]

81.02.08 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA—79:56]

February 8, 1981 / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

 RivBea Archive / Reels 47 and 44
1. improvisation [78:31]  (SR announcement over vamp during final 3:50)
 (ts section–8:22; ts solo–2:29; ts section–6:46; b solo–4:15; ss section–11:54; dr solo–6:07; p solo–5:33; p section–9:19;
 g solo–6:06; fl section–3:24; fl+g duo–1:33; fl section–1:44; fl+voc solo–3:58; fl+voc section–7:48)
—"[Two] Scotch 250 10 Reels marked in pen ‘44’ and ‘47.’ On the back of box 47 is written in pen ‘Sam Rivers,
 2-8-81 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1 of 2, 7.5 ips ½-Track stereo.’ No notation is included regarding the personnel. Box marked 47
 has same info except ‘2 of 2.’ I edited the the two reels together to form one continuous performance." —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, fl, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Skip "Crumby" Bey (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

—Skip Bey is with the quartet from this date through the West Coast tour ending in early March and a Euro-tour from April through late September.
 "While living in Atlanta in 1981, Jerry was asked to tour with saxophonist Sam Rivers. The Sam Rivers tour would take Jerry
 to exotic ports of call such as Rome, Paris, and Canada." —nujazz.tripod.com

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #47 and 44; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.05.06; Joe Washek, June 2008;
nujazz.tripod.com/JerryByrd.html}


  • 81.02.09 Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Skip "Crumby" Bey (elb)—Holland not on this tour, Steve Ellington (dr) /
    9:00pm, The Joynt, Eau Claire, WI [Eua Claire Leader-Telegram Jan 31 Hilites p.17]
    —Oddly, though touring the midwest here, there is a small notice in the Santa Cruz Sentinel (Feb 8 p.26)
     that has the quartet at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz, CA on this date, as does The Californian (Feb 7 p.25),
     which also lists Dave Holland on bass.

  • okay

81.02.10 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—92:43]

February 10, 1981 / Tut's, Chicago, IL
—"Occasional jazz one-nighters, recently including... Sam Rivers." —Down Beat

1. improvisation [92:26]  (incomplete, split track at 46:09, cuts at ss section and back in on b solo, and cuts off at end)
 (ts section–4:57; ts solo–3:44; ts section–14:38; dr solo–5:22; ss section–1:36; ss solo–2:35; ss section–4:39; ss solo–1:34; ss section–6:06;
 b solo–1:19; p section–2:04; p solo–3:43; p section–7:37; g solo–5:33; fl section–8:18; fl+voc solo–4:37; fl+voc section–13:07)
—A shorter version is circulating at 73:18, a continuous performance with arbitrary tracks
 marked of 8:29, 11:25, 9:02, 10:17, (15 sec silence), 6:04, 19:51, and 8:00.

"The beginning of the various guitar bands in the '80s after the break-up of the great Holland/Altschul trio. —"Fredito"

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Skip "Crumby" Bey (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.06; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; Down Beat Apr 1981 p.69}


  • 81.02.13 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Skip "Crumby" Bey (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    8:00 & 10:30pm, The Maintenance Shop, Memorial Union, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
    [The Planet Feb 12 p.19 clipping, The RivBea Archive; www.sub.iastate.edu/maintenance-shop]

81.02.15 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR]

February 15, 1981, 9:30 & 11:30pm / Gilly's, Dayton, OH
—WAIF-FM Broadcast "Jazzviews"

1. improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Skip "Crumby" Bey (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

The Daily Guardian Feb 13 p.5 mistakenly credits Dave Holland on bass.

{CODA #185 August 1982 p.4; Dayton Daily News Feb 14 p.41}



    81.02.19 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (b), no other personnel listed /
    8:00pm, Residential College Auditorium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
    [CODA #177 February 1981 p.32; Down Beat Feb 1981 p.72; Lansing Star Feb 20-26 The Calendar p.8; Ebay poster]
    Lansing Star had the cancellation notice post-concert date, offering ticket refunds. —RL


  • 81.02.24 to 02.28 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Skip "Crumby" Bey (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Edmonton Jazz Society, 9:00pm, Palms Cafe, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    [www.yardbirdsuite.com/archives/index-shows.htm; Edmonton Journal Feb 21 p.H6 + review Feb 25 p.C16]
    —Yardbird Suite has this quartet mistakenly listed with Holland on bass. —RL
  • 81.03.01 + 03.02 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / 7:00pm, Shenanigan's, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
    [Calgary Herald Feb 26 p.D8 + Mar 2 p.D10]
  • 81.03.04 to 03.06 - Sam Rivers Quartet / 7:45 & 10:00pm, Soft Rock Cafe, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    [The Province Mar 5 review clipping, The RivBea Archive]
    Vancouver Sun Mar 3 p.B12 has this very incorrectly listed with George Lewis, Dave Holland, and Thurman Barker.
  • 81.03.05 + 03.06 - Sam Rivers Interview / Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
    [Trevor Carolan "Music of the Spheres" transcirption sheets + letter to SR, The RivBea Archive]
  • 81.03.07 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Music Hall, University of California, San Francisco, CA [CODA #179 June 1981 p.35]
    —No date given, but previous to Berkeley concert according to Oakland Tribune review cited below.
  • 81.03.08 - Sam Rivers Quartet / 8:30pm, Wheeler Auditorium, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
    [Larry Kelp Oakland Tribune Mar 10 review clipping, The RivBea Archive; The Berkeley Gazette Mar 8 The Sunday Magazine p.7]
    "What splendid music! And what an audience! As one of jazz' most serious practitioners, Sam Rivers hilariously danced and sang on stage.
    One man danced down an aisle, a woman nursed her baby, college couples necked and nearly everyone cheered and urged the band on...
    The UC's Committee for Arts and Lectures was not allowed to advertise the concert because both artists had previous commitments
    at San Francisco clubs." [This was a double-bill with the Arthur Blythe Quartet]

81.03.13 • Sam Rivers Solo [AR—51:12]

March 13, 1981 / New Jazz—World of Sam Rivers, DC Space, Washington, DC
—WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 22, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

1. soprano improvisation [10:08]
2. tenor improvisation [12:22]
3. piano improvisation [13:19]
4. Wind Song [13:27] —(fl+voc)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.06; DC Space March '81 schedule, The RivBea Archive; Michael McLaughlin 04.01.05}


  • 81.03.14 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop / 3:00pm, DC Space, Washington, DC
    [DC Space March '81 schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 81.03.14 (2) - Sam Rivers Solo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc) / New Jazz—World of Sam Rivers, DC Space, Washington, DC [ibid]


  • 81.04.02 to 04.04 - West on the Black Side: Edward K. Taylor Jr (Libretto and concept), music by Sam Rivers (not present),
    Roland Alexander, Fred Benjamin (Chor) / Symphony Space, NYC [Daily News Mar 31 p.42]

81.04.04 • Sam Rivers: Crosscurrent—Live at Jazz Unité

1982: Blue Marge 1005 (LP) Fr; Blue Marge/DIW DIW-1055 (LP, with Obi) Jpn;
2009: Blue Marge 1005 (CD) Fr;
2015: RivBea Music RB61823 (digital download)
  • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

April 4, 1981 / Jazz Unité, Paris, France

Crosscurrent:
1. Swirl [3:51]
2. Crosscurrent [5:32]
3. Rapture [3:17]
4. Riptide [5:33]
5. Breeze [5:45]
6. Eddy [8:38]
7. Sunbeams [3:45]
8. Serenity [1:55]
—Tracks above as on LP issues; CD release orders them 1, 4, 3, 2, 7, 5, 8, 6.
RivBea Archive / Reels #32, 33, 37, and 38)
1... unknown titles [ : ]
—RBA Reel #38 and 33: "2 BASF reels ‘#33’ and ‘#38’ written on boxes and
 circled. ‘Sam Rivers 4-4-81 # I’ written on one, and same notation "#2" written
 on the other. #2 has additional notation ‘Banded...’ Both [1-inch] wide tapes,
 apparently multitrack. I suspect these are the master tapes... No indication on
 the boxes of the recording speed or number of tracks." —Joe Washek
—RBA Reel #32: "A 10-inch reel in a BASF box. The tape is 1-inch wide
 and is probably multitrack. On The back of the box is written, ‘SAM 4/4/81 V
 [Roman numeral 5].’ There are no other notations on the box. I do not have
 multitrack equipment to play this tape." —Joe Washek
—There are no notes on RBA Reel #37.
Images, top to bottom:
Original release LP cover
2009 CD release

Sam Rivers (ts-2,4, ss-6, fl-1,3, p-7,5, voc-3,6, Comp), Jerry Byrd (g-except 7),
Rael-Wesley Grant (elb-except 7), Steve Ellington (dr)
[From LP order as given above]

—Grant takes his turn as the quartet's guitarist from this date until the Sweet Basil's
 gig in late May, and then makes a return in October of '89 (after Rivers leaves
 the Gillespie bands), and stays until after a European tour just before the Orlando
 years kick in April of '91.

okay

okay

{Blue Marge 1005; RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #32, 33, 37, and 38; Joel Washek 10.10.21; Tyczynski Piotr 18.01.11}


  • 81.04.05 to 04.07 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Jazz Unité, Paris, France
    [Crépon's Jazz Unité chronology, "Gérard Terronès: Jazz Unité (1981–1982)" Current Research in Jazz Volume 10 (2018), crj-online.org;
    Pierre-Jean Gaucher "Concerts: Sam Rivers entre funk et free" Jazz Hot #385 review Jun-Jul '81 p.34, The RivBea Archive]
    —Crépon has "Ending April 7, 1981."
  • 81.05.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Teatro Ristori, Verona, Italy [The RivBea Archive]

81.05.17 • Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR—72:17 & SBR—139:21]

May 17, 1981 / Florence, Italy
—Recording is also circulating incorrectly dated 81.03.17.

Soundboard Recording:
1. improvisation [72:30]  (split track at 44:27, fades out and back in at 51:26)
 (ts section–11:25; ts solo–4:27; ts section–5:18; dr solo–7:59; p solo–5:34; p section–10:43; voc + g trio–6:08;
 fl section–4:23; fl+voc solo–4:09; fl section–2:07; b solo–5:23; fl+voc section–4:52)
2. improvisation [66:27]  (incomplete, cuts in, split track at 16:22)
 (ss section–16:22; dr solo–5:58; p section–4:56; p section–5:08; b solo–5:25;
 fl section–9:50; g solo–7:05; fl+voc section–9:42)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #22; 2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.11}


  • 81.05.18 - Sam Rivers Quartet:Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    20:00hr, Teatro Olimpico, Rome, Italy
    [Messeggero review May 20 or 30 (obscured) + la Repubblica May 20 review, The RivBea Archive; l'Unità "Spettacoli" May 20 p.11]
  • 81.05.23 and 81.05.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / 17:30hr, Centro Jazz St. Louis, Rome, Italy
    [l'Unità "Spettacoli" May 20 p.11 + May 24 p.13]
  • 81.06.10 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl]

81.06.11 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

June 11, 1981, 21:00hr / Bloomdido, Brussels, Belgium

1-4. improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel #A has "Set 1 of 2," #43 has "Set Two / 1," #42 has "Set Two / 2."
—Reel #A, 42, and 43 all have "7½-inch, Recorder #3440, Type DBX155, Quad, Tracks 4, Miehel [Michael] W. Huon."
—Reel #42 and 43 both have "44 av Genn Dossin B 1050 Brussels."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #43, 42, and A; Flyer, The RivBea Archive}


  • 81.07.10+11 - Sam Rivers Trio: unknown personnel / 10:00pm until 4:00am, World Stage Cafe, Detroit Jazz Center, Detroit, MI
    [Cadence Jun 1981 p.63; Lansing Star Jul 2 p.4+6]
  • 81.08.00 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Edmonton Summer Fest 1981 (Aug 16-23), Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [The Lethbridge Herald Aug 1 p.B12]

81.08.28 • (V/A) Niklaus Troxler: Jazz in Willisau

2011: Point de vue 1008.529 (DVD, PAL format, 75:00, German w/ English subs) Swz
  • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—19:54]

August 28, 1981, 20:00hr / Willisau Jazz Festival, Switzerland

Broadcast Recording:
1. An Evening in Willisau [19:52]  (incomplete, fades in and out, broadcast voiceover from 12:52 to 13:32 + from 16:51 to 17:49)
 (dr solo–5:50; ss+voc section–14:02)
Jazz in Willisau has an excerpt, no info on how long.

Sam Rivers (ss, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

—Broadcast Recording circulating with Steve McCraven wrongly credited on drums.

{Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.11; OREOS Collection Jazz—Niklaus Troxler Jazz Posters p.119; www.filmvandaag.nl}


okay okay

  • 81.08.31 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    New Morning, Paris, France [New Morning Août/Sept Calendar, The RivBea Archive]

81.09.04 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—71:34]

September 4, 1981 / Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Austria

1. improvisation [71:20]  (split track at at 45:14)
 (ts section–23:08; g trio–4:38; g solo–4:16; ss section–12:53; b solo–4:52; fl+voc section–9:39; dr solo–5:41; fl+voc section–6:12)
"A smoking show. As they say, never a dull minute." —Stefan Hautke

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.11; Franz Herzog 06.03.23; Stefan Hautke 07.09.01; Stars and Stripes Aug 12 p.19}


  • 81.09.07 to 09.12 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    21:00hr, Jazz Unité Club, Paris, France [Jazz Unité September calendar, The RivBea Archive; CODA Oct 1981 #180 p.38]

81.09.19 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

September 19, 1981, 21:00 & 23:00hr / Alabama-Halle, Munich, Germany

1-4. improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel #B has "Sam Rivers B, No. 1, ips 15, Stereophonic, Tracks 2" with venue, date, and personnel.
—Reel #E has "E, No. 2, ips 15, Tracks 2" with additional info as above.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #B and E; Alabama-Halle September Program '81, The RivBea Archive; Arbeiter Zeitung Sep 19 Feuilleton p.6}


  • 81.09.21 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Quartier Latin, Berlin, Germany [Mario Grenz 18.12.26]

81.09.22 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—82:47]

September 22, 1981 / Quartier Latin, Berlin, Germany

1. improvisation [81:49]  (split track at 47:54)
—About one minute missing at split due to tape flip.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

{Mario Grenz 18.12.26}


81.09.25 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

September 25, 1981 / The Pump Werk, Aachen, Germany

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Cassette #103 has "Aactten" and the venue name.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #103, The RivBea database}


  • 81.10.00 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Marvin Horne (g), Eddie Gomez (b), others... /
    Benefit for Dave Holland, Mike Morganelli's Loft, NYC
    "I was unable to attend, but a close friend was able to go." —Patrick Clare 09.11.24

81.12.06 • Sam Rivers Orchestra [AR—2:49:00]

December 6, 1981 / Jazz Forum, New York City

1... unknown titles [169:00]
Sam Rivers ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), John Purcell (ts, as, bar, fl), Chico Freeman (ts, fl, bcl), Bobby Aldrich (bar, fl),
Oliver Beener and Malachi Thompson (tp), Craig Harris (tb), Vincent Chauncey (frh), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bob Stewart (tu),
Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)
—Personnel taken from RivBea PR roster material published in Feb-Mar of '81.
 Same list has Skip "Crumby" Bey on bass, but he was only with Rivers for a few months early in the year.

{Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


81.12.18 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—58:38]

December 18, 1981, 10:00pm / New Jazz at the Public Theatre, New York City
—WBGO-FM Broadcast

 Broadcast announcement [0:32]
1. improvisation [57:19]  (split track at 48:10)
 (ts section–4:30; g trio–2:11; g solo–1:47; ss section–22:49; dr solo–3:10; p solo–4:51; p section–3:26; b solo–3:32; fl+voc section–11:02)
 Broadcast announcement [0:27]
"I was at this one, and it was also broadcast at a later date on WBGO-FM. The guitar player was Marvin Horne... [The Broadcast] starts
with the WBGO DJ giving the line up as: Sam Rivers, Marvin Horne, Rael Grant, Newman Baker..." —Patrick Clare

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Marvin Horne (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman Baker (dr)
—Some recordings and on-line sources incorrectly note Skip "Crumby" Bey on bass, Jerry Byrd on guitar, and Steve Ellington on drums.

{Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.12; The Villager Dec 10 p.17; The New York Times Dec 13 p.2;
New York Magazine Dec 21, 1981 p.98; Patrick Clare 09.11.24}


81.12.19 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—46:26]

December 19, 1981, 10:00pm / New Jazz at the Public Theatre, New York City
—Circulating dated "December, 1981;" not the same show as the 18th.

1. improvisation [46:08]  (incomplete, cuts out)
 (ts section–9:14; g trio–4:24; ss section–13:13; dr solo–3:26; p solo–5:06; p section–7:25; b solo–2:46; fl+voc section–5:29)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Marvin Horne (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman Baker (dr)
—Some recordings and on-line sources incorrectly note Skip "Crumby" Bey on bass, Jerry Byrd on guitar, and Steve Ellington on drums.

{Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.12; The Villager Dec 10 p.17; The New York Times Dec 13 p.2;
New York Magazine Dec 21, 1981 p.98; Patrick Clare 09.11.24}


    —RivBea Archival Recordings CS #161 has "At the Public, Tape 2, Friday (cont'd) and Saturday."
     Possible that this is one of The Public Theatre dates above. —RL

1982 : : :


  • 82.01.15 + 01.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman Baker (dr) /
    Gulliver's, West Paterson, NJ [The Record Jan 15 p.B13]
    —Eubanks comes aboard just before a European tour and stays through March, appearing intermittently after through early '84.

    "They played two nights: Friday and Sunday [sic]... I asked Sam how Dave Holland was doing, and he said he was getting better.
    Sam also said that he was auditioning guitar players. (Sam was living in Teaneck, NJ at this time, which was less than
    a half-hour car ride to West Paterson.)" —Patrick Clare 09.11.18

  • 82.01.00 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman Baker (dr) /
    Jazzfestival (82.01.07-09), Stadthalle, Hofheim, Germany [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.11 p.33, 1982]

82.02.05 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—57:14]

February 5, 1982 / Theater am Ring, Villingen, Germany
—SWF Jazz Session

 Broadcast intro, Joachim Ernst Berendt [1:48]
1. An Evening in Villingen [55:20]  (split track at 41:27, incomplete, fades out, broadcast announcement over last 0:24)
 (ts section–13:58; b solo–5:10; ss section–11:49; dr solo–3:57; p section–12:48; g solo–5:30; fl+voc section–2:07)
"‘The New’ Sam Rivers Quartet..."
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman "T" Baker (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.13; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21}


82.02.06 • Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR—185:09]

February 6, 1982 / Club Ranch, Saalfelden, Austria

1st Set:
1. improvisation [62:11]  (split track at 46:24)
2. improvisation [22:52]
3. encore, intermission [2:18]
2nd Set:
4. improvisation [81:34]  (split track at 4:57 and 51:16)
5. encore [16:14]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman Baker (dr)

{LOST 3CDr; Franz Herzog 06.03.23}


  • 82.02.07 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman Baker (dr) /
    20:30hr, Bazillus, Zürich, Switzerland [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.2 p.34, 1982; Bazillus Feb schedule, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.02.08 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Amerikahaus, München, Germany [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.2 p.34, 1982]
  • 82.02.10 and 82.02.11 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Jazz Unité, Paris, France
    [Crépon's Jazz Unité chronology, "Gérard Terronès: Jazz Unité (1981–1982)" Current Research in Jazz Volume 10 (2018), crj-online.org]
    —Crépon's reference has this listed as a Quintet.
  • 82.02.12 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Kulturforum, Bonn, Germany [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.2 p.34, 1982]
  • 82.02.13 - "The New" Sam Rivers Quartet / JazzClub Luxembourg, France [www.jazzclub.lu/historique_concerts81-82_FR.htm]
  • 82.02.20 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl]
    —Marvin Horne is incorrectly listed at the Bimhuis archive instead of Eubanks.

82.00.00 • Sam Rivers Quartet [SBR—58:35]

1982 possibly maybe / Florence, Italy
—Incorrect date or venue on this recording circulating dated February 21, 1982. Quartet is in the Netherlands this day and the day before.

1. improvisation [33:14]  (incomplete, fades out and back in at 28:38, cuts out at end)
 (ts section–24:19; g solo–4:20; fl+voc section–4:32)
2. improvisation [25:05]  (incomplete, ts section fades out then back in on b solo at 13:48, fades out at end)
 (ts section–9:16; ts solo–3:31; ts section–1:01; b solo–2:48; ss section–8:28)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr)

 —Soundboard in circulation has Jerry Byrd listed on guitar.

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.13}


  • 82.02.21 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Newman Baker (dr) /
    Den Haag, Netherlands [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.2 p.34, 1982]
  • 82.02.26 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Göteborg, Sweden [Program + Göteborgs-Posten Mar 1 clipping, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.03.06 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Domicil, Dortmund, Germany
    [Jazzclub Domicil Programm März/April 1982 + Dortmunder Rundschau Mar 6 clipping, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.03.08 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Amerikahaus, München, Germany [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.3 p.51, 1982]
  • 82.03.12 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Schweizerbund, Bern, Switzerland [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.3 p.41, 1982]
  • 82.03.18 and 82.03.19 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Bunker Ulmenwall, Bielefeld, Germany
    [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.3 p.46, 1982]
  • 82.03.20 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Jazz Studio, Nürnberg, Germany [Sander Piek 09.06.23; Jazzpodium, No.3 p.51, 1982]
  • 82.03.26 - Le Quartet Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve Ellington (dr) /
    Salle d'Avanchet-Balexert, Vernier, France [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]

82.05.05 • Ramsey McLean's Lifers + Sam Rivers [AR—67:27]

May 5, 1982, 12:00 midnight / Tipitina's, New Orleans, LA
Wavelength May 1982 p.9 has a photo with this incorrectly date as May 8.

1st Set:
1. improvisation [53:05]  (incomplete, fades in; fades out and back in at 13:29)
 (ts section–20:04; dr anti-solo–2:51; ss section–10:01; b solo–3:10; fl section–9:37; b solo–1:01; dr solo–2:12; fl section–4:49)
2nd Set: (incomplete?)
2. improvisation [7:54]
 (b solo–1:54; fl+voc section–6:10)
—A partial recording is also in circulation at 41:44, missing the first 13:31 of the 1st Set and the entire 2nd Set.
—Announcement at end of 1st Set says that they'll be back for "a medium-length set."
—Recording ends with a guitar-bass-drum vamp encore sans Rivers.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Steve Masakowski (g-2), Ramsey McLean (ce, b), Herlin Riley (dr-2), John Vidacovich (dr-1)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.13; 1982 Jazz Fest Program Book p.78, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com;
Wavelength May 1982 p.43, scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/19}


  • 82.05.06 - Ramsey McLean's Lifers + Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Steve Masakowski (g), Ramsey McLean (ce, b),
    Herlin Riley and John Vidacovich (dr) / New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Fair Grounds, New Orleans, LA
    [Wavelength May 1982 p.28, scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/19]
    "Tomorrow at the fairgrounds, in the tent," —From 1st Set announcement on 82.05.05 Audience Recording.

  • Wavelength May 1982 also has Ramsey McLean's Lifers at The Fauborg on May 1st and 8th (pp.8+71), and the Jazz and Heritage Fest
     Program has them at the Jazz Tent on The Fairgrounds early May 8th at 3:00-4:15pm (p.73), but without mention of Rivers.

  • 82.05.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Jerry Byrd (g), Dave Holland (b), Steve Ellington (dr) / Verona, Italy
    [Festival Program, The RivBea Archive]

82.05.31 • Sam Rivers RivBea Orchestra [AR—1:17:00]

May 31, 1982 / Trossingen, Germany

1... Evocation Suite; others [77:00]
Sam Rivers, unknown others... (See 82.06.06 and beyond)

{Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


82.06.06 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR—87:35 & BR—46:30]

June 6, 1982 / 10th Anniversary Concert Series, Baird Auditorium, Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
—WKCR-FM Broadcast (of the Audience Recording!) on May 22, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

Audience Recording:
1. Evocation Suite, part 4 [21:33]  (split track at 9:30)
2. Evocation Suite, part 3 [24:32]
3. Evocation Suite (part) [20:50]
4. Roses (from "Flower Suite") [16:08]
—RBA Cassette #106 is misdated "6/6/92."
—Broadcast was of tracks 1 and 2 (#2 was given as "Suite for Flutes"), followed by a one-minute announcement with an iffy rendering of the personnel.

"Performance commentary and interviews with 16 jazz greats will be part of a four-program videotape series being prepared
for the 10th anniversary of the Smithsonian Institute's Performing Arts program." —Billboard Oct 10, 1981 p.68

Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-4, fl-2, p-3, Comp), Chico Freeman (ts, fl), Bobby Watson (as, fl), Ken Rogers (bar, "and other reeds, assorted"),
Jack Walrath and Wallace Roney (tp), Dick Griffin and Robin Eubanks (tb), Doug Purviance (btb), Vincent Chauncey (frh),
Anthony Cox—listed as "Hopps" (b), Cindy Blackman (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #106; Audience sound files + Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.14; Jakob Blumenthal 10.10.12;
WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31; Michael McLaughlin 04.01.05; CODA #182 February 1982 pp.36-7 + #185 August 1982 p.29}


82.06.09 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR—37:21]

June 9, 1982 / Jazz Festival Ost-West ’82, Nuremberg, Germany
—Bayrischer Rundfunk Broadcast

1. Evocation Suite, part 1 [13:05]
2. Evocation Suite, part 2 [23:59]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc, Comp), John Purcell (as, fl), Claston [Patience] Higgins (bar, fl), Jack Walrath and Oliver Beener (tp),
Dick Griffin and Robin Eubanks (tb), Doug Purviance (btb), Vincent Chauncey (frh), Anthony Cox (b), Eli Fountain (dr)

{Mario Grenz 18.12.26}


82.06.12 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR—73:28]

June 12, 1982 / Bundesakademie, Trossingen, Germany

1. Evocation Suite, part 4 [17:49]
2. Evocation Suite, part 2 [11:15]
3. Roses (from "Flower Suite") [20:09]
4. Evocation Suite, part 3 [22:28]
Sam Rivers (ts-2, ss-1,3, fl-4, p-2, Comp), Carlos Ward (as, fl), Bernd Konrad (ts, ss), Patience Higgins (bar, fl), Jack Walrath and Oliver Beener (tp),
Dick Griffin and Robin Eubanks (tb), Doug Purviance (btb), Vincent Chauncey (frh), Anthony Cox (b), Eli Fountain (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.14}


82.06.13 • Sam River's RivBea Orchestra: Jazzbühne Berlin '82

1982: Repertoire Records PRECD4910-CC (CD, Jazz Bühne Berlin/Rundfunk Der DDR—Vol.10) Ger;
1990: RR 4910-CC (CD) Ger;
1991: 33WD-1015 (CD, w/ Obi) Jpn
  • (V/A) Jazz Highlights Live in Berlin
    1989: Amiga Records Amiga 8 56 468 (LP, Amiga Jazz Series) Ger

June 13, 1982 / Rundfunk der DDR, Live at Volksbühne, East Berlin, Germany

1. Evocation Suite, part 4 [19:35]
2. Evocation Suite, part 3 [23:10]
3. Roses (from "Flower Suite") [12:59]
4. Evocation Suite, part 2 [10:23]
Jazz Highlights Live in Berlin has an excerpt of track 3 at 9:17.

Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-3, fl-2, p-4, Comp), Patience Higgins (bar, fl), Jack Walrath and Oliver Beener (tp),
Dick Griffin and Robin Eubanks (tb), Doug Purviance (btb), Vincent Chauncey (frh), Anthony Cox (b), Eli Fountain (dr)

{RR 4910-CC; rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/47687/PDF/1/play}


okay okay


82.06.17 • Sam Rivers RivBea Orchestra [AR—123:00]

June 17, 1982 / Munich, Germany

1... Evocation Suite, others [123:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), unknown others (reeds), Patience Higgins (bar, fl), Jack Walrath and Oliver Beener (tp),
Dick Griffin and Robin Eubanks (tb), Doug Purviance (btb), Vincent Chauncey (frh), Anthony Cox (b), Eli Fountain (dr)

{Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


  • 82.06.26 - Sam Rivers Solo + Guest with Family of Percussion: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Peter Giger, Trilok Gurtu,
    Doug Hammond, and Tom Nicholas (vastly various perc) / Jazz im Pfaffenwinkel, 18:30hr, Hauptschule, Schongau, Germany
    [Jazz im Pfaffenwinkel "Wochenende Schongau" Program 26./27.Jun 82, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.06.30 - Sam Rivers & Han Bennink Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Bennink (dr, perc, the floor, the chairs, the mic stands, the walls...) /
    Il Festival di Ravenna-Comacchio, Rocca Brancaleone, Ravenna, Italy [l'Unità Jun 29 p.8]

82.07.01 • Sam Rivers Solo [RBA]

July 1, 1982, 21:30hr / Rassegna di Musica Jazz, Incontri con il Sax, Giardini di Bellariva, Florence, Italy

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel #F has "SPR 50 LHL, H/730 m - 6,3 mm, 2400 ft. - ¼ in., Prod. Nr. 14554 XB, Chargen-Nr. S912CR" with venue and date.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc)

{RivBea Archival Recording Reel #F; Incontri con il Sax Jul 1-6 schedule, The RivBea Archive}


  • 82.07.19 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Marino (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    18:15hr (scheduled for 17:00), Collegno, Torino, Italy [Spettacoli review Jul 26 p.6 + Partial flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.07.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Marino (g), Rael-Wesley Grant—"Raul Walton" (elb),
    Steve McCraven—"Stephen Alan Mc Craven" (dr) / Incontri d'Estate, 21:00hr, Piazza del Grano, Bolzano, Italy
    [Cronica di Rovereto Jul 24 + Unidentified newspaper clippings, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.07.26 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Kevin Eubanks (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    Sondrio Estate '82, 21:00hr, Piazza Garibaldi, Sondrio, Italy
    [...ere Della Valtellina (cut off) Jul 24 clipping, unidentified clipping Jul 21 p.6, +
    del Gruppo Jazz a Musica Contemporanea di Sondrio press release, The RivBea Archive]
    —Pre-concert clippings both have Steve Ellington on drums. He was not on this tour.

82.08.26 • Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR—73:01]

August 26, 1982, 20:00hr / Willisau Jazz Festival, 20:00hr, Festhalle, Willisau, Switzerland

1. composition [21:27]
2. composition [17:39]
 Broadcast announcement [1:22]
3. composition [15:10]
 Broadcast announcements/applause [2:00]
4. composition/encore [5:59]
 Broadcast announcements/applause [0:39]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Eddie Alex (ts), Patience Higgins (ts, fl), Marvin Blackman (ts, ss, fl), Talib Kibwe (ts, ss, fl),
Steve Coleman, Nat Dixon, and Bill Cody (as), Jimmy Cozier and Bobby Watson (as, ss), Chris Roberts (ss, fl)

 —Willisau Archive has personnel as above, and had "Keith" Roberts; Program has Kenny Garret
  and René McLean, and omits Talib Kibwe, Chris Roberts, and Eddie Alex.

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.14; Willisau Festival 82 program, The RivBea Archive; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.25; www.willisaujazzarchive.ch}


  • 82.08.30 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: see 82.08.26 / 20:00hr, Kino Union, Maribor, Slovenia [Stop 26.8.1982 p.44]
    —Article says "Some musicians... that we will hear" and only mentions Chico Freeman, Rene McLean,
     Byard Lancaster, Steve Coleman, and John Purcell.
  • 82.08.31 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: as above / 20:00hr, Avditorij Portoroz, Portoroz, Slovenia [ibid]
  • —On both gigs in Slovenia, the headline has "Orchestra," while the article itself
     has "An orchestra with an old name from the late '60s, The Wind of Manhattan."

    Both CODA #185 August 1982 p.36 and Billboard Jul 17 1982 p.74 had notices that Rivers was scheduled to appear
    at the Greenwich Village Jazz Festival in New York, which took place on August 30th and 31st.

82.09.01 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR—54:24]

September 1, 1982 / Nürnberg, East Berlin, Germany

1. composition [7:12]  (incomplete, cuts out)
2. composition [9:30]  (incomplete, cuts out)
3. composition [2:51]  (incomplete, cuts in during drum solo)
4. composition [24:02]  (incomplete, fades out)
5. composition [9:30]
 introductions by Rivers [0:48]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl-4, p-5, voc, Comp), Patience Higgins (bar, fl), Jack Walrath and Oliver Beener (tp),
Dick Griffin, Robin Eubanks, and Doug Purviance (tb), Vincent Chauncey (frh), Anthony Cox (b), Eli Fountain (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.14}


82.09.05 • Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [SBR—89:48]

September 5, 1982 / Jazzfestival Saalfelden, Saalfelden, Austria

1. composition [4:34]  (incomplete, cuts in)
2. composition [12:48]
3. composition [11:52]
4. composition [23:07]  (split track at)
 introductions by Rivers [0:40]
5. composition [12:22]
6. composition [7:42]
7. composition [14:23]  (incomplete, cuts out)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Marvin Blackman (ts, ss, fl), Talib Kibwe (ts, ss, fl, cl), Nat Dixon (ts, fl, cl) ["Mat" in program],
Bill Cody (ts, ob) ["Coty" in program], Eddie Alex (ts, pic), Steve Coleman and Bobby Watson (as, fl),
Chris Roberts (ss, fl), Jimmy Cozier and Patience Higgins (bar, fl)

—Program has Danny Garret and Rene McLean, and omits Talib Kibwe.

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.14; Vjesnik Sep 12 review clipping + Program p.24, The RivBea Archive;
Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31; Stars and Stripes Aug 18 p.18}


  • 82.09.10 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: as above, so below / 21:00hr, Teatro Comunale, Mori, Italy
    [Large poster, The RivBea Archive]
    —Poster has only "Venerdi 10" (Friday the 10th), but refers to the "Sam Rivers Saxofone Orchestra" under Winds of Manhattan,
     a phrase that was used repeatedly on this tour. —RL

82.09.13 • Sam Rivers Winds of Manhattan: Colours

1983: Black Saint BSR 0064 (LP) It; BSR 0064 (CD) It;
1993: 120064-2 (CD) It;
2017: CAM Jazz/Black Saint CDSOL 45021 (CD, Ltd Edition, w/ Obi) Jpn

September 13, 1982 / Cine Music Studio, Milano, Italy

1. Lilacs [5:44]
2. Colours [5:01]
3. Spiral [8:36]
4. Matrix [7:53]
5. Revival [1:58]
6. Blossoms [11:24]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Marvin Blackman (ts, ss, fl),
Talib Kibwe (ts, ss, fl, cl), Nat Dixon (ts, fl, cl),
Bill Cody (ts, ob), Eddie Alex (ts, pic),
Steve Coleman and Bobby Watson (as, fl), Chris Roberts (ss, fl),
Jimmy Cozier and Patience Higgins (bar, fl)

{BSR 0064 120 064-2; l'Unità Sep 15 "Spettacoli Cultura" p.11}

okay

Winds of Manhattan—Colours / Liner notes reprinted with permission of Lee Jeske:

There is a fascinating little museum in the section of Manhattan known as Soho—the Museum of Holography. Don't ask me how it works,
but what this museum exhibits are amazingly realistic three-dimensional images and artworks that seemingly just float on thin air. Just like
those cheap old science-fiction movies—you see something sitting there as large as life, yet when you try to grab it, all you come up with
is nothing. And to make matters worse, for somebody like me who is still amazed that a wireless radio can actually make music, the images
move. They tell me that holography is a thing that will be quite common in the future—you might telephone your Aunt Martha and end up
with a full-sized, life-like Aunt Martha sitting in your living room.

Now you might think I'm setting you up for one of those liner-note writer's analogies: holography is modern and fresh, as is Sam Rivers;
holography is based on simple and traditional methods, as is the music of Sam Rivers; holography is mind-boggling, as is Sam Rivers.
Well, you're right, in a way, but what brings to mind that Soho museum in conjunction with Samuel Carthorne Rivers is much more
obvious: you can enter that museum, lay down your money, and leave with your very own holograph of Sam Rivers working out on the
soprano saxophone. You have a choice of sizes and prices (I, cheapskate that I am, bought a teeny-weeny one), but there it is—a Sam Rivers
holograph for your very own. Okay, what's the point? The point is: if there's something that's advancing art, that is new and unique, it shouldn't
be surprising to find Sam Rivers somehow involved in it.

There is no end to the facets that make up Sam Rivers and this recording of his Winds of Manhattan ensemble adds yet another new
dimension to his recorded oeuvre: an entire herd of smoking reeds and woodwinds.

About the music contained herein, Sam Rivers says, "When I had my studio (Studio RivBea), one of the reasons I had it was because I had all
this music and I needed a place to rehearse it and perform it. I had most of this music then, and a lot of musicians played it. I'd say I wrote most
of this—except for "Lilacs," which is new—about 1973, or even earlier. And some of the members of the World Saxophone Quartet—Hamiet
Bluiett and Julius Hemphill—were part of the group that played that music then. I want people to know that this music has been around for
some time and no one's heard it for lack of record exposure.

I tell Sam that the music here reminds me, at times, of a pipe organ or calliope. He says, "I noticed that. The closeness of the sounds of the
instruments does make it sound like that. I was surprised at some of the things that happened on it—it wasn't altogether experimental, but there
were some things that I didn't think would work when I wrote them, because of my knowledge, earlier in my career, of so-called traditional
harmonies. But then I did them anyway, and they really work. A lot of the things that I was always taught weren't correct for arranging—like
the clusters with the same timbre instrument—were not supposed to happen at all. But they do, they sound very good. And there are times
when these things sound like trumpets and trombones. All these things surprised me."

I ask Sam why there isn't any soloing on the album, and he explains, "These are all very long pieces with the improvising. I wanted to get
the music in rather than the improvising and that's why I took that out. I knew that each composition would fit on an album itself. It didn't matter
to me because I know that I've got too much music to get it all recorded, so I can afford to be extravagant. And I did have some good soloists.
I know they're going to be quite perturbed that I took out all the solos."

What we are left with is high-caloric music with Sam Rivers' typical intensity and brilliance. There are rave-ups of counterpoint; joyous,
sassy honking and testifying; and bright bouquets of lushness. When you hear writing of this calibre for a reed section, only one name comes
to mind and Sam Rivers acknowledges, "Duke Ellington is my role model." It is clear to see.

About the specific music on the album, Sam Rivers only wants to point out that "Colours" is a completely written piece—136 dense bars
and every one of them is notated. I'll also add that "Lilacs" is part of a 24 song suite, "The Flower Suite".

"I consider myself to be a pretty well-rounded musician in all styles," says Sam Rivers. "Just not 'free,' which is what I'm known for. That's
pretty much the latest part of my thing. There's no such thing as having music without chords or harmony. Even though you say you're playing
'free,' if you put that stuff down, you can put the chords right with it, whether the player knows he's doing it or not. That's the point."

The point here is that Winds of Manhattan adds another dimension to an immensely talented, determinedly individualistic musician. Sam Rivers
is a force in contemporary music. There ain't no moss on Sam Rivers. And, for yet another dimension, set up your Sam Rivers holograph before
you put this album on. The future, here we come!!



 Charlotte Moorman's 11th Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York took place on November 16, 1974. An event that was held in different
 venues each year (The Armory; islands in the East River; 20 box cars leaving from Grand Central Terminal), in '74 it took place at Shea Stadium.
 The Museum of Holography was one of the participants (along with Yoko Ono, Rhys Chatham, John Cage, and hundreds of others), and included
 in their exhibit was the Sam Rivers Hologram, a lamp-and-lampshade type affair that showed Sam hovering in the middle and wavering back
 and forth while playing his soprano sax. The actual item was in Monique Rivers-Williams' office closet in Orlando when I visited the RivBea
 Archive in July of 2018, though it was no longer in working order.
 If anyone out there happens to have a pocket-sized giftshop Sam Rivers Hologram, you know where to find me... —RL
 [www.eai.org/artists/charlotte-moorman/titles]

okay


82.09.16 • Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [AR—73:00]

September 16, 1982 / Freie Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany

1... compositions [73:00]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Marvin Blackman (ts, ss, fl), Talib Kibwe (ts, ss, fl, cl), Nat Dixon (ts, fl, cl), Bill Cody (ts, ob),
Eddie Alex (ts, pic), Steve Coleman and Bobby Watson (as, fl), Chris Roberts (ss, fl), Jimmy Cozier and Patience Higgins (bar, fl)

{Bettina Bogumil 04.05.05}


  • 82.09.17 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: Rivers, Steve Coleman, Bill Cody, Rene McLean, Patience Higgins,
    Marvin Blackman, Nat Dixon, Kenny Garrett, Jimmy Cozier, Bobby Watson, and Eddie Alex (reeds) /
    20:15hr, Kantonsschule, Chur, Switzerland [Oversize Jazz Club Chur poster, The RivBea Archive]
    "11 Mann Saxophon Orchester..."
  • 82.09.18 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: as above / Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl]
  • 82.09.19 - Tuba Spectacular II: A New Work by Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers (Cond, Comp), Bill Saxton and Alan Givens (ts), Arthur Blythe (as),
    Howard Johnson (bar, tu), Stanton Davis and Lew Soloff (tp), Bob Stewart (flg, tu), Dave Bergeron (tb, tu), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Ray Draper (tu),
    Don Pate (b), Charles Persip (dr) / 7:00pm, St. Peter's Lutheran Church, NYC
    [Jon Pareles The New York Times Sep 17, 1982]
    The New York Times adds Givens on tenor, but not listed on poster.
    "Tuba and the NEW Big Band, featuring Gil Evans—Sam Rivers, Conducting & Performing Their Own Music."
    "Conducted by Sam Rivers, the program includes pieces by Gershwin, Monk, Parker, and Hendrix conducted and arranged by Gil Evans."
    —Jon Pareles


  • October 1, 1982 - Publication date of Issue #186 of CODA Magazine, where, on page 39, the following classified ad appears:
    "SAM RIVERS / RivBea Productions, 78, N.J. 07666. Telephone (201) 837-5175."

  • 82.09.29 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr) / Jazzclub Fasching, Stockholm, Sweden
    [Jazzclub weekly flyer, The RivBea Archive; Anders Holmström press photos, Svenska Dagbladet Sep 30]
    —Jazzclub flyer had this as a quartet, as did most of the pre-publicity for this tour.
  • 82.10.01 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Leipziger Jazztage, Krongresshalle Zoo, Leipzig, Germany
    [Festival program, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.10.06 - Sam Rivers Trio / Novi Sad, Serbia [Poster, The RivBea Archive]
    —Poster lists Jerry Byrd, Rael-Wesley Grant, and Steve Ellington, none of whom made this tour.
  • 82.10.09 - Sam Rivers Solo (ts, ss, fl) / Domicil, Dortmund, Germany [www.domicil-dortmund.de/index.php]

82.10.14 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—149:30]

October 14, 1982 / Willi's Rumpelkammer, Wien, Austria

 Broadcast announcement [0:34]
1. Evening Breeze in Wien Part 1 [53:57]  (split track at 47:00)
 ss section–4:39; g trio–1:05; g solo–1:53 [uncharacteristic pause] ts section–1:56; ts solo–7:51; ts section–4:51;
 dr solo–5:50 [pause] p solo–5:51; p section–10:05; b solo–7:30)
 Broadcast announcement [0:12]
2. Evening Breeze in Wien Part 2 [15:00]
 fl solo–1:15; fl section–4:08; fl+voc solo–2:22; fl section–7:15)
 Broadcast announcement [0:58]
3. Soft Winds Part 1 [77:21]  (incomplete, cuts in at beginning, split track at 42:36)
 (ts section–4:36; ts solo–2:19; ts section–4:32; g trio–2:20; g solo–4:00 [pause] p solo–5:23; p section–6:55;
 p section w/ stunning Afrigalactic conch solo–2:26; dr solo–7:30; b solo w/ p–3:44; b solo–11:25; fl+voc solo–2:14; fl+voc section–15:34)
 Broadcast announcement [0:51]
—Improvisations named after the fact for broadcast.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Alain Ginapé (g), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr, conch sehll)

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.14; venue info ("a long extinct jazz club") via Wolfgang Kraus}


    "...The article about [Poland-tour] you can find in Jazz Forum Polish Edition nr 79 (6/1982), pages 14/15 with a photo from the Aquarium gig.
    I saw the Riviera concert in Warsaw." [Sergiusz Lipnicki 02.12.14]

  • 82.10.17 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Alain Ginapé (g), Jay Oliver (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    Aquarium Club, Warszawa, Poland [as above]
  • 82.10.18 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / unknown venue, Wroclaw, Poland [ibid]
  • 82.10.19 - Sam Rivers Quartet / unknown venue, Kraków, Poland [ibid]
  • 82.10.20 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Riviera Club, Warszawa, Poland [ibid]

82.11.14 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—75:57]

November 14, 1982 / Musikhochschule, Köln, Germany

1. improvisation [75:57]  (incomplete set, split track at 44:15)
 (ss section–16:02; ts section–15:40; p section–20:51; fl+voc section–15:17; fl section–8:05)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Billy White (g), Kevin Harris (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

 —Recording circulating with "Joe" White on guitar.

{Norbert Kreutzer 05.10.31}


82.11.15 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—73:01]

November 15, 1982 / Espace Cardin, Paris, France
—Radio France Broadcast "Espace Cardin : Concert du Sam Rivers Quartet."

1. "Sunrise—Suite en 7 parties" [71:49]  (split track at 38:08)
 (ss section–5:32; ss solo–2:49; ss section–3:44; g trio–0:37; g solo–6:01; g trio–2:20;
 ts section w/ ts solo turn-by-turn every few minutes–8:57; dr solo–6:08; p solo–6:14; p section–3:18;
 b solo–7:06; fl+voc solo–2:26; fl section–2:27; fl+voc conjuring spirits solo–3:23; fl section w/ intros and solos–8:47)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Billy White (g), Kevin Harris (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.14; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09}


82.11.17 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

November 17, 1982 / A l'Ouest de la Grosne,' Bresse-sur-Grosne, France

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Reel #28 has "19 CMPS (7½ ips) Stereophonic, Tracks 2," and an oversized Jacky Barbier business "card" attached to back panel.
—Reel #28-Lot/#10202-7 has "19 CMPS (7½ ips) Stereophonic, Tracks 2," and Barbier's business info.
—Reel #29 has "Recording Speed 1G W/S," and Barbier's info as above.

—Fonds at audio.archives71.fr contain sound and audio-visual material recorded by Jacky Barbier (founder of the jazz club A l'Ouest de la Grosne)
 and the staff of Ouest de la Grosne (a music label in Saint-Gengoux-le-National) between 1975 and 2002.

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), probably Billy White (g), Kevin Harris (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

 —Recording circulating with "Joe" White on guitar.

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #28, 28-Lot/#10202-7 (probable duplicate), and 29; audio.archives71.fr}


  • 82.11.19 through 82.11.21 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Billy White (g), Kevin Harris (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    III Festival Internacional de Jazz de Sevilla, Architecture Sports Center, University of Seville, Seville, Spain
    [www.actidea.com/actidea_100/exp_enlace3.htm]
    —Probably broadcast by Radio Cadena-La Voz del Guadalquivir (Radio 16), but I have no proof. —RL
  • 82.11.23 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Jazz Marseilles 82/83, 21:00hr, Théâtre Toursky, Marseilles, France
    [Large poster + program, The RivBea Archive]
  • 82.11.26 + 11.27 - Sam Rivers Quartet / 21:00hr, Trinitaires, Metz, France
    [L'Affiche Nov 20 clipping + Et Vous Nov 23 clippings, The RivBea Archive]

82.12.03 + 04 • Steve McCraven Quartet Featuring Sam Rivers: Intertwining Spirits

1983: Freelance FRL 005 (LP) Fr

December 3 & 4, 1982 / Ramses Studio, Paris, France

1. Intertwining Spirits (McCraven) [5:20]
2. Urges (McCraven/B. Ross) [3:37]
3. Love, Dance, Freedom, Trance (Kibwe) [5:19]
4. Pigalle sale (McCraven) [4:45]
5. Jack the Riffer (Kibwe) [4:41]
6. Care de l'Est Orient Express (McCraven/Kibwe/Zsigmondi) [2:14]
7. Silhouette of Eric (Kibwe) [4:58]
8. Chocolate (McCraven) [5:40]
Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,4,5,8, p-3), Talib Qadir Kibwe (as-1,3,5,8, fl-7, sanza-6),
Agnes Zsigmondi (Hungarian flute-6), Steve Neil (b),
Stephen McCraven (dr, perc, conch shell-8)

{FRL 005}

okay

  • 82.12.18 and 82.12.19 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Marvin Horne (g), Paul Ramsey (b), Newman Baker (dr) /
    New Jazz at New York Public Theatre, NYC [CODA #182 February 1, 1980 pp.33-4]

    "A Rivers gig from the Public Theater ca. 81-82, with Marvin Horne, Rael-Wesley Grant, and Newman Baker. Originally broadcast
    on WBGO. Horne spent almost a year with this group. Also, around the same time Rivers used Dave Moreno on guitar, for gigs both
    in the states and Europe." —Craig Nixon

1983 : : :


  • 83.01.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steven McCraven (dr) /
    20:30hr, Schloss Thürnthal, Fels am Wagram, Austria [Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive]
  • 83.01.24 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:00pm, 100 Club, London, UK
    [John Fordham review The Guardian Jan 26 p.11 clipping, The RivBea Archive; The Observer Jan 23 p.44]

83.01.25 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

January 25, 1983, 8:30pm / Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steven McCraven (dr)

{Band on the Wall January '83 schedule, The RivBea Archive; WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31;
The Observer Jan 23 p.44; Manchester Evening News Jan 26}


83.01.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [BVR]

January 26, 1983, 7:30pm / Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
—Broadcast February 4 + 11, 11:15pm, "Jazz on Four" BBC TV Channel 4
—Early start for double-bill: schedule has "Sam Rivers 3 + Stan Tracey Sextet."

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steven McCraven (dr)

{Band on the Wall January '83 schedule, The RivBea Archive; The Observer Jan 23 p.44; Manchester Evening News Jan 26;
The Guardian Feb 4 p.22 + Feb 11 p.22}


  • 83.01.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steven McCraven (dr) /
    8:30pm, Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK [ibid]
  • 83.01.28 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:30pm, 100 Club, London, UK
    [The Observer Jan 23 p.44]
  • 83.01.00 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steven McCraven (dr) /
    Jazzkeller Jazzforum Mödling, Bühne Mayer Theatre, Mödling, Austria
    [www.jazzforum.eu/jazzforum_chronologie.php]
    —This was listed on the 28th, when Rivers was in London.

83.02.00 • Axel Petry Quartet featuring Sam Rivers [BR—32:49]

WDR Studio Production

February, 1983 / Köln, Germany

 Broadcast announcement [0:49]
1. Upfast [10:14]
2. Binary Bop [13:38]
3. You Really Got Me [7:50]
 Broadcast announcement [0:18]
—Recieved as "Peter Sonntag Quartet."

Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Axel Petry (ts, as, bcl), Peter Sonntag (b, Comp), Jurgen Dahmen (dr)

{Norbert Kreutzer 06.04.13}


  • 83.02.04 - Sam Rivers + Axel Petry Quintet: Rivers (ts, fl), Petry (ts, as, bcl), Georg Gristoff (g, melodica), Jochen Schmidt (vb, mba),
    Peter Sonntag (b), Jürgen Dahmen (dr) / Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl]
  • 83.02-03.00 - Sam Rivers Trio: (no personnel details) / Salt Peanuts Club, Florence, Italy [Cadence Vol.9 No.5 May 1983 p.92]
  • 83.02.22 - Sam Rivers & Dave Holland Duo: Rivers (ts), Holland (b) / Centro d'Arte degli Studenti dell'Università di Padova Presents...,
    Teatro Pio X, Padova, Italy
    "No archival recording was made." [Veniero Rizzardi 12.01.02 + 19.03.06]

83.02.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & AR—79:47]

February 24, 1983 / Milan, Italy

Audience Recording:
1. improvisation [52:07]  (incomplete, fades in; split track at 24:14)
 (ts section–14:18; b+dr–4:49; ss section–2:36; dr solo–2:24; ss section–6:00;
 b solo–3:50; fl section–3:19; fl solo–2:21; fl section–12:31)
2. improvisation [27:17]  (incomplete, fades out at end)
 (ss section–19:13; dr solo–3:48; fl section–3:00; b solo–0:16)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Dave Holland (b), Thurman Barker (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #23; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.05.15; Paul Bastien 03.09.11}


83.03.01 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR]

March 1, 1983, 22:00hr / Grande Serata Jazz al Big, Torino, Italy
—Probable live broadcast on RTA FM 104

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{www.centrojazztorino2.it/index.php/1983/jazz-live-percorsi-musicali-in-piemonte-1982-83}


okay


  • 83.03.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr) / Music Inn, Rome, Italy
    [Il Messaggero Mar 5 p.12]

83.04.02 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—41:38 & BVR—41:38]

April 2, 1983 / Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK
—LIVE Broadcast of Jazz On Four: 4 Up 2 Down, BBC Channel 4

1. composition [4:32]  (incomplete, fades out)
—SR Interview [3:23]
2. composition [8:10]
3. bass vamp [0:13]  (fades out)
—SR Interview [2:18]
4. composition [2:11]  (incomplete, fades out)
—SR Interview [1:25]
5. composition [3:41]  (incomplete, cuts off at end)
6. composition [10:12]
7. composition [4:43]
 Broadcast announcement [0:31]
—This was a one-hour program shared with the Stan Tracey Sextet.

"While clearing out my videos I came across a Sam Rivers Trio broadcast from the Band On the Wall club in Manchester, England.
This was broadcast mid '80s... on Channel Four. Sam plays tenor, flute, and piano. The set is interspersed with interviews with Sam."
—Andrew Wilson

"I was interested to hear about your tapes. I set up these gigs and remember them well. Sam Rivers Trio did two dates... I shall try to find
out the dates, but it might take a little while (hunting through old files!). I suspect the year might be 1984 but am not sure."
—Ian Croal (Band on the Wall) correspondence to Andrew Wilson 03.05.13

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, fl+voc-6,7, p-4,5), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{Video; CDr, track detailing RL 18.08.14 ; Andrew "Andy" Wilson 03.05.15; ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/636069?view=synopsis}


  • 83.04.08 + 04.09 or 04.15 + 04.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Kevin Eubanks (el-g), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Newman Baker (dr) / Gulliver's, West Paterson, NJ [Patrick Clare 09.11.18]
    "Mid-April... Friday and Saturday night... They were in top form, I wish I had been able to record this."
  • 83.04.22 - Carman Moore's Skymusic Ensemble: Sam Rivers (ss), others /
    "Meet the Moderns," 8:00pm, Cooper Union, NYC

    "Lukas Foss conducts the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra with composers/performers Ron Carter, Anthony Davis, Leroy Jenkins,
    Oliver Lake, Carman Moore, Paul Schonfield; alto flutist James Newton, saxophonist Sam Rivers, cellist Abdul Wadud..."
    —No indication if all of these were participating as an ensemble or separately. [New York Magazine Apr 25 p.131]

    "Foss conducted various subgroups of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and guest composer-soloists in pieces that mixed—or, more often,
    juxtaposed—composed and improvised music. ...Carman Moore's "Blue Cubes," theoretically an exploded blues, mostly made space for
    improvisation by members of an updated ragtime orchestra while occasionally interrupting the solos with full-group blasts. It was by
    no means bluesy, although the soprano saxophonist Sam Rivers nearly transformed it when given the chance."
    [Jon Pareles "Classical vs. Jazz" The New York Times Apr 24]

  • 83.04.23 - Carman Moore's Skymusic Ensemble: Sam Rivers (reeds), others / Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY [ibid]
  • 83.04.24 - Ramsey McLean's Lifers + Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Steve Masakowski (g, g-synth), McLean (ce, b),
    Herlin Riley and John Vidacovich (dr) / Longue Vue Gardens Performing Arts Series, 6:00pm, Pavillion, Longue Vue Gardens, New Orleans, LA
    [Wavelength Apr 1983 p.5, scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/30; Dated press photo of group with gig info on back, eBay listing]
    —Billed as "Ramsey McLean/Sam Rivers Duo" in display ad from Wavelength February 1983 p.8, scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/28.

83.04.30 • Ramsey McLean's Lifers + Sam Rivers [AR—52:51]

April 30, 1983, 11:00pm & 1:00am / Fauborg Marigny Jazz Series, Snug Harbor, New Orleans, LA

1. improvisation [52:01]  (split track at 45:31, fades out and back in)
 (ss section–10:38; g trio section–3:23; b solo–1:50; p section–7:44; p solo–3:57;
 g-synth section–4:17; dr duo w/ g comp–4:50; fl section–7:15; b solo–2:48; fl section–6:08)
—Masakowski created his own guitar synth. —Bret Sverjen

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Steve Masakowski (g, g-synth),
Ramsey McLean (ce, b), Herlin Riley and John Vidacovich (dr)

—Some sources have Steve Robinson mistakenly credited on guitar.

okay

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.16; Bret Sverjen 18.05.23; Wavelength Apr 1983 pp.13+28, scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/31}


  • 83.05.01 - Ramsey McLean's Lifers + Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Steve Masakowski (g, g-synth), Ramsey McLean (ce, b),
    Herlin Riley and John Vidacovich (dr) / New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 5:30pm, Festival Tent, Fair Grounds, New Orleans, LA
    [1983 Jazz Fest Program Book p.36 + 65, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com; Wavelength Apr 1983 p.18+23, scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/30]
  • 83.05.06 - Harold E. Smith All-Stars: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Plunky Nkabinde (ts), Fred Simmons (p),
    Raymond White (poet), Calvin Hill (b), Rashied Ali (cga), Michael Carvin (perc), Smith (dr) /
    8:30 & 10:30pm, International House, Philadelphia, PA [Poster + Apr 12 Press release, The RivBea Archive]
  • 83.05.24 to 05.28 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Kevin Eubanks (g), Billy Hart (dr) /
    Sweet Basil, NYC [CODA #190 Jun p.37; The New York Times May 27; Daily News May 25 p.M17]

    : : : Oriente Occidente, Incontri Internazionali di Rovereto, June 25 through June 29, 1983 : : :

  • 83.06.25 to 06.28 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop / Scuola Musicale, Rovereto, Italy
    ["Great Jazz opens the Meetings International" Rovereto Daily Jun 26 + Sam Rivers Jazz Laboratory Workshop Program, The RivBea Archive; www.barryexit.org; Barry Wedgle 09.11.14]
    "We also did a one-week workshop in Rovereto... I remember teaching 5 guitarists together." —Barry Wedgle
    —Tokyo-New York Festival "started with... seminars conducted by Sam Rivers... The course, which is attended by musicians
     from every part of Italy, will end on Wednesday 29 with a concert in which teachers and students will participate and will be offered
     free citizenship in the new outdoor theater set up in the park of Santa Maria." —Workshop Program
  • 83.06.28 (2) - Sam Rivers, Barry Wedgle, Steve Neil, Steve McCraven / 12:00pm, Scuola Musicale, Rovereto, Italy
    [Sam Rivers Jazz Laboratory Workshop Program + Rovereto Daily Jun 26, The RivBea Archive; Alto Adige Jun 29 p.9; www.barryexit.org]
    "Yesterday at noon... a ceremony during which Sam Rivers and his collaborators were presented with an elegant book
    published by the International Meetings of Rovereto, which collects the unpublished music composed by Rivers for
    the seminar dedicated to the City of Oaks." —Alto Adige
  • 83.06.29 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop / Scuola Musicale, Rovereto, Italy [ibid]
  • 83.06.29 (2) - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Barry Wedgle (g), Steve Neil (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    21:30hr, Outdoor Theatre, Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Rovereto, Italy
    [Alto Adige Jun 29 p.9]
  • 83.06.29 (3) - Jam Session: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), "will involve the participants in the workshop..." /
    21:30hr, Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Rovereto, Italy
    [Sam Rivers Jazz Laboratory Workshop Program + Rovereto Daily Jun 26, The RivBea Archive]

83.07.01 • Sam Rivers Quartet + Guest [AR—56:29]

July 1, 1983 / Jazz in the Garden, Garten der Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

1. improvisation [55:37]  (split track at 46:47)
2. improvisation [8:04]
"Concert... opened with a solo performance by Wolfgang Dauner, followed by the Rivers Quartet, and closed with an ad hoc duo piece."

Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-2, fl-1, p-1, voc-1, Comp), Wolfgang Dauner (p-2), Barry Wedgle (g-1), Steve Neil (b-1), Steve McCraven (dr-1)

{Mario Grenz 18.12.26; Barry Wedgle 09.11.14; www.barryexit.org}


  • 83.07.06 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Barry Wedgle (g), Steve Neil (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    21:00hr, Parco dell'Inviolata di Riva, Rovereto, Italy
    [Program + Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive]
  • 83.07.08 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Jazz a Vienne Festival '83, Théâtre Antique, Vienne, France
    [www.jazzavienne.com/en/memories/1983]
  • 83.07.13 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Jazz Galerie, Bonn, Germany
    [Jazz Galerie July 1983 program p.8, The RivBea Archive]
    —Schedule has "The New Sam Rivers Quartet," and mistakenly lists Jerry Byrd, Rael-Wesley Grant, and Steve Ellington.
  • 83.07.14 to 07.16 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Jazz a la Resserre, 21:30hr, Club Cave du 14 La Resserre aux Diables, Beaubourg, Paris, France
    [Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive; Barry Wedgle 09.11.14]
  • 83.07.00 (2) [28th or 29th] - Sam Rivers Quartet / Cadiz Jazz Festival, Cadiz, Spain
    "Which won't come up [in a search] because they spell his name Sam Wivers or something." [Peter Mansell 17.08.30]
  • 83.08.04 (1) - Sam Rivers Lecture & Workshop / Seattle Kool Jazz Fest '83,
    12:00pm, Cornish Institute Theater, Seattle, WA [Down Beat Aug 1983 p.54; The RivBea Archive; The Vancouver Sun Jul 27 p.E1]
  • 83.08.04 (2) - Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), "12-piece ensemble" / Seattle Kool Jazz Fest '83,
    6:00pm, Broadway Performance Hall, Cornish Institute Theater, Seattle, WA [ibid; The Spokesman-Review Jul 29, p.39]
  • 83.08.27 - Herb Pomeroy Band: Sam Rivers (reeds), Pomeroy (tp), Jaki Byard (p) "...are expected." others? / Sandy's Jazz Revival, Boston, MA
    [Cadence Vol.9 No.8 August 1983 p.4]

83.09.02 • Beaver Harris Trio [SBR—70:46]

September 2, 1983 / Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Saalfelden, Austria

1. Well Kept Secret (Harris) [13:48]  (fl–p–fl)
2. Land of the People (Harris) [12:42]
3. Negcaumungus (Harris) [16:57]  (ts–ss; split track at 7:36)
4. God Bless the Child (Arthur Herzog/Billie Holiday)—Summertime (George Gershwin) [5:35]  (encore, Haynes solo)
5. calypso improv [3:14]  (another encore, Haynes + Harris duo)
Sam Rivers (ts-2,3, ss-3, fl-1, p-1), Francis "Saint" Haynes (steel drum), Beaver Harris (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.18}


83.10.08 (1) • Sam Rivers/Charlie Mariano Quartet [AR—43:32]

October 8, 1983 / Leverkusener Jazzfest, Leverkusen, Germany

1. improvisation [8:57]  (ts+ss)
2. improvisation [26:56]  (ss+as–fl+fl–fl+ss)
3. improvisation [6:57]  (CM fl+voc—p+as)
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Charlie Mariano (as, ss, fl), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.18; Kölner Stadt Anzeiger Nr.236/8 clipping, The RivBea Archive}


  • 83.10.08 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, fl, p, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr) / Domicil, Dortmund, Germany
    [www.domicil-dortmund.de/index.php]
    —Same day as play-date above. Locales are less than an hour apart, uncertain as to which happened earlier.

83.10.15 • Sam Rivers & Köln Workshop Orchestra [BR—54:06]

October 15, 1983, 8:30pm / Donaueschingen, Germany
—SWF Jazz Session

 introduction by Joachim E. Berendt [2:10]
1. Spectrum [52:20]
 Part 1—17:36  (fl–ss)
 Part 2—32:35  (p–ts; split track at 23:48)
 Broadcast announcement [0:38]
—RBA Cassette #14 is dated "1983?" and notes a Big Band in Germany.

Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p, Cond, Arr, Comp), Cornelia Rienhard (ts), Norbert Stein (ts, ss), Friedrich Kullmann (ts, as, fl), Armin Tretter (as, ss),
Michael Heupel (fl), Tobias Netta, Theo Schotten, and Karl Farend (tp), Meinold Humpert, Peter Feil, and Joachim Gellert (tb),
Paul Shigihara (g), Ulla Oster (b), Andreas Terhoeven and Matthias von Welck (dr, perc)

—Roster had "Jolli Heinen" on guitar, which was crossed out and replaced by Shigihara and confirmed by Berendt.

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #14; CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.18; Roster sheet from Initiative Kölner Jazz Haus e.V., RivBea Archive;
www.swr.de/swr2/donaueschingen/programme/1921-1997}


83.11.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

November 26, 1983 / Geneva, Switzerland

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Cassette #61 has "Contemporary Final Mix Copy."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #61}


1984 : : :


84.01.19 • Max Roach Quartet + Sam Rivers [BR—53:44 & AR—117:08

NDR JAZZ WORKSHOP Nr.:186 (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) Radio/TV Broadcast

January 19, 1984 / Studio 10 des NDR, Hamburg, Germany

1. Evening In Hamburg [7:28]  (Rivers and Roach Duo)
2. "Five for All" [23:09]  (ts–fl+voc–ss)
3. Straight No Chaser (Thelonious Monk) [7:25]
4. Giant Steps (John Coltrane) [7:03]  (ss–fl; split track at 3:39, fades on dr solo, cuts in on Pope tenor workout)
3. Now's the Time (Charlie Parker) [7:50]  (incomplete, cuts out)
—Track 1 was an improv named after the fact.
—Broadcast also includes "Scott Free," "Six Bits Blues," and "Jordu," all sans Rivers.
—Audience Recordings exist for this date at "6 tracks/stereo/102:00" and "1 track/mono/24:00."
—The 2CDr version that I have is an audience mashup with tracks out of order, incoherently disarranged and run through a blender.

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, ss-2,3,4, fl-2,3,4), Odean Pope (ts-2,3), Cecil Bridgewater (tp-2,3), Tyrone Brown (b-2,3), Max Roach (dr)

{Broadcast Digital files, track detailing RL 19.05.18; 2CDr Audience Recording catastrophe, no track detailing possible}


  • 84.01.20 - "The New" Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    20:00hr, Jazz Studio Núrnberg, Núrnberg, Germany
    [Jazz Studio Núrnberg Programm & Mitteilungen Jan/Feb 1984, The RivBea Archive]
  • 84.01.23 - Sam Rivers "New York Jazz Group": Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    20:30hr, Domicil, Dortmund, Germany [Jazzclub DomicilProgramm März/April 1982 + small handbill, The RivBea Archive]

84.01.30 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—54:08]

January 30, 1984 / Salt Peanuts, Cologne, Germany

1. improvisation [31:17]  (split track at 16:09)
 (ts section–11:31; dr solo–4:38, fades out; fl+voc section–15:08)
"I knew Sam was coming to play here, so I call him up at around noon. He says: ‘Are you coming over tonight?’
I say: ‘Yes, sure...’ He says: ‘Good, bring your axe.’" —Paul Shigihara

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, fl, voc), Paul Shigihara (g, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{Digital files, track detailing RL 19.05.20; Paul Shigihara 14.02.11; soundcloud.com/oneworldclub}


84.02.02 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:45:47]

February 2, 1984 / Gasthof Berg Isel, Bregenz, Austria

1st Set:
1. improvisation [48:16]
2nd Set:
2. improvisation [44:42]
3. improvisation [11:49]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, fl, conch shell-3), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{John Chacona 08.08.20}


  • 84.02.03 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, p, fl, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    20:30hr, Aula du Collège, Nyon, Switzerland [Program, RivBea Archive; www.bcu-lausanne.ch]
  • 84.02.13 - Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Waldron (p) / The Lighthouse, Valenza, Italy
    [youtube video ASIzYZcEJsE, an unusual clip at 3:46 of stills with audio of "If I Were a Bell"]
  • 84.02.15 - Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo: as above/ Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, Italy
    [Associazone Culturale Caligola, www.caligola.it/about.html]

84.02.19 • Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo [AR—90:57]

February 19, 1984 / Club Dunois, Paris, France

1st Set:
1. improvisation [26:15]  (segues into...)
2. Come Rain or Come Shine (Harold Arlen) [9:08]
3. I Thought About You (Jimmy Van Heusen) [9:21]  (incomplete, cuts out)
2nd Set:
4. improvisation [21:13]
5. unknown title [11:14]
6. My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers) [11:23]
"The long opening number is mainly improvised. Waldron could be playing some of his pieces during his solos,
but... when Sam moves to tenor sax, he's definitely playing ‘Come Rain or Come Shine.’ ...The opening of the second
set is same as the first, improvisation with maybe Mal playing his tunes when he solos." —Ed Hazell

Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,5,6, ss-1, fl-4), Mal Waldron (p)

{2CDr; track detailing RL 19.05.20; Ed Hazell 18.03.07}


84.02.20 • Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo [RBA—87:04]

February 20, 1984 / unknown place, venue

1. improvisation [21:54]  (incomplete, cuts in)
 (ts section–17:05; ss section–4:49)
2. What a Difference a Day Makes (María Grever) [9:17]
3. Once I Had a Secret Love (Sammy Fain) [8:48]
4. Stella by Starlight (Victor Young) [7:07]
5. Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma) [8:54]
6. a blues [7:38]
7. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [8:36]
8. Fly Me to the Moon (Bart Howard) [8:12]
—RBA Cassettes #57 and 107 are both marked "Sam Rivers & Sigi Kessler;" #57 has "I" and "84 or 89.02.20;" #107 has "II."

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,4,5,7, ss-1,6, fl-3,8), Mal Waldron (el-p and bass pedals)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #57 and 107; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.05.20}


84.02.21 • Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo [RBA]

February 21, 1984 / Caveau Des Trinitaires, Metz, France

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Mal Waldron (p)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #142}


  • 84.02.23 + 02.24 - Sam Rivers & Mal Waldron Duo: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Mal Waldron (p) /
    L'Anys Dor, Strasbourg, France [Poster, The RivBea Archive]

84.03.03 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA & AR—180:00+]

March 3, 1984, 9:00 & 11:00pm / JazzTrack, Manhattan Healing Arts Center, New York City
—Received as "Early January," 1984
1... improvisations [180:00 +]
"At a loft on Broadway in lower Manhattan. Part of the JazzTrack Series produced by a man named 'Kwami,' [Kwame Shaw] this was a stellar
performance, three hours long. The loft had a nice, peaceful, relaxed vibe, they played some tunes of Sam's ("Fun" was the only one I could identify),
and some very extended improvisational sections. I know this was recorded, but I don't know who has the recording." —Patrick Clare

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Kevin Eubanks (el-g), Kevin Harris (b, elb), Bobby Battle (dr)

{Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Patrick Clare 09.11.24, Clare archive ad clipping 19.05.06}


84.03.21 • Sam Rivers & Abdullah Ibrahim Duo [AR—67:42]

March 21, 1984 / Logan Hall, London, England

1. tenor solo [5:06]  (incomplete, cuts in)
2. flute + vocal solo [5:13]
4. In a Sentimental Mood (Duke Ellington) [9:17]  (incomplete, cuts out)
5. unknown title [7:45]  (fl—ss; incomplete, cuts in; segues into...)
6. Well You Needn't (Thelonious Monk) [4:58]
7. encore [7:03]
—Partial Audience Recording also in circulation at 35:12.

"Ibrahim solo track is a medley of his tunes. Encore is either an Ibrahim tune or just a jam over a South African vamp that Ibrahim sets up."
—Ed Hazell

"We begin talking about his Camden Jazz Week concert of the previous evening. A planned duo with Max Roach had been cancelled
the day before the gig when Roach was taken ill, and reedsman Sam Rivers flew in as a last-minute replacement. Ibrahim and Rivers
had not played together before and had little time to rehearse. Was this not a problem? I ask.
Ibrahim frowns for a moment, then smiles. ‘What did Ben Riley ask Monk? Hey Monk, when are we going to rehearse?
Monk said, Why? You wanna learn how to cheat?’ He breaks into delighted guffaws, as he will do throughout the afternoon."
—Graham Lock, Chasing The Vibration

Sam Rivers (ts-1,4, ss-5,6, fl-2,5,7, voc-2), Abdullah Ibrahim (p-3,4,5, voc-3)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.20; Ed Hazell 18.03.08; John Fordham review The Guardian Mar 22 p.10
Graham Lock, Chasing The Vibration, Stride Publications, England, 1994, p.53}


  • 84.03.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Santi DeBriano (b), Steve McCraven (dr) / 21:00hr, Missisippi Jazz Club, Rome, Italy
    [l'Unità Mar 25 "Anteprima" p.18 + Mar 27 "Spettacoli" p.16]
  • 84.05.04 - Harold E. Smith All-Stars: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Plunky Nkabinde (ts), Fred Simmons (p),
    Raymond White (poet), Calvin Hill (b), Rashied Ali (cga), Michael Carvin (perc), Smith (dr) /
    8:30 & 10:30pm, International House, Philadelphia, PA [Poster, The RivBea Archive; Philadelphia Daily News May 4 p.69]
    —Yes, the same lineup and venue as May 6, 1983. Posters were very similar as well (the same cat photo), except for the date.

84.05.25 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—37:27]

May 25, 1984, 10:30pm / "On Time" Series, Village Gate, New York City

1. composition [12:49]
2. improvisation [22:03]
 (ss section–7:24; dr solo–4:19; fl+voc section–11:35)
"I was present at the concert. There were no additional tunes." —Norbert Kreutzer 05.07.04

"There was a play at the Village gate that ran late, so the concert started late—first Billy Harper 4tet,
then Reggie Workman solo—Sam's first set started at 1:00 am." —Patrick Clare 07.02.07

Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-2, fl-2, voc-2), Ed Cherry (g), Kevin Harris (b, elb), Bobby Battle (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.20; Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Daily News May 25 Friday p.11; Norbert Kreutzer 05.07.04;
Patrick Clare 07.02.07; CODA #197 August 1984 p.28}


  • 84.06.07 to 06.10 - Sky Dance/Sky Time: Carman Moore (Comp), Otto Pienne (Sculptor), Elaine Summers (Chor), Sam Rivers (reeds),
    Katherine Hay (fl), Marianna Rosett (el-p), Kenneth Bichel (synth), Mark Heinemann (g, mandolin, lyre),
    Leroy Jenkins (vn), Eric Johnson (bass synth, perc), Jed Leiber (elec mixer), Hollis Headrick (perc),
    Diane Carroll, Alix Keast, Terry Chan, Melody Morris, Meg Dellenbaugh, Sao Nuñes,
    Jacques Van Eijden, David Schumann, Tom Howe, and Gail Teton (dance) /
    9:00pm, The Rotunda, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC
    [Program, press release, poster, flyer, Otto Pienne drawing, + undated Deborah Jowitt Village Voice review, The RivBea Archive]
  • 84.06.30 - All-Star Alliance: Sam Rivers, John Stubblefield, John Purcells, Sonny Fortune (reeds)... others? /
    10:30pm & 1:00am, Village Gate, NYC [The New York Times Jun 30 p.14A]
  • 84.07.04 - Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: "11-piece ensemble" / New Music America '84 Festival, Real Art Ways,
    11:30am and 1:30pm, Old State House Lawn, Hartford, CT [New York Daily News Jun 13 p.46; Hartford Courant Jun 14 p.116 + July 5 p.33]

84.07.05 • Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan [BR—34:58]

July 5, 1984, 12:00midnight / Montreal Jazz Festival, Theatre St. Denis, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Radio-Canada TV, AM, and FM Radio Information, Week of 20 to 26 October 1984, Volume 18, Number 43
 "FM Schedule, Saturday October 20th, 10:00pm ‘Jazz on the Go’

1. composition [5:23]
2. composition [26:50]
3. improvisation [1:21]  (incomplete, fades out)
"[Show was] 80 minutes including an intermission, a 15-minute second half, and an encore..."

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Jean Toussaint, Bill Cody, and 1 unknown (ts, fl), two unknown (as, fl),
Al Gibbons and 2 unknown (ss, fl), Jimmy Cozier and Patience Higgins (bar, fl)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.19; Mark Miller The Globe and Mail Jul 7 p.E7;
collections2.banq.qc.ca/jrn03/dn2426/src/1984/10/20/TELE/2569830_1984-10-20_TELE.txt}


okay

"Sam Rivers and his Winds of Manhattan band were on stage blowing some of the most challenging sounds all week... The orchestrations for two baritone
saxes, three tenors, two altos, and three sopranos involved unison lines reminiscent of a wilder and more extravagant version of the World Saxophone
Quartet. The brief second half of the show shifted in mood as all 11 musicians came out playing flutes in a swirling clash of color."
The Gazette Jul 7 p.H10 / Photo by Arne Glassbourg

84.07.28 • Sam Rivers & Reggie Workman Duo [AR—117:07 & BR—116:57]

July 28, 1984 / DC Space, Washington, DC
—WKCR-FM Broadcast, May, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

Audience Recording:
1. improvisation [42:34]  (ts, b; b solo; p solo; p, b)
2. improvisation [13:43]  (fl+voc, b)
3. improvisation [37:04]  (ss, b; b solo; p solo; p, b)
4. improvisation [9:02]  (fl, b)
5. improvisation [9:40]  (fl+voc, b+voc)
—2CDr Broadcast noted in WKCR-FM Archive.
—Audience Recording also circulating as single CDr with track 1 at 43:05.

"Made from the master cassettes... Recorded from the front row of tables, center, adjacent to Workman's small amplifier... Workman replaced
the originally-scheduled Richard Davis. As far as I know, this show was the last of Rivers' memorable gigs at DC Space." —Anonymous donor "DC"

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Reggie Workman (b, voc)

{Audience soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.05.21; Jakob Blumenthal 10.10.12; Michael McLaughlin 04.01.05;
W. Royal Stokes Washington Post Jul 25; WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31}


  • 84.08.31 - Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Steve Ellington (dr), unknown others (no ensemble mentioned) /
    Fifth Montreux Detroit International Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Detroit Institute of Arts Recital Hall, Detroit, MI
    [CODA #199 Dec 1984 p.33; Cadence Vol.10 #8 Aug 1984 p.75; Lansing Beat Aug 30-Sep 19 p.5]
  • 84.09.02 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Steve Ellington (dr), unknown others / Atlanta Jazz Festival,
    7:30pm, Inaugural Stage, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA [The Atlanta Constitution Aug 25 p.82]
  • 84.09.21 - Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Alice Coltrane (org, harp, voc), Reggie Workman, (b), Rashied Ali (dr) /
    John Coltrane Commemoration, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
    [The New York Times Sep 21 p.C28 + Sep 23 p.64; Patrick Clare 10.02.09]
    "Recreated 'Impressions,' one of his complex, jubilant free jazz compositions." —Stephen Holden in NYT Sep 23, who also erroneously
     refers to "Mr. Haynes" as the drummer late in the article after noting Ali as the drummer to begin.
    —Further, New York Magazine issue of Sep 24, 1984 (p.140) has Roy Haynes credited pre-concert as well.
     [Welcome to Shape-Shifter Central...]
  • 84.10.13 - Reggie Workman & Friends: Sam Rivers (reeds), Cecil Bridgewater (tp), John Blake (vn), Stanley Cowell (p),
    Workman (b), Milford Graves (dr) / New Jazz Series, 8:30pm, Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC
    [Robert Palmer The New York Times Oct 10]
  • 84.11.03 - Sam Rivers Quartet: (no personnel details) / 8:00pm, Crowell Concert Hall, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
    [Hartford Courant Nov 1 p.110]

1985 : : :


  • 85.02.21 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Alain Ginapé (g), Kevin Harris (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    21:00hr, Ala Azzurra Music Inn, Bologna, Italy
    [Ala Azzurra Music Inn mailer, Giovanni Zanoni 19.05.25; Libero Farné Jazz Live undated review p.7]
    —Pre-concert mailer had Essiet O. Essiet on bass.
  • 85.02.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / 18:00 & 22:00hr, Mississippi Jazz Club, Rome, Italy
    [l'Unità Feb 24 &Spettacoli" p.17]
  • 85.02.26 - Sam Rivers Quartet / AMR Jazz Festival 85, 20:30hr, Théâtre Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
    [AMR Jazz Festival Program, The RivBea Archive]
  • 85.02.27 and 85.02.28 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Trou Noir, Paris, France
    [Crépon's Jazz Unité chronology, "Gérard Terronès: Trou Noir (1984–1985)" Current Research in Jazz Volume 10 (2018), crj-online.org]

85.03.03 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

March 3, 1985 / Robin Hood, Villa Lagarina, Italy

1... improvisations [ : ]
—RBA Cassette #62 has personnel as below, "3.3.84," "Avignon," and "Cologue" [sic].
 (Rivers was at JazzTrack in New York on 84.03.03 with Kevin Eubanks, Kevin Harris, and Bobby Battle.)

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Alain Ginapé (g), Essiet O. Essiet (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #62; Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive}


  • 85.03.04 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Alaine Ginapé (g), Essiet O. Essiet (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    Posto, Verona, Italy [L'Arena Mar 4 clipping, The RivBea Archive]
  • 85.03.05 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Teatro Toniolo, Mestre, Italy [Associazone Culturale Caligola, www.caligola.it/about.html]

85.03.08 • Beaver Harris' French Horn Connection [AR—79:57 & BVR—18:42]

March 8, 1985 / Wackerhalle, Burghausen, Germany

1. improvisation [9:14]  (p, b, perc, + intro by Harris)
2. A Well Kept Secret (Harris) [9:13]
3. Black Robert (Burrell) [11:25]
4. Abel's Blissed Out Blues (Burrell) [13:24]
5. I Wish I Knew (Harry Warden/Mack Gordon) [5:08]
6. African Drums (Harris) [10:36]
7. Boogie on Down [15:50]
8. drum solo encore [2:24]
—Broadcast Video has tracks 4 and 5.

Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,4,5,7, ss-6, fl-6, briefly, in the beginning), Vincent Chancey and Guntram Burger (frh),
Dave Burrell (p), Steve Neil (b), Ghene Kwado Larbi (cga), Beaver Harris (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.09.08; Video}


  • 85.03.17 - Beaver Harris' French-Horn Connection: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Vincent Chancey (frh),
    Dave Burrell (p), Santi Debriano (b), Kenny Johson (steel drums), Babafumi Akunyun (cga),
    Beaver Harris (dr) —Web-site also had Ronnie Burrage listed on drums. /
    IV Festival Internacional de Jazz, Club de Musica y Jazz, San Juan Evangelista, Madrid, Spain
    [www.sanjuanevangelista.org]

  • 85.03.19 - Beaver Harris' French-Horn Connection: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Vincent Chancey (frh),
    Dave Burrell (p), Santi Debriano (b), Vincent Taylor (steel drums), Càndido (cga),
    Beaver Harris (dr) / 22:00hr, Grande Serata Jazz al Big, Torino, Italy
    [www.centrojazztorino2.it/index.php/1985/jazz-x-torino]
  • okay

85.03.21 • Beaver Harris' French Horn Connection [BR—51:13]

March 21, 1985 / Camden Jazz Festival, Logan Hall, London, England
—Broadcast on BBC Radio London programme "Jazz on Saturday," 3rd August 1985.

1. Medley: improvisation (p, b, perc)—A Well Kept Secret (Harris)—Black Robert (Burrell) [20:26]
2. Abel's Blissed Out Blues (Burrell) [10:12]
3. I Wish I Knew (Harry Warden/Mack Gordon) [5:53]
4. Sahara (Francis Haynes) [13:21]  "Sahara. Sahara, number 10, but go into through number 9."
—Received with a single track noted, "Sahara Suite." Titles above, being run in same order, from 85.03.08.

"The master tapes are now held at the British Library National Sound Archive... Harris announced the group from the stage
as 'the Beaver Harris-Sam Rivers Connection,' although it was billed as the Beaver Harris French Horn Connection." —Paul Wilson

Sam Rivers (ts-1,3, ss-2, fl-4), Vincent Chancey (frh), Dave Burrell (p), Walter Schmocker (b),
Ghene Kwado Larbi (cga), Kent Johnson (steel drums), Beaver Harris (dr, perc, Comp)

{CDr, detailing RL 19.09.08; Paul Wilson, British Library National Sound Archive 02.10.18; John Fordham review The Guardian Mar 23 p.10}


  • 85.04.01 - Brass Group Band: Sam Rivers (Cond, Comp), Stefano D'Anna and Larry Nash (ts), Orazio Maugeri and Claudio Montalbano (as),
    Antonino Pedone (bar), Domenico Riina, Pietro Pedone, Faro Riina, Claudio Brocato, and Giovanni Maniscalco (tp), Giuseppe D'Aquila,
    Salvatore Pizzo, Giuseppe Sapienza, Pietro Piazza, and Salvatore Pizzurro (tb), Salvatore Bonafede (p), Giancarlo Aguglia (g),
    Giuseppe Costa (b), Mimmo Cafiero (cga), Pippo Cataldo (dr) + Guest Artist Danilo Terenzi (tb) / Teatro Metropolitan, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
    [Undated Spettacoli clipping, Cronache review Apr 6, Giornale di Sicilia review Apr 1x (illegible), + Poster, The RivBea Archive]
    —Compositions: Spectrum, Fun, and Roses
  • 85.04.08 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Paul Shigihara (g), Walter Schmocker (b), Doug Hammond (dr) /
    19:30hr, Volkhaus Stainach, Styria, Austria
    [Kleine Zeitung clipping Apr 5 + Apr 10 (w/ personnel) TagesPost Apr 10, The RivBea Archive]
    "At the beginning of a rough European tour..." —Kleine Zeitung Apr 5 had Alain Ginapé (g), Santi Debriano (b), and Steve McCraven (dr), but reviews said otherwise.
  • 85.04.11 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / Blauwe Zaal, Nijmegen, Netherlands [The RivBea Archive]
  • 85.04.12 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl]

85.04.19 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—98:17]

April 19, 1985 / unidentified museum, Basel, Switzerland

 1. composition [4:12]
 2. Sunflower [3:43]
 3. Sophistication [9:52]
 4. Gush [10:09]
 5. bass solo [4:31]
 6. Solitude [6:58]
 7. Violets [4:38]
 8. drum+vocal solo [5:24]  (split track at 0:08)
 9. improvisation [8:30]  (piano solo into quartet)
10. guitar solo [5:02]
11. composition w/ introductions [17:37]  (split track at 10:04)
12. Beatrice [6:56]
—Also mentioned in concert intro, the composition "Fun," but I'm not hearing it. —RL

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,4,5,12, ss-6,7, fl-11, p-9, voc-11, Comp), Paul Shigihara (g), Tim Wells (b), Doug Hamond (dr, voc-8)

 —Paul Ramsey is wrongly credited on bass on the circulating Audience Recording even though Rivers introduces Wells during last piece.
  "Halfway through the tour Sam changed bass players... He hired Tim Wells, who was an American expatriate living in London..." —Paul Shigihara

{2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.24; Patrick Clare 07.02.07; Paul Shigihara 07.10.08 }


  • 85.04.20 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Paul Shigihara (g), Tim Wells (b), Doug Hammond (dr) /
    Jazzkeller Jazzforum Mödling, Bühne Mayer Theatre, Mödling, Austria
    [Paul Shigihara 11.01.08; www.jazzforum.eu/jazzforum_chronologie.php]
    —Website incorrectly has Alain Ginapé (g), Santi DeBriano (b), and Steve McCraven (dr).

85.04.27 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA—141:05]

April 27, 1985 / Baden, Switzerland

  RivBea Archive / Reel #22
  1st Set:
 1. Sun Song [7:01]
 2. Sophistication [8:56]  ("for Doug's daughter")
 3. Fun [11:00]
 4. bass solo [4:55]
 5. composition [15:02]
 6. composition [10:52]  (a few gaps within first half-minute)
 7. guitar solo [4:58]
 8. composition [3:35]
  2nd Set:
 9. composition [5:19]
10. Beatrice [7:24]
11. composition [7:53]
12. composition [4:14]
13. drum & voice solo [7:24]
14. guitar solo [5:37]
15. Fade Away [6:39]  (fl+b duet—bass solo)
16. composition [10:12]
17. encore [7:20]
"This show was on two tapes on 10-inch reels, recorded two-track at 7.5 ips. The tapes were in BASF boxes. One had ‘22’ written in pen
inside a circle on the front. The other box was unnumbered. Both boxes listed the date, personnel, and the speed and recording format.
One box also has ‘Daniel Rotzinger, Staditurustra AA CH-5400 Baden Switzerland’ (?) written on the back. Sam announces the personnel.
When I edited this show, I noticed that the wave forms were flat across the top. This is an indication of compression or some form of limiting.
I suspect that this recording was made using Dolby or DBX." —Joe Washek

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,9,10,11,12, ss-5, fl-6,8,15,16,17, voc-6,16,17, Comp), Paul Shigihara (g), Tim Wells (b), Doug Hammond (dr, voc)

{RivBea Archival Recordings Reel #D and 22; 2CDr copy of Reel #22, track detailing RL 19.05.25; Joe Washek 10.10.21}


  • 85.04.29 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Paul Shigihara (g), Tim Wells (b), Doug Hammond (dr) /
    19:30hr, Stainacher Volkshaus, Steinach, Germany [Kleine Zeitung Apr 4 p.19]

85.09.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR—78:11]

September 2, 1985, 6:00pm / Dewar's Jazz Festival, "Music Is an Open Sky," Sweet Basil, NYC

1. Fun [7:08]
2. Beatrice [7:36]
3. Spectrum [8:54]
4. Rapture [8:33]
5. Lilt [7:00]
6. [7:19]
7. Violets [6:10]
8. [9:17]
"Some of them composed a few years ago, and some of them last month."

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,4,6,7, ss-3,5, fl-8, Comp), Chico Freeman (ts), Kenny Garrett (as), Bobby Eldridge (bar), Stanton Davis and Wallace Roney (tp),
Robin Eubanks and Alfred Patterson (tb), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Ed Cherry and David Gilmore (g), Cecil McBee (b), Freddie Waits (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.25; Patrick Clare 07.02.07; John Pareles The New York Times Sep 4 p.C20; Javier de Cambra El Pais Sep 6}


  • 85.10.24 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Steve McCraven (dr) / Kimball's, San Francisco, CA
    [CODA #205 December 1985 p.30; Cadence Vol.11 #11 November 1985 p.91]

85.10.25 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

October 25, 1985 / Kimball's, San Francisco, CA
—RBA Cassette #19 has "Kimberly."

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Steve McCraven (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #19; CODA #205 December 1985 p.30; Cadence Vol.11 #11 November 1985 p.91}


85.10.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

October 26, 1985 / Kimball's, San Francisco, CA
—RBA Cassette #58 was dated "Oct 26th" with no year attributed.

1... improvisations [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Steve McCraven (dr)

{RivBea Archival Recordings CS #58; CODA #205 December 1985 p.30; Cadence Vol.11 #11 November 1985 p.91}


  • 85.11.04 - Carman Moore and Ensemble: Moore (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Katherine Hay (fl), Mark Heinemann (g),
    Leroy Jenkins (vn), Marianna Rossett (p), Kenneth Bichel (synth), Eric Johnson (synth, perc), Gordon Gottlieb (vbs), Hollis Headrick (perc) /
    American Music Week, 8:00pm, Judson Memorial Church, NYC [Poster + program, The RivBea Archive; Cash Box Oct 26 p.28]
    —"Concertos (The Theme is Freedom)" and "Sky Music." "Three Sketches from Paradise Lost."

    1985:

    Ted Panken: Thurman, you played a gig this past weekend in Boston with Sam Rivers as guest artist.
    Thurman Barker: Exactly. It was my gig. I was able to get two nights at a club in Boston called Charlie's Tap,
    Friday [8th] and Saturday [9th], the Thurman Barker Trio featuring Sam Rivers.
    [Barker interview, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM NYC, November 18, 1985, www.jazzhouse.org/library/index.php?read=panken13]
    ———


85.11.08 • Thurman Barker Trio with Sam Rivers [AR—79:05]

November 8, 1985 / Charlie's Tap, Cambridge, MA

1. improvisation [8:31]
2. improvisation [33:33]  (split track at 2:06)
 (p/synth solo; ss section; dr solo; b solo; fl section)
—Preceded by two trio pieces sans Rivers (30:06; 5:09).

Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-2, fl-2), Rod Williams (p, synth), Dan O'Brian (b), Thurman Barker (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.25; Christopher Carville 10.08.16}


  • 85.11.09 - Thurman Barker Trio with Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rod Williams (p, synth), Dan O'Brian (b), Barker (dr) /
    Charlie's Tap, Cambridge, MA [Cadence Vol.11 #11 November 1985 p.2]

85.11.10 • Thurman Barker: Voyage

1999: UPTEE103 (CD)

November 10, 1985 / Charlie's Tap, Cambridge, MA
—CD liner has this mistakenly as November 11th.

1. Impulse [13:66]
—One of three CD bonus tracks not included on original vinyl (UpTee 1001, 1987).

Sam Rivers (ss),
Rod Williams (p),
Dan O'Brian (b),
Thurman Barker (dr)

{UPTEE103; The Boston Globe Nov 7 Calendar p.21}

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  • 85.11.11 - Carman Moore and Ensemble: Moore (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Katherine Hay (fl), Mark Heinemann (g),
    Leroy Jenkins (vn), Marianna Rossett (p), Kenneth Bichel (synth), Eric Johnson (synth, perc), Gordon Gottlieb (vbs), Hollis Headrick (perc) /
    American Music Week, 8:00pm, Public Theater, NYC
    [Poster + program, The RivBea Archive; Cash Box Oct 26 p.28]
    —"Concertos (The Theme is Freedom)" and "Sky Music."
    —"Added Attraction: (November 11th Only) ‘Three Sketches from Paradise Lost,’ featuring Naomi Zimmerman (Soprano);
     ‘Street Dance,’ by The Magnificent Force, Directed by Julie Fraad."

85.11.00 • Carman Moore and Ensemble [RBA]

November, 1985 / probably either Judson Memorial Church or Public Theater, NYC
—Tape is dated "1986," but I find no mention of this program being performed the following year.

1. Concertos (The Theme is Freedon) [ : ]
—RBA Cassette #230 also has "Side B: Mov' + III Golden Flower of Hana."

Sam Moore (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Katherine Hay (fl), Mark Heinemann (g), Leroy Jenkins (vn), Marianna Rossett (p),
Kenneth Bichel (synth), Eric Johnson (synth, perc), Gordon Gottlieb (vbs), Hollis Headrick (perc)

{RivBea Achival Recording CS #230}


    85.11.15 and 85.11.16 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers Quartet / Charlie's Tap, Cambridge, MA [The Boston Globe Sep 8 p.B4]
    —This engagement was replaced by the Thurman Barker Trio with Sam Rivers on November 8 and 9.


  • 85.11.00 (festival 21-24) - Sam Rivers... also Anthony Braxton, Elton Dean... others / 2nd European Salon de Jazz, Paris, France
    [Billboard Dec 14, 1985 p.44]
  • 85.12.07 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Alain Ginapé (g), Jack Gregg (b), Clifford Jarvis (dr) /
    Foyer Municipal, Montmorency, France [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
  • 85.12.14 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Alain Ginapé (g), Kevin Harris (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
    21:30hr, Cafe-Concert, Nimes, France [Musique en Stock December '85 schedule, The RivBea Archive]


  • 85.12.29 - Harlem Opera Society's Solomon Sheba: Written by Ed Taylor, Composed by Sam Rivers (not present)—Bobby Watson was on reeds.
    Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC [Jon Pareles review, The New York Times Jan 1 1986]

1986 : : :


86.00.00 • Chaka Khan: Destiny

1986: Warner Bros. 1-25425 (LP) [+ gold-stamped Promo; + Allied Pressing];
    W1 25425 (LP, Club) [+ Can]; 92 54251 (LP) Can; 92 5425-1 (LP) It;
    925 425-1 (LP) Spn; 1590761 (LP) Por; Suzy/WB 1-25425 (LP) Yug;
    925 425-1 WX45 (LP) Ger [+ UK]; 604.7234 (LP) Brz; 3.134 (LP) Vnz;
    P-13286 (LP, w/ Obi) Jpn [+ White-label Promo]; 254251 (LP) NZ [+CS, CD];
    9 25425-2 (CD) [+ Ger + UK]; 32XD-469 (CD, w/ Obi) Jpn;
    4-25425 (CS); 92 54254 (CS) Can; 925425-4 (CS) Spn;
    WEA/WB 99135 (CS, retitle "Destino") Arg; Contessa P 1612 (CS) Indonesia;
1989: Pioneer/WB 18P2-2674 (CD, "Forever Young Series") Jpn;
1997: WPCR-1009 (CD, "Hot Price 1800") Jpn;
2008: WPCR-12926 (CD, Ltd Edition, "Super Funk 1800") Jpn;
2013: 1-25425 (LP)
  • Chaka Khan: Love of a Lifetime b/w Coltrane Dreams
    1986: Warner Bros. 7-28671 (7-inch 45rpm); 92 86717 (7-inch 45rpm) Can;
        W 8671 (7-inch 45rpm) UK [+ Silver Injection labels];
        928 671-7 (7-inch 45rpm) Ger; 92 8671-7 (7-inch 45rpm) It;
        928671-7 (7-inch 45rpm) Spn; 1590727 (7-inch 45rpm) Por;
        P-2140 (7-inch 45rpm, Promo only) Jpn; 7-28671 (7-inch 45rpm) Australia;
        —12" MAXI-Singles:
        0-20487 (12-inch, 45rpm) [+ Blue-stripe sleeve variant];
        PRO-A-2500 (12-inch, 33rpm, Promo only); 92 04870 (12-inch, 45rpm) Can;
        W 8671(T) (12-inch, 45rpm, Extended Dance Version) UK;
        W8671TF (2x12-inch, 45rpm, Special Edition) UK
         [above = W 8671(T) Repackaged with W 9209(T) "Feel For You"];
        920 487-0 (12-inch, 45rpm) Ger [+ Spn];
        0-20487 (12-inch, 45rpm) Australia
  • Chaka Khan: Perfect Fit
    1986: P-6248 (12" EP, 45rpm w/ Obi) Jpn [+ White-label Promo];
    1987: 28XD-664 (CD w/ Obi) Jpn
  • Chaka Khan: This is My Night—Extended 12" Mixes
    2005: (Not on label) XR-08-179-6 (3" CDr, Unofficial) Fr
Early 1986 / Atlantic Studios, New York City
—Release 86.06.27 [Review in Billboard Aug 9 1986 p.72]
1. Coltrane Dreams (Arif Mardin/Julie Mardin/Chaka Khan) [4:59]
Destiny releases all have a 1:38 edit of this track.
Love of a Lifetime 7" Singles have a 2:30 edit.
Love of a Lifetime 12" MAXI-Singles, This is My Night,
  and all of the Perfect Fit releases have the track unedited.

Images, top to bottom:
Original LP cover (1986)
Japanese LP release w/ Obi (P-13286)
Perfect Fit 12" 33rpm release (P-6248)

Chaka Khan (voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Cengiz Yaltkaya (keys)
John Mahoney (Synclavier programming, with Ken Cummings)
Thomas Oldakowski (Roland Drum programming), Steve Ferrone (dr)
—Khan's vocals include drum, percussion, and bass sounds created
 by processing Khan's voice samples through a Synclavier.

{1-25425; 28671-7; 928 671-7; 9 20487-0 A;
venue and locale from conversation with Mr. Sam Rivers}



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86.02.01 • Rivers & Pullen Quartet [AR—15:46]

February 1, 1986 / Jimmy Lyons Benefit Concert, Public Theater, New York City

1. Capricorn Rising [14:35]
—A longer version is circulating that includes "Richard's Tune" (Pullen w/ Brown and Battle) [12:39].
—NYPL reference has this track at 17:51, which may include applause or announcements; Total time of concert is 118:03.

Sam Rivers (ts), Don Pullen (p), Cameron Brown (b), Bobby Battle (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.26; New York Public Library, Performing Arts Research Collections—Recorded Sound,
New York Shakespeare Festival Records, LDC 39486 and 39487 [2-CD] + original Cassettes LTC 6680 and 6681,
nypl.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb16419216; John Chacona 09.08.05;
CODA #207 April 1986 p.29; www.donpullen.de/live.htm}


  • 86.04.25 - Thurman Barker Trio with Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Rob Schwimmer (keys), Dan O'Brian (b), Barker (dr, mba, glockenspiel) /
    Charlie's Tap, Cambridge, MA [The Boston Globe Apr 24 Calendar p.27; CODA #208 June 1986 p.31]
    "Rivers raised the energy level several notches when he joined the band for the second half...
    Barker, apparently still charged up from two weeks in Europe and New York with the Cecil Taylor Unit..."

86.04.26 • Thurman Barker Trio with Sam Rivers [AR—70:08]

April 26, 1986 / Charlie's Tap, Cambridge, MA

1. improvisation [23:38]  (split track at 16:01)
 (ts section; dr solo; fl+voc section)
2. Stella By Starlight (Victor Young) [8:30]
3. outro with introductions [1:57]
—Audience Recording opens with three trio tracks sans Rivers (unknown, 11:56; Hocus Pocus, 14:03; You Get To, 7:37).

Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, fl-1,3, voc-1), Rob Schwimmer (p, synth), Dan O'Brian (b), Thurman Barker (dr)

{CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.26; Christopher Carville 10.08.16; The Boston Globe Apr 24 Calendar p.27}


86.05.06 • Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra with Sam Rivers [AR—45:00]

May 6, 1986 / Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA

1... compositions [45:00]
Sam Rivers, unknown others...

{Ed Hazell 15.03.18; CODA #209 August 1986 p.36}


    May 19, 1986 —Jimmy Lyons succumbs to cancer... [CODA #208 June 1986 p.33]


86.05.28 • Rivers-Pullen Quartet [AR & AVR—3:45:00]

May 28, 1986 / Memorial Service for Jimmy Lyons, St. Peter's Church, New York City

1... unknown titles [ : ]
Also present: Rev. John Gensel, Joseph Jarman (reeds), Jemeel Moondoc and Marco Eneidi (as), Raphe Malik (tp), Cecil Taylor (p, voc),
Michele Rosewoman (p), Ellen Christi (voc), William Parker (b), Rashid Bakr, Andrew Cyrille, Sunny Murray, and Denis Charles (dr),
Thulani Davis Jarman, Brenda Bakr, Patsy Parker, Jeanne Phillips, Joan Thornell (dancers)
+ Anthony Davis, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp All-Stars, Walt Dickerson, "...and others..."

Sam Rivers (reeds), Don Pullen (p), unknown (b), unknown, possibly Bobby Battle (dr)

{Jan Ström Jimmy Lyons Sessionography}


  • 86.06.14 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Joe Daley (tu/eu),
    Thurman Barker (dr, mba) / 9:30 & 11:00pm, Jazztrack at Greenwich House, NYC
    "I remember when Sam announced that that they were going to play Beatrice,
    Sam said ‘My friend and colleague Joe Henderson just recorded this song,
    so I decided to play it as well tonight.’" —Patrick Clare 09.11.10
    —Henderson recorded The State of the Tenor at The Village Vanguard
     in November of 1985. —RL
    [Patrick Clare archive, Jazztrack flyer; New York Magazine Jun 16, 1986 p.95]


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    musicWitness® : Sam Rivers Tuba Trio + Kwame Shaw announcing & Yuko Otomo listening.
    Original art 100x70cm made Live at Jazztrack, Greenwich House, NY June 14, 1986.
    (Also present at the performance: the Stones, Wilber Morris, Bob Stewart.)

86.10.14 + 10.15 • Hilton Ruiz: Something Grand

1987: Novus 3011-1-N (LP); 3011-2-N (CD); 3011-4-N (CS);
    PL83011 (LP, Promo) UK; RCA Victor/Novus 102-02072 (LP) Vnz
  • Hilton Ruiz—Peter Moffitt: Home Cookin' b/w Rocinante
    1987: RCA PT 49622 DJ (12" Single, Promo) UK
  • (V/A) American Beauty / Feature Film Soundtrack
    1999: Dreamworks 85382 (DVD)

October 14 & 15, 1986 / 39th Street Music, New York City

1. Home Cookin' [4:52]
2. Puerto Rican Children [7:23]
3. Four West [6:29]
4. Something Grand [6:40]
5. Sunrise Over Madarao [9:04]
6. One Step Ahead [6:58]
American Beauty DVD has track 4, which appears at 29:52,
 and runs through the end of the party scene to 33:44.

Hilton Ruiz (p, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,4,6, ss-5, fl-2), Lew Soloff (tp),
Steve Turre (tb, conch shells), Russell Blake (elb), Daniel Ponce (cga),
Charlie Santiago (tmb, guiro, cga-6), Ignacio Berroa (dr, tmb-1)

{RCA Novus 3011-1-N; 3011-4-N}

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86.10.20 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR]

October 20, 1986, 8:30pm / 1er Festival des Musiques Mutantes, Liberté Theater, Paris, France
—Radio Libertaire 89.4 MHz, Paris

1... compositions [ : ]
"The Jazz Magazine review indicates that all the concerts of the festival were recorded
and were scheduled to be broadcasted on Radio Libertaire." —Pierre Crépon

Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), unknown others

{Pierre Crépon 17.03.24; "Festivals: Déjazet" Jazz Magazine Dec, 1986 pp.22-23;
placard.ficedl.info/article3158.html; CODA #212 February 1987 p.7}


86.10.26 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & BR]

October 26, 1986, 6:00pm / 1er Festival des Musiques Mutantes, Liberté Theater, Paris, France
—Radio Libertaire 89.4 MHz, Paris

1... compositions [ : ]
Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others

{RivBea Achival Recording CS #139; "Festivals: Déjazet" Jazz Magazine Dec, 1986 pp.22-23;
placard.ficedl.info/article3158.html; CODA #212 February 1987 p.7}


1987 : : :


  • 87.01.30 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: (see 87.01.31 below) / 10:00 and 11:30pm + 1:00am, Sweet Basil, NYC
    [Daily News Jan 25 City Lights p.16; "Pop and Jazz Guide," by Jon Pareles, The New York Times Jan 30 C-21]

87.01.31 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [AR—68:50]

January 31, 1987, 10:00 and 11:45pm, + 1:30am / Village Jazz Festival, "Music is an Open Sky," Sweet Basil, NYC

1. Fun [15:37]
 Sam Rivers stand-up comedy routine [7:58]
2. Ten [31:10]  (split track at 22:27; "I don't have a name for it yet... so I counted on my fingers...")
3. Beatrice [9:48]
Sam Rivers (ts-1,3, ss-2), John Purcell (ts), Greg Osby (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar), Jack Walrath (tp), Stanton Davis (tp, flg)
Al Patterson (tb), Vincent Chancey (frh), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bob Stewart (tu), David Gilmore (g), Kevin Harris (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

{CDr (1st Set only), track detailing RL 19.05.26; Daily News Jan 25 City Lights p.16; Patrick Clare 07.02.07; CODA #212 February 1987 p.38}


    1987:
    "Ed Cherry played with Rivers before going with Dizzy and helped get Sam into the band... This Cherry told me at a Dizzy gig in 1989
    with Ron Holloway on sax. He said he had been playing with Sam off and on for several years before [he] went with Dizzy. But he wasn't
    any more specific." [Michael McLaughlin 04.01.01]

    "Sam Rivers... says he'd wanted to play in Dizzy's group since he met him 40 years ago. ‘I was in the Navy band when I first heard Dizzy,’
    Rivers says. ‘I put this record on, "Blowin' the Blues Away," by Billy Eckstine's band. Near the end comes this trumpet. I enjoyed it right
    away. We all sat around listening, cracking our sides. The chord structure was different from anything we'd been playing. There was no
    name on it. I didn't find out who it was until I heard "Groovin' High" with Charlie Parker and Dizzy.’
    Dizzy called Rivers in January and they left for Europe two days later."
    [Mary Campbell, AP Honolulu Star-Bulletin Aug 30 p.97]


    —This may be an inexact memory, as the first date we have for the "European tour" is 87.02.25.
     The only dates I find for Gillespie earlier in the month are

    Early in the year, DG Tour of Australia, without Rivers: 87.01.31 DG at Athenaeum, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    87.02.07 DG and the Jazz Members Big Band, New Trier Jazz Fest, New Trier High School, Auditorium, Winnetka, IL
    [Chicago Tribune Feb 7, 1987 p.12]
    87.02.10 DG w/ no personnel noted, Fulton Chapel, University of Mississippi, Jackson, MS [Clarion-Ledger, Jan 25 p.66]
    87.02.14 DG, Great Plains Jazz Festival, Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE
    [The Lincoln Star Feb 8 p.70]

    87.02.21 below is the first date I find with Rivers. —RL

  • 87.02.21 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
    8:00pm, North High School, Springfield, OH [Dayton Daily News Feb 19 p.15]
    —No personnel listed, but billed as a Quintet.
  • 87.02.25 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany [Peter "NovaSpeech" 06.01.02]
    "Chet Baker says at the end of a 40-minute audio recording attributed to Fabrik, Hamburg 25/02/87 that Dizzy Gillespie
    and Sam Rivers will be onstage in a few minutes."

  • 87.02.27 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Happy Birthday Dizzy [BVR—11:36]

    ZDF [Second German Television Network] Documentary (92min) Ger
    —ZDFtheater Broadcast "3sat ZDF Jazz Club" on October 26, 1987

    February 27, 1987 / Theaterhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
    —This session is circulating with the incorrect date 87.10.28, and locale as Mainz.
     "The Gillespie birthday concert was not recorded in Mainz on that day but at 'Theaterhaus,' Stuttgart, February 27, 1987. Mainz is only
     the headquarter of ZDF ('Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen'). The program was screened by ZDF on October 26, 1987." —DH Kraner

    1. Tanga (Gillespie) [11:36]
    The Quintet set was followed by an extensive Gillespie interview and a duo with Hank Jones; a quartet with Jones, Eddie Gomez, and Ed Thigpen;
    a sextet adding Slide Hampton and Johnny Griffin; and an octet adding Jon Faddis and Arturo Sandoval.

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Broadcast DVD, track detailing RL 19.04.06; Dietrich Heinz Kraner 02.07.15}


    • 87.02.28 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Banff, Alberta, Canada [Chris Sheridan 06.07.20]
    • 87.03.01 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Calgary Centre for the Performing Arts, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
      [CODA #213 Apr p.36]
    • 87.03.00 - Dizzy Gillespie: (unknown personnel) probably the Quintet / Boston Globe Jazz & Heritage Festival (87.03.12-23), Boston, MA
      [The Daily Journal Feb 7 p.3]


      • 87.03.13-15 DG at Brass Conference, Roosevelt Hotel, NYC [Canarsie Courier Mar 19 p.20]
        87.03.19 DG w/ Jon Faddis, Jimmy Heath, Steve Turre, James Williams, Ray Drummond, and Kenny Washington /
        Berklee Performnace Center, Newton, MA [The Boston Globe Mar 20 p.35]


    87.03.27 + 03.28 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR—69:44]

    KERA-FM Radio 90.1, LIVE Broadcast

    April, 1987, 9:00 & 11:45pm / Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, TX

    —Circulating misdated "April, 1987." Only Caravan of Dreams references with Gillespie during this year
     was this two-night engagement end of March, and May 21 to 24.
      1st Set:
     1. Land of Milk and Honey (traditional) [14:48]
     2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Don Redman) [9:54]
     3. Fiesta Mojo (Gillespie) [8:26]
     4. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [13:13]
     5. Birk's Works (Gillespie) [12:31]  (incomplete, cuts out at 0:55)
      2nd Set:
     6. Manteca (Gillespie/Pozo) [7:03]
     7. Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good To You [12:47]
     8. Birk's Works (Gillespie) [13:28]
     9. High Fly [13:05]
    10. A Night In Tunisia (Gillespie) [15:23]
    —Also noted: partial tape in circulation with first two tracks and announcements at 32:22.

    "The Caravan of Dreams: An upscale beatnik jazz and cabaret establishment decorated to resemble a chic Mexico City Abortion Clinic,
    frequented by younger hipper blacks, older arty whites, and the well-dressed of all races."
    —Dave Hickey Texas Observer

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc-1,2), Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,4, ss-1,2), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr (1st Set only), track detailing RL 19.05.26—2nd Set info Michael McLaughlin 08.06.22; venue Tosiyuki Nomoto; TCU Daily Skiff Mar 27 p.2;
    Dave Hickey "Le Ville des Vache," under the heading "The Seven Wonders of Fort Worth" Texas Observer May 29, 1987 p.23}



        87.03.28 (cancelled?) DG "Combo" made up of young luminaries... w/ Wallace Roney (tp) Hilton Ruiz (p), others...
        1987 Yale Jazz Festival, New Haven, CT [Hartford Courant Feb 18 p.37]
        "I was trying to remember when the Yale Jazz festival was that I performed at as a member of the Cornell University Jazz band, and Google took me to your site... I was there and remember the lineup... The festival was a two night event on Friday and Saturday (that would be March 27-28). We opened Friday night, followed by a Dizzy-fronted combo featuring young and upcoming players [date issue, yes]. This was followed by a set from a Terrance Blanchard/Donald Harrison quintet (Dizzy made a joke in his set about getting his new kids before Blakey could). The last group was the Don Pullen/George Adams quartet. I also don't remember whether Sam Rivers was present for the DG combo. I remember it mainly being good but young people I really hadn't heard of yet." —James A. Mueller 18.08.09

        87.03.29 DG w/ Moe Koffman Quintet, 1987 Palm Beach Festival of the Performing Arts, 2:30pm, Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL
        [Palm Beach Post Feb 6 p.114]


    • 87.04.03 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Jon Faddis: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Faddis (tp), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 8:00pm, Nicholas Music Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
      [The Courier-News Apr 3 p.25]
    • 87.04.07 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, p, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Fisher Auditorium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA [Indiana Gazette Apr 10 p.25]
    • 87.04.11 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Columbus Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, The Commons, Columbus, IN
      [The Republic Apr 12 p.14]
      A Night in Tunisia, 'Round Midnight... "The two hours he spent playing..."
    • 87.04.16 through 87.04.19 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, per, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 9:30pm, Catalina's Bar & Grill, Hollywood, CA
      [Los Angeles Times Apr 12, Calendar p.69; Leonard Feather in Los Angeles Times Apr 21, 1987 p.J10]
      "A long opening piece, the Toccata movement from Lalo Schifrin's ‘Gillespiana’ suite, as well as his own ‘Night in Tunisia’ and ‘Fiesta Mojo’..."
      —Also noted, "Hi Fly" and "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Don Redman)," others...
    • 87.04.25 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 8:00pm, Reeves Gymnasium, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
      [The Central New Jersey Home News Apr 17 p.47]
      "And while he chatted amiable [sic] with the audience through the first few numbers, his final remark, in response to the soundman's
      explanation for the problems, was an exasperated ‘So what the hell am I supposed to do?’" —Bernardsville News May 7 p.80


    • 87.05.02 and 87.05.03 Dizzy Gillespie with the Springfield Symphony Pops /
      8:00pm, Springfield Symphony Hall, Springfield, CT [Hartford Courant Apr 30 p.115]


    • 87.05.06 through 87.05.10 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, per, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 8:00 & 10:00pm, Ethel's Place, Baltimore, MD [Baltimore Sun May 8, 1987 p.82]

    87.05.12 + 05.13 • Dizzy Gillespie Sextet [BVR]

    May 12 & 13, 1987, 21:30hr / Canecão Show House, Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil
    —TV Manchete Broadcast; uncertain if it was of one or both dates.

    1... unknown titles [ : ]
    "He came in Brazil as a sideman in a Show named ‘Dizzy Gillespie And James Moody,’ 1987 probably. This Jazz Show was exhibited on TV Manchete
    and I have it on a VHS tape. It is a bad record but very important for me."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss), James Moody (ts, as, fl), Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Anonymous correspondence; www.oassuntoejazz.com.br/DGillespie.htm}


    okay

    • 87.05.00 - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss), James Moody (ts, as, fl), Gillespie (tp, voc), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Studio Hum, São Paolo, Brazil
      [Sam Rivers VIP lanyards/tags, The RivBea Archive]
    • 87.05.21 to 05.24 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), James Moody (ts, as, fl), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, TX
      [Austin American-Statesman May 29 May Calendar p.56]
    • 87.05.31 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), James Moody (ts, as, fl), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Cape & Islands Special Olympics Gala Benefit, 1:00pm, Tara Dunfey Hotel, Hyannis, MA
      [The Boston Globe May 29 p.9]
      —They were also in town 05.30 for promotional activities for the benefit, signing albums, doing radio shows, etc.


      • 87.06.01 DG at Village Gate as guest soloist for "Salsa Meets Jazz" [Daily News Jun 1 p.39]


    • 87.06.05 - "[About 100] Jazz musicians gather to celebrate:" Sam Rivers, about 99 others... / 12:45pm, Penn Bar at New York Penta Hotel, NYC
      [Daily News Jun 5 p.37]
      "The day before the concert, [Gillespie] and some musical friends will board the American Zephyr, a restored 1940s train,
      in New York for a jazz-filled trip to Washington." [The Town Talk May 30 p.25]

    87.06.06 • Dizzy Gillespie: An All-Star Tribute to the Jazz Master

    1987: Pioneer Artists LDC PILJ-1106 (LaserDisc w/ Obi, Full-frame) Jap
    1989: Pioneer Artists PA-89-254 (LaserDisc, Full-frame)

    • Great Performances: Wolf Trap Salutes Dizzy Gillespie—An All-Star Tribute to the Jazz Master
      —Maryland Public Television/WNET New York, Broadcast on PBS, January 26, 1988; "Great Performances"
       Library of Congress Off-Air Taping Collection, 90 minutes, color, 3/4" videocassettes, VBF 2852-53

    June 6, 1987 / Wolf Trap, Vienna, VA

    1. Toccata from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [8:49]  (LD trk 1)
    2. Fiesta Mojo (Gillespie) [12:19]  (LD trk 9)
    3. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [5:31]  (LD trk 11)
    4. Happy Birthday to You (Lalo Schifrin, arr) [ : ]  (LD trk 12)
    Great Performances broadcast has a program intro by Willis Conover over
     an excerpt of "Happy Birthday," and includes interviews with Gillespie,
     David Amram, Jon Faddis, Freddie Hubbard, Hank Jones, Wynton Marsalis,
     Carmen McRae, James Moody, Mickey Roker, and Sonny Rollins.
     (Only Gillespie's segments are included on LaserDisc releases).

     Tracks are "Toccata from Gillespiana Suite" (Lalo Schifrin); "Birk's Works"
     and "Wheatleigh Hall" (Gillespie) "A Beautiful Friendship" (Donald Kahn);
     "All The Things You Are" (Jerome Kern), "Tour de Force" and "Con Alma"
     (Gillespie); "Oop-Pop-A-Da" (Babs Gonzales); "Fiesta Mojo," "Tanga," and
     "A Night in Tunisia" (Gillespie); and "Happy Birthday to You,"
     all with different configurations of the many guest musicians.

    —LOC misses on some titles: Weightleigh Hall as "Quickly Forward;"
     A Beautiful Friendship as "The Beginning of Love;" Oop-Pop-A-Da
     as "Oo Bop a Da;" Fiesta Mojo as "Fiesta Migo;" and Tanga as "Yenga."
     They may have done these with Google Translate.

    okay
    "The 65 musicians who participated constitute a virtual Who's Who of jazz... The concert itself lasted more than five hours...
    At the end, everyone swarms onto the Wolf Trap stage as a 70-candle birthday cake is brought out. Gillespie does some
    lively improvising while the big band offers a rollicking version of "Happy Birthday".
    —Richard Harrington in the Washington Post

    Sam Rivers (ts), James Moody, and Cecil Payne (reeds-1,3,4), Arnie Lawrence (as), Dave Valentin (fl-2,4),
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, perc-2), Jimmy Owens (tp), Jon Faddis, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, and Vaughan Nark (tp-1,3,4), Steve Turre (tb),
    Slide Hampton, Douglas Purviance, and Angel Rangelov (tb-1,3,4), David Amram (frh, penny whistles+voc-2),
    Lalo Schifrin (p, Arr, Cond-1,4), Walter Davis Jr. (p-2,3,4), Ed Cherry (g-2,3,4), John Lee (elb-2,3,4), Rufus Reid (b-1,4),
    Airto Moreira (perc-1,3,4), Candido Camero and Mongo Santamaria (cga), Nickey Marrero (tmb), Ignacio Berroa (dr),
    + Kei Akagi, Benny Carter, Mike Crotty, Eddie Gomez, Jon Hendricks, JJ Johnson, Hank Jones, Mike Longo, Carmen McRae,
    Charli Persip, Oscar Peterson, Flora Purim, Mickey Roker, Sonny Rollins, Michael Shapiro, and Chris White (rhythmic clapping-4)

    —Paquita D'Rivera (reeds) was on original roster but not present.
    —Pioneer Laserdiscs mistakenly credit Ed Cherry and omit Gillespie on track 1.

    {Program, "Wolf Trap Celebrates John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie," The RivBea Archive; WKCR-FM Archive; www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/findaid/jazz/g-j.html;
    YouTube video ID #yiev2iApi5s, track detailing RL 19.04.26 (no track times on any LD media); brandenburgproductions.com/fri_apr_15d_036.htm;
    Richard Harrington "Doing Dizzy Proud," Washington Post Feb 26; jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Hampton; www.lddb.com/laserdisc}



      87.06.07 - Depart Washington DC Dulles Airport 11:02am on United Flight 866 arriving Cleveland... eventually. (No time given)
      —This was the Quintet on this flight as the All-Star Tribute band dispersed to points everywhere.
      [Wolf Trap itinerary sheets, NMAH.AC.0979 Gillespie Collection Series 3, Box 10, Folder 8]


    • 87.06.07 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr),
      + Special Guest James Moody (tp, voc also) / Ohio Bell Jazz Festival, 5:00pm, Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
      [The Akron Beacon Journal Jun 4 p.25; Jun 8 p.17]
    • 87.06.09 to 06.13 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      9:00 and 11:00pm, Michael's Pub, NYC
      [Lee Jeske, "Gillespie: Powerful at the Pub" The New York Times (no date), p.29, newspaper clipping from Patrick Clare archive]
      "Judging from last Wednesday's first set..." 1) Tanga 2) The Land of Milk and Honey 3) The Blues (Lalo Schifrin) 4) Ooo-Pop-Pa-Da (Gillespie)
    • 87.06.16 through 87.06.20 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 9:00 and 11:00pm, Michael's Pub, NYC
      [John S. Wilson, "Dizzy Goes Broadway," The New York Times Jun 13]
    • 87.06.21 - Hilton Ruiz Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ruiz (p), Russell Blake (b), Walter Perkins (dr) /
      2:00 & 4:00pm, Ethical Society, Philadelphia, PA
      [The Philadelphia Inquirer Apr 28 p.8D + Jun 20 p.4C]


    • 87.06.22 DG JVC Jazz “Amusements of King George” 8:00pm, Town Hall, NYC [Canarsie Courier Apr 16 p.36]
      Many guests including George Shearing, DG, and others


    • 87.06.23 - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band: Sam Rivers, Frank Wess, Ralph Moore, Bill Easley, and Howard Johnson (reeds),
      Gillespie, Glenn Drewes, Virgil Jones, Earl Gardner, and Jon Faddis (tp), Steve Turre, Britt Woodman, Frank Lacy, and Bob Stewart (tb),
      James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Daniel Ponce (cga), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / JVC Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, NYC
      ["The Pop Life," Robert Palmer, The New York Times Apr 1; "A Pair of Still-Jumping Jazz Giants...," John Pareles, The New York Times Jun 23]
    • 87.06.24 through 87.06.26 - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band: as above / Blues Alley, Washington, DC
      [Newsday Jun 14 p.17; Baltimore Sun Jun 19 p.70; Jun 26 p.80]
    • 87.06.27 - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band / Newport Jazz at Finger Lakes, Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center, Canandaigua, NY
      [Democrat and Chronicle Jun 21 p.26]
    • 87.06.28 - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band / Newport at Saratoga, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY
      [The Post-Star Jun 21 p.32]
    • 87.06.00 - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band / Montreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
      [The Cincinnati Enquirer Jun 21 p.77]
      —Festival ran 06.26-07.05; would have been on either 06.29 or 06.30. —RL

    87.07.01 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR—57:28]

    July 1, 1987/ Den Haag, Netherlands

    1. Tanga (Gillespie) [14:44]
    2. Oh Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Gillespie) [17:51]
    3. composition [10:52]
    4. composition [8:53]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Sam Rivers (ts-1,4, ss-3, fl-2), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.27; Chris Sheridan 06.07.20}


    87.07.02 • Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band: Live at the Royal Festival Hall

    2000: BBC Music BBCJ 7002-2 (CD) UK
    • Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band [BVR]
      —BBC Television Broadcast

    July 2, 1987, 7:30pm / Royal Festival Hall, London, England

    "The programme as broadcast was as follows (I watched it):" —Chris Sheridan 06.07.20
      Broadcast Recording:
     1. Prelude & Toccata from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [ : ]  (Broadcast only)
     2. Emanon (Gillespie) [5:04]
     3. Lover Come Back To Me (Romberg/Hammerstein) [5:44]
     4. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [9:23]
     5. Things to Come (Gillespie) [: ]  (Broadcast only)
     6. Manteca (Gillespie/Pozo) [14:38]
     7. Without You, No Me (Jimmy Heath) [9:29]
     8. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [15:53]
     9. The Champ (Gillespie) [9:48]
    10. Olinga [ : ]  (Broadcast only)
    Live at the Royal Festival Hall omits tracks 1, 5, and 10.

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Ralph Moore (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
    Jukka Perko and Jerry Dodgion (as), Howard Johnson (bar),
    Virgil Jones, Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Glenn Drewes (tp),
    Frank Lacy and Britt Woodman (tb), Steve Turre (tb, conch shells)
    Bob Stewart (tu), James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb),
    Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {BBCJ 7002-2}

    okay

    • 87.07.03 - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band: (see 87.07.02) / "Blowing Up a Storm in Glasgow,"
      Glasgow International Jazz Festival '87, Glasgow, Scotland [CODA #214 June '87 p.38]
      —No date given—Festival ran 06.26-07.05, so this had to have been on the 3rd. —RL

    87.07.04 • Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [AR—1:01:20]

    July 4, 1987 / Stockholm Jazz Festival, Stockholm, Sweden

    1. Manteca (Gillespie/Pozo) [11:25]
    2. Emanon (Gillespie) [8:15]
    3. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [12:10]
    4. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [15:45]  (split track at around 10:00 in)
    5. composition [13:45]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Jukka Perko and Arnie Lawrence (as), Ralph Moore (ts, ss), Howard Johnson (bar)
    Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Glenn Drewes (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr}


    • 87.07.05 - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band: as above, or as below / Festival de la Cité, Lausanne, Switzerland
      [Festival de la Cité Juillet 87 Program, The RivBea Archive]

    87.07.06 • Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [AVR—1:03:00]

    July 6, 1987 / l'XI Festival Jazz, Palazzo della Civiltá del Lavoro, Rome, Italy

    1. composition [13:10]
    2. composition [4:45]
    3. composition [11:15]
    4. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [15:40]
    5. composition [4:20]
    6. composition [11:30]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Jukka Perko and Jerry Dodgion (as), Ralph Moore (ts, ss), Howard Johnson (bar),
    Virgil Jones, Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Glenn Drewes (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Videotape; l'Unita Jun 20 p.17}


    87.07.07 • Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR—27:33 & AR—79:41]

    July 7, 1987 / Scalinata dell'EUR, Rome, Italy
    —Vintage Radio 20 Broadcast
    —Circulating with venue as Teatro della Fiera, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

    Audience Recording:
    1. Manteca (Gillespie) [11:50]
    2. Toccata from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [4:44]
    3. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [11:14]
    4. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [15:45]
    5. Whisper Not (Benny Golson) [4:18]
    6. Things to Come (Gillespie) [8:17]
    7. encore/composition (Gillespie) [11:34]
    —Broadcast Recording has tracks 3 and 4 only.

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Ralph Moore (ts, ss), Jerry Dodgion and Jukka Perko (as), Howard Johnson (bar),
    Jon Faddis, Virgil Jones, Earl Gardner, and Glenn Drewes (tp), Frank Lacy, Steve Turre, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Audience Recording (vimeo.com/235144781) + Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.28}


    • 87.07.00 (2) - Dizzy Gillespie 70th Anniversary Big Band: as above, or as below / Pori Jazz Festival, Pori, Finland
      [CODA #214 June 1987 p.38; Cadence Vol.13 no.3, March '87 p.93]
      —Either 07.08 or 07.10 (Festival ran 87.04-12).

    87.07.09 (1) • Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR—74:16]

    July 9, 1987 / JVC Grand Parade du Jazz, Cimiez Park, Nice, France
    —Radio France Broadcast "Festival de jazz de Nice—Grande Parade du Jazz : Concert du Dizzy Gillespie Big Band."

    1. Prelude from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [6:38]  (incomplete, fades in)
    2. Emanon (Gillespie) [12:27]
    3. Lover Come Back to Me (Romberg/Hammerstein) [4:32]
    4. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [11:07]
    5. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gillespie) [16:02]
    6. Manteca (Gillespie) [12:27]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers and Ralph Moore (ts), Jukka Perko and Jerry Dodgion (as), Howard Johnson (bar),
    Virgil Jones, Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Glenn Drewes (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb),
    Bob Stewart (tu), James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.14; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09; CODA #216 October 1987 p.39}


    87.07.09 (2) • Sam Rivers Jam Session [AR—21:41]

    July 9, 1987 / JVC Grand Parade du Jazz, Cimiez Park, Nice, France

    1. Birdlike [21:22]
    "On July 9th, 1987 in Nice (France) I found myself in a special circumstance; at the time I was learning to play double bass, the Dizzy Gillespie
    Big Band performed in Turin (Italy) just before the Nice concert. Dizzy Gillespie forgot a 'souvenir' (a kind of African wooden stick) in the hotel
    and the local management asked me to do the favour to drive to Nice to return it to Dizzy. In exchange I have been hosted at the Nice Festival
    and in the same hotel the musicians were staying. After the concert of the Big Band, I was with some of the musicians at the hotel bar and they
    wanted to play. No other bassist was there and in the bar a piano and a double bass were available. So I had the chance to play with these masters,
    and I have been able to record one track (Birdlike, a blues in F), which was quite a long one." —Giorgio Dini

    Sam Rivers and Ralph Moore (ts), Earl Garner (tp), James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), Giorgio Dini (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.27; Giorgio Dini 05.06.19 + 06.26; web.tiscali.it/giorgiodini}


    • 87.07.11 - Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band: Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Jon Faddis (tp), "+ 20 musiciens!"
      (see 87.07.12 below) / 20:20hr, Jazz Citadelle, Strasbourg, France
      [Reflets DNA "Numero Special" Jun 1987]

    87.07.12 (1) • Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR—77:33]

    July 12, 1987, 16:30 & 18:00hr / North Sea Jazz Festival, Pwa Zaal, Den Haag, Netherlands

    1. Emanon (Gillespie) [10:40]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    2. Lover Come Back to Me (Romberg/Hammerstein) [4:56]
    3. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [11:36]
     Broadcast announcement [0:49]
    4. Things to Come (Gillespie) [8:46]
     Broadcast announcement [1:46]
    5. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [16:57]
    6. Whisper Not (Benny Golson) [4:18]
    7. The Champ (Gillespie) [11:11]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers and Ralph Moore (ts), Jukka Perko and Jerry Dodgion (as),
    Virgil Jones, Arturo Sandoval, Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Glenn Drewes (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb),
    Bob Stewart (tu), James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

     —"Arturo Sandoval appears as a guest. He was playing at NorthSea with his own Cuban band." —Chris Sheridan

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.27; Chris Sheridan 06.07.20}


    87.07.12 (2) • Sam Rivers & Friends [AR—1:29:12]

    July 12, 1987, 22:00 & 23:15hr / North Sea Jazz Festival, Toneel-Zaal, Den Haag, Netherlands

    1st Set:
    1. composition/improvisation [10:42]  (piano trio without SR)
    2. composition/improvisation [10:05]
    3. composition/improvisation [19:54]
    2nd Set:
    4. composition/improvisation [12:41]
    5. composition/improvisation [12:41]
    6. composition/improvisation [12:01]
    7. composition/improvisation [5:14]
    8. composition/improvisation [9:45]
    9. composition/improvisation [5:54]  (encore, piano trio)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dado Moroni (p), Reggie Workman (b), John Engels (dr)

    {Norbert Kreutzer 05.07.20; 05.11.03}


    87.07.13 • Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR—1:24:24]

    July 13, 1987 / Montreux Jazzfestival, Casino Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland

    1. Toccata from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [13:09]
    2. Emanon (Gillespie) [10:55]
    3. Birk's Works (Gillespie) [5:36]
    4. Lover Come Back To Me (Romberg/Hammerstein) [4:47]
    5. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [12:17]
    6. Manteca (Gillespie/Pozo) [11:36]
    7. Blues For Emily [3:40]
    8. Things to Come (Gillespie) [8:19]
    9. A Night In Tunisia (Gillespie) [14:04]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers and Ralph Moore (ts), Jukka Perko and Jerry Dodgion (as), Howard Johnson (bar),
    Virgil Jones, Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Glenn Drewes (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Jay Hoggard (vb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr),
    + Emily Hadda (voc-7), and "guest star" Milt Jackson (vb)

    {San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 21 p.C7; WIRE #41 Jul '87 p.4}


    87.07.17 • Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band [BR—91:34]

    July 17, 1987 / Arkadenhof Rathaus, Wien, Austria
    —ORF-Radio Austria

    1. Manteca (Gillespie/Pozo) [13:12]
    2. Whisper Not (Benny Golson) [5:00]
    3. composition [12:22]
    4. Toccata from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [13:16]
    5. I Remember Clifford (Benny Golson) [6:12]
    6. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [16:10]
    7. Things to Come (Gillespie) [8:27]
    8. composition [10:54]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Ralph Moore (ts, ss), Jukka Perko and Arnie Lawrence (as), Howard Johnson (bar),
    Virgil Jones, Jon Faddis, Glenn Drewes, and Earl Gardner (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.27; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21}


    • 87.07.19 - Dizzy Gillespie & the 70th Anniversary Big Band: as above / 3rd International Jazz Festival, Andorra, Germany
      [Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.03]

    87.07.25 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Summer Jazz Live at New Jersey 1987

    2005: Alpha Centauri Entertainment ACE 11101 C (DVD) Ger
        —"There are some technical shortcomings to this DVD. The audio has some anomalies in it. The video looks quite grainy which can
         happen when an NTSC video becomes a PAL video. This is a PAL DVD. The video quality is almost bootleg in nature... hmmm..."

    July 25, 1987, 4:00pm / Live at Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Manalapan (Freehold), NJ
    —NJNetwork TV and WGBO-FM Radio Broadcast March 31, 1988

    • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BVR—1:00:00]
    BVR & Summer Jazz Live DVD:
    1. Toccata (Lalo Schifrin) [11:09]
    2. Birk's Works (Gillespie) [9:05]
    3. The Blues, from Gillespiana (Lalo Schifrin) [14:32]
    4. composition [7:00]
    5. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [10:10]
    —Gillespie announces track 1 as the "First Movement, from Gillespiana," but it's actually the fifth, "Toccata."
    —Alpha Centauri DVD has track 4 misidentified as "Manteca."
    —Set included an opening "Blues from Gillespiana" (soundcheck); "'Round Midnight" (after "Manteca"); and an untitled blues jam encore.
    —Also noted, FM Broadcast Recording of 40:00.

    "New Jersey Network videotaped the whole thing and broadcast it at a later date. It was a beautiful afternoon/evening. Behind the stage was a gorgeous
    view that went on forever. The sunset was spectacular... I saw Sam but didn't get to speak with him. This was the first time I saw him with Dizzy. I think
    I had heard they were playing together and I was a bit surprised. Or maybe this was the first I found out about it..." —Michael Fitzgerald

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, perc), Sam Rivers (ts-3,4,5, ss-1,2), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {ACE 11101 C, track detailing RL 19.05.28; Michael Fitzgerald posting to RivBea_Research Group 05.12.26; Asbury Park Press Jul 23 p.71}


    okay okay


    • 87.07.27 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Seaport Jazzsail, 7:00pm, S.S. DeWitt Clinton Steamship, South Street Seaport Pier 16, NYC [Daily News Jul 26 p.110]
      "A boat launched from South Street Seaport into the East River, that cruises around the Statue of Liberty, then up and down the Hudson,
      for about two hours." [WIRE #43 Sep 1987 p.26]
    • 87.07.31 - Dizzy Gillespie: (unknown personnel) / Waterville Valley Festival of the Arts, Waterville Valley Resort, Campton, NH
      [The Sentinel Jun 4 p.26; The Journal News Jun 26 p.73]
    • 87.08.01 - Dizzy Gillespie: (unknown personnel) / Scenic River Days '87, 7:00 & 9:30pm, Riverfront Park, Reading, PA
      [Philadelpia Inquirer Jul 31 p.8; York Daily Record Jul 31 p.3E]

    • : : : Newport Jazz Festival in Madarao, Japan : : :

    • 87.08.05 - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band "Groovin' High": Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers, Arnie Lawrence, Ralph Moore, Howard Johnson,
      and Frank Wess (reeds), Virgil Jones, Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Lew Soloff (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb),
      Bob Stewart (tu), Mike Longo (p), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Afternoon Jazz Picnic (12:00 to 4:45pm), Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • 87.08.06 - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band "Things to Come": as above /
      Afternoon Jazz Picnic (12:00 to 4:45pm), Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • 87.08.07 (1) - Mal Waldron Sextet: Sam Rivers (ts), Arne Lawrence (reeds), Waldron (p), Larry Coryell (g),
      Reggie Workman (b), Ed Blackwell (dr) / Afternoon Jazz Picnic (12:00pm to 4:45pm), Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • 87.08.07 (2) - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band with Special Guests James Moody and Bireli Lagrene—"Manteca": Gillespie (tp, voc),
      James Moody (ts), Sam Rivers, Arnie Lawrence, Ralph Moore, Howard Johnson, and Frank Wess (reeds), Virgil Jones, Jon Faddis,
      Earl Gardner, and Lew Soloff (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu), Mike Longo (p),
      Bireli Lagrene (g), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Afternoon Jazz Picnic (12:00 to 4:45pm), Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • 87.08.08 - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band with Special Guests Terence Blanchard and Donald Harrison "A Night in Tunisia": Gillespie (tp, voc),
      Donald Harrison (ts), Sam Rivers, Arnie Lawrence, Ralph Moore, Howard Johnson, and Frank Wess (reeds), Blanchard, Virgil Jones,
      Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Lew Soloff (tp), Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu), Mike Longo (p),
      Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Afternoon Jazz Picnic (12:00 to 4:45pm), Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • 87.08.09 (1) - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band with Special Guests James Moody, Branford Marsalis, Jackie McLean, Ernestine Anderson,
      and many more... "Grand Finale": Gillespie (tp, voc), Moody and Marsalis (ts), McLean (as), Sam Rivers, Arnie Lawrence,
      Ralph Moore, Howard Johnson, and Frank Wess (reeds), Virgil Jones, Jon Faddis, Earl Gardner, and Lew Soloff (tp),
      Steve Turre, Frank Lacy, and Britt Woodman (tb), Bob Stewart (tu), Anderson (voc), Mike Longo (p),
      Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr), others... /
      Afternoon Jazz Picnic (12:00 to 4:45pm), Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • 87.08.09 (2) - "Chasin' the Trane": Sam Rivers and Branford Marsalis (ts), Mal Waldron (p), Reggie Workman (b), Ed Blackwell (dr) /
      Evening Jam Session Program (8:00 to 10:00pm), Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • 87.08.09 (3) - "10th Anniversary Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie": Gillespie (tp, voc), Jon Faddis and Lew Soloff (tp), Kenny Kirkland (p),
      Delbert Felix (b), and many more... —Likely Sam Rivers was among them. / Evening Jam Session Program (8:00 to 10:00pm),
      Main Stage, Madarao, Japan
    • [www.madarao-jazz.com/MJ198700.htm; Stars and Stripes Jul 12 p.17]

        87.08.10 DG w/ Cobb, Jewel Brown, Sammy Price in Arnett Cobb Benefit, Wortham Center, Houston, TX
        —Fantasy Records release, Austin American-Statesman Sep 23 1988 p.60
        87.08.11-13 possible "An all-day jazz jam [on Magens Bay Beach]... culminated the week-long first US Virgin Islands
        Jazz Festival [August], which had featured jazz great Dizzy Gillespie at a $100-a-person formal dinner a few nights
        before." —So between the 11th and 13th.
        [St Louis Dispatch Oct 4 1987 p.226; archive.org/stream/cashbox51unse_2/cashbox51unse_2_djvu.txt]


    • 87.08.14 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      The Festival d'été de Lanaudière, 8:30pm, Salle Rolland-Brunelle, CEGEP, Joliette, Montreal, Canada
      [Event program, The RivBea Archive; The Gazette May 7 p.D11 + Aug 8 p.52]
      The Gazette has Dizzy Gillespie Big Band; Program says Quintet.
    • 87.08.15 - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: as above / Town Point Jazz Festival (14-16), Town Point Park, Norfolk, VA
      [Daily Press Jul 26 p.110] —Another mention in Washington Post Aug 14 says "September."
    • 87.08.16 - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: "18-piece" / Newport JVC Jazz Festival, 6:30pm, Fort Adams State Park, Newport, RI
      [Hartford Courant Jul 12 p.36; The Times-Tribune Aug 9 p.F10]
    • 87.08.18 to 08.23 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b),
      Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Tue thru Thur + Sun 8:00 & 10:00pm; Fri and Sat 9:00, 11:00 & 1:00am, Jazz Showcase at Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IL
      [Jazz Showcase August poster, The RivBea Archive; Chicago Tribune Aug 14 Sec.7 p.20 + Aug 19 Sec.2 p.13;
      Chicago Sun-Times Aug 21, 1987 Sec.2 p.45]
    • 87.08.28 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet + David Amram: as above, + Amram (frh, penny whistle) / Musikfest '87, 7:30pm, Kunstplatz, Bethlehem, PA
      [The Morning Call Aug 29 p.88]
      "100 minutes of solid combo jazz."
      —Originally billed as the Big Band: "18-piece" —Democrat and Chronicle Jun 29 p.13


      • 87.09.04 DG with Rivers? / 7:00pm, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Miami, FL [The Palm Beach Post Aug 21 p.128]
        87.09.05 DG with Rivers? / 1:00pm, Caleb Center, Miami, FL [South Florida Sun Sentinel Aug 28 p.68]
        87.09.06 NO RIVERS: DG w/ JC Heard & His Orchestra / 8:00pm, Amphitheater/Stroh's Mainstage, Hart Plaza, Detroit, MI
        [Detroit Free Press Aug 30 p.71]
        87.09.07 "Trumpet Summit," w/ DG, Jon Faddis, Donald Byrd, Russell Green, Louis Smith, and Johnny Trudell /
        Montreux-Detroit Jazz Festival 8:30pm, Amphitheater/Stroh's Mainstage, Detroit, MI [Detroit Free Press Aug 30 p.71]
        87.09.11 DG All-Stars: Milt Jackson, Max Roach, Randy Brecker, others... / Velodrome Rino Mercante, Bassano del Grappa, Italy
        [l'Unita Aug 21 p.20]


    • 87.09.12 - Hilton Ruiz Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ruiz (p), Jimmy Rowser (b), Steve Berrios (dr) /
      1987 Lake George Jazz Weekend, 2:00pm, Lake Theatre, Lake George, NY
      [The Gazette Sep 10 p.C16 + Sep 17 p.D15; Post-Star Sep 13 p.B6; CODA #217 December 1987 p.36;
      www.lakegeorgearts.org/lakegeorge-jazz.htm]
      —Originally scheduled at the Outdoor Amphitheatre, Sheppard Park, Lake George.
      —"Everytime You Say Goodbye," "Home Cooking," "Body and Soul," and "extended free-form jam," others...


      • 87.09.16 DG at Peace Fest '87 (September 16-19), Louis Gregory Baha'i Institute, Hemingway, SC


    • 87.09.18 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00pm, Physical Education Building, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio [Dayton Daily News Sep 17 p.17]


      • 87.09.20 Vancouver - 09.25 LA / DG on Regency Jazz Crusie
        87.09.26 Dizzy Gillespie w/ Willie Ruff + Dwike Mitchell / 8:00pm, Cordier Auditorium, Manchester College, North Manchester, IN
        [The South Bend Tribune Sep 24 p.C1; The Kokomo Tribune Sep 10 p.9]


    • 87.09.27 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      7:00pm, Tilles Center Concert Hall, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
      [Daily News Sep 20 p.159; Canarsie Courier Sep 24 p.35]
    • 87.09.29 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 8:00pm, Tillman Auditorium, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
      [The Greenville News Sep 24 p.25; Clemson Yearbook Taps 1988 p.96]
      "Two-plus hours of hard-driving jazz music." —Joel Lehrer Taps 1988
    • 87.10.01 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / de Stip, Amsterdam, Netherlands
      [Frans Schellenkens, Getty Images; The Greenville News Sep 30 p.27]
      The Greenville News had this as 09.31.
    • 87.10.04 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      21:30, New Morning, Paris, France
    • 87.10.05 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 22:00, New Morning, Paris, France


      • 87.10.10 DG & Moe Super Jazz Show, DG and the Moe Koffman Quintet (no indication of Diz with own band, or... /
        Marin Civic Center, San Rafael, CA [The Petaluma Argus-Courier Oct 9 p.12]
        87.10.13 DG w/ Williamette University and Mount Hood Community College jazz bands... arrived two hours before rehearsal
        on a plane from California... / 8:00pm, Smith Auditorium, Williamette University, Salem, OR [Statesman Journal Oct 2 p.16]


    87.10.15 • Hilton Ruiz: El Camino (The Road)

    1988: Novus/RCA 3024-1-N (LP); PL83024 (LP) UK; 102-02089 (LP) Vnz;
        Novus 63024 (LP, Promo); 3024-2-N (CD); PD83024 (CD) Ger; 3024-4-N (CS)
    • (V/A) Novus Sampler '88
      1988: RCA Novus 3039-1-N (LP); PD83039 (CD) Ger
    • Hilton Ruiz: The Collected Hilton Ruiz
      1999: RCA 68706-2 (CD)

    October 15, 1987 / Uptown Chelsea Sound, New York City

    1. West Side Blues (Ruiz) [6:42]
    2. Come Dance With Me (Griffin) [8:25]
    3. Sometimes I (Griffin) [6:26]
    4. El Camino (The Road) (Ruiz) [6:19]
    5. Message From the Chief (Ruiz) [1:54]
    6. Eastern Vibrations (Ruiz) [14:55]
    Novus Sampler '88 contains a 4:00 edit of track 1.
    The Collected Hilton Ruiz has tracks 1 and 4.

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3, ss-5,6, fl-4), Lew Soloff (tp), Dick Griffin (tb, Arr-2,3),
    Hilton Ruiz (p, Arr), Rodney Jones (g), Andy Gonzalez (b), Endel Dueno (tmbl),
    Jerry Gonzalez and Jose Alexis Diaz (perc, cga), Steve Berrios (dr, guiro)

    {Novus 3024-1-N; 3024-4-N; 3039-1-N}

    okay

    87.10.17 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Jacksonville Jazz Festival VIII [BVR]

    October 17, 1987, 10:00am / Jacksonville Jazz Festival '87, Florida National Pavilion, Metropolitan Park, Jacksonville, FL
    —WJCT-TV Broadcast Jacksonville, 1988

    1. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [ : ]
    2. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [ : ]
    3. Oop-Pop-A-Da (Babs Gonzales) [ : ]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Sam Rivers (ts), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/466716/Jacksonville-Jazz-Festival-VIII; Florida Today Oct 15 p.46}


        87.10.19 DG at Queens College for Louis Armstrong Archive ceremony [The Orlando Sentinel Oct 21 p.21]


    • 87.10.21 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      7:30pm, Meridian Hall, University Center, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
      [St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sep 3 p.82; Ernie Santosuosso review The Boston Globe Oct 23 p.S49]
    • 87.10.22 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Nightstage, Cambridge, MA
      —Gillespiana, Tenor Song, New Faces, 'Round Midnight, Birk's Works, Rain On The Roof, Ooh-Pa-Pa-Da; encore: Happy Birthday
      [Ernie Santosuosso review The Boston Globe Oct 23 p.S49; Cadence Vol.13 no.10, Oct '87 p.2]
    • 87.10.23 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Nightstage, Cambridge Club, Cambridge, MA [ibid]
    • 87.10.24 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Fine Arts Center Theatre, Ocean County College, Toms River, NJ
      [Asbury Park Press Oct 14 p.182]


      • 87.10.26 DG at Academy of music awards philly [Courier-Post Oct 25 p.115]
        87.10.24-31 ish... DG on Jazz Cruise [St Louis Post-Dispatch Oct 7 p.102]



      87.10.28 - [See 87.02.27] Mis-dated Dizzy Gillespie Birthday Concert broadcast.



      87.11.02 - CANCELLED due to low ticket sales, DG Quintet, O'Laughlin Auditorium, Saint Mary's College, South Bend, IN
      [The South Bend Tribune Oct 30 p.B7 + Dec 13 p.C3]


    • 87.11.04 and 87.11.05 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 7:30 & 10:00pm, Peabody's DownUnder, Cleveland, OH
      [The Akron Beacon Journal Sep 11 p.39; The Plain Dealer Nov 6 p.110]
      —First night, second show: Tanga; Birk's Works; Manteca; 'Round Midnight; Night in Tunisia; Oo Papa Da

      "The affair ended oddly. Gillespie thanked the audience, said he was tired, and quietly walked off the stage as the house lights went on.
      The suddenness and finality of his departure caught the audience completely off guard. As a result, the hour-and-15-minute set ended with
      only a smattering of applause and puzzled looks. No matter, Dizzy took the crowd on a wonderful trip..."
      —Robert Derwae "A Top-Shelf Night with Dizzy" The Plain Dealer


      • 87.11.13 DG w/ Lawrence University Jazz Ensembles, Appleton, WI [Green Bay Press-Gazette Nov 5 p.28]
        87.11.20 DG w/ Alabama Symphony


    • 87.11.24 to 11.29 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, perc, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, as, ss, fl), Ron Holloway (ts), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Blues Alley, Washington, DC [The Evening Sun Nov 19 p.56 + Nov 27 review p.B7+10]
      —Holloway is included on tenor sax in the Nov 27 Evening Sun review, and Rivers is noted on alto.
       No mention either way of Holloway being involved for the entire week.


      • 87.11.29 DG w/ Salsa Meets Jazz at Village Gate [Daily News Nov 29 p.191]


      "...I later saw the [quintet] at the Blue Note in NYC—I believe George Benson sat in that evening."
      [Michael Fitzgerald posting to RivBea_Research Group 05.12.26]
      —No indication which night (12.15-20) this was. —RL

    • 87.12.15 - Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars": Gillespie (tp, voc), John Faddis (tp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 9:00 & 11:30pm, Blue Note, NYC
      [The Record Dec 11 p.48; Daily News Dec 18 p.M20]

    87.12.16 • Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [AR—65:55]

    December 16, 1987, 9:00 & 11:30pm / Blue Note, New York City

    1. Manteca (Gillespie/Pozo) [16:48]
    2. composition [8:45]
    3. composition [8:18]
    4. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [10:30]  (cuts out at end)
    5. Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [15:43]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts-2,4,5, ss-1,3), John Faddis (tp), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.27; Patrick Clare 07.02.07; The Record Dec 11 p.48; Daily News Dec 18 p.M20}


    87.12.17 • Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [BR]

    December 17, 1987, 9:00 & 11:30pm / Blue Note, New York City

    —LIVE broadcast on WNEW-AM Les Davis "Jazz Remote"
    1... unknown titles [ : ]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), John Faddis (tp), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Daily News Dec 6 City Lights p.30; The Record Dec 11 p.48; Daily News Dec 18 p.M20}


    87.12.18 • Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [AR—96:39]

    December 18, 1987, 9:00 & 11:30pm, + 1:30am / Blue Note, New York City

    1. Tanga (Gillespie) [16:52]
    2. Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Gillespie) [9:12]
    3. composition [12:11]
    4. composition [10:36]
    5. Manteca (Gillespie) [14:53]
    6. composition [9:18]
    7. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [10:13]
    8. composition [14:43]  (incomplet, cuts out)
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,4,5,6,7,8, ss-3), John Faddis (tp), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.27; Patrick Clare 07.02.07; The Record Dec 11 p.48; Daily News Dec 18 p.M20}


    • 87.12.19 - Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars": Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), John Faddis (tp), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 9:00 & 11:30pm, + 1:30am, Blue Note, NYC
      [The Record Dec 11 p.48; Daily News Dec 18 p.M20]

    87.12.20 • Dizzy Gillespie "All-Stars" [AR—59:40]

    December 20, 1987, 9:00 & 11:30pm / Blue Note, New York City

    1. Manteca (Gillespie) [18:42]
    2. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gillespie) [16:17]
    3. composition [10:16]
    4. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [13:45]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,4, ss-1), John Faddis (tp), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.27; Patrick Clare 07.02.07; The Record Dec 11 p.48; Daily News Dec 18 p.M20}


    • 87.12.25 Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), John Faddis (tp), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      7:30 & 9:30pm, Kuumbwa Jazz Society, Santa Cruz, CA [Santa Cruz Sentinel Dec 25 p.60]
    • 87.12.28 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 6:30pm, Yukin Chakin Hall, Tokyo, Japan [Stars and Stripes Dec 6 p.17]

    1988 : : :


    88.01.07 • Dizzy Gillespie: The Sesjun Radio Shows

    1988: Out of the Blue T2CD2012028 (2CD) Neth
    2012: T2 Entertainment (2CD) Neth
    • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR—78:09]

    January 7, 1988, 23:00hr / IDe Thor club, Enschede, Netherlands
    —Live Broadcast on "De Tor"

    The Sesjun Radio Shows:
     Introduction [0:59]
    1. The Tenor Song [7:41]
    2. Tanga (Gillespie) [14:10]
    3. Birk's Works (Gillespie) [10:36]
    4. Manteca (Gillespie/Pozo) [5:18]
    Broadcast Recording:
    1. Tanga (Gillespie) [13:41]
    2. Baby, Ain't I Been Good to You (Gillespie) [16:33]
    3. I'm Hard of Hearing Mama [10:05]
    4. Oop-Pop-A-Da (Babs Gonzalez) [8:13]
    5. The Tenor Song [7:34]
    6. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gillespie) [16:56]
    okay
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (BR—ts-1,2,4,5,6, ss-3), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.28; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.25; Keepitswinging.blogspot.com/2012/12/dizzy-gillespie-sesjun-radio-shows.html;
    jdisc.columbia.edu/issue/sesjun-radio-shows-dizzy-gillespie}


    88.01.08 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR—119:28]

    January 8, 1988 / Hamburg, Germany
    1st Set:
    1. Toccata (Gillespie) [17:00]
    2. Manteca (Gillespie) [7:57]
    3. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Don Redman) [8:12]
    4. Birk's Works (Gillespie) [9:56]  (split track at 3:27)
    5. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [12:39]
    2nd Set:
    6. Tanga (Gillespie) [14:38]
    7. The Tenor Song [6:48]  (split track at 6:23)
    8. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gillespie) [14:52]
    9. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [9:26]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc, perc), Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,5,6,7,8,9, ss-1,4, voc-8), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.28}


    • 88.01.10 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      19:00 and 22:00hr, New Morning, Paris, France
    • 88.01.11 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 21:00hr, Interno, Rome, Italy [l'Unità Jan 8 p.19]
      l'Unità has "Interno (Geocupola Euritmia Parco del Turismo)."

    88.01.12 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet w/ special guests Tony Scott and Gegé Telesforo [BVR—21:00]

    January 12, 1988 / International DOC club, RAI TV Studio, Rome, Italy
    —RAI 2 TV Broadcast

    1. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gillespie) [9:20]
    2. unknown title [4:40]
    3. Oop-Pop-A-Da (Babs Gonzalez) [4:20]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), Tony Scott and Gegé Telesforo (voc), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Giovanni Zanoni}


    • 88.01.14 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Friedrichshafen, Germany [The RivBea Archive]
    • 88.01.15 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 20:00hr, Bürgerhaus Unterschleißheim, Munich, Germany
      [Jazz Zeitung 13.Jahrgang Nr.1/Jan 1988, The RivBea Archive]
    • 88.01.16 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Lonette McKee Unity Concerts, 8:30pm, Montclair High School Community Auditorium, Montclair, NJ
      [The Central New Jersey Home News Jan 15 '87 p.60; The Montclair Times Jan 21 p.B2]
    • 88.01.17 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Art Deco Weekend '88, 1:00pm, Ocean Drive, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
      [Fort Lauderdale News Dec 19 '87 p.59]
    • 88.01.23 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet + surprise guest Clora Bryant (tp) / 8:00pm, Marsee Auditorium, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
      [Los Angeles Times Jan 23, 1988 p.202, and January 26, PartVIp.5]
      —Gillespiana; Manteca, Birk's Works, 'Round Midnight, The Tenor Sound, Day by Day, others...
       Bryant played an original dedicated to Gillespie, and on "Day by Day."
    • 88.01.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: (no personnel listed, possibly Cherry, Lee, and Berroa) / 9:00pm, Alfonse's, North Hollywood, CA
      [Los Angeles Times Jan 23, 1988 p.203]
    • 88.01.25 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00pm, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA [Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 22 p.58]
    • 88.01.26 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Yoshi's, San Francisco, CA [San Francisco Chronicle Jan 28, 1988 p.E1]


      • 88.01.29 DG "and Friends" ... the Quintet? / Yoshi's, San Francisco, CA [Santa Cruz Sentinel Jan 29 p.55]
        88.01.30 DG Guest Artist with Tulsa Philharmonic, Tulsa, OK [The Daily Oklahoman Jan 24 Calendar p.5]
        88.02.13 DG (unknown ensemble) Bowling Green, KY
        [Fishman 1988 Contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]


    • 88.02.14 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)
      + Special Guests Jack Sheldon (tp), Rebecca Parris (voc), Craig Glanville (dr) / 7:00 & 9:30pm, Charles Ballroom, Charles Hotel, Cambridge, MA
      [The Boston Globe Feb 14 p.B30 + Feb 16 p.60]


      • 88.02.17 DG & The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ [Asbury Park Press Jan 29 p.33]
        88.02.19-20 DG and Moe Koffman, Jubilee Auditorium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
        [Fishman 1988 Contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9
        + The Edmonton Journal Feb 20 clipping no p.#]
        88.02.26 DG in New Hampshire [ibid]
        88.02.27 DG Saturday Night All-Star Show, Lionel Hampton-Chevron Jazz Festival, University of Idaho [The Times-News Jan 29 p.26]
        88.03.03 DG and U Arizona Studio Jazz Ensemble, Centennial Hall [Arizona Daily Star Feb 26 p.45]
        88.03.04 DG "and the Capp/Pierce Juggernaut," Fontana Performing Arts Center


    • 88.03.05 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00 & 10:30pm, Sacred Heart University Theater, Fairfield, CT [Hartford Courant Mar 3 Calendar p.15]
    • 88.03.08 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 8:00pm, Images Concert Hall, Woodbine Inn, Pennsauken, NJ
      [Philadelphia Daily News Feb 12 p.70; Philadelphia Inquirer Mar 4 Weekend p.30]
    • 88.03.09 to 03.11 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Belleville, St. Michael, Barbados
      [Fishman 1988 Contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
    • 88.03.12 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Alumni Gymnasium, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
      [Press and Sun-Bulletin Oct 2 1987 p.52]
    • 88.03.15 + 03.16 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Catalina's Bar & Grill, Hollywood, CA
      [Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 1988 p.368; Cadence Vol.14 no.4, April '88 p.92]
      "A funky movement from Lalo Schifrin's 'Gillespiana,' Diz' 'Tenor Song,' the classic ''Round Midnight' (mostly a feature for Rivers)...
      'Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac' ... 'Con Alma,' and an explosive 'Tanga.'" —Scott Yanow [LA Weekly Mar 25-31 p.53]

    88.03.17 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [AR]

    March 17, 1988 / Catalina's Bar & Grill, Hollywood, CA

    1... compositions [ : ]
    "The recording that exists is long; 3CDrs worth."

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Sergiusz Lipnicki 04.07.08; Cadence Vol.14 no.4, April '88 p.92; Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 1988 p.368}


    • 88.03.18 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Catalina's Bar & Grill, Hollywood, CA [Cadence Vol.14 no.4, April '88 p.92; Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 1988 p.368]
    • 88.03.19 (1) - Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Star Band: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers, Teddy Edwards, Jack Nimitz,
      Jerome Richardson, and Jackie Kelso (reeds), Snooky Young, Oscar Brashear, Jon Faddis, and Conte Candoli (tp), Charlie Loper,
      Garnett Brown, and Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Mike Daigeau (tu), Gerald Wiggins (p) + Lalo Schifrin (p)—"if schedule permits," Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (b), Victor Pantoja (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 11:00am to 2:00pm, Rehearsal + Interviews after 2:00pm,
      Musician's Union Rehearsal Room 3, Los Angeles, CA [PR Newswire Mar 14, 1988]
    • 88.03.19 (2) - Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Star Band: (as above) / Playboy Jazz Festival, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
      [PR Newswire Mar 14, 1988]
    • 88.03.19 (3) and 88.03.20 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Catalina's Bar & Grill, Hollywood, CA
      [Cadence Vol.14 no.4, April '88 p.92; Los Angeles Times Feb 28, 1988 p.368]
    • 88.03.24 + 03.25 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      7:30 & 9:30pm (+11:30 on the 25th), Bird of Paradise, Ann Arbor, MI [Detroit Free Press Mar 3 p.32]
    • 88.03.26 (1) - Sam Rivers: Interview for the Afro-American music collection by Darryl Duncan / University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
      [www.umich.edu/˜afroammu/index.html]
    • 88.03.26 (2) - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      7:30, 9:30, & 11:30pm, Bird of Paradise, Ann Arbor, MI [www.umich.edu/~afroammu/index.html; Detroit Free Press Mar 3 p.32]
    • 88.03.27 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 7:30pm, Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, Charleston, South Carolina
      [Concert program, The RivBea Archive]
      —"A Benefit Concert for the Homeless"
    • 88.03.30 to 04.03 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Caravan of Dreams, Fort Worth, TX
      [Roger Kaye review Fort Worth Star-Telegram Mar 31 no p.#, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 28, Folder 2]
      "perhaps [Gillespie's] only misfire of the night came early in the show when he told the Fort Worth
      crowd what 'a great pleasure it is to be in Dallas.'"
    • 88.04.05 to 04.10 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Blues Alley, Washington, DC [Baltimore Sun Apr 1 p.104]
    • 88.04.11 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 9:00 & 11:00pm, Valentyne's, Tampa, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Jan 31 Calendar p.27]
    • 88.04.12 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Palm Bay High School Auditorium, Melbourne, FL [Florida Today Mar 28 p.25]


      • 88.04.23 DG + Moe Koffman Quintet Peoria Civic Center The Pantagraph Apr 22 p.35


    • 88.05.08 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Salerno Jazz Festival, Teatro Capitol, Salerno, Italy [Program, The RivBea Archive]
    • 88.05.09 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Trieste, Italy [Poster, The RivBea Archive]
    • 88.05.10 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Montova, Italy [Flyer, The RivBea Archive]


      • 88.05.13 and 88.05.14 DG and the Columbus Pops Orchestra 8:30pm Ohio Theatre, Columbus, OH The Tribune Apr 27 p.22
        88.05.15 DG awarded Honorary Doctorate at Clark University, Worcester, MA The Chippewa Herald May 17 p.2
        88.05.19 - DG in Athens, GA
        [Fishman 1988 Contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
        88.05.21 DG w/ UIC Jazz Ensemble, UIC Jazz Festival University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago Tribune May 11 p.29
        88.05.20 DG University of Illinois at Chicago 1988 Jazz Festival 8:00pm, Illinois Room, Chicago Circle Center, Chicago, IL
        [Chicago Tribune Apr 15 p.H7; The Dispatch May 8 p.67]
        88.05.22 - DG in The Bronx, NY [Fishman 1988 Contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
        88.05.26 and/or 88.05.27 DG tribute to Cab Calloway, Carnegie Hall, NYC Journal News May 26 p.78


    • 88.05.28 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      1:00pm, Newton North Football Field, Newton, MA
      [The Boston Globe May 27, 1988 p.82; Hartford Courant May 26, 1988 Calendar section p.14]


    • 88.06.01 - Sam Rivers, making his own travel arrangements, arrives a day after the rest of the band. Beatrice does not accompany him this time.
      [Receipts and such, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 5 + Box 8 folder 20]

    • 88.06.01 + 06.02 - Gillespie Big Band Rehearsals / 10:30am-1:30pm & 3:00-6:00pm, The Barns, Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center, Vienna, VA
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21 + Box 10 folder 4]
    • 88.06.03 (1) - Dizzy Gillespie Soundcheck from 10:00-11:00am; Open Rehearsal 11:00am-12:30pm;
      12:30-1:00pm, "Move Gillespie set-up to Rehearsal Hall where he will continue rehearsal until approx. 2:30pm."
      [Charismic Productions Itinerary sheet, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 10 folder 8]

    88.06.03 (2) • Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band [AR & Rehearsal Recording]

    June 3, 1988, Rehearsal / The Barns, Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center, Vienna, VA

    1. Tanga (Gillespie) [ : ]
    2. No More Blues (Antonio Carlos Jobim/Vinicius DeMoraes/Jessie Cavanaugh/Jon Hendricks) [ : ]  —lyric version of Chega De Saudade
    3. Con Alma (Gillespie) [ : ]
    4. Lorraine (Gillespie) [ : ]
    —Rehearsal recording exists of track 1 only.

    Sam Rivers (ts), James Moody (ts, fl), Paquito D'Rivera (cl, as), Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis (tp), Slide Hampton (tb, Arr-3),
    Douglas Purviance (btb), Monty Alexander (p-1,2,4), Flora Purim (voc-1,2,4), John Lee (elb-1,2,4),
    Giovanni Hidalgo (cga and perc-1,2,4), Airto Moreira (perc-1,2,4), Ignacio Berroa (dr-1,2,4)

    {Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets, NMAH.AC.0979 Series 3 Box 10 folder 8;
    www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Hampton/lwh-disc.htm; jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Kirchner/kirch-disc.php}


      —88.06.04 - 4:30-7:30pm, "Move Dizzy Gillespie from rehearsal hall to upstage."

    • 88.06.04 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band: (15-piece) Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers and Paquito D'Rivera (reeds),
      Jon Faddis (tp), Slide Hampton and Steve Turre (tb), two other unidentified horns (probably James Moody and Doug Purviance),
      Monty Alexander (p), Airto Moreira (perc), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      9:20pm, Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center, Vienna, VA
      [Sam Rivers' $964.00 signed pay receipt ("further proof if proof were needed") + Wolf Trap production schedule,
      Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 box 9 folder #5; The Evening Sun Jun 2 p.26;
      Geoffrey Himes review The Washington Post Jun 6, 1988 p.C7]
      —Con Alma, Jaminto, Partida Alto, Tin Tin Deo, Swing Low Sweet Cadillac
    • 88.07.07 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Festival Superband: Gillespie (tp, voc), "featuring" Sam Rivers, James Moody,
      and Paquito D'Rivera (reeds), Jon Faddis (tp), Slide Hampton and Doug Purviance (tb), Monty Alexander (p), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (b), Giovanni Hidalgo (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr), possible others... /
      Montreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
      [Contract, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 9, Box 12, Folder 16]
    • 88.06.09 - Sam Rivers & The Jazz Composer Alliance: (unknown personnel) / 8:00pm, Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
      [Fernando Gonzalez, The Boston Globe Jun 5; Burlington Free Press May 12 p.52]
      —"Performs four new compositions by guest composer and saxophonist Sam Rivers"
    • 88.06.10 - Dizzy Gillespie "and Friends": Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr),
      + Special Guests Walter Davis Jr (p), Giovanni Hidalgo (perc) / Discover Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT
      [Contract, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 4, Box 10, Folder 15;
      Burlington Free Press Jun 1 p.11; Rutland Daily Herald review Jun 11 p.32]
    • 88.06.11 - Dizzy Gillespie "and Friends": as above / "Rhode Island"
      [Fishman 1988 Contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
    • 88.06.12 - Sam Rivers & The Jazz Composer Alliance: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Rob Scheps (ts), Ben Schachter and Doug Yates (as),
      Steve Adams (bar), Mike Peipman, John Carlson, and Dmitri Matheny (tp), Josh Roseman and Curtis Hasselbring (tb),
      Jim O'Dell (tu), Pete Cirelli (bar-h), Mark Taylor (frh), Ben Sher (g), John Medeski (p), Bruno Raberg (b),
      Mike Noonan (vbs), Russ Gold (perc), Ron Savage (dr) / 8:00pm, Emmanuel Church, Boston, MA
      [Fernando Gonzalez, The Boston Globe 88.06.10; Program booklet, The RivBea Archive]
      —Rivers compositions made up the second half of the program: Untitled, Rapture, Ritual, Symmetry, and Willow
      "Returns to the area Sunday the 12th... The event, the second such collaboration between Rivers and the JCA, will feature new works by Rivers,
      Darrell Katz, Duane Johnson, Ken Sharporst, Andrew Hurlbut, and Bruno Raberg. ...Rivers, who premiered several pieces in his first concert with
      the JCA, is one of these people who writes on a daily basis and has piles and piles of music that has never been played,’ Ken Sharphorst. In fact,
      Sam has brought up five pieces.’ Originally the program called for four pieces but he just finished this new piece that he wants to do also.’"

      —Also in the article on the 10th: "Rivers, who premiered several pieces in his first [June 9] concert..." I'm not entirely certain
       that the concerts on 06.09 and 06.12 occurred in the same week, but that is how the newspaper references work out. —RL


      • 88.06.13 DG guest w/ Mario Bauza Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Village Gate, NYC Daily News Jun 13 p.32


    • 88.06.17 - Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Super-Band: (see 06.22 for approximation) / du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival,
      8:00pm, Roy Thomson Hall, Ontario, Toronto, Canada [Democrat and Chronicle Jun 12 p.33]
    • 88.06.19 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Jon Faddis (tp, Dir), four additional unknown (tp),
      Ignacio Berroa (dr), others... / 10th Annual Playboy Jazz fest, Hollywood Bowl, CA
      "The 20-man Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra..." [The Los Angeles Times Jun 21 p.73; Cadence Vol.14 no.4 April 1988, p.92]
    • 88.06.22 - Dizzy Gillespie "and his All-Star Band": Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers, Doc Holladay, David Glasser, Jerry Dodgion,
      and Ned Otter (reeds), Jon Faddis, Glen Drewes, Virgil Jones, and John Marshall (tp), Garnett Brown, Keith O'Quinn, Douglas Purviance,
      and Dennis Wilson (tb), James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Frank Malabe (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Mellon Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA [Philadelphia Daily News Jun 22 p.51]
    • 88.06.23 - Dizzy Gillespie "and his All-Star Band,": The 16-piece big band... / Mellon Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh, PA
      [The Pittsburgh Press Jun 12 p.J1]


      • 88.06.24 DG Louis Armstrong Benefit, Carnegie Hall, NYC Daily News Jun 24 p.11


    • 88.06.28 - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: (17-piece) Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Jon Faddis (tp), and 14 others...
      (+ four unknown french horns on Toccata) / JVC Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, NYC
      [Mary Campbell Associated Press Jun 28, 1988; CODA #223 December 1988, p.39]
      —Toccata, Emanon, A Night In Tunisia, 'Round Midnight, Things To Come...
      "Saw Sam with Dizzy's big band (a real big band, not the United Nations band) ...on John Lee's birthday (June 28, 1988)."
      [Michael Fitzgerald posting to RivBea_Research Group 05.12.26]
    • 88.06.30 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Big Band: Gillespie, Jon Faddis and Claudio Roditi (tp), Sam Rivers, James Moody,
      Moe Koffman, and Paquito D'Rivera (reeds), Slide Hampton (tb), Monty Alexander (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b),
      Giovanni Hidalgo (cga), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / du Maurier Downton Jazz Festival, Roy Thompson Hall, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
      [The Globe and Mail Jul 2, 1988 p.C9; A scathing review by Jim Foster Toronto Star Jul 1, 1988 p.D18]
      —And Then She Stopped, Samba for Carmen, 'Round Midnight, A Night In Tunisia, Caravan, Swing Low Sweet Cadillac, others...
    • 88.07.01 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band: "featuring, among others," Paquito D'Rivera, Sam Rivers, and James Moody (reeds),
      Steve Turre and Slide Hampton (tb), Jon Faddis and Claudio Roditti (tp), Monty Alexander (p), Flora Purim (voc), Airto (perc) /
      8:00pm, Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets dated May 25, 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21;
      Fernando Gonzalez, The Boston Globe Jul 1]
    • 88.07.02 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Big Band: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers, James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera,
      + Special Guest Moe Koffman (reeds), Jon Faddis and Claudio Roditi (tp), Slide Hampton (tb), Monty Alexander (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b),
      Giovanni Hidalgo (cga), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 9:00pm, Salle Wilfrid Pelletier, Place des Artts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
      [The Globe and Mail Jun 30 p.C5; The Gazette Jul 2 p.E2 + Jul 3 p.F4]
      —'Round Midnight, Matilda, Kush, others...
    • 88.07.00 (1) - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band / Copenhagen Jazz Festival (88.07.01-10, so 3rd through 7th, or the 10th),
      Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark [Jazzpodium 7/1988, S.48 Festival schedule]
      two photos gettyimages have DG here on 88.07.01
    • 88.07.08 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band / Kongresshalle Luisencenter, Darmstadt, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 5/1988, S.42 Festival schedule; 9/1988, S.32,33 Festival report]

    88.07.09 • Dizzy Gillespie: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts

    2013: Bob City BCCD13.007 (CD + DVD-PAL) Neth
    • Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band [BVR—1:32:04]

    July 9, 1988 / Northsea Jazz Festival, PWA Zaal, Den Haag, Netherlands
    —AVRO Television "World of Jazz"

    Dizzy Gillespie: North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts:
    1. Presentation Bird Award [3:50]
    2. Con Alma (Gillespie) [10:21]
    3. The Blues (Lalo Schifrin) [8:09]
    4. Jessica's Day (Quincy Jones) [4:29]
    5. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [12:06]
    North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts DVD has all tracks above;
     CD omits the "Presentation" and shortens the track 3 title
     ("The Blues from Gillespiana Suite").
    —Both Bob City discs also include tracks from Gillespie appearances
     at North Sea in 1981 and 1982.
    Broadcast Recording:
     Broadcast announcement [2:14]
    1. composition [9:05]
     Broadcast announcement and award presentation [3:52]
    2. composition [5:05]
    3. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [11:32]
    4. Jessica's Day (Quincy Jones) [4:10]
    5. Things to Come (Gillespie) [5:44]
    6. Con Alma (Gillespie) [10:04]
    7. The Blues from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [7:45]
    8. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [7:25]
    9. Toccata from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [12:29]
    okay
    —Dizzy Gillespie receives the Bird Award 1988 from the hands of Mike Hennessey, the Chairman of the jury.
     The announcements are made by AVRO Television producer Gerrit den Braber.

    —The World Jazz YouTube videos are a bit scattered: The "First Performance" video (p8dR2A_QUuc of 35:32) begins with the complete
     announcement/award presentation of 3:52. The "Second Performance" video (TsTev7DShA8 of 56:32) begins with the actual first song
     of the evening, "Blues" by Schifrin, and leads into the announcement/award presentation, which cuts off abruptly with a moment of video
     glitch at 12:48. I have no idea why. Tracks above are re-ordered as performed though it's unclear whether there were actually two separate
     concerts, or just a break between sets. —RL

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Nat Otter, Jukka Perko, and Jerry Dodgion (as), Marvin Halliday (bar), Virgil Jones, John Marshall,
    Jon Faddis, Byron Stripling, and one unidentified (tp), Garnett Brown, Doug Purviance, and Dennis Wilson (tb), Keith O'Quinn (tu),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {BCCD13.007; YouTube video IDs p8dR2A_QUuc + TsTev7DShA8, track detailing RL + Kris Kauffman 18.05.26;
    Jazzpodium 7/1988, S.49 Festival schedule}


    • 88.07.11 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band / JVC Capitol Radio Music Festival, 8:00pm, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
      [The Guardian Jul 11 p.33, Jul 15 p.25]
      —Emanon, A Night in Tunisia, 'Round Midnight, Things to Come...

    88.07.15 • Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band [BR—47:53 & BVR—22:00]

    July 15, 1988 / Jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz 88, Perugia, Italy

    Radio Broadcast:
    1. Emanon (Gillespie) [10:30]
    2. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [18:36]
    3. Lover Come back to Me (Romberg/Hammerstein) [5:02]
    4. Gillespiana [13:44]
    Broadcast Video:
    1. unknown title [3:40] (incomplete)
    2. unknown title [5:00]
    3. 'Round Midnight (Thelonious Monk) [12:40]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Nat Otter, Jukka Perko, and Jerry Dodgion (as), Marvin Halliday (bar), Virgil Jones, John Marshall,
    Jon Faddis, Byron Stripling, and one unidentified (tp), Garnett Brown, Doug Purviance, and Dennis Wilson (tb), Keith O'Quinn (tu),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Video; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21}



    okay

    Dizzy Gillespie and Sam Rivers, 1988 / Photo courtesy Sam Rivers


      88.07.16 - Gillespie Big Band arrives in Istanbul.

    • 88.07.17 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band / Istanbul International Festival (88.06.15-07.20),
      16th International Istanbul festival, 21:30hr, Açikhava Amphitheatre, Istanbul, Turkey
      [The Guardian May 2 p.22; Cumhur¡yet Jul 11 p.5, Jul 16 pp.1,4,+7, + Jul 17 p.5; ÖzgÜr Meral, Cumhuriyet Archive System;
      Cem Zafir 19.02.08; Hatice and Dan Hintz 19.02.14; Erdir Ungan 19.02.15]

    88.07.18 • Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band [BR—85:51]

    July 18, 1988 / JVC Grand Parade du Jazz, Arenes de Cimiez, Nice, France
    —Radio France Broadcast "Festival de jazz de Nice—Grande Parade du Jazz : Concert du Dizzy Gillespie Big Band."

    1. Manteca (Gillespie) [5:17]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    2. Lover Come Back to Me (Romberg/Hammerstein) [5:00]
    3. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [12:21]
    4. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [15:14]
    5. You Can't Lose With the Blues (Lafayette Harris Jr) [9:30]
    6. Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (Gillespie) [17:07]
    7. Toccata from Gillespiana Suite (Lalo Schifrin) [12:50]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ned Otter (ts), Jerry Dodgion and Jukka Perko (as), Marvin Halliday (bar),
    Jon Faddis, Byron Stripling, John Marshall, and Virgil Jones (tp), Garnett Brown, Keith O'Quinn, Doug Purviance, and Dennis Wilson (tb),
    James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Bill Cosby (yes, on cowbell), Daniel Ponce (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.14; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09;
    Festival schedule Jazzpodium 7/1988, S.48; CODA #223 December, 1988 pp.39-40}


    88.07.23 • Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Big Band [AR—91:48]

    July 23, 1988 / San Sebastian Jazz Festival, San Sebastian, Spain

    1. First Movement, from Gillespiana (Lalo Schifrin) [13:56]  (incomplete, cuts in at beginning)
    2. Lover Come back to Me (Romberg/Hammerstein) [4:45]
    3. One Bass Hit (Gillespie) [10:22]
    4. Jessica's Day (Quincy Jones) [4:20]
    5. Things to Come (Gillespie) [7:48]
    6. 'Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk) [13:30]
    7. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [17:44]
    8. Manteca (Gillespie) [13:33]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Jerry Dodgion (as), Marvin Halliday (bar), Virgil Jones and Jon Faddis (tp),
    Garnett Brown (tb), James Williams (p), Ed Cherry (el-g), Frank Marabi (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.28}


    • 88.07.25 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), James Moody (ts),
      Paquito D'Rivera (as, fl), Jon Faddis and Claudio Roditi (tp), Slide Hampton and Steve Turre (tb), Monty Alexander (p),
      Flora Purim (voc), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Airto and Manenguito (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      7:00 and 10:00pm, The S.S. Dewitt Clinton, South Street Seaport, Pier 16, NYC [New Yorker Jul 29, 1988 p.C15]
      "A boat launched from South Street Seaport into the East River, that cruises around the Statue of Liberty,
      then up and down the Hudson, for about two hours."

    • 88.07.27 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc),
      Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Animal Crackers Jazz Series,
      7:00pm, Racine Zoological Gardens, Racine, WI
      [The Journal Times May 8 p.112; The Lake Geneva Regional News Jun 16 p.33]

    • okay

    • 88.07.28 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 1988 Jazzoo, 7:30pm, Coor's Peacock Pavilion, Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, OH
      [Cincinnati Inquirer Jul 10 p.8]
    • 88.07.29 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Ravinia Festival, 7:00pm, Pavilion, Ravinia Highland Park, Chicago, IL
      [The Pantagraph May 13 p.20]
    • 88.07.31 - Dizzy Gillespie and his All-Star Band: See 88.08.03 / Jersey Jazz Festival, 3:00pm, Monmouth Battlefield State Park, Freehold, NJ
      [Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 12 p.BR30]
    • 88.08.01 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band / 8:00pm, The Dell East, Philadelphia, PA
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets dated May 25, 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21;
      Philadelphia Inquirer Jun 24 p.117]
    • 88.08.03 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), James Moody (ts),
      Paquito D'Rivera (as, fl), Jon Faddis (tp), Slide Hampton and Steve Turre (tb), Monty Alexander (p),
      Flora Purim (voc), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Airto and Manenguito Hidalgo (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00pm, Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets dated May 25, 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21;
      Star Tribune Jul 24 p.69]
    • 88.08.04 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band / 8:00pm, Sea World's Nautilus Amphitheater, San Diego, CA
      [San Diego Union-Tribune Jul 29 p.C15]

    • 88.08.05 CANCELLED - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band / "two concerts"... Humphrey's, San Diego, CA
      [The Los Angeles Times Jul 8, p.82]
    • 88.08.06 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band / Robert Mondavi's Summer Music Festival,
      7:00pm, The Mondavi Winery, Oakville, CA
      [The Press Democrat Jun 24 p.34; Cadence Vol.14 no.6, June '88 p.92]
    • 88.08.07 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), James Moody (ts),
      Paquito D'Rivera (as, fl), Jon Faddis and Claudio Roditi (tp), Slide Hampton and Steve Turre (tb), Monty Alexander (p),
      Flora Purim (voc), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Airto and Manenguito Hidalgo (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      7:00pm, Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA
      [Orange County Register Aug 5; Personnel listed by Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times Aug 9 p.196]
    • 88.08.09 + 08.10 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band: as above / Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
      [Los Angeles Times Aug 9 p.196]
    • 88.08.11 - Dizzy Gillespie's All-Star Band / Paul Masson Summer Series, 7:30pm, Paul Masson Vineyards, Saratoga, CA
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets dated May 25, 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21;
      Santa Cruz Sentinel Aug 5 p.75]
    • 88.08.13 - Dizzy Gillespie's All-Star Band / Paul Masson Summer Series, 2:00pm, Paul Masson Vineyards, Saratoga, CA [ibid]
    • 88.08.14 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation Superspace Band / Elliot Bay Jazz Festival, Magnuson Park, Seattle, WA
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets dated May 25, 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21;
      The Seattle Times Aug 13 p.C1]
      —Article says "17-piece" ensemble, no mention of who may have been added.
      —Tin Tin Deo, Samba for Carmen, 'Round Midnight, A Night In Tunisia, others...

    • 88.08.15 and 88.08.16 CANCELLED - Dizzy Gillespie United Nations' Festival Super Band /
      World Series of Jazz, Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, IL
      [Chicago Tribune Jul 29 Sec.7 p.23 and Aug 12 p.218]
      —This was also listed in some display ads as "Dizzy Gillespie and Kevin Eubanks & All-Stars" (Last sighting The Dispatch Aug 14)

    • 88.08.20 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Super Band / 8:00pm, The Lehman Center, The Bronx, NY
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets dated May 25, 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21;
      Poughkeepsie Journal Aug 4 p.C1]
    • 88.08.21 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Super Band / 3:30pm, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland, OH
      [Wolf Trap Jazz and Blues Festival schedule sheets dated May 25, 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 Box 8 folder 21;
      The Akron Beacon Journal Aug 19 p.43]
      "The last stop on the tour... The 90-minute first set." Manteca; Tin Tin Deo; Samba for CarmenMoody's Mood; Night in Tunisia.
      "The second set spotlighted Brazilian vocalist Flora Purim." Esquinas; piano solo "fantasia;" Kush; Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac.
      —Robert Derwae The Plain Dealer Aug 23 p.9B

      • 88.08.24 through 09.25 - DG "will possibly appear" Second Annual John Coltrane Festival,
        Wiltern Theater, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA [The Atlanta Voice Aug 13-19 p.9]

    • 88.09.05 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Montreux Atlanta International Music Festival, 7:00pm, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
      [Bo Emerson Atlanta Journal and Constitution Sep 2 p.C1]
      —This date was previously scheduled for the New Orleans Jazz Festival. [19880 Jazz Fest Program Book p.13, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com]
    • 88.09.11 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / ArtPark, Lewiston, NY
      [Fishman 1988 Contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9; Press and Sun-Bulletin Aug 2 p.31]
    • 88.09.13 to 09.18 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Blue Note, NYC [Daily News Sep 11 City Lights p.10]


      • 88.09.18 through 88.09.23 DG Jazz festival at Sea, Vancouver to Los Angeles [Santa Cruz Sentinel Jul 3 p.62]
        88.09.23 DG with The Cunninghams and Biltmore Bowl All-Stars, Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
        [Los Angeles Times Sep 23 p.94]
        88.09.27 DG w/ Front Line Jazz Ensemble, Joe Williams, Ellis Marsalis, others... / Duke Ellington Benefit, River Club, Georgetown
        [Washington Post Sep 28; Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2 box 1 folder #]9
        88.09.28 DG scheduled to appear w/ JC Heard at Detroit Institute of Arts for a private event for General Motors Corp.,
        but Heard passed away the evening before...


    • 88.09.29 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00pm, Detroit Institute of Arts Auditorium, Detroit, MI [Detroit Free Press Sep 25 p.86]
    • 88.09.30 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 8:00pm, Hensel Hall, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
      [York Daily Record Sep 23 p.F1; Lancaster Patriot-News Sep 29 p.C3]
    • 88.10.01 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Ocean County Center for the Arts, Strand Theatre, Lakewood, NJ
      [Asbury Park Press Jun 28 p.22; The Daily Register Sep 30 p.22]
      The Daily Register has this on Friday, 09.30, but goes on to say that "tomorrow" (Sunday) would lead a parade,
       and on Monday hold a clinic for students.
    • 88.10.04 to 10.09 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00 & 10:00pm Tue thru Thur + Sun, 9:00 & 11:00pm, and 1:00am Fri + Sat,
      Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IL
      [Chicago Tribune Oct 2 Sec.13p.45; Chicago Post Tribune Oct 3]
    • 88.10.14 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Performing Arts Center, Stockton State College, Galloway, NJ
      [Asbury Park Press Sep 18 p.E11; The Daily Journal Oct 13 p.14]


      • 88.10.21 DG 71st Birthday Celebration w/ John "Spider" Martin, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Toni Bishop, —Rivers not present /
        8:00pm, Sunrise Musical Theatre, Palm Beach, FL [Miami News Oct 21 p.30]



    • 88.10.27 - Sam Rivers, Dexter Gordon, and Illinois Jacquet (ts), Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Erskine Hawkins, and Alan Hoel (tp),
      Frank Vignola (g), Ed Shaughnessy (dr) others... "an entire 16-piece orchestra" /
      "Day One," 11:15pm, Checkers Lounge, Norwegian Cruise Line's S.S. Norway Jazz Cruize, "into the Caribbean" off the coast of Miami, FL
      [Leonard Feather Los Angeles Times Nov 20, 1988 p.795-6+803; Down Beat Feb 1989, pp.48,53-54]
      "An SRO crowd."
    • below ???
    • 88.10.29 - Alex Elin Quartet with featured artist Sam Rivers: Elin and Rivers (ts), and probably: Gary Sargent (g),
      Charlie LaChapelle (b), Joe Hunt (dr) / Highland Jazz, Newton, MA [Boston Globe Sep 11, 1988 p.B8]
    • 88.10.30 - Dizzy Gillespie and Red Rodney (tp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), others... /
      "Day Four," 10:10pm, Saga Theater, S.S. Norway Jazz Cruize, off the coast of Miami, FL [ibid]
      —"Round Midnight, Autumn Leaves, Bebop, Indian"
    • 88.11.01 - "JATP style:" Illinois Jacquet, Arnett Cobb and Totti Bergh (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Red Holloway (ts, as),
      Flip Phillips and Buddy Tate (ts, cl), Benny Carter (as), others... /
      "Day Six," 2:30pm, Saga Theater, S.S. Norway Jazz Cruize, off the coast of Miami, FL [ibid]
      —"Perdido, The Nearness of You, Jumpin' at the Woodside"

    • "Of the hundreds of festivals Bourne has attended as a critic and jazz radio host, nothing stands out like the Floating Jazz Cruise festival aboard
      the SS Norway in 1988. The highlight was when the elder statesmen of jazz launched into a battle of the saxes on ‘Jumpin' At The Woodside.’

      As Bourne tells it, they were all standing in a row. Arnett Cobb, on crutches at the time, got to the mike first and gave the others a look as if
      to say, I'm going to cut you up! ‘He played this solo, the whole place went nuts,’ Bourne said. ’Then I thought, Oh this will be interesting.
      And Illinois Jacquet came up next, and it was as if 40 years fell away. It was like Jazz at the Philharmonic again. He had people screaming.’

      Then it was Flip Phillips' turn. Infamous for his tenor battles with Jacquet back in the JATP days, he showed he could still bring a crowd
      to its feet. Buddy Tate had just recovered from heart surgery, so the rhythm section cooled down for him. Later, Red Holloway made a bluesy
      statement, then Sam Rivers stepped up. ‘And Sam Rivers just took the Woodside to the moon,’ Bourne said. He went so far outside that
      when Benny Carter's turn came, he said ‘NO!’ and brought them back into the head. It would ave been an impossible act to follow."
      —From "25 Great Moments in Jazz Festival History" by John Janowiak Down Beat May 1, 2005 Vol.72 Issue #5, p.94

      okay

      —Photo from Chicago Tribune Sep 24, 1989 Sec.12p.4



      88.10.31-11.03 - DG recording session on Nov 2 in London for Jim Henson and The Muppets' "Ghost of Faffner Hall."
      [Contract with HA! (Henson Associates) dated Oct 11 1988 + info sheets, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 3 box 5 folder #16]


    • 88.11.04 - Dizzy Gillespie Superspace Band: (no personnel details) / Tacoma, WA
      [Fishman 1988 contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
    • 88.11.05 - Dizzy Gillespie Superspace Band: as above / 8:00pm, Silva Concert Hall, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR
      [The World Sep 10 p.29; Statesman Journal Nov 4 p.8]

    Australia Tour : : :

      88.11.11 - Gillespie travels... New York to Sydney, Continental Flight No. CO15.
             Arrival 6:40am; Limousine transfer to Sydney's Southern Cross Hotel.
      —Mr. Gillespie, Live 4:00pm publicity spot on Radio 2UE on the 11th; Live 2:30pm spot on Perth's Radio ABC on the 12th.

      88.11.13 - Orchestra travels... New York to Sydney, Continental Flight No. CO4037.
             Arrival 6:40am; Coach transfer to Sydney's Southern Cross Hotel.
      88.11.13 - Airto & Flora Purim travels... Los Angeles to Sydney, Continental Flight No. CO1.
             Arrival 10:50am; Car transfer to Sydney's Southern Cross Hotel.
      —Mr. Gillespie, Taped 9:30am spot on Radio 2GB; Live 3:00pm spot on Radio 2JJJ.

    • 88.11.14 (1) - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation All-Star Orchestra: Gillespie (tp, voc), Jon Faddis and Michael Mossman (tp), Sam Rivers (ts),
      Jerry Dodgion (as), Mario Rivera (reeds), Slide Hampton and Steve Turre (tb), Flora Purim (voc), Ron Mathews (p), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Airto Moreira and Giovanni Hidalgo (perc), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / 10:00am, unknown TV studio, Sydney, Australia
      —Mr. Gillespie, Live 8:40am "Today" TV appearance; The Orchestra, Live 10:00am "Midday Show" TV appearance;
       Flora Purim, Slide Hampton, and Jon Faddis Live 2:00pm spot on Radio ABC.

      "Gillespie's United Nation All Star Orchestra—all except the Brazilian singer Flora Purim
      and the percussionist Airto—are rehearsing at their hotel."
      [Adrian Jackson "A Laugh a Minute with the Great Gillespie" The Age Nov 17 p.14]

    • 88.11.14 (2) - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation All-Star Orchestra: as above / 8:45pm, Sydney Entertainment Centre, Sydney, Australia
      —Manteca; Tin Tin Deo; Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac; others...
      "With an apparently unwell Flora Purim singing quite erratically..."
      [Gail Brennan "Still Dizzy After All These Years" The Sydney Morning Herald Nov 16 p.22]

    • 88.11.15 - Ansett Flight No. AN377, Sydney (12:50pm) to Canberra (1:35pm)
    • 88.11.15 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nation All-Star Orchestra: as above / 8:45pm, Cranberra Theatre, Cranberra,

    • 88.11.16 - Ansett Flight No. AN202, Canberra (7:15am) to Adelaide (9:30am)
    • 88.11.16 Dizzy Gillespie United Nation All-Star Orchestra / 8:45pm, Thebarton Theatre, Adelaide,

    • 88.11.17 - Australian Airlines Flight No. TN2, Adelaide (10:30am) to Perth (11:10am)
    • 88.11.17 Dizzy Gillespie United Nation All-Star Orchestra / 8:45pm, Perth Concert Hall, Perth,

    • 88.11.18 - Day off, at the Perth International Hotel.
      88.11.19 - Travel day... Australian Airlines Flight No. TN5, Perth (11:00am) to Melbourne (5:15pm)

    • 88.11.20 - Dizzy Gillespie United Nations All-Star Orchestra / 8:45pm, Melbourne Concert Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
      [The Age Oct 14 Entertainment Guide p.9 + Nov 18 no p.#]
      —Melbourne's The Age Oct 14 has this misdated as November 2.
      88.11.21 - Travel day... Melbourne to New York, Continental Flight No. CO2, Departs 11:00am.

      [Complete comb-bound tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive; Gail Brennan review The Sydney Morning Herald Nov 16 p.22; The Age Nov 17 p.33]

    • 88.11.22 to 11.27 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Blues Alley, Washington, DC
      [Fishman 1988 contracts list to Isidore Stratner Dec 28 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9;
      The Evening Sun Sep 15 p.54]
    • 88.11.29 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 8:00, 10:00pm, and Midnight, Blues Alley, Baltimore, MD
      [The Baltimore Sun Dec 2 p.115; Chrisman letter to Gillespie Oct 1 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2 box 1 folder #9]

    88.11.30 (1) + 12.01 (1) • Hilton Ruiz: Strut

    1989: Novus 3053-1-N (LP); RCA PL83053 (LP) Ger;
        RCA 102-02125 (LP) Vnz; 3053-2-N (CD); PD83053 (CD) Ger
    • (V/A) Summertime
      1994: RCA/Bluebird 7432 1 21444 2 (CD, "Jazz Café Series") UK
    • (V/A) Tresors Jazz
      1996: RCA/BMG 74321390792 (3-CD) Fr
    • Hilton Ruiz: The Collected Hilton Ruiz
      1999: RCA 68706-2 (CD)

    November 30 & December 1, 1988 / Studio B, RCA Studios, New York City

    1. The Sidewinder (Lee Morgan) [6:17]  (ts)
    2. Goin' Back to New Orleans (Ruiz) [10:43]  (ts)
    3. Bluz (Rivers) [4:55]  (ts)
    4. Aged in Soul (William Allen) [4:17]  (ts)
    5. All My Love Is Yours (Griffin) [8:05]  (ts)
    6. Soca Serenade (William Allen) [5:52]  (ss)
    okay
    Summertime and Tresors Jazz have track 1.
    The Collected Hilton Ruiz has tracks 3 and 4.

    Hilton Ruiz (p), Lew Soloff (tp), Dick Griffin (tb), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Rodney Jones (g), Francisco Centeno (elb),
    Mongo Santamaria (cga), Robby Ameen (dr, tmbl, and perc-4,5), Steve Barrios (dr, tmbl, and perc, dr-4,5,7)

     —Ruiz was touring with Lew Tabackin in his group at this time, but often called on Rivers for recording sessions.

    {RCA Novus 3053-1-N}


    okay okay


    • 88.11.30 (2) + 12.01 (2) - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc),
      Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00, 10:00pm, and Midnight, Blues Alley, Baltimore, MD
      [Chrisman letter to Gillespie Oct 1 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2 box 1 folder 9;
      The Baltimore Sun Dec 2 p.115]
    • 88.12.02 to 12.04 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above /
      8:00, 10:00pm, and Midnight, Blues Alley, Baltimore, MD [ibid]


    • 88.12.05 to 12.11 / Peru ... 12.15 to 12.31 / Europe
      [Chrisman to DG Oct 1 1988, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2 box 1 folder 9]

      okay

        —Daily Tar Heel Dec 1 p.9

    • 88.12.22 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 21:00hr, Cinema Teatro Nestor, Frosinone, Italy
      [Poster, The RivBea Archive]
    • 88.12.23 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 19:30 and 22:30hr, New Morning, Paris
    • 88.12.28 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 6:30pm, Yubin Chakin Hall, Tokyo, Japan
      [Pacific Stars and Stripes Dec 6 p.17]


    • 88.12.31 - Dizzy Gillespie, three possible New Year's Eve gigs: United Nation Orchestra at Plaza Hotel, NYC; unspecifed ensembles
      at San Pedro, CA; and unspecified in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
      "Moody will be coming for New Year's Eve."
      [Chrisman letter to Gillespie Oct 1 1988 + DG Legal pad notes, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2 box 1 folder #9]

    1989 : : :


      January, 1989: "Dizzy and the band spent January in the Near East and Africa thanks to the USIA"
      —The United States Information Agency Arts America Program [Down Beat Mar '89, p.59]

      "Talk to Sam about Africa." [DG Legal pad notes, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2 box 1 folder #9]
      —Originally planned with a front-line of two saxes, Sam declined, and only James Moody made this tour.



      RL: I was surprised to find out that Sam Rivers did not do the Gillespie Sextet Africa tour in January of '89. Moody went,
      and Hidalgo on percussion. Any recollection of why Sam wasn't included in this one?
      Ed Cherry: Sam left the band just around that time. Sam had been in the group a year or two at that point, he started wanting
      to do his own thing. Dizzy was a full-time commitment.
      RL: Yes, I have Sam off and on in '89 until May. So he was obviously moving away from it during those months. I was surprised
      he passed on Africa though, since that tour seemed so unique. Smithsonian has Recordings from all those dates, which I didn't
      listen to after realizing Sam was absent.
      EC: I got sam into Dizzy's group. I had been playing in Sam's group off and on in '84 and '85. I rejoined Dizzy in '86, Dizzy
      fired his current sax player and asked me who to get. I suggested Sam.
      —Conversation with Ed Cherry, July 24, 2019.


      All of the African Tour tour recordings reside in The Dizzy Gillespie Collection at the Archives Center of the National Museum
      of American History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. This includes recordings of concerts at Cairo Marriott (89.01.06)
      and the Cairo Opera House (01.07) in Egypt; the Rialto House in Casablanca (01.10 or 01.11), the Mohammed V Theatre in Rabat (01.12),
      and Marrakesh (01.11, venue unknown) in Morocco; Sorano Theatre in Dakar (01.17 or 01.18) and Dakar University (01.19) in Senegal;
      the Iganmu Lagos National Theatre (01.22) in Lagos, Nigeria; unknown venues in Benin City, Benin (01.23 + 01.24); Port Harcourt (01.25)
      and Lagos University (01.26) in Nigeria; and the Ambassador's House (01.18) and Kinshasa Maison du People (01.29) in Kinshasha, Zaire.
      [Itinerary/Africa Tour 1989, Charismic Productions Records, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979, Series 2 box 1 folder 11
      + Series 11: Audio Visual Materials 1950-1992, Subseries 11.1: Sound Recordings, Gillespie Collection, NMAH.AC.0979,
      docplayer.net/53698188-Guide-to-the-dizzy-gillespie-collection.html; Reuters Wire Service Tampa Bay Times Jan 24 p.48]

    • January, 1989:

      —Interview taken at Gillespie's "modest split-level ranch house in Englewood, New Jersey, one evening in May 1991."

      "While Dizzy devoured a large quattro stagioni pizza, he regaled me with stories of his month-long jazz tour of Africa
      in 1989. In Senegal, the House of Slaves museum, which memorializes a notorious ‘door of no return’ for West Africans
      bound for the Americas, was closed when he dropped by for a visit one morning. But a Frenchman who lived in an adjacent
      building helped him sneak in by crawling through one of his windows. ‘Inside it looked like a bunch of animal stalls,’
      Dizzy said. ‘I could imagine my great-grandmother Nora locked up in there.’ Nora, who was purchased as a house slave
      in the late 1850s by a plantation owner in Cheraw, South Carolina, was the daughter of a Yoruba tribal chief from what is
      now Nigeria. When Dizzy visited Nigeria later in the tour, he was treated like returning royalty. The king of the Iperu,
      a Yoruba tribe, gave him the title Baashere, which means Chief of Entertainers. ‘The Baashere of Iperu,’ Dizzy said,
      savoring the sound of the words. ‘Ain't that a bitch.’"
      [David Grogan "The Chief of Entertainers" The American Scholar Winter 2018]
      ———



      89.01.12 to 89.01.15 - CANCELLED DG Big Band, 12th Annual Art Deco Weekend, Miami Beach, FL [Indianapolis Star Dec 11 '88 p.120]


    • 89.02.03 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      Artist Series 1988-89, 8:00pm, Weber Chapel Auditorium, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
      [The Times Leader Feb 2 p.47; The Daily Item Feb 4 p.8; The Crusader Feb 10 p.6]

    • —Possible 89.02.04 - Charlotte, NC -or- New London, CT / "Need a decision." [Fishman Dec 12 + 12.23 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]

    • 89.02.07 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / "Absolutely Music," 8:00pm, Shubert Theater, NYC [The New York Times Feb 5 p.C29]
      "A musical benefit saluting Vietnam veterans... An imposing array of talent will be on hand, including the jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie
      and Dave Brubeck, the Gregg Smith Singers, and Philip Glass with the premiere of a composition accompanying Alan Ginsberg's poem
      ‘Wichita Vortex.’ ... Sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Ensemble Theater Company, the evening will benefit the company's community
      programs, including the Borden Avenue Shelter in Queens, a shelter for homeless people, especially veterans. A reception with the
      performers follows at Sardi's."
    • 89.02.10 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / 22nd Annual Tom Kinser Memorial Jazz Festival,
      8:00pm, Natrona County High School John F. Welsh Auditorium, Casper, WY [The Billings Gazette Feb 3 p.35]
    • 89.02.11 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 7:30pm, Coffee County Arts Alliance, Enterprise High Schhol Auditorium, Enterprise, AL
      [Montgomery Advertiser Feb 5 p.F3; NMAH.AC.0979 Series 2 box 1 folder #9, Fishman letter to Gillespie Oct 25 1988]
    • 89.02.14 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 7:00pm, Bass Concert Hall, University of Texas, Austin, TX
      [Michael Point review Austin American-Statesman Feb 16 p.D5]
      —'Round Midnight, A Night In Tunisia, others... /
    • 89.02.16 + 02.17 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Carver Cultural Center, San Antonio, TX
      [The Seguin Gazette-Enterprise Feb 16 p.8]
    • 89.02.18 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Fraga's Nightclub, El Paso, TX
      [El Paso Times Feb 19 p.2B]
    • 89.02.20 + 02.21 - Dizzy Gillespie: likely the Big Band... "Everyone in the band has agreed to come." /
      Rehearsals, Grammy Awards Show, The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
      [NMAH.AC.0979 Series 2 box 1 folder #9, Fishman letter to Gillespie Dec 7 1988]
    • 89.02.22 - Dizzy Gillespie: likely the Big Band / The 31st Annual Grammy Awards Show, The Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA
      "We will have eight minutes to perform... A Night in Tunisia and Manteca or Tanga. Flora Purim mentioned..." [ibid]
    • 89.02.25 - Dizzy Gillespie: personnel unknown / 8:00pm, Foellinger Auditorium, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
      [Ted Kurland Associates letter 89.01.30 "Offers for DG Quintet," Gillespie Collection NMAH.AC.0979 Series 2 box 1 folder #10;
      Herald and Review Feb 23 p.21]


      • 89.03.01 DG at Roy Eldridge Memorial, St. Peter's Lutheran Church, NYC Daily News Mar 2 p.21


    • 89.03.02 to 03.04 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Arturo Sandoval (tp), Ed Cherry (g),
      John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) / Bird of Paradise, Ann Arbor, MI [Detroit Free Press Mar 1 p.26]
    • 89.03.06 + 03.07 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above? / Berlin Night Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
      [Toronto Star Mar 8 p.C8]


      • 89.03.07 - Quintet / Toronto [Fishman Nov 29 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9] 89.03.08 DG Quartet w/ Arturo Sandoval (tp), probably John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr), unknown other, probably Cherry (g) /
        8:00pm Union Ballroom, McGill University, Montreal The Gazette Mar 4 p.6
        —"With him were four musicians" [The Gazette Mar 9 p.59]
        89.03.10 Dc Diabetes Assoc. Benefit guest w/ Widespread Depression Band [Fishman to DG Feb 1 1989, NMAH.AC.0979 Series 2, Box 1, Folder 10]
        89.03.11 DG 8:00pm, Folly Theatre, Kansas City, MO The Manhattan Mercury Mar 5 p.25
        89.03.11 + 03.12 DG in Kansas City to announce Int'l Jazz Hall of Fame Dayton Daily Mar 14 p.2
        89.03.15 to 03.17 - DG at UCLA [William Hutchinson Associate Dean to DG Jan 27 1989, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 10]
        89.03.18 (1) DG w/ Nat Pierce and Frankie Capp's Juggernaut Band, 12:00pm Village Park La Quinta, La Quinta, CA
        Los Angeles Times Jan 28 Desert Life p.1
        89.03.18 (2) DG 8:00pm, Wadsworth Theater, Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA The Los Angeles Times Mar 5 p.62
        89.03.22 DG in Budapest with Mo Koffman [Fishman Dec 23 1988 p.3, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
        89.03.22 DG records Max + Dizzy Paris 1989 (A&M) with Max Roach at Banlieues Bleues Festival, Paris
        89.03.23 DG in Budapest [Fishman to DG Mar 13 1989, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 10]
        89.03.28 to 04.02 - Blue Note, Tokyo [Fishman to DG Dec 5 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]

      —Fishman to DG Mar 13 1989 also has Gillespie in Paris again on 03.25; Tokyo 03.27 to 04.02; San Diego on 04.02; and Newark on 04.04.


    • 89.03.31 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00pm, Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, Pittsburgh, PA [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Feb 2 p.18 + Mar 31 Weekend p.12]
      Pittsburgh Press Feb 19 p.H1 has this incorrectly dated as 89.05.11.

    89.04.01 • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [BR—46:08]

    April 1, 1989 / Tokyo, Japan

    1. Tanga (Gillespie) [12:18]
    2. Gee Baby, Ain't I Good to You (Don Redman) [9:03]
    3. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie) [14:43]
    4. Oop-Bop-She-Bam (Billy Eckstine) [6:43]
    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.28; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31}


        89.04.03 - DG at James Moody wedding, Faith Chapel, Spring Valley, CA [The Los Angeles Times Jul 20 p.121]


    • 89.04.07 - Lakeland, FL [Fishman to DG Dec 23 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
      —Fishman to DG Feb 6 has "Indiana" on this date. [Series 2, Box 1, Folder 10]
    • 89.04.08 - Gainesville, FL [ibid]
    • 89.04.10 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
      8:00pm, Lower Cape May Regional High School, Cape May, NJ [Courier-Post Apr 9 p.F4]
      —This was originally scheduled for February 5. "They want to change this to Sunday April 10." [Fishman Dec 23 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
    • 89.04.11 to 04.14 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: as above / Kimball's East, San Francisco, CA
      [Jesse Hamlin review San Francisco Chronicle Apr 13, 1989 p.E3; Down Beat Apr '89, p.12]
    • 89.04.15 (1) - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Raise the Roof Musicfest (04.15-16), San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA
      [Santa Cruz Sentinel Apr 14 Spotlight p.9]
    • 89.04.15 (2) - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Kimball's East, San Francisco, CA
      [Jesse Hamlin review San Francisco Chronicle Apr 13, 1989 p.E3; Down Beat Apr '89, p.12]
    • 89.04.16 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 7:30pm, The Lobero Theatre, Santa Barbara, CA
      [Santa Maria TimesApr 9 p.9; Lobero schedule, The RivBea Archive]
    • 89.04.22 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 8:00pm, Tucker Theater, Boutwell Dramatic Arts Building,
      Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
      [Laurel Wicks to DG Jan 30 1989, Gillespie Collection NMAH.AC.0979 Series 2 box 1 folder #10; The Daily News-Journal Apr 13 p.9]
    • T

        89.04.23 - DG w/ Wynton Marsalis, Hank Jones, Slide Hampton, others, Hosts Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan,
        Benefit for Thelonious Monk Jazz Instutute, Durham, NC Statesman Journal Apr 25 p.12

        —possible 89.04.25 to 04.30 - Blues Alley, Washington, DC [Fishman 88.11.07 p.2–Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
         (This was cancelled, Fishman Dec 15, same reference file)



  • 89.04.27 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / Jazz Aktuell Unna '89, 20:00hr, Stadthalle, Unna, Germany
    [Program + poster, The RivBea Archive; Concert poster, 23.25x33in, www.rhourtney-collector.com/Jazzposters6.html]
  • 89.05.01 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 20:30hr, Théàtre Municipal, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
    [Program + handbill, The RivBea Archive]

  • 89.05.04 - Amiens, France [Fishman 88.11.29 p.2–Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]


  • 89.05.06 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet / 19:30 & 23:00hr, Dos Díos con la World Music, Club de Musica y Jazz, San Juan Evangelista, Madrid, Spain
    [www.sanjuanevangelista.org]

  • okay


  • 89.05.09 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
    Theatre Municipal, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg [The RivBea Archive]
  • 89.05.10 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
    8:00pm, Stephen B. Humphrey Theater, St. John's University, Collegeville, MN
    [St. Cloud Times Apr 23 p.21]
  • 89.05.11 - "Pittsburgh" [Fishman Feb 6 1989 p.2–Series 2, Box 1, Folder 10]


    • 89.05.13 - DG receiving honorary doctor of music degree, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA The Press-Tribune Apr 21 p.15
      89.05.15 - "An inquiry about you, solo, in Kansas City." [Fishman to DG Dec 23 1988, Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]


    May 24, 1989... "As we go to press we have received the sad news that Steve McCall has died of a heart attack."
    [CODA # 227 August 1989 p.27]



  • 89.05.16 to 05.21 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Ed Cherry (g), John Lee (elb), Ignacio Berroa (dr) /
    Blue Note, NYC [Daily News May 19 p.MJ9; Fishman 88.11.07–Series 2, Box 1, Folder 9]
    —This was Rivers' last date with Gillespie.

  • —On May 22, 1989, Dizzy Gillespie leaves for a 21-day European tour.
  • 89.07.15 - Carman Moore's Skymusic Ensemble: Carman Moore (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Leroy Jenkins (vn),
    Naomi Itami (voc), Ruby Shang (Chor), Gilbert Tsai (performance director), John Toth (dancer-manipulated fabric sculptures), others... /
    Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, "A stage next to the fountain," Lincoln Center Plaza, NYC
    "Tales of Exile" Adapted from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
    "Lincoln Center's salute to the bicentennial of the French Revolution ended a day late when rain forced the postponement to Saturday afternoon."
    [The New York Times Jul 18, 1989; www.johntoth.net/performance/performance.htm]

    "The heart of Tales of Exile was a confrontation between two strong performers and characters—the lithe Mr. Cayler as an idealistic young
    Marco Polo, and the monumental Lawrence Goldhuber as a world-weary Kublai Khan. The piece might best be described as a pageant,
    given the hoisting and manipulating of white and black fabric panels and pale silk flags (designed by John Toth) by a chorus
    of 14 dancers as they made their way through the plaza crowds and climbed onto the open-air stage. Moving those panels, the dancers
    ably created an illusion of mountains and rivers and of the cities described by Marco Polo to the emperor, sometimes breaking away
    to illustrate the text spoken by the two actors. Carman Moore's instrumental score, played by his Skymusic Ensemble with singing
    by the sweet-voiced Naomi Itami, provided a fresh and shimmering aural landscape.
    Tales of Exile will be performed again on August 5 at the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors festival."
  • 89.08.05 - Carman Moore's Skymusic Ensemble: Carman Moore (Comp, Cond), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Leroy Jenkins (vn),
    Naomi Itami (voc), Ruby Shang (Chor), Gilbert Tsai (performance director), John Toth (dancer-manipulated fabric sculptures), others... /
    Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival, NYC
    [Andrew L. Yarrow "The City Sings, Dances and Acts Up In Alfresco Mode" The New York Times Jun 23, 1989;
    www.johntoth.net/performance/performance.htm]


  • Chicago Jazz Festival, August 31 through September 3, 1989
    "A legion of players sat in at a tribute to the late Steve McCall at the South side's New Apartment Lounge..."
    (No personnel, but Rivers would likely have taken part) / New Apartment Lounge, Chicago, IL [Down Beat Dec 1989, p.58]

    89.09.02 (1) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—73:14]

    September 2, 1989, 3:10pm / Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz on Jackson Stage, Chicago, IL

    1. improvisation [9:16]  (ss section—ts section; incomplete, fades in)
    2. improvisation [8:29]
    3. improvisation [11:50]
    4. improvisation [16:04]  (ts section—b solo—dr solo—ss section; incomplete, cuts out at end)
    5. improvisation [12:00]
    6. improvisation [12:53]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,4, ss-1, fl-3,6, p-2,5, voc-3), Malachi Favors (b), Hamid Drake (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.28; Chicago Tribune Aug 27, 1989 Sec.13 p.5; Chicago Sun-Times Sep 1, 1989}


    89.09.02 (2) • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet [AR—10:18]

    September 2, 1989, 9:00pm / Petrillo Music Shell, Grant Park, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago, IL

    1. Birk's Works (Gillespie) [10:14]
    —Rivers was guest soloist on "Birk's Works" only.
    —Audience Recording of the complete United Nation Super Band concert [112:26] is also in circulation.

    Dizzy Gillespie (tp, voc), Sam Rivers (ts), Ed Cherry (el-g), John Lee (b), Ignacio Berroa (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.05.28; M. Ladenson "Chicago Jazz Fest will hit the key Blue Notes" Lloyd Sachs Chicago Sun-Times Sep 1;
    Michael McLaughlin 08.06.22}


    • 89.09.02 (3) - "Sam Rivers and Hank Crawford jammed at one of the traditional after-hours meetings at The Jazz Showcase." /
      Chicago Jazz Festival, Jazz Showcase, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IL
      [Down Beat Dec, 1989 p.58; jazzinchicago.org/files/chicagojazzfestival1979-2008.pdf]


    • Summer, 1989 : : :
      "No quintet can easily recover from the loss of a veteran talent like Sam Rivers, who has returned to pursuing his own projects.

      But in Holloway, who hails from Washington, DC, Gillespie has found a fluent, strong-minded replacement..."
      [Chicago Sun Times Sep 28, 1989]

      89.09.26 through 89.10.01 - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: notes Sam Rivers for these dates at Jazz Showcase, Blackstone Hotel, Chicago, IL,
      but last dates I have is for Rivers with the group during the third week of May, and then sitting in during a single tune on 89.09.02 (2).
      [Chicago Tribune Sep 24, 1989 Sec.13p.35]

    89.10.07 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AVR—28:17]

    October 7, 1989 / Jazztage 1989, The Forum, Leverkusen, Germany

    1. Sprung [6:03]
    2. Beatrice [8:36]
    3. Streams [13:38]
    —See comments on the title "Streams" at 73.07.06 and 99.06.22.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Darryl Thompson (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (elb), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {Video; Unidentified newspaper clipping Sep 26, The RivBea Archive; Down Beat Sep 1989 p.45}


    • 89.10.08 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Daryll Thompson (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
      George Jazz Cafe, Arnhem, Netherlands [The RivBea Archive]

    89.10.09 + 10.10 • Sam Rivers Quartet: Lazuli

    1990: Timeless Records CD SJP 291 (CD) Neth;
    2015: Solid Records "Timeless Jazz Master Collection" CDSOL-6420 (CD) Jpn;
        RivBea Music RB80291 (digital download)

    October 9 & 10, 1989 / Studio 44, Monster, Netherlands

     1. Swirl [3:51]  (fl)
     2. Dominant [2:17]  (ss)
     3. Lazuli [4:51]  (fl)
     4. Chant [2:25]  (ss)
     5. Coral [6:58]  (fl)
     6. Lapis [6:29]  (ss)
     7. Ripples [4:55]  (ts)
     8. Dandelions [3:33]  (ts)
     9. Devotion [4:31]  (ts)
    10. Beatrice [4:19]  (ts)
    11. Desire [5:00]  (ts)
    12. Sprung [3:27]  (ts)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Daryll Thompson (g),
    Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {CD SJP 291; CDSOL-6420}

    okay

    89.10.11 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—180:36]

    October 11, 1989 / Jazz Club, Paris, France
    —Radio France Live Broadcast "Jazz Club du 11 Octobre 1989." Complete Broadcast was nearly three hours long.

     1. Lazuli [16:01]  (p solo lead-in of 3:03–fl)  —"Short break," end of 1st set.
     2. Chant [7:27]  (ss)
     3. Ripples [8:02]  (ts; incomplete, cuts out)
     4. Ham Bone (Mockingbird) [11:28]  (ts; incomplete, fades in)  
     5. Beatrice [8:51]  (ts)
     6. Dominant [4:38]  (ss)
     7. composition [14:37]  (fl+voc)
     8. Dandelion [9:28]  (ts)
     9. composition [10:59]  (p)
    10. Wizard [19:17]  (fl)
    —This Broadcast Recording is interspersed with announcements and commentary. It also has a 20:10 segment of opera, banter,
     and Pat Metheny chopped in between tracks 3 and 4 somehow, and an ending of around 24 minutes of broadcast-speak
     and random unrelated musical excerpts.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Daryll Thompson (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {Soundfiles, track detailing RL 20.01.18; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09; Michael McLaughlin 04.01.05}


      89.10.16 and 89.10.17 [CANCELLED] - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / 22:00hr, Music Inn, Rome, Italy
      [l'Unita Oct 10 p.21 + Oct 13 "Anteprima" p.25; Paula Grack-Holmes translation assist 19.04.24]
      —Rescheduled as a single date on 89.10.23.


    • 89.10.21 - Sam Rivers Quartet / Zagreb, Yugoslavia [Poster, The RivBea Archive]
    • 89.10.22 - Sam Rivers Quartet / VIII International Skopje Jazz Festival, 21:00hr, Universal Hall, Skopje, Macedonia
      [Festival program, The RivBea Archive]
    • 89.10.23 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / 22:00hr, Music Inn, Rome, Italy
      [l'Unità Oct 20 p.21; Paula Grack-Holmes translation assist 19.04.24]
      l'Unita references all have Paul Shigihara, who was not on this tour, as "Paul Chlcoara" on guitar in pre-publicity.
    • 89.10.00 - Sam Rivers, many others... / Norway Jazz Cruise (10.21-27), Miami, FL
      [Chicago Tribune Sep 24, 1989 Sec.12p.4]

    89.11.27 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RivBea Archival Soundboard & Audience Recordings—91:51]

    November 27, 1989 / Linz, Austria

    RivBea Archive / Cassette #67 (Audience), 68 (Soundboard), + 215
    1. Waves [18:00]
    2. Ripples [12:23]
    3. Dandelions [9:33]
    4. Lazuli [9:15]  (split track at 1:06)
    5. Sprung [8:21]
    6. Beatrice [8:16]
    7. Interlude [7:51]  (bass solo, into...)
    8. Ham Bone (Mockingbird) [8:48]
    9. Willow [2:34]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
    —RBA Cassette #67: "Audience recorded. Normal bias TDK. Set list taken from tape cover: Waves, Ripples,
     Dandelions, Lazuli, Sprung, Beatrice, Interlude, Bone, Willow." —Jason Hook
    —Cassette #68: "Normal bias tape, date seems to be in conflict with Tape 67. This one is a Soundboard." —Jason Hook
     [There are no details on the date "conflict" noted by Hook. All database entries have 89.10.27, but the CDr transfers
     that Hook sent back to RivBea are all dated November 27. —RL]
    —Cassette #215 has only "Waves."

    "This is the first time these compositions have been played... just finished recording." —Rivers

    Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,5,6, ss-1,8, fl-4,9, voc-8, Comp), Daryll Thompson (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (b, voc-8), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #67, 68, and 215; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.05.29; Jason Hook 07.11.01 + 08.03.28}


    • 89.12.28 through 89.12.30 - Carman Moore's Skymusic Ensemble: Carman Moore (Cond, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
      Charles Burnham (vn), Marianna Rosett (p), Ken Bichel and Eric Johnson ("synthesists"), Gordon Gottlieb (perc),
      Angela Verdurmen (Chor, dance), Hugh Murphy and Maria Rubinate (dance), Caterina Bertolotto (slide projections) /
      South Street Theater, NYC [James A. Oestreich, "Sound, Dance, and Art Mix To Create 'Magical Circles'" The New York Times 89.12.30]
      —1. Magical Circles (three movements: Autumn, Winter, Early Spring); 2. Righteous Heroes (1987)


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    The 21st Century...

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    • 90.02.09 - Carman Moore and the Skymusic Ensemble: Moore (Cond, Comp), Sam Rivers (ss, fl), Dale Kleps (fl, bcl),
      Kenneth Bichel and Eric Johnson (synth), Warren Smith (perc) / Hendricks Chapel, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
      [Syracuse Post-Standard Feb 10 p.B1]
      —1. Variations on a West African Lament; 2. Blue Cubes; 3. Rain Dance; 4. Righteous Heroes"


    • 90.03.01-11 - CANCELLED - Hilton Ruiz featuring Sam Rivers / Half-page ad for a CMN tour (March 1st through 11th) by Hilton Ruiz
      featuring Sam Rivers. [WIRE #72 p.23, #73 p.4, and #76 p.4]
      "In the very next issue, however, ...it was stated that Sam Rivers would not be in the eight-piece touring group. The full revised line-up appeared
      in a box ad elsewhere. I would hazard a guess that a BBC Radio 3 two-part concert broadcast of Hilton Ruiz on 90.06.30 + 90.07.07—advertised
      in #76 p.4—would feature the above group without Sam Rivers." —Kevin White 02.11.04


    • 90.04.26 - World Saxophone Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts), Oliver Lake (as, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar, acl, afl) /
      8:00 & 11:00pm, Slim's, San Francisco, CA
      [San Francisco Examiner Apr 15 Datebook p.15]
    • 90.04.27 - World Saxophone Quartet: as above / New Vision Series, 7:30pm, Soreng Theatre, Hult Center of the Performing Arts, Eugene, OR
      [Program, RivBea Archive]
      —Blythe replacing "the ailing Julius Hemphill" and Rivers "filling in for David Murray."
    • 90.04.29 - World Saxophone Quartet: as above / The Max Gordoon Memorial Concert, 9:00pm, Reed College Commons, Portland, OR
      [Marty Hughley review The Oregonian May 1, 1990 p.D5; Program, RivBea Archive]
      —For The Love Of Money, Love Like Sister's, I Heard That, Sophisticated Lady, others... /
    • IMGs

    90.05.12 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:59:00]

    May 12, 1990 / Biella Jazz Club, Biella, Italy

    1... compositions + imrpovisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rael-Wesley Grant (6-string bass), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #85; Biella Jazz Club flyer, The RivBea Archive}


    90.07.12 • Sam Rivers Quartet [AR—42:00 & BR—21:17]

    July 12, 1990 / North Sea Jazz Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands
    Radio Broadcast NL 4

    1. unknown title [12:10]  (incomplete, fades in)
    2. Ripples [9:01]
    3. Lazuli [10:19]  ("...Lazuli. Whatever that means..." —Rivers, announcing the title)
    4. Beatrice [7:40]
    —The Broadcast Recording has tracks 2 and 3 with radio announcements before and after.
    —RBA Cassette #98 has "North Sea Jazz Festival Iggo."
    —The Audience Recording has all four tracks above and contains a great deal of distortion and audience chatter.

    Sam Rivers (ts-2, fl+voc-3, Comp), Paul Shigihara (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr)
    —Recordings are circulating with the drummer incorrectly identified as "Gene Jackson".

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #98; Broadcast CDr, detailing RL 19.01.05; WIRE #76 p.19}


    • 90.07.24 to 07.28 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Paul Shigihara (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
      10:00pm & 12:00am, + 2:00am 23rd and 24th, Condon's, NYC [Daily News Jul 22 City Lights p.18]

    90.08.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [AVR—2:00:09]

    April 1, 1991, 7:45 and 10:45pm / Middle East Restaurant, Central Square, Cambridge, MA

    1st Set:
    1. Lapis [12:32]
    2. el-bass solo [6:09]
    3. improv—Beatrice—improv [14:19]
    4. drum solo [4:58]
    5. Swirl—improv—outro w/ intros + solos [17:10]
    2nd Set:
    6. improvisation [14:02]
    7. el-bass solo [3:41]  (incomplete, cuts out)
    8. Lapis—improv—drum solo [14:49]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    9. Hush Little Baby (traditional)—improv—outro w/ intros + solos [17:58]
    Boston Globe mentions Ron McWhorter on bass in addition to Grant, but no mention or evidence on video;
     and also credits Ricky Ford on sax "first set only." Ford is thanked by MC at end of set 1, but is not on video.

    "We're just going to improvise all night."

    Sam Rivers (ts-3,6, ss-1,8, fl-5,9, voc-5,9 Comp), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {Youtube video 7myJSM6TLqY and 5FnKcoQdKVo, track detailing RL 19.03.16; Fernando Gonzalez, The Boston Globe Aug 24}


    • 90.11.16 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rael-Wesley Grant (6-string bass), Steve McCraven (dr) / Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
      [Sander Piek 07.07.30; www.Bimhuis.nl; Ron Atkins review The Guardian Dec 17 p.27]

    90.11.19 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & AR—1:59:00]

    November 19, 1990 / Quasimodo Jazz Club, Berlin, Germany

    Audience Recording:
    1... unknown titles [119:00]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rael-Wesley Grant (6-string bass), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #168; Ed Hazell 15.03.18}


    • 90.11.21 + 11.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rael-Wesley Grant (6-string bass), Steve McCraven (dr) /
      Duke's, Vienna, Austria [I-Club November Program, Musik bei Duke's p.9, The RivBea Archive]
    • 90.11.24 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Domicil, Dortmund, Germany [www.domicil-dortmund.de/index.php]
    • 90.11.29 + 11.30 - Sam Rivers Trio / Big Mama, Rome, Italy
      [l'Unità Nov 29 p.25 + Nov 30 p.26]
    • 90.12.04 - Sam Rivers Trio / 9:30pm, Club Switchboard, Turin, Italy
      [www.centrojazztorino2.it/index.php/1990/jazz-x-torino]
      —Mistakenly lists Gerald Veasley on bass.
    • 90.12.05 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr) /
      Biella Jazz Club, Biella, Italy [Biella Jazz Club Flyer, The RivBea Archive]
    • 90.12.08 - Sam Rivers Trio / Jazz Club Franco Borrini, Aversa, Italy
      [www.assmav.com/jazzclub/incontri.htm; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.23]
    • 90.12.09 - Sam Rivers Trio / Bird Lives, Latina, Lazio, Italy
    • 90.12.11 - Sam Rivers Trio / Tangram, Milano, Italy
      [Publicity sheet, The RivBea Archive]
    • 90.12.14 + 12.15 - Sam Rivers Trio / 9:00pm, Jazz Café, London, England
      [Wire #81 Nov 1990 p.4 + #82/3 New Year 1991 p.2; The Guardian Dec 13 p.31 + Ron Atkins review Dec 17 Arts p.27]
      These two concerts were among the first at the new Jazz Café in Camden, London. Its opening was delayed twice,
      and Sam Rivers was originally booked to appear on 90.11.26-27 —Kevin White 02.11.13

    1991 : : :


    91.00.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—18:48]

    unknown date, 1991 / Lokeren, Belgium
    1. unknown title [8:48]
    2. Willow—outro w/ intros + solos [9:19]
    Sam Rivers (fl-2, p-1, Comp), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.07}


    • 91.03.08 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb), Steve McCraven (dr) /
      JazzClub Luxembourg, Luxembourg, France [www.jazzclub.lu/historique_concerts90-91_FR.htm]
    • 91.03.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 21:00hr, unknown venue, Amsterdam, Netherlands
      [Event program, RivBea Archive]
    • 91.03.11 - Sam Rivers Trio / Cafe Wilhelmina, Eindhoven, Netherlands
      [Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.23—Concert schedule, no details]
    • 91.03.16 - Sam Rivers Trio / 22:00hr, Klub CD, Ljubljana, Slovenia
      [Event program, RivBea Archive]
    • 91.03.22 and 91.03.23 - Sam Rivers Trio / Cova del Drac, Barcelona, Spain
      [El Pais Mar 22 clipping, The RivBea Archive]
    • 91.03.25 through 91.03.31 - Sam Rivers Trio / Café Central, Madrid, Spain
      [El Pais Mar 22 + ABC Mar 25 + Undated El Independiente clippings, The RivBea Archive]

    91.04.01 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—1:17:40]

    April 1, 1991 / Club La Trompetilla, Zaragoza, Spain

     1. Waves [3:32]
     2. Ripples [6:30]
     3. unknown title [3:26]
     4. el-bass solo [4:52]
     5. Dominant [2:52]
     6. Beatrice [5:19]
     7. drum solo [5:25]
     8. Solace [6:04]
     9. Nightfall [3:17]
    10. [4:32]  (incomplete, fades out)
    11. unknown title [4:00]
    12. outro w/ intros + solos [6:38]
    13. encore [7:05]
    13. second encore [5:46]
    "Dark sound. Barely audible. This is a really only for fans and completists. ...a very old cassette tape recorder with an awful built-in microphone,
    placed into a bag laid on the floor among the audience. You can hear the engine clearly. Incomplete, cut... one of my worst recordings ever."
    —P. Fonz-Garcés

    Sam Rivers (ts-5,6,8,9,13, ss-1,2,3,11 fl-10,12,13, voc-11,13, Comp), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb, voc-11), Steve McCraven (dr, voc-11)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.05}


    • 91.04.03 + 04.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb), Steve McCraven (dr) /
      Sunset Jazz Club, Paris, France [JAZZMAGAZINE (France) No.403, Apr 91, Concert schedule S.8]

    91.04.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    April 5, 1991 / Le Sunset, Paris, France
    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (fl, p), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #48}


    • 91.04.06 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb), Steve McCraven (dr) /
      Club Marie-Guedon, Paris, France [ibid]
    • 91.04.10 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Jazzhaus, Freiburg, Germany [Jazzpodium Apr 91, Concert schedule S.52]

    91.04.12 and 91.04.13 • Sam Rivers Quartet [BR—45:16]

    April 12 or 13, 1991, 8:30pm / "Martini Monday," Jazz Café, London, England
    —"Broadcast on Jazz FM."

     Program leads with two tracks from Lazuli: "Dominant" and "Coral".
     Broadcast announcement [0:29]
    1. Impulse [3:47]
    2. Solace [5:42]
    3. Glimpse [6:03]
    4. unknown title [7:28]
     Broadcast announcement [0:16]
    5. medley, unknown titles [14:32]
    6. encore—outro w/ intros + solos [5:40]
     Broadcast announcement [0:26 ]
    "It was taped on a cheap portable thing, and the sound is therefore fairly distorted—there will doubtless be better versions around somewhere.
    Rivers played two nights at the Jazz Café... so it's one of [the dates above], but I can't be more specific." —Peter Hulsen

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3, fl+voc-6, p-4,5, Comp), Darryl Thompson (g), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.06; Peter Hulsen 02.06.00; session dates from WIRE #86 Apr 91 p.8; The Guardian Apr 11 p.28}


    • 91.04.19 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, fl, p), Rael-Wesley Grant (b), Steve McCraven (dr) / 5th International Jazz Festival (91.04.19-20),
      Stadthalle, St. Ingbert, Germany [Jazzpodium Apr 91 Festival schedule S.43]

    91.04.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    April 20, 1991 / unknown venue, Ulm, Germany
    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (fl, p), Rael-Wesley Grant (six-string elb), Steve McCraven (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #124}


      Spring, 1991...

      "We moved from New York because I was getting tired of the cold, and nothing else." Rivers relates over the phone in late '99. "We came
      to Orlando for a vacation, and discovered a talented pool of musicians who work at the theme parks and studios, can't leave because the
      money is so good, and have no new music to play. To me it's a lesson not to get trapped by a financial situation; it takes away your freedom.
      I posted a sign that said, ‘Sam Rivers is forming an orchestra; be at the union at such-and-such time.’ Everyone was there before I arrived."
      [Sam Rivers Interviewed by Ted Panken, Downbeat, Apr 2000 pp.33-4]
      ———

      "Rivers [had] visited Orlando while playing with Dizzy Gillespie's band... He had just returned to New York from a tour in Germany when
      he and his wife, Bea, impetuously decided to come to Orlando. Hanging out at a club here one night, Rivers met the [Central Florida
      Community] Jazz Center's Tom Brodigan. Through Brodigan, Rivers hooked into the local network of jazz musicians."
      [Perry Gettelman "Rivers Has Big Plans for His New Big Band" The Orlando Sentinel Calendar Nov 22 p.12]
      ———

      "Danny Jordan was one of them. He says having Rivers in Orlando transformed the area's music scene. ‘It was either Dixieland, or bebop,
      or fusion,’ Jordan says. ‘And each club would sort of purport itself to play either one of those styles of music. And Sam came to town
      and broke everyone's conception of what was acceptable and commercially viable in town.’"
      [Mark Simpson "At 85, Sam Rivers Creates A Scene In Orlando" NPR's Weekend Edition, September 20, 2009]
      ———


    • 91.06.08 - Nathen Page Quartet with Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Page (g), John Rangel (p),
      probably Mike Bochichio (b), possibly Tracy Alexander (dr, though he does not recall) / 9:30pm, Beacham's Blue Note, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Jun 7 p.93; John Rangel and Tracy Alexander 18.05.02]
      —"Those were the main guys I played with for straight-ahead gigs. You might wanna check with Tracy Alexander because we started
       playing with Sam for about a year off and on until I left Orlando in the spring of 93. We had a regular Jazz trio in Cocoa Beach
       and got Sam to play with us A few times. It was a long time ago." —John Rangel


    91.07.15 / IMG letter from Central Florida Community Jazz Center


    91.07.26 • Sam Rivers & Michael Leasure Duo [RBA—54:37]

    July 26, 1991 / Michael Leasure's Studio, Winter Springs, FL

    1. 2nd View of an Ocean [54:37]  (split track at 51:32)
     (ts section (23:34)—fl section (17:58)—ts section (13:04)
    Soundboard, low generation, silence from tape flip at 51:32. Tape labeled with date and "A View of an Ocean."
    Recorded in Dolby C (no dolby during transfer). One long track. —Jason Hook 07.12.06

     "In the summer of 1991 I began a series of sketches/compositions/recordings that featured great soloists living in the Orlando area. My contract
     with Calico Productions and my relationship with Dr George Butler (Columbia Jazz) ended in August of that year and so all future plans to continue
     this project were scrapped. Views Of An Ocean was the orignal title for an eventual CD release, maybe even a box set.

     Sam and Bea had just moved to Orlando... Sam had been over to my studio for a session and I had mentioned to him that I had some ideas for a work.
     He agreed to get together, and so I began sketching the background guitar synth part that would become ‘2nd View Of An Ocean.’

    3 Views Of An Ocean got recorded that summer:
     One for Myself — 1st View
     One with Sam — 2nd View
     One with Mark Pisczcek — 3rd View

     These titles are chronologically correct. All 'live' 1st takes—No rehearsals...

     I challenged my own creativity to it's limit to come up with a setting for Sam that he had never been in before. I knew Sam would be
     his usual brilliant self—He floated effortlessly, staying with the singular ocean concept for 50+ minutes. Amazing!!! Most musicians
     drown within minutes—Ha!

     There were no performances... Neither one of us had a record deal at the time and there was no real demand for the avant garde. It's all hard work..."
     —Michael Leasure 08.10.27

    Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Michael Leasure (guitar-synth)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #24, CS #89 + 92; www.michaelleasure.com; Michael Leasure 08.10.27}


    • 91.08.17 - Sam Rivers: (unknown personnel) / 9:30pm, Dino's, Cocoa Beach, FL [Florida Today Aug 16 p.75]

    • 91.08.22 / Sam Rivers and Jazz Now!: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), unknown others (see personnel for 91.11.23) /
      Rehearsal, 9:00pm, American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL
      [Central Florida Community Jazz Center invitaional letter to Orlando area musicians dated July 15, 1991, The RivBea Archive]
      —First meeting and rehearsal for the new Rivers big band.

    • 91.09.01 - Tribute to Jack Simpson: Sam Rivers (ts), Longineu Parsons (tp), Scott Whitfield (tb), Ira Sullivan, Jacqueline Jones,
      Terry Goss, Per Danielson, many others... / "Informal Jam Session," 6:00pm, Dino's, Cocoa Beach, FL [Florida Today Aug 30 p.55]

    91.09.03 • Sam Rivers [RBA]

    September 3, 1991 / unknown venue, Orlando, FL
    1... unknown [ : ]
    —"Set 1." No indication of whether this was the trio or the big band.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #158}


    • 91.09.21 - Evelyn McGee Stone and Jesse Stone with Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), J Stone (p), EM Stone (voc), others? /
      8:00pm, Bailey's, Winter Park, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Sep 20 p.84]
      —Jesse Stone penned such classics as "Shake, Rattle and Roll" and "Good Golly Miss Molly" —Los Angeles Times Apr 3 1999 Obit.
    • 91.10.15 - Rick Drexler Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Drexler (p), Eric Hochberg (b), Paul Wertico (dr) /
      "A Tribute to Miles Davis," 8:00pm, Westbrook Auditorium, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL
      [Program, The RivBea Archive; Bloomington Pantagraph Oct 12 p.B6]


    • "ROOTS is the brainchild of jazz writer Mike Hennessey... an all-star jazz repertory group assembled to pay tribute
      to some of the great jazz saxophonists. The band... made its debut [in] October at the Leverkusen Jazz Festival." (See 91.10.19)
      [CODA #244 Jul '92 p.13]

    91.10.18 • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone

    1992: IN+OUT Records IOR 7016-2 (CD) Ger
        —1st Session [See also 91.10.19]
    • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone, Volume 1
      1992: IOR 7016-1 (LP) Ger
          —1st Session [See also 91.10.19]

    October 18, 1991 / Dierks Studio, Pulheim, Germany

    1. The Panther (Dexter Gordon) [8:44]
    Sam Rivers (ts), Nathan Davis and Chico Freeman (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as),
    Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {IOR 7016-2; IOR 7016-1}


    91.10.19 (1) • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone

    1992: IN+OUT Records IOR 7016-2 (CD) Ger
        —2nd Session [See also 91.10.18]
    • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone, Volume 1
      1992: IOR 7016-1 (LP) Ger
          —2nd Session [See also 91.10.18]
    • Roots: Salutes the Saxophone, Volume 2
      1992: IOR 7016-3 (LP) Ger
    • (V/A) Jazz Unlimited
      1992: IOR 7017-2 (CD) Ger
    • Roots [SBR—72.12]

    October 19, 1991, Afternoon / Live at the Forum, Leverkusen, Germany

    Soundboard Recording:
    1. Cottontail (Duke Ellington) [7:09]
    2. Parker's Mood (Charlie Parker) [8:44]
    3. Impressions (John Coltrane) [10:03]
    4. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul) [7:37]
    5. composition [7:28]
    6. Body And Soul (Johnny Green) [5:22]
    7. St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) [10:11]
    8. Red Top (Ben Kynard) [8:21]
    9. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [4:40]
    Soundboard Recording is complete.
    Salutes the Saxophone CD release IOR 7016-2 omits track 5.
    Volume 1 has tracks 1, 3, 7, and 9.
    Volume 2 has tracks 2, 4, 6, and 8.
    Jazz Unlimited has track 9.
    okay


    okay

    Sam Rivers (ts), Nathan Davis and Chico Freeman (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {IOR 7016-1; IOR 7016-2; IOR 7016-3; archive.org/details/cd_jazz-unlimited_various-artists-bob-malach-buster-williams;
    Soundboard CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.06}


    91.10.19 (2) • Roots [BR—87:22]

    —NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) Radio/TV Broadcast

    October 19, 1991, Evening / Fabrik, Hamburg, Germany

    1. St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) [17:26]
    2. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul) [9:20]
    3. The Panther (Dexter Gordon) [10:45]  (incomplete, fades out)
    4. Cotton Tail (Ellington) [12:36]
    5. Red Top (Ben Kynard) [8:39]
    6. Impressions (John Coltrane) [10:36]
    7. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [8:33]
    8. Parker's Mood (Charie Parker) [10:16]  (incomplete, faeds out under Broadcast announcement)
    —Also circulating in a shorter version which at 66:20 omits tracks 3 and 8, somehow; and in a still
     shorter version at 53:16 which has tracks 4 through 8 and is mistakenly dated 91.10.20.

    "This session took place late in the evening of October 19th [circulating dated "20.10.1991"] while the Leverkusen recordings
    of the same day were made in the afternoon." —Dietrich Heinz Kraner

    Arthur Blythe (as), Chico Freeman (ts), Sam Rivers (ts), Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {CDr at 53:16 (trks 4-8), track detailing RL 19.01.07; Dietrich Heinz Kraner 02.07.14; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31}


    91.11.23 • Sam Rivers and Jazz Now! [RBA—95:41]

    November 23, 1991 / Full Sail Sessions, Winter Park, FL
    —"Jazz on the Beach" WUCF-FM Orlando
    —Sam Rivers Interview [ : ]  —Live on WUCF, earlier in the day.
    RivBea Archive / Cassette #31
    [11] compositions: #290; 315; 291; 316; 292; 317; 293; 318; 294; 319; 295 [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #31 has track titles as above, no detailing.
    —There are two RBA CDr (#291 and one unnumbered) that might have a small slip of paper with this date (in pencil) which may have been
     snuck into the jewel case by an alien life-form, or something. This disc actually has mastered tracks from Aura (99.09.01 + 09.02).

    —This is the first known workshopping of these two Suites of compositions (#290-95 and #315-320) later to appear on Aurora (99.09.01+02).

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Danny Jordan, Tom Brodigan, Rex Wertz, Bill Hoshal, and Brian Snapp (reeds),
    Dave Trigg, Frank Greene, Larry Williams, and Willie Thomas (tp), John Allred, Jan Pattishal, Jerry Edwards, and Brian Brink (tb),
    Martin Sensiper (g), Jason Buchelheim (b), Carl Rendek (vib), Carlos Fernandez (perc), Fitzroy Harris (dr)

    —From print-sourced lineup for 91.11.24.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #31; SR Interview Cassette, Matt Gorney Archive}


    • 91.11.24 - Sam Rivers and Jazz Now!: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Danny Jordan, Tom Brodigan, Rex Wertz, Bill Hoshal, and Brian Snapp (reeds),
      Dave Trigg, Frank Greene, Larry Williams, and Willie Thomas (tp), John Allred, Jan Pattishal, Jerry Edwards, and Brian Brink (tb),
      Martin Sensiper (g), Jason Buchelheim (b), Carl Rendek (vib), Carlos Fernandez (perc), Fitzroy Harris (dr) /
      8:30pm, Beacham's Jazz & Blues Club, Orlando, FL
      [Undated article from an unidentified source by "John A" The RivBea Archive;
      The Orlando Sentinel Nov 1 p.112 + Perry Gettelman "Rivers Has Big Plans for His New Big Band" Calendar Nov 22-28 p.12]
    • —This was the debut performance of Sam Rivers' Orlando big band.

    okay


    91.12.04 • Sam Rivers [RBA]

    December 4, 1991 / Jazz Café, unknown locale
    1... unknown [ : ]
    —No indication of which ensemble this was.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #114}


    1992 : : :


    92.01.12 + 01.13 • Jazz Composers Alliance Orchestra with Julius Hemphill and Sam Rivers: Flux

    1992: Northeastern Records/Popular Arts NR 5010-CD (CD)

    January 12 & 13, 1992 / Newbury Sound, Boston, MA

    1. Flux (Rivers) [8:22]
    2. Out Looking for Onions, Potatoes and Bread (Johnson) [11:24]
    Samthology has track 1.
    —RBA Cassette #128 may be a straight copy of commercial release;
     #171 has "Flux (with and without solos)."

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, ss-1, fl-1), The JCA Orchestra:
    Rob Scheps (ts, ss), Jay Branford and Douglas Yates (as, cl), Kathy Halvorson (bar, ob),
    Susan Calkins (fl), John Carlson, Mike Peipman, and Walter Platt (tp),
    David Harris and Bob Pilkington (tb), Marshall Sealy (frh), Jim O'Dell (tu),
    John Medeski (p, synth), John Dirac (g), Howard Britz (b), Diana Herold (vb),
    Jerry Leake (perc), Grisha Alexiev (dr)
    Additional Musicians:
    Joel Springer (ts-1), Bob Levy (tp-1), Russell Jewell (tb-1), Duane Johnson (synth-2)

    {NR 5010-CD; Samthology; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #128 + 171}

    okay

    • 92.01.31 and 92.02.01 - Nat Adderley (tp), with guests Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Nathen Page (g), and "younger Central Florida musicians" /
      9:30pm, Beacheam's Jazz and Blues Club (aka "The Blue Note Restaurant"), Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Jan 31 p.80 + Feb 1 p.8]

    92.03.24 • Roots: Salute to the Saxophone

    1992: VideoArts VAJ ROO-020LD (LsrDisk, NTSC);
        VALJ-3326 (LsrDisk, w/ Obi) Jpn; VAVJ-326 (VID) Jpn;
    1993: Home Vision Laserdiscs (LsrDisc);
    1999: Image Entertainment ID5730ERDVD (DVD, snapcase);
    2008: VA/Warner Bros. 2564614642 (DVD, Rgn4) Austrl
    • (V/A) Roots: Salute to the Saxophone—The Gadd Gang: Digital Live
      2004: Eagle Rock Entertainment (DVD)
          —Double Time Jazz Collection Volume 5

    March 24, 1992 / Live at Brew House Theatre, Taunton, London, England

    1. Never, Always (Freeman) [8:05]
    2. Parker's Mood (Charlie Parker) [10:00]
    3. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [5:21]
    4. After Dark (Von Freeman) [8:55]
    5. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul) [6:10]
    6. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [9:27]
    —Nathan Davis also credited on alto sax, but only plays tenor and soprano.

    "Roots returned to Europe in March/April during which a special concert
    in England was videotaped for future release..." —CODA

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,6), Chico Freeman (ts-1,4,6),
    Arthur Blythe (as-1,2,6), Nathan Davis (ts-1,6, ss-5),
    Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {VAJ ROO-020LD; Billboard May 8 93 p.59; CODA #244 July 1992 p.13;
    Date + Japanese issue #s, Tosiyuki Nomoto, Swing Journal Sep 92; AJ Rogers}

    okay

    • 92.03.25 - Roots: Sam Rivers and Chico Freeman (ts), Arthur Blythe (as), Nathan Davis (as,ss), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr) / 21:30hr, New Morning, Paris
      [Jazzpodium 3/92, Concert schedule S.68; Jazz Magazine May 1992]

    92.03.26 • Roots [BVR—40:45]

    March 26, 1992 / Burghausen, Germany
    —Bayerischer Rundfunk/Fernsehen, Bavarian Radio & Television

    1. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [18:04]
    2. Misty (Errol Garner) [5:35]
    3. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul) [4:15]
    4. My One and Only Love (Mellin/Wood) [4:05]
    5. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [4:25]
    6. Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein/Romberg) [4:20]
    Sam Rivers and Chico Freeman (ts), Arthur Blythe (as), Nathan Davis (as,ss), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {Video; venue Dietrich Heinz Kraner}


    • 92.03.29 - Roots: Sam Rivers and Chico Freeman (ts), Arthur Blythe (as), Nathan Davis (as,ss), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr) / Vienna, Austria [Jazzpodium 3/92, Concert schedule S.68]

    92.04.01 • Don Pullen Septet: In Germany 1992

    unknown: JazzTime Records JazzTime-092 (2CDr, Unofficial Release)
    • Roots [BR—134:11]

    April 1, 1992 / Jazzclub Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
    —SWF Jazzfestival Radio Broadcast

    Don Pullen Septet: In Germany 1992:
    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [21:24]
    2. Never, Always (Freeman) [15:44]
    3. Jana's Delight (Pullen) [11:52]
    4. Mr. P.C. (Coltrane) [18:52]
    5. Cotton Tail (Duke Ellington) [17:45]
    6. Over The Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) [7:09]
    7. Solace (Rivers) [6:33]
    8. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [26:39]
    9. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein/Romberg) [7:37]
    —The 2CDr JazzTime bootleg is sadly subtitled "Live at Roots, Karlsruhe..." and noted as a "Stereo Soundboard Recording."
    —Track 9 (Disc 2, track 3) is sadly mistitled "Solis."
    —Liners have a bogus eleven-digit ISBN number (only issued in 10 and 13 digit versions).

    Complete Broadcast:
    1. Never, Always (Freeman) [14:44]
    2. Mr. P.C. (Coltrane) [19:21]
    3. Impressions (John Coltrane) [19:50]
    4. Cottontail (Duke Ellington) [17:45]
    5. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [26:25]
    6. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein/Romberg) [7:48]
    7. Over The Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) [6:52]
    8. Jana's Delight (Pullen) [11:20]
    9. Solace (Rivers) [6:34]
    —Broadcast also circulating in a shorter version at 69:15 with tracks 3, 1, 8, and 2 in that order.

    Sam Rivers (ts), Chico Freeman, Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammed (dr)

    {Broadcast CDr at 69:15, track detailing RL 18.12.04 (tracks 3,1,8 only—track 2 damaged digital file); Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31}


    • 92.04.02 - Roots: Sam Rivers (ts), Chico Freeman, Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr) / Gütersloh, Germany [Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.03]
    • 92.04.03 - Roots: as above / 6th Jazz Festival, St. Ingbert, Germany [Jazzpodium 4/92, Concert schedule S.67]

    92.04.04 (1) • Dave Holland Trio + Sam Rivers [BR—37:08]

    April 4, 1992 / SJU Jazz Festival, Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands
    —FM Radio Broadcast.

     Broadcast announcement [0:54]
    1. The Winding Way [22:53]
    2. Dream of the Elders [12:10]
     Broadcast announcement [0:36]
    —A longer version is circulating with five alternate tracks: Rhythm-a-Ning (Monk) [9:02]; Over the Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) [6:58];
     Requiem for a Rabbit (Freeman) [9:41]; You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/Paul) [7:54]; and Mr. P.C. (Coltrane) [5:26] (fades out.)

    Sam Rivers (fl), Kevin Eubanks (acg), Dave Holland (b, Comp), Marvin Smith (perc-1)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.07; www.donpullen.de/live.htm}


    92.04.04 (2) • Roots [BR—41:03]

    April 4, 1992 / SJU Jazz Festival, Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

     Broadcast announcement [0:39]
    1. Rhythm-a-ning (Monk) [8:50]
    2. Over the Rainbow (Arlen/Harburg) [6:54]
     Broadcast announcement [0:50]
    3. Requiem For A Rabbit (Freeman) [9:22]
    5. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [7:49]
    6. Mr. P.C. (Coltrane) [5:37]  (incomplete, fades-out under Broadcast announcement)
    Nathan Davis, Chico Freeman, and Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.08; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31}


    92.04.05 • Roots [AR—87:26]

    April 5, 1992 / Lindenbrauerei, Unna, Germany

     announcement [1:04]
    1. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise [15:05]
    2. composition [6:52]  (Pullen piano trio)
    3. composition [13:09]
    4. Rhythm-A-Ning [9:41]  (fade-out)
    5. Parker's Mood (Charie Parker) [12:58]
    6. Impressions [20:05]
    7. The Panther (Dexter Gordon) [8:30]
    Nathan Davis, Chico Freeman, and Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31; Jazzpodium 4/92, Concert schedule S.63}


    92.06.07 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

    June 7, 1992 / unknown location
    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —"Set 2."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings DAT #3}


    • 92.06.20 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b),
      Idris Muhammad or Tommy Campbell (dr) / Mellon Jazz Festival, Penn's Landing, Philadelphia, PA
      [CODA #244 July 1992 p.13; WIRE #100 June 1992 p.4]
      "Made its US debut June 20th at Philadelphia's Mellon Festival..."

    92.06.25 • Roots [AR—66:55]

    June 25, 1992 / New York JVC Festival, Town Hall, New York City
    —"Before leaving for a tour of the European Summer festivals."

    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [19:58]
    2. Indigo Gitano (Pullen) [10:30]
    3. My One and Only Love (Wood/Mellin) [6:24]
    4. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul) [7:13]
    5. Misty (Errol Garner [5:58]  (split track at 3:44)
    6. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [5:27]
    7. Cottontail (Duke Ellington) [6:45]
    8. out music [2:30]
    "I was at that concert (front row seats!!!) and have short notes in my log of what they played. Here's what I wrote at the time:
    'Blowing session in the JATP tradition. All in great form, especially Pullen. Opened with Trane's Impressions, with everyone soloing, then a Pullen trio
    piece from the Random Abstracts album, and a ballad set with each horn getting rhythm support: My One and Only Love (Freeman), You Don't Know
    What Love Is (Davis), Misty (Blythe), Body and Soul (Rivers). Closed with Cottontail, with all 4 saxes playing in unison like a strong sax section
    on the opening and closing segments.'" —Bill Hery

    Chico Freeman and Sam Rivers (ts), Nathan Davis (ts, as, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.08; CODA #244 July 1992 p.13; Jazz Magazine No.416 6/1992, Festival schedule pp.41-42;
    WIRE #100 June 1992 p.4; John Pareles "A Revolutionary Medley, From Marches to Chorales," The New York Times Jun 29 '92}


    92.07.01 • Roots [AR—79:57 & BVR]

    July 1, 1992 / Estival Jazz 1992, Lugano, Switzerland

    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [19:12]
    2. Cottontail (Duke Ellington) [8:30]
    3. Indigo Gitano (Pullen) [14:13]
    4. Requiem For A Rabbit (Freeman) [11:49]
    5. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [9:34]
    6. Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein/Romberg) [10:43]
    Chico Freeman and Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Nathan Davis (ts, as, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.08; Video; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31}


    • 92.07.02 - Roots: Chico Freeman and Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Nathan Davis (ts, as, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr) / Innsbruck, Austria [Jazzpodium 7-8/1992, Concert schedule S.78]
    • 92.07.03 - Roots: as above / Neuwied, Germany [ibid]
    • 92.07.04 - Roots / 16th Leipziger Jazztage Oper, Leipzig, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 6/1992, Festival schedule S.33]

    92.07.08 • Roots [BR—124:06]

    July 8, 1992 / Jazzhaus, Freiburg, Germany

    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [25:17]
    2. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [19:19]
    3. The Panther (Dexter Gordon) [10:38]
    4. Bessie's Blues (John Coltrane) [14:54]
    5. Indio Gitano (Don Pullen) [16:57]  (piano trio)
    6. Never, Always—aka Requiem For A Rabbit (Chico Freeman) [9:20]
    7. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [13:40]
    8. The Way You Look Tonight (Fields/Kern) [14:01]
    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31}


    92.07.10 • Roots [BR—50:00]

    July 10, 1992 / Northsea Jazz Festival, Den Haag, Netherlands

    1... compositions [50:00]
    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {Jazzpodium 7-8/1992, Festival schedule S.73}


    • 92.07.11 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr) / Jazz Festival Festungsruine Hohentwiel, Singen, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 7-8/1992, Festival schedule S.64]
    • 92.07.13 (1) - Roots: as above / Katharinenruine, Nürnberg, Germany [Jazzpodium 7/8 1992, Concert schedule S.72]
    • 92.07.13 (2) - Roots / Jazz Studio, Nürnberg, Germany [ibid]
      "Both concerts on one day—I assume Jazz Studio was a night gig, the other maybe an afternoon open air concert." —Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.03
    • 92.07.00 - Roots / Jazz Festival Molde, Idrettens Hus, Molde, Norway [www.moldejazz.no/hoved/historie/list_musikere.php3]
      —Festival duration 92.07.13-18), so 14th or 15th.
    • 92.07.16 - Roots / Festival Kulturarena Jena, Jena, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 7/8 1992, Festival schedule S.65; Stapled calendar-style program Jul-Aug '92, The RivBea Archive]

    92.07.17 • Roots [BR—128:35]

    July 17, 1992 / Quasimodo, Berlin, Germany

    1. Milestones (Miles Davis) [20:54]
    2. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [18:07]
    3. Parker's Mood (Charlie Parker) [10:46]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
    4. composition [11:57]
    5. composition [17:16]
    6. Lover Man (Ramirez/Davis/Sherman) [11:33]
    7. Never, Always (Freeman) [9:36]  (incomplete, cuts out at end)
    8. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [10:58]
    9. encore [11:49]  (incomplete, fades out)
    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.08}


    • 92.07.18 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr) / Festival Münchner Klaviersommer, Bayrischer Hof, München
      [Jazzpodium 7/8 1992, Concert schedule S.49]

    92.07.24 • Roots [AR—101:32]

    July 24, 1992 / Modena, Italy

    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [25:52]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    2. Indigo Gitano (Pullen) [11:14]
    3. Never, Always (Freeman) [12:26]
    4. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [17:32]
    5. Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise [14:54]
    6. encore—Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [10:45]
    "The last night of a very long cencert tour, lasting about a month..." —Chico Freeman

    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Tommy Campbell (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.11}


    92.09.10 • Sam Rivers Interview [RBA—17:21]

    September 10, 1992 / WULF-FM, Orlando, FL

    RivBea Archive / Cassette 223
     Sam Rivers Interview [17:21]
    —RBA Cassette #218 dated "Oct-92."

    "Sam spins some records, makes comments about the tracks and artists. Occasional burst of static. interview portion was extracted from music,
    all recorded commercially, 17 minutes from around three hours of music! Low-gen and interesting." —Jason Hook

    Sam Rivers (speaking)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #218 +223}


    • 92.09.13 - Vicci Rock Benefit Concert: Sam Rivers (ts), Ira Sullivan (reeds, brass), Nathen Page (g), Jacqueline Jones (voc), others... /
      2:00pm, Chris' House of Beef, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 21 p.78]
    • 92.09.18 - Noble "Thin Man" Watts (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Nat Adderley (tp), Monty Alexander (p),
      Evelyn McGee Stone (voc), Jesse Stone (p), Nathen Page (g), Panama Francis (dr) /
      8:00pm, Fine Arts Building, Seminole County Community College, Sanford, FL
      [Billboard Mar 6, 1993 p.55; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 18 p.83; Event Progam, The RivBea Archive]
      "Local names such as Nat Adderley, Sam Rivers, Panama Francis, and Nathen Page perform infrequently in the area,
      although all three (sic) joined up in a bravura program at Seminole County Community College last year."
    • 92.09.20 - "Rich Vellon Group" and Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), unknown others... / 2:00pm, Chris' House of Beef, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 30 p.107]
    • 92.09.27 - Sam Rivers with the Rony Holan Trio: Rivers (ts, p), Dan Gottefried (p), Eli Magen (b), Holan (dr) /
      22:00hr, Recanati Hall, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
      [Poster, The RivBea Archive; Sigmund Katz and Emmett P. Larkin 19.01.11]

    92.11.07 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—51:00 +]

    November 7, 1992 / Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

     1. [no text] [11:00]
     2. "woodwinds" [4:50]
     3. "wife" [5:15]  —possibly "Beatrice" composition.
     4. "solo bass" [4:07]
     5. "ss, DD piano" [6:23]  (Cole on piano)
     6+7. "trio; drum solo" [6:20]
     8. "Sam piano" [4:36]
     9. "crazy + flute" [6:24]
    10. "intros" [ : ]  (time given as starting at "51")
    —Tracks as written in RivBea DAT database.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Charlie Silva (b), Anthony Cole (dr, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings DAT #4; Anthony Cole 19.01.12}


    92.11.00 • Longineu Parsons: Work Song

    1993: Longineu Music LPCD-93 (CD);
    1994: TCB Records TCB 94302 (CD) Swz

    • Longineu Parsons: Spaced—Collected Works 1980-1999
      1999: Ubiquity Records/Luv N' Haight LHLP032 (2-LP); LHCD032 (CD)

    November, 1992 / Mangum Alford Studio, Jacksonville, FL

    1. Work Song (Nat Adderley) [4:13]
    2. Party in Morocco (Parsons) [5:25]
    3. Soyuz Dance (Jack Gregg) [5:30]
    Spaced—Collected Works 1980-1999 has tracks 2 and 3.

    Sam Rivers (ts), Longineu Parsons (tp), Kevin Bales (p), Lawrence Buckner (b), Adewole O'Kulu Mele (perc), Von Barlow (dr)

    {LPCD-93; TCB 94302; LHLP032; LHCD032; session date via L. Parsons; R.L. Rardin; Cadence magazine}


    okay okay


    92.11.24 • Sam Rivers & Jazz Now [RBA—51:00 +]

    November 24, 1992 / Bluenote, Tampa, FL

    [3] compositions: Lilt; Beatrice; Ritual [ : ]
    —Compositions above are the only ones listed on CS #204.
    —RivBea Cassette database mistakenly has venue as Bluenote in Orlando.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #204}


    92.12.14 & 92.12.15 • Roots: Stablemates

    1993: IN+OUT Records IOR 7021-1 (2-LP) Ger;
        IOR 7021-2 (CD) Ger [+ re-release, year unknown];
    1995: IOR CD 7021-2 (CD)

    • (V/A) Jazz on CD No.7—In+Out
      1994: Jazz on CD JAZ/7CD (CD+ Jazz on CD magazine) UK
    • (V/A) In+Out Story
      2006: Musica Jazz MJCD 1180 (CD+ Musica Jazz magazine n.6/2006) It

    December 14 & 15, 1992 / Sound Studios Leyh, Heidelberg, Germany

    1. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [5:21]
    2. Linden Boulevard (Debriano) [9:14]
    3. Requiem for a Rabbit (Chico Freeman) [7:09]
    4. Night Train (Jimmy Forrest) [5:57]
    5. I Remember Eric (N. Davis) [9:36]
    6. Stablemates (Benny Golson) [8:24]
    7. Ah, George, We Hardly Knew Ya (Pullen) [12:11]
    8. Walkin' (Richard Carpenter) [6:33]
    9. The Party's Over (Styne, Green, & Comden) [6:42]
    Jazz on CD No.7 has track 1.
    IN+OUT Story has track 8.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Chico Freeman and Nathan Davis (ts, as, ss),
    Arthur Blythe (as, ss), Don Pullen (p, org-4,9),
    Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)
    + Guests: Helmut Nieberle (g-4), Helmut Kagerer (g-9)

    {IOR 7021-2; IOR 7021-1}

    okay

    1993 : : :


    • 93.01.21 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), unknown (g), Charlie Silva (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / 21:00, New Morning, Paris
      [Jazz Magazine No.422 1/1993 Concert schedule S.51; Charles Silva 18.08.15]
    • 93.01.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Charlie Silva (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      Highlights in Jazz, 20:00hr, Jazz Studio Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
      [Jazz Studio January 1993 schedule, The RivBea Archive; Charles Silva 18.08.15]
    • 93.01.23 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Jazz in der Burg, 20:30hr, Burgthanner Castle, Burgthann, Germany
      [Poster, The RivBea Archive; Charles Silva 18.08.15]
    • 93.01.24 - Sam Rivers Trio / Jazz in Ingolstadt, 20:00hr, Neue Galerie, Ingolstadt, Germany
      [Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Charles Silva 18.08.15]
    • 93.01.29 and 93.01.30 - Sam Rivers Trio / Jazz Café, Camden Town, London, UK
      [Jazz Café January Program, The RivBea Archive; Charles Silva 18.08.15]
    • 93.02.07 - Brevard Community Food Bank Jazz Benefit Show: Ira Sullivan (reeds, brass), Sam Rivers, Rick Fay, and Lenny Hambro (reeds),
      Scott Whitfield (tb), Bubba Kolb (tb, p), Jane Jarvis, Mark McKee, and Don Scatella (p), Nathen Page and Joe Perkins (g), Jacqueline Jones (voc),
      Randy Jennings, Dave Spring, and Chuck Lawson (b), Panama Francis (dr), and Rich Walker's Blues Band /
      7:00pm, Holiday Inn, Cocoa Beach, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Feb 4 Calendar p.B1]
      —As an avid baseball fan, I must point out that Jane Jarvis was the New York Mets' Shea Stadium organist from 1964 through '79,
      and the Milwaukee Barves' County Stadium organist from 1984 through '92. —RL
    • 93.02.12 - Sam Rivers: unknown personnel / Black History Celebration, 9:30am, Robert E. Lee Middle School, Orlando, FL
      [Confirmation letter from James R. Drayton, Black History Committee dated January 15, 1993, The RivBea Archive
    • 93.02.14 - Jazz Club of Sarasota "Members' Concert": Sam Rivers (reeds), Nathen Page (g), William Evans (p), Barry Smith (b) /
      8:00pm, Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, Sarasota, FL [The Tampa Tribune Feb 14 Tamiami p.2]
    • 93.03.16 - Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Charlie Silva (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... /
      Downtown Jazz & Blues Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Mar 12 Calendar p.20]

    • 1993:

      Barry Altschul: Then I formed a band and went out on the road with Uri Caine, Sam Rivers, and Santi Debriano. That was in the '90s.
      I have videotapes of that, all kinds of stuff.
      Harris Eisanstadt: And that band with Sam, Santi, and Uri was?
      BA: 1995. [sic]
      HE: That band toured Europe?
      BA: Europe and America. That's a band that the Village Vanguard... Lorraine (Gordon)... I gave her a tape of the band, that was during
      the time of the young lions... she said "I love the music but I'm not giving you a gig." "Why," I said. "Too old," she said.
      [Destination Out Guest Post: Barry Altschul interviewed by Harris Eisanstadt, January 2013]
      ———


    93.04.00 • Barry Altschul Quartet [BR—27:29]

    April, 1993 / Camel Jazz Alive Summit (04.06-08), Sala Palatului, Bucharest, Romania
    —TVR2 Broadcast "Jazz Alive in Concert"
    1. improvisation [13:04]
    2. Beatrice [8:22]
    3. bass solo [3:50]
    3. composition [1:53]  (incomplete, fades out under program credits)
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, fl-3), Uri Caine (p), Santi Debriano (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

    {vimeo.com/35926391; WIRE #117 Nov 1993 p.7;
    Actualitatea Muzicalâ Anul IV 1993 Nr.77 II/Mai clipping, RivBea Archive}


    93.04.09 • Barry Altschul Quartet [RBA—91:17]

    April 9, 1993 / Jazz Club, Draguignan, France

    1st Set:
    1. Fuchsia Swing Song (Rivers) [8:54]
    2. improvisation [5:05]
    3. composition [12:50]  (p solo—quartet)
    4. composition [4:21]
    5. That's Nice (Altschul) [11:34]  (dr solo—quartet)
    6. composition [9:12]
    2nd Set:
    7. Sprung (Rivers) [10:52]
    8. composition [14:12]  (b solo—quartet)
    9. Beatrice (Rivers) [7:51]
    "With Barry Altschul, Dagninon, F," no date, no set list. Maxell hi-bias 90 UDII tape. FM, master or 1st generation.
    Track three has missing space from tape flip. —Jason Hook

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,7,9, ss-5,6, fl-3,4,8), Uri Caine (p), Santi Debriano (b), Barry Altschul (perc)

    {RivBea Archival Recording CS #226; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.01.13; Jazz Hot No.502 7-8/1993 S.23; Jason Hook 07.12.06}


    93.04.10 • Barry Altschul Quartet [RBA—40:52]

    April 10, 1993 / Passage du Nord-Ouest, Paris, France

    1st Set:
    1. Fuchsia Swing Song (Rivers) [8:39]  (segues into...)
    2. Beatrice (Rivers) [10:58]  (split track at 10:20)
    3. composition [13:07]
    4. composition [9:05]
    5. composition (Holland?) [11:44]  (split track at 4:32)
    2nd Set:
    6. composition [7:55]
    7. composition [7:17]
    8. composition [14:11]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3, ss-6,8, fl-7), Uri Caine (p), Santi Debriano (b), Barry Altschul (perc)

    {RivBea Archival Recording CS #89; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.07.29; Jazz Magazine No.425 4/1993 S.62}


    93.04.14 • Scott Whitfield: To Be There

    1997: Amosaya Music AM-2533-CD (CD)

    April 14, 1993 / Van Gelder Recording Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

    1. Twinkletoes [6:29]
    Sam Rivers (ss), Scott Whitfield (tb, Comp),
    Mark McKee (p), Dave Spring (b), Randy Jennings (dr)

    {AM-2533-CD}

    okay

    • 93.04.25 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr) / 12:00pm, Offbeat Concert, Gelterkinden, Switzerland
      [Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
      —The band stayed at Hotel City in Freiburg, Germany, on the road to Köln...

    93.04.26 • Roots [BR & BVR—58:30]

    April 26, 1993, 9:00 & 10:30pm / Club Subway, Köln, Germany
    —"TV rights only for Germany."

     interview by Dieter Hens & Ali Haurand [2:38]
    1. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [11:19]
    2. You Don't Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul) [11:34]
    3. Richard's Tune (Pullen) [14:20]
    4. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [18:10]
    —A shorter broadcast is circulating at 41:00, with track 3 omitted.

    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as, ss), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {Video; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive}


      —April 27th, travel to Linz...

    • 93.04.28 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr) / 8:00pm, Kongreßsaal der Kammer für Arbeiter und Angestellte, Linz, Austria
      [Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.04.30 - Roots: as above / 8:00pm, Union Chapel, London, UK [The Guardian Apr 30 p.32]
      —Not included in the Tour itinerary from RivBea Archive.

    93.05.01 • Roots [AR—76:01]

    May 1, 1993 / Jazz Festival '93, Cardiff, UK

    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [20:09]
    2. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [18:26]
    3. Indio Gitano (Pullen) [10:23]
    4. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [18:23]
    5. Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Hammerstein/Romberg) [8:36]  (incomplete, fades out)
    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31; www.donpullen.de/live.htm}


    • 93.05.03 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr) / 21:00hr, Teatro in Fiera, Messina, Italy [Oversize poster, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.05.04 - Roots: as above / 9:30pm, Nuova Teatro, Catania, Sicily, Italy [Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]

    93.05.00 (1) • Roots [BR—150:37]

    May, 1993 / Grillo Theater, Essen, Germany

      Broadcast announcement [0:57]
     1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [17:10]
     2. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [13:33]
     3. Lover Man (Ramirez/Davis/Sherman) [12:08]
     4. The Way You Look Tonight (Fields/Kern) [12:23]
     5. Linden Boulevard (Debriano) [14:35]
     6. Stablemates (Benny Golson) [8:16]
     7. I Remember Eric (N. Davis) [13:32]
     8. All Or Nothing At All [13:13]  (Pullen piano trio)
     9. Ah George, We Hardly Knew Ya (Pullen) [11:30]
    10. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [20:38]
    11. Straight No Chaser (Monk) [8:44]
    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31}


    93.05.07 • (V/A) Jazz and Blues Art Box Collection, 1983-2002

    2017: Jazz Festival Bern (230-DVD-PAL Ltd. Edition Cabinet, 5,000 copies + Book) Switzerland
        "Live performances and interviews from the International Jazz Festival Bern that aired on Swiss television from 1983 to 2002."
        —The ROOTS performance is on Disc 5 of the 1993 11-disc box and includes a bonus interview track and yearbook.
         Housed in a 4-foot tall modular cabinet, with three drawers, on caster wheels, designed exclusively by Swiss manufacturer, USM.
    • Roots [BR—34:22 & BVR—59:38]

    May 7, 1993 (after midnight, actually morning of the 8th) / 18th International Bern Jazz Festival, Kursaal, Bern, Switzerland
    —DRS/SRG Radio & Video Broadcast

    Jazz and Blues Art Box Collection:
    1. Impressions—for John Coltrane (Coltrane) [ : ]
    2. Never, Always—for Johnny Hodges (Freeman) [ : ]
    3. George, We Hardly Knew You—for George Adams (Bltyhe) [18:01]
    4. Body and Soul—for Coleman Hawkins (Heyman/Sour/Eyton/Green) [5:55]
    5. Steeplechase (Charlie Parker) []
    6. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [11:50]
     Bonus Track: Interview w/ Roots Musicians by Peter Jacques [ : ]
    —No timings given in Art Box liners.
    Broadcast Recordings:
    1. Requiem for a Rabbit (Freeman) [9:43]
    2. George, We Hardly Knew You (Bltyhe) [18:01]
    3. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [5:55]
    4. Rhythm-A-Ning (Monk) [13:36]
    5. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [11:50]
    Broadcast Video has tracks 1-5;
    Broadcast Audio has tracks 3-5 + announcement.

    "The concert was scheduled for the evening of May 7th but started shortly after midnight; therefore it should be placed
    just prior to the Bonn broadcast." —D.H. Kraner

    Sam Rivers and Chico Freeman (ts, ss), Nathan Davis (ts, as, ss), Arthur Blythe (as, ss),
    Don Pullen (p-2,3,4,5), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive; New York Public Library, Sc Visual DVD-1699 (Disc 5); Hans Zurbrügg 20.01.10;
    Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.31; www.thejazzandbluesartbox.com; Dietrich Heinz Kraner 02.07.14; The New York Times Apr 19 2018 p.C3}


    93.05.08 • Roots [BR—47:46]

    May 8, 1993 / Festaal Bürgerhaus, Unterschleißheim, Germany
    —Circulating with locale as "Bonn, Germany."

    1. Ah, George, We Hardly Knew Ya (Pullen) [16:39]
    2. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [5:36]
    3. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [13:42]
    4. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [8:40]  (incomplete, fades out)
    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.14; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive}


    • 93.05.09 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammad (dr) / 9:00pm, Jazz Studio Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 5/1993, Concert schedule S.60; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.05.10 - Roots: as above / The Animal House, Donaueschingen, Germany [ibid]

      —May 11th & 12th were free days, both spent in Stuttgart.

    • 93.05.13 - Roots: as above / International Gartenbausstellung 1993, 8:00 & 10:00pm, Forum im Rosensteinpark, Stuttgart, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 5/1993, Concert schedule S.65; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.05.14 - Roots / Jazzclub Hannover, Hannover, Germany
      [Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.05.15 - Roots / 11th Jazz Festival, 9:15pm, Moritzburghof Halle, Halle, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 5/1993, Concert schedule S.70; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.05.16 - Roots / 8:00pm, Foyer des Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 5/1993, Concert schedule S.64; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
      —The 17th was a "Travel to France" day.
    • 93.05.18 - Roots / 9:00pm, Salle Jacques Brel, Prades-Le-Lez, France
      [Jazz Hot No.500 5/1993, Concert schedule S.81; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.05.19 - Roots / Le Crit du Port, 9:00pm, Cité de la Musiques, Marseille, France [ibid]

    93.05.20 • Roots [AR—114:22]

    May 20, 1993, 9:00pm / New Morning, Paris, France

    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [17:18]
    2. Never, Always (Freeman) [11:45]
    3. George, We Hardly Knew You (Pullen) [15:28]  (incomplete, cuts out)
    4. Cottontail (Duke Ellington) [13:30]
    5. Linden Boulevard (Debriano) [13:06]
    6. I Remember Eric (N. Davis) [8:50]
    7. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [7:23]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    8. composition [10:57]
    9. Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson) [10:48]
    Chico Freeman, Nathan Davis, and Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (el-p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammed (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.14; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive}


    93.05.21 • Roots [AR—46:13]

    May 21, 1993 / Virgin Megastore, Paris, France
    —Charted tour itinerary from The RivBea Archive has this date "T.B.A."

     soundcheck [2:27]
    1. Impressions (John Coltrane) [13:54]
    2. Never, Always (Freeman) [10:48]
    3. drum solo [1:07]
    4. composition [12:36]
    5. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young) [3:09]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Don Pullen (el-p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammed (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.14}


    • 93.05.22 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, Nathan Davis, and Arthur Blythe (reeds), Don Pullen (el-p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammed (dr) / 12th Jazz Sous les Pommiers, 10:30pm, Salle Marcel Helie, Coutances, France
      [Jazz Magazine No.426 5/1993, Festival schedule S.68; Tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]
      —The 23rd was a "Travel to New York" day.
    • 93.05.28 (1) - Sam Rivers & The Olli Ahvenlahti Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ahvenlahti (p), Haka Virtanen (b), Reiska Laine (dr) /
      Jazzkevät '93, 18:00hr, Kaukametsa, Kajaani, Finland
      [Kainuun Sanomat May 30 + Jazz-Kevaan Ilmoitusliite supplement May 25 p.13, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.05.28 (2) - Jam Session: Sam Rivers & The Olli Ahvenlahti Trio, Marian Petrusco Trio, Sara Soisola & Pekka Toivanen Quartet,
      Jukka Perko, unknown others... / Jazzkevät '93, 22:00hr, Kajanus, Kajaani, Finland [ibid]
    • 93.05.29 - Jazzkevät All Stars & Sam Rivers and Jukka Perko / Jazzkevät '93, 22:00hr, Kajanus, Kajaani, Finland [ibid]

    93.06.09 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    June 9, 1993, 6:00pm / Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —This was billed pre-concert as a quartet.

    "Back stateside after a spate of international concert dates..." —The Orlando Sentinel
    "One of my first Sam bookings. Barney... (maybe Beauregard) on electric bass." —Matt Gorney

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Barney Beauregard? (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-100, no detailing; The Orlando Sentinel May 21 p.70; Cadence Vol.19 no.6 Jun p.29; Matt Gorney 19.07.06}


    • 93.08.03 - Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Santi Debriano (b), Altschul (dr) /
      Jazz Festival, La Seyne sur Mer, France
      [Jazz Magazine No.428 7-8/1993 Festival schedule S.69 & No.432 12/1993 Concert review S.8;
      Jazz Hot No.504 10/1993 Festival report S.12]

    93.08.04 • Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers [MGA]

    August 4, 1993 / Coca-Cola Jazz Festival, Bucharest, Romania

    1... compositions [ : ]
    "In autumn at the Coca-Cola Jazz Festival were John McLaughlin, Sam Rivers, and Barry Altschul (I mention the ones I remember)."
    —Lost attribution

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Santi Debriano (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-100, no detailing}


    93.09.27 • James Blood Ulmer Quartet [RBA—61:20]

    September 27, 1993 / Docklands Jazz Festival, Cabot Hall, Isle of Dogs, London, UK

    1. improvisation [13:21]  (incomplete, fades in)
    2. composition [15:12]
    3. composition [5:25]
    4. composition [4:08]  (b+voc & dr+voc duo)
    5. composition [7:21]
    6. composition [11:18]
    7. composition [2:24]  (incomplete, fades out)
    "Probably a low-generation soundboard, as crowd noise is very minimal and much lower dB. On 60 min. Maxell." —Jason Hook

    James Blood Ulmer (g, except trk 4), Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,5,7, ss-2,6, fl-2), Muneer Abdul Fataah (ce, voc-4), Doug Hammond (dr, voc-4)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #63; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.01.17; John Fordham review The Guardian Sep 24 Music p.9;
    London Financial Times Sep 24 p.17; Jason Hook 07.12.06}


    93.10.09 • James Blood Ulmer Quartet [BR—62:02 & BVR—61:46]

    October 9, 1993 / Jazztage 1993, Forum, Leverkusen, Germany

    1. She Ain't So Cold [2:15]  (with Ulmer voiceover introduction of Rivers)
    2. improvisation [22:58]  (ts, ss, and fl sections)
    3. composition [6:05]
    4. composition [10:49]
    5. composition [6:20]
    6. Jazz is the Teacher, Funk is the Preacher [4:57]
    7. Dominant (Rivers) [6:26]  (with Ulmer voiceover introductions)
    James Blood Ulmer (el-g, voc-3,4), Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,4,6,7, ss-2,5, fl-2,3), Kim Clarke (elb), Aubrey Dayle (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.17; Video}


    • 93.10.15 - Roots: Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, Nathan Davis, and Arthur Blythe (reeds), Don Pullen (el-p),
      Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammed (dr) / 20th Festival Jazz Pulsations, Nancy, France [Jazz Magazine No.430 10/1993, Festival schedule S.33]
    • 93.10.20 - Roots: as above / Jazz Festival, Tourcoing, France [Jazz Magazine No.430 10/1993, Festival schedule S.48]


    • 93.10.28 (Rivers had left for Australia) - Roots: Chico Freeman (ts, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), Nathan Davis (ss), Keith Anderson (reeds),
      Don Pullen (p), Santi Debriano (b), Idris Muhammed (dr) / Rouen Jazz Action, Saint Etienne du Rouvray, Rouen, Normandie, France
      [Rouen Jazz Action Archive, www.rouenjazzaction.asso.fr/concert/1993-10-28-roots]
      —Poster at www.rouenjazzaction has Rivers and Tommy Campbell (dr) mistakenly on poster; concert info has Anderson and Muhammad.



      : : : Australian Tour and Wangaratta Jazz Festival : : :

    • 93.10.28 - Mike Nock Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts), Nock (p), Cameron Undy (b), Nick McBride (dr) /
      8:00pm, Sydney's Basement Club, Sydney, Australia [Gail Brennan Sydney Morning Herald Oct 22 p.19]
      "This year's guest, and a competition judge,in the National Jazz Saxophone Competition at the Wangaratta Jazz Festival,
      is the American avant-gardist Sam Rivers." —Sydney Morning Herald Oct 11 p.20
    • 93.10.30 - Mike Nock: "Environments" Suite for Jazz Ensemble and String Quartet: Rivers (ts), Nock (p), Nicko Schoyble (perc),
      + String Quartet: John Rodgers (vn), other three not identified /
      Wangaratta Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Wangaratta Town Hall, Wangaratta, Australia
      [Program booklet, The RivBea Archive; Gail Brennan Sydney Morning Herald Oct 22 p.19 + Nov 2 p.18;
      Darrin Farrant The Age Oct 29 p.9; Cadence Vol.19 no.11 Nov 1993 p.107]
    • 93.10.31 - Mike Nock Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts), Nock (p), Cameron Undy (b), Nick McBride (dr) /
      8:00pm, Wangaratta Town Hall, Wangaratta, Australia
      [The Age Oct 29 p.9; Cadence Vol.19 no.11 Nov p.107]
    • 93.11.01 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Graham Wood (p), Murray Wilkins (b), Frank Gibson Jr. (dr) /
      8:30pm, Higgins Hyde Park Hotel, Perth, Australia
      [Perth Jazz Society October/November Programme, The RivBea Archive]
    • 93.11.04 - Mike Nock Quartet: Sam Rivers (ts), Nock (p), Cameron Undy (b), Nick McBride (dr) /
      8:00pm, Sydney's Basement Club, Sydney, Australia
      [Gail Brennan Sydney Morning Herald Oct 22 p.19]

    • "While in Australia, Sam is keen to communicate some of his ideas about improvisation and composition. He is conducting a number
      of workshops,using some of his original big band arrangements, at several centres including the Sydney Conservatoroium of Music."
      —Undated clipping "After Hours: Jazz Great Touring Oz," The RivBea Archive.


    • 93.11.09 - Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Uri Caine (p), Santi DeBriano (b), Altschul (dr) /
      Yoshi's, Oakland, CA [San Francisco Examiner Oct 24 Datebook p.F18; Yoshi's November schedule, The RivBea Archive]
      —Some earlier announcements have this as the 9th through 15th instead of 14th, which was incorrect.

    93.11.10 • Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers [AR—113:40]

    November 10, 1993 / Yoshi's, Oakland, CA

    1st Set:
    1. Long Tall Sunshine (Altschul) [11:43]
    2. improvisation—Satarumbarengue (Altschul) [10:03—15:12]
    3. Beatrice (Rivers) [9:23]  (preceded by a half-minute false start and mic check)
    4. Sprung (Rivers) [7:39]
    2nd Set:
    5. Fuchsia Swing Song (Rivers) [11:16]
    6. Joy (Rivers) [11:48]
    7. That's Nice (Altschul) [10:27]
    8. For Papa Joe, Klook, and Philly Too (Altschul) [20:34]  (ts section (5:52)—dr solo (1:10)—ss section (13:32) / split track at 7:59)
    —Also circulating with the 1st Set only, and a few minutes of pre-gig banter and noodling.

    "The 1993 date at Yoshi's [was] Barry Altschul's Quartet. Sam was added to [his] pre-existing trio and they did a small tour together."
    —Matt Gorney

    Sam Rivers (ts-3,4,5,7,8, ss-1,8, fl-2,6), Uri Caine (p), Santi DeBriano (b), Barry Altschul (dr, perc)

    {2CDr Audience Recording, track detailing RL 19.01.21; Matt Gorney 02.05.01; Yoshi's November schedule, The RivBea Archive;
    Cadence Vol.19 no.11 Nov p.107; Jesse Hamlin San Francisco Chronicle Nov 11 p.F3}


    • 93.11.11 and 93.11.12 - Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Uri Caine (p), Santi DeBriano (b), Altschul (dr) /
      Yoshi's, Oakland, CA [Cadence Vol.19 no.11 Nov p.107; Jesse Hamlin San Francisco Chronicle Nov 11 p.F3; Yoshi's November schedule, The RivBea Archive]

    93.11.13 • Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers [RBA]

    November 13, 1993 / Yoshi's Nightspot, Oakland, CA

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #198 has "Early Show."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Uri Caine (p), Santi DeBriano (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #198; Yoshi's November schedule, The RivBea Archive}


    • 93.11.14 - Barry Altschul Trio with Sam Rivers: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Uri Caine (p), Santi DeBriano (b), Altschul (dr) /
      Yoshi's, Oakland, CA
      Cadence Vol.19 no.11 Nov p.107; Jesse Hamlin San Francisco Chronicle Nov 11 p.F3; Yoshi's November schedule, The RivBea Archive]

    93.11.00 • Sam Rivers Interview [BR—19:56]

    November, 1993 / Sam & Bea at home in sunny Florida, on the phone with WKCR in New York City
    —WKCR-FM Broadcast during the "Loft Jazz Festival" January 10 through 15, 1994

    1. Interview [19:56]  (incomplete, beginning truncated.)
    —This is circulating dated "11.1994," which is a problem given the broadcast date in January of '94. Interviewers mention the upcoming
     Loft Jazz Festival broadcasts, and Sam and Bea mention current preparations for a visit to New York. This probably happened just prior
     to the trip north to record with Workman and Ulmer. Rivers had not previously been in New York since June of '92. —RL

    "The last 20 minutes of what I believe was an hour-long conversation." —Heinrich Smejkal

    Sam Rivers & Beatrice Rivers

    {CDr}


    93.12.05 + 93.12.06 (1) • Reggie Workman: Summit Conference

    1994: Postcards POST1003 (CD); SSCD-8061 (CD) Jpn;
    1999: Postcards/Arkadia 7-1003-2 (CD);
    2002: J SHP JA-94SHP000302 (CD, Unofficial) Rus

    • (V/A) Arkadia Jazz Presents: Out and Out Jazz
      2001: Arkadia Jazz 70054 (CD)

    December 5 & 6, 1993 / Kampo Audio, New York City

    1. Encounter (John Carter) [7:45]
    2. Estelle's Theme (Workman) [4:05]
    3. Conversation (Sonelius Smith) [10:13]
    4. Meteor (Rivers) [5:34]
    5. Solace (Rivers) [4:19]
    6. Summit Conference (Workman) [8:32]
    7. Breath (Priester) [6:54]
    8. Gone (Hill) [9:21]
    Out and Out Jazz has track 1.

    "Workman's collaboration with Rivers came about suddenly when the bassist was
    approached by [Ralph Simon] from the Postcards label who offered him a recording date.
    Workman seized upon the opportunioty to reunite with Andrew Hill, Julian Priester,
    a relatively young Pheeroan akLaf, and, of course, Rivers."
    —Terrence James The Record

    okay
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,4,5,6, ss-2,7, fl-8), Julian Priester (tb), Andrew Hill (p), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {POST1003; 70054; Terrence James "Essentials for a Collection" The Record Nov 11 1994 Previews p.14}


    93.12.06 (2) + 93.12.07 • Music Revelation Ensemble: In the Name of...

    1994: DIW DIW-885 (CD, 1st issue) Jpn;
        DIW/Columbia CK 67101 (CD);
        DIW/Columbia 480323 2 (CD) Aus

    December 6 & 7, 1993 / Eastside Sound, New York City

    1. In Time [8:10]
    2. Mankind [9:28]
    3. Help [8:37]
    James "Blood" Ulmer (el-g, Comp), Sam Rivers (ts-3, ss-1, fl-2)
    Amin Ali (elb), Cornell W. Rochester (dr)

    {DIW CK 67101}

    okay

    • 93.12.29 - Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / unknown venue, Orlando, FL
      [Gig list note, Doug Mathews Archive]
      —This is the first known gig of the Rivers/Mathews/Cole Orlando Trio.

    1994 : : :


    94.01.00 • Sam Rivers & Mike Welsh [RBA]

    January, 1994 / unknown location

    1... unknown [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Mike Welsh (unknown)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #220}


    • 1994:

      Panken: First I'd like to ask you about the current trio, because you're always about the future and about the next step, and I guess this trio
      is the next step for the foreseeable future. So a few words about how it was formed and the musicians who are playing with you this week.
      Sam Rivers: Well, it was sort of formed organically, because I had no idea that something like this was possible. I moved to Florida around
      six years ago. I had been traveling around with Dizzy Gillespie, so I'd picked out where I'd go if I wanted to leave New York. I had a choice
      of New Mexico, California, Florida, Texas, whatever. So we went down to visit some people in Florida and we liked it, so we moved down
      there. In fact, the reason why we moved is because there musicians down there who work for Disney who are sort of trapped with the good
      money, but they're all good musicians. They can't leave, and they don't have any music to play, fortunately...
      TP: So there you were.
      SR: There I was with all these talented musicians. Most of them are teachers, and there are composers, and like I say they're trapped,
      because you've got a mansion and two cars in the garage... [LAUGHS] It's that kind of situation; you know, the good life.
      TP: A few words about Doug Mathews and Anthony Cole.
      SR: Right, I was getting to that. [LAUGHS] So I came down to Orlando, Florida, and fortunately at the same time Anthony Cole happened
      to move from Detroit—pretty much the same day. He comes from Detroit and I come from New York, and we meet pretty much at a jam
      session probably the second or third day we got into Orlando. Anthony Cole comes by his talents genetically, I suppose, because he's part
      of the Cole dynasty, Nat King Cole and Natalie. He's one of the relatives. And his mother, Linda Cole, is a singer, too, an excellent singer.
      He was sort of like me. He was born a musician, born into a family of musicians. I was born on the road, and he was pretty much the same.
      Our careers parallel. So he accompanies his mother for vocals...
      TP: On piano or drums?
      SR: Piano and drums. Saxophone he's been playing for six years, and he's really up on the saxophone. Well, it's easy. If you have the
      stamina and the will, you can learn an instrument in six years. I mean, a lot of guitar players are out here making thousands of dollars after
      six months! But he's a very talented musician. And Doug Mathews is a native Floridian. There's not too many of those down in Florida
      [LAUGHS], people that got started in Florida. I mean, some native Floridians, either they leave or they move back further into the swamps.
      [Rivers, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM New York City, September 25, 1997, tedpanken.wordpress.com]
      ———


    • 94.01.10 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), other unknown /
      unknown venue, Orlando, FL [Gig list note, Doug Mathews Archive]
    • 94.01.17 - Sam Rivers Quartet: as above / unknown venue, Orlando, FL [Gig list note, Doug Mathews Archive]

    94.01.29 • Sam Rivers and His High Density Orchestra [BR]

    January 29, 1994, 9:00pm / WPRK-FM Studio, Orlando, FL
    —Live Broadcast, WPRK-FM

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {The Orlando Sentinel Jan 29 p.52}


    94.02.02 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    February 2, 1994 / WPRK-FM Studio, Orlando, FL
    —Live Broadcast, "Jazz Comes Alive" WPRK-FM

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-100, no detailing}


    94.03.02 • Sam Rivers and His High Density Orchestra [RBA—79:46]

    March 2, 1994 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1. composition [5:06]
    2. Beatrice [11:20]
    3. Duke [11:25]  ( + several false starts 11:24-12:24; multiple endings 21:42-22:50)
    4. Solace [6:33]
    5. composition [3:06]  (starts and stops, much laughter)
    6. Inspiration [17:39]  (cuts in, starts, stops, chit-chat, general controlled studio mayhem)
    7. composition [9:02]  (several false starts and multiple ending run-throughs)
    8. Indigo [5:08]
    —First instance of "Inspiration," which uses the head to Dizzy Gillespie's "Tanga." Usually introduced as a tribute to Gillespie.

    "Orchestra," no other info. Beatrice, Duke, Inspiration, Magma, Indigo. Soundboard recording, Normal bias TDK.
    Some glitches, ...occasional dropouts. —Jason Hook 07.11.01

    Sam Rivers (ts-2,4, ss-1,3,5,6,7,8, fl, Comp), unknown (reeds), unknown (brass),
    unknown (elp), Doug Mathews (b), unknown (perc), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #66; CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.26}


    94.04.16 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    April 16, 1994 / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —Cassettes covered 3 Sets.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-90 #1 and 2, no detailing; Flyer, Doug Mathews Archive}


    94.05.04 • Sam Rivers and his High Density Orchestra [DMA]

    May 4, 1994 / Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Doug Mathews Archive CDr + VHS, no detailing}


    • 94.05.05 + 05.06 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), other unknown /
      9:30pm, Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel, Apr 22 p.74]
      Sentinel has this as a quartet; first night above (05.04) has Big Band on Mathews' CDr.

    94.05.10 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    May 10, 1994 / unknown venue, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-60, no detailing}


    94.05.14 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    May 14, 1994 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —Venue from 94.08.20 CS #2, which has one "Bonus track" from this date.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-90, no detailing}


    • 94.05.18 - Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others, "18-piece" /
      9:00pm, Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel, May 17 p.3]
    • 94.05.20 and 94.05.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / The Mill, Orlando, FL

    94.05.27 • Sam Rivers Trio [AVR—115:03]

    May 27, 1994 / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL
    1st Set:
     1. Riptide [8:29]  (ss+voc, elb, dr)
     2. Ripples [5:45]  (ss, elb, dr)
     3. drum solo [10:10]
     4. Rapture [7:24]  (ts, elb, dr)
     5. improvisation [7:23]  (ts, elb, dr)
     6. bass solo [3:18]
     7. improvisation [8:55]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
     8. Joy [4:02]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
     9. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:47]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    2nd Set:
    10. improvisation [8:19]  (ts, elb, dr—split track at 0:38)
    11. Beatrice [6:27]  (ts, elb, dr)
    12. improvisation [6:18]  (ts, elb, dr—voc, elb, dr)
    13. improvisation [5:14]  (ss, elb, dr)
    14. Nightfall [4:46]  (ss, elb, dr)
    15. "A Modest Eulogy for the Bean" []  (fl+voc, b, dr)
    16. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:18]  (fl+voc, b, dr—fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —DMA VHS has "3rd Set," "Demo," and also has tracks from RivBea Orchestra on 95.07.01.

    "Sam and the trio were regulars at The Bean at this time. Tragically or hillariously, whatever your mood, the second set is filmed
    in such a way as to cut off Sam's head. However, Anthony on drums is in perfect view. You also get a great version of Beatrice
    from a headless Sam Rivers." —unknown video source
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive VHS; Digital Video files, track detailing RL 19.04.30; Harry Anslinger 14.07.07, poster on Facebook; Flyer, Doug Mathews Archive}


    • 94.06.01 - Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... / 9:00pm, Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel, May 27 p.86]

    94.06.22 • Sam Rivers and his High Density Orchestra [DMA]

    June 22, 1994 / Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Doug Mathews Archive VHS, no detailing}


    94.07.02 • Roots [BR—11:30]

    July 2, 1994, 20:00hr / Eldenaer Jazz Evenings XIV, Monastery Ruins Greifswald Eldena, Eldena, Germany
    —Broadcast NDR
    1. All or Nothing at All [11:30]
    Der Spiegel article mentions another title, "Lester Leaps In."

    Chico Freeman (ts), Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Nathan Davis (as, ss), Arthur Blythe (as), George Cables (p), Buster Williams (b), Winard Harper (dr)
    —Eldenaer archive has Debriano on bass and Idris Muhammad on drums.

    {Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.03; Michael Naura festival review, Der Spiegel Jul 11 p.170;
    www.greifswald.de/de/.galleries/41-kulturamt-img/Eldenaer-Jazz-Evenings}


    • 94.07.00 (Festival duration 07.08-10) - Roots: Arthur Blythe (as), Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (reeds),
      Horace Parlan (p), Wayne Dockery (b), unknown (dr) / Jazz Festival, Wiesen, Austria [Jazzpodium 9/1994, S.33; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.03]
      —"Festival report in Jazzpodium mentioned different personnel in the rhythm section from previous
       years: Horace Parlan (p) Wayne Dockerey (b) drummer not listed." —Heinrich Smejkal


    • 94.07.13 (Rivers not present) - Sam Rivers Big Band: Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others, "19-piece" /
      9:00 & 11:00pm, Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Jul 8 p.82]
      —I'm skeptical about this having taken place in the middle of a European tour (see date above), but I find multiple references
       up to the performance date, and nothing to refute it. Likely that the Orchestra rehearsed without Rivers this night.—RL


    • 94.07.21 - Roots: Arthur Blythe (as), Chico Freeman, Sam Rivers, and Nathan Davis (reeds), Horace Parlan (p),
      Wayne Dockery (b), unknown (dr) / "Merci Adolph Sax," 20:30, New Morning, Paris, France
    • 94.07.23 - Roots: as above / Kulturzelt, Kassel, Germany [Jazzpodium 7/8 1994, Concert schedule S.30]
    • 94.07.26 - Roots / Festival Münchner Klaviersommer, Bayrischer Hof, München, Germany
      [Jazzpodium 7/8 1994, Festival schedule S.101]
    • 94.07.27 - Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others, "19-piece" /
      9:00 & 11:00pm, Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Jul 27 p.54]

    94.08.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    August 20, 1994, 9:00 / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]  (3 Sets)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archival Recordings CS-90 #5 and 6, no detailing; Florida Today Aug 19 Calendar p.64}


    • 94.08.24 - Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... /
      9:00 & 11:00pm, Pinkie Lee's, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 19 Calendar p.34]

    94.09.04 • Sam Rivers and his High Density Orchestra [RBA]

    September 4, 1994 / unknown location
    —This was a Sunday, so probably not a Musicians' Local Hall rehearsal.

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #222}


    94.09.17 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—41:00 + ]

    September 17, 1994 / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL

    RivBea Archive / Cassette #87
    1. Zephyr [12:00]
    2. Beatrice [7:00]
    3. Sojourn [9:00]
    4. Ripples [8:00]
    5. Joy [5:00]
    6. Impromptu [ : ]  
    —MGA Cassettes have 2 Sets; #8 is the only item that names the venue.
    —Track times and titles from MGA Cassettes (none given for last track, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #87 + Matt Gorney Archive CS-90 #7 and 8}


    94.11.11 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    November 11, 1994, 8:30pm / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archival Recordings CS-60, no detailing}


    94.12.00 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—79:00]

    December, 1994 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL
    —Either the 7th, 14th, or 28th.

    1. Duke [9:00]
    2. Beatrice [10:00]
    3. Indigo [5:00]
    4. Inspiration [11:00]
    5. Jubilation [4:00]
    6. Ripples [9:00]
    7. Rejuvenation [10:00]
    8. Reverie [10:00]
    9. Fun [11:00]
    —RBA CS #172 has tracks listed with approximate timings.
    —Also noted: "Cassette 69 rivbea orchestra 1994decemberXX ? ? ‘tapes from rehearsal.’ Extremely well-mixed soundboard.
     Commercial release quality. No other info except partial date on high-bias tape." —This is not in the RivBea database Cassette listing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #172}


    94.12.21
    94.12.22 • Bruce Ditmas: What If

    1995: Postcards POST 1007 (CD)

    December 21 & 22, 1994 / Electric Lady Studios, New York City

    1. What If (Ditmas) [10:21]
    2. 3348 Big Easy (Ditmas)
     a. Deep Blue Sleep [3:18]
     b. Thursday Nite Special [7:18]
     c. Voodoo Street Beat [4:09]
    3. Power Surge (Ditmas/Rivers) [3:46]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,3, ss-2), John Abercrombie (g),
    Paul Bley (p, synth), Dominic Richards (b), Bruce Ditmas (dr)

    {POST 1007}

    okay

    94.12.30 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    November 11, 1994, 8:30pm / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —MGA Cassettes have Sets 1 and 2 on one tape, and Set 3 on a B-Side of 95.01.07.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archival Recordings 2CS-90, no detailing; The Orlando Sentinel Dec 30 p.67}


    1995 : : :


    95.01.07 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    January 7, 1995, 8:30pm / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —MGA Cassettes have Set 1 on an A-Side and part of a B-Side with 94.12.30, and Sets 1 and 2 on a second tape.
    —Also noted as 3 Sets.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archival Recordings 2CS-90, no detailing; The Orlando Sentinel Jan 6 p.77}


    95.02.04 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    February 4, 1995, 8:30pm / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —"3 Sets."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archival Recordings 2CS-90, no detailing}


    95.02.19 through 95.02.22 • Franklin Kiermyer: Kairos

    1996: Evidence ECD 22144-2 (CD)

    February 19-22, 1995 / Bearsville Sound Studios, Bearsville, NY

    1. Basheret (Kiermyer) [4:24]
    "Sam and Bea were there during the days we recorded at Bearsville
    near Woodstock, He recorded six or seven differeent songs, but only
    one made it to this album. Perhaps more will be released in the
    future? He did not play live with us. [Kairos toured this band shortly
    after the recordings sessions.] Many of the other songs on Kairos
    were recorded in Manhattan."—Franklin Kiermyer

    Michael Stuart (ts), Eric Person (as), Sam Rivers (ss),
    John Esposito (p), Drew Gress (b), Franklin Kiermyer (dr)

    {ECD 22144-2; Franklin Kiermyer 19.01.28}

    okay

    95.03.18 • Sam Rivers Quartet w/ DJ-BMF [MGA]

    March 18, 1995, 10:00pm / The GO Lounge, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —MGA Cassettes have Set 1 on an A-Side and part of a B-Side with 94.12.30, and Sets 1 and 2 on a second tape.
    —Also noted as "3 Sets."

    "Jazz man Sam Rivers will team with Orlando acid-jazz mixer DJ BMF for a collaboration of dance-floor jazz and traditional jazz...
    If the Saturday night show goes well, Rivers and DJ BMF might bring their collaboration to downtown Orlando's Barbarella."
    The Orlando Sentinel

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), DJ-BMF aka Greg Lentz (samples, turntables), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archival Recordings 2CS-90, no detailing; handbill, Doug Mathews Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Mar 3 p.76;
    Parry Gettelman "Sam Rivers: Legendary Jazz Explorer Continues Journey" The Orlando Sentinel Mar 17 p.2;
    Orlando Weekly Mar 23-29 p.11}


    okay

    —Photo by Jim Leatherman (with permission)

    95.03.25 • Thilo Wolf Big Band featuring Queen Bey & Sam Rivers [BVR—14:30]

    March 25, 1995 / 26 International Jazzwoche, Wackerhalle, Burghausen, Germany
    —Bayerischer Rundfunk/Fernsehen, Bavarian Radio & Television, "Nachtschwärmer program, 44min

    1. Beatrice (Rivers) [9:35]
    2. One O'clock Jump (Count Basie) [4:34]
    Thilo Wolf (Cond-2), Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-2, Cond-1), Axel Kühn (ts), Felix Sapotnik, Norbert Nagel, Otto Stanilo, and Thomas Faist (as),
    unknown (bar), Claus Reichstaller, Felice Civitareale, Franz Weyerer, and Richard Büchel (tp),
    Gerd Fink, Eberhard Budziat, Erwin Gregg, and Hans-Heiner Bettinger (tb), Queen Bey (voc-2), Doug Bickel (p),
    Andreas Blüml (g), Patrick Scales (b), unknown (perc), Wolfgang Haffner (dr)

    {BVR, track detailing RL 18.12.16; Dietrich Heinz Kraner}


    95.04.05 • Improvisors Pool featuring Sam Rivers & Alexander Von Schlippenbach: Backgrounds for Improvisors

    1996: FMP CD75 (CD) Ger

    April 5, 1995, 20:00hr / Live at the Podewil, Berlin, Germany

    1. If You Say (von Schlippenbach) [7:15]
    2. Terrain (Rivers) [12:16]
    3. Frame (Rivers/Wrase/Nonnenmacher) [3:52]
    4. Top Dogs Double Hop (von Schlippenbach) [8:57]
    5. Background (Rivers) [29:38]
    6. Encounter(Rivers/Dehnhard) [5:43]
    7. The Forge (von Schlippenbach) [10:30]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,5,7, ss-2,3, fl-4,6, voc-4),
    Tilmann Dehnhard (ts-1,2,5, fl-4,6,7),
    Felix Wahnschaffe (as-1,2,4,5,7),
    Tina Wrase (ss-1,2,3,4,5,7),
    Claas Willecke (bar-1,2,4,5,7),
    Axel Dorner (tp-1,2,4,5,7),
    Alexander von Schlippenbach (p-1,2,4,5,7),
    Horst Nonnenmacher (b-1,2,3,4,5,7),
    Johannes Bockholt-Dams (dr-1,2,4,5,7)
    okay

    {FMP CD75; Photocopy of concert promo with "The money in advance is on the way. J.G." from producer Jost Gebers, The RivBea Archive}


    "On the initiative of drummer Johannes Bockholt-Dams, the Improvisors Pool invited Rivers along to a workshop. After a short
    and tough period of rehearsing, they concluded the workshop with a presentation, which was an impressive testimony to Schlippenbach's
    free-jazz oriented orchestral work together with the IMPROVISORS POOL and which was, at the same time, inspired by the spiritual
    power of the unshackled soloist Sam Rivers. —From the liner notes by Peter Thomé

    okay okay


    • 95.04.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Mar 17 p.92]
      "He also has tours with Kiermyer and Workman coming up." —Workman, yes, but Kiermyer confirmed [19.01.29] that Rivers
      only did the February recording session for Kairos (95.02.19-22). —RL

    95.04.22 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    April 22, 1995, 10:35pm / The 1995 Gainesville Jazz/Pop Festival, Florida Theater, Gainesville, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Dan Jordan and Rex Wertz (ts), Chris Charles (as),
    Todd Beals, Don Rogozinski, and Bruce Staelens (tp), Dave Sheffield and Jerry Edwards (tb), Joe Barati (btb),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Chuck Crawley (cga), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Doug Mathews Archival Recordings CDr + Program}


    95.04.27 + 04.28 • Reggie Workman: Cerebral Caverns

    1995: Postcards POST1010 (CD);
    1999: Postcards/Arkadia 7-1010-2 (CD);
    2002: J SHP ZZ-95GP000065 (CD, Unofficial) Rus
    • (V/A) Arkadia Jazz Presents: Out and Out Jazz
      2001: Arkadia Jazz 70054 (CD)

    April 27 & 28, 1995 / Sound on Sound, New York City

    1. Cerebral Caverns [7:14]
    2. Fast Forward [6:40]
    3. Ballad Explorations [8:44]
    4. Half of My Soul (Tristan's Love Theme) [7:01]
    5. Evolution [8:25]
    Out and Out Jazz has track 2.

    Sam Rivers (ts-2,3, ss-5, fl-1,4), Julian Priester (tb-2,3,4),
    Geri Allen (p-4,5), Elizabeth Panzer (harp-1,4),
    Reggie Workman (b, Comp), Tapan Modak (tablas-1 uncredited, 3,4),
    Al Foster (dr-2,4), Gerry Hemingway (dr-1,3,5, eldr-1)

    {POST1010; 70054}

    okay

    • 95.04.28 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr) / The Lazy Bean, Melbourne, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Mar 17 p.92]
      Rivers either cut out after day one (04.27) of the Cerebral Caverns session, or this gig was cancelled. —RL

    95.05.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA; DMA; & AVR—115:00]

    May 6, 1995 / The Lazy Bean Cafe, Melbourne, FL
    —Circulating incorrectly dated as "May 1994."

      Audience Recording:
      1st Set:
     1. Ripples [10:00]
     2. Riptide [14:00]
     3. improvisation [10:00]
     4. Rapture [6:00]
     5. bass solo [4:00]
     6. improvisation [7:00]
     7. Joy [12:00]
      2nd Set:
     8. improvisation [9:00]
     9. Beatrice [13:00]
    10. improvisation [5:00]
    11. composition (inaudible) [8:00]
    12. "A modest eulogy for the Bean." [7:00]
    —Recording info from Jahn Chacona, no detailing.
    —MGA Cassettes have Set 1 on one tape, and Sets 2 and 3 on a second; Set 1 has "Waves of Intensity (Sop-El), Ripples (Sop-El),
     Bass solo (El), Improvisation, Drum Improvisation, Off the Cuff (Fl+Ac)."
    —DMA DAT has "Lazy Bean 6/10/95 #3" and "Sam Rivers Trio 5/6/95 Set 1."

    Sam Rivers (ts-3,4,8,9, ss-1,2,10, fl-6,7,11, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Matt Gorney Archive 2CS-90; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-120; John Chacona 09.07.09}



     The Sapphire Supper Club engagements : : : May 13, 1995 through May 22, 2002


    95.05.13 • Sam Rivers' Dance Science Orchestra with DJ BMF [RBA]

    May 13, 1995, 9:00pm to 1:30am / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —RBA Cassetee #109 has "Set II."
    —DMA VHS has complete personnel listed; pre-gig press had this as a "17-Piece."
    —This date and the June 7th gig in Daytona Beach are the first time Rivers uses "Dance Science Orchestra."
     The ensemble reverts to "His 17-Piece Big Band" (or simply 17-Piece Band) from August to October of '95
     before settling on Dance Science Orchestra from December '95 through February of '97 (with rare variations). —RL

    "The Sapphire Supper Club with RivBea Music Productions and Soul Power Magazine are pleased to announce
    the second collaboration between jazz legend Sam Rivers and DJ BMF... For this occasion, Mr. Rivers debuts his
    17-piece Dance Science Orchestra to challenge DJ BMF's live mixing skills."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Rex Wertz Charlie DeChant, Dave Becker, and Danny Jordan (ts),
    Larry Williams and Todd Beals (tp), Jerry Edwards and Dave Sheffield (tb), DJ BMF aka Greg Lentz (turntables, samples), Doug Mathews (elb), Chuck Crawley (cga), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #109; Doug Mathews Archive VHS + Poster; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 21 p.84;
    Bigfoot and Wildboy/Eighth Dimension Studios at groups.google.com/group/rec.music.funky}


    • 95.06.07 - Sam Rivers' 17-Piece Dance Science Orchestra with DJ BMF: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), DJ BMF aka Greg Lentz (turntables, samples),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... "17-piece" / 9:00pm, The Red Room, Coliseum Dance Club, Daytona Beach, FL
      [Poster, Doug Mathews Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Jun 2 p.85]

    95.06.10 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—62:32]

    June 10, 1995, 9:00pm / The Lazy Bean Cafe, Melbourne, FL

     1. Joy [5:14]
     2. Ripple [5:47]
     3. Otis Jam [4:07]
     4. Rapture [6:01]
     5. Riptide [8:20]
     6. Flute Jam [5:26]
     7. Beatrice [5:16]
     8. improvisation [3:58]
     9. drum solo [7:38 ]
    10. Ode to Bean [8:33]
    —DMA DAT has "6/10/95 #3" and also "5/6/95 Set 1."
    —MGA Cassettes both have a CS-90 "Set 1," and a CS-90 "Set 2 + 3."

    Sam Rivers (ts-3,4,7,8, ss-2,5, fl+voc-1,6,10, voc-9, Comp) Otis Cleveland (as-3), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-120; Matt Gorney Archives 2CS-90; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.30;
    The Orlando Sentinel Jun 2 p.79; Harry Anslinger 19.01.30}


    95.06.18 • Sam Rivers: Portrait

    1997: FMP CD 82 (CD) Ger;
    2015: RivBea Music RB40008 (digital download)

    June 18, 1995 / Workshop Freie Musik, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

    1. Image [8:36]
    2. Silhouette [8:48]
    3. Reflection [6:32]
    4. Mirror [8:25]
    5. Vignette [8:19]
    6. Shadow [8:53]
    7. Visage [5:45]
    8. Profile [9:00]
    9. Cameo [12:14]
    —FMP CD 82 gives dates as "June 17 & 18," but this is the complete
     concert performance recorded on the 18th.
    —RivBea Cassette #29 has "6/17/95 Idle (solo);"
     #211 has "6/18/95 Afternoon + Concert."

    Sam Rivers (ts-3,6,8, ss-2,4,7, fl-5, p-1,9, voc throughout, Comp)

    {FMP CD 82; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #29 and 211}

    okay

    95.06.25 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA; AR—67:41 & AVR]

    June 25, 1995 / Verona Jazz '95, Teatro Romano, Verona, Italy

    Audience Recording:
    1. Waves [7:03]
    2. Ripples [6:54]
    3. "A fantastic improvisation of Mr. Barry Altschul" [4:14]
    4. Beatrice [7:21]
    5. Dominant [4:02]
    6. bass solo [7:00]
    7. piano solo—trio improvisation [6:44—3:03]
    8. brief fl+voc solo [0:56]
    9. Iris—outro w/ intros [16:02]
    "A private videotape exists." —Giovanni Zanoni

    Sam Rivers (ts-4,5, ss-1,2, fl+voc-8,9 p-7, voc-3, Comp), Santi Debriano (b), Barry Altschul (dr),
    + A Woman in the Audience (yelling encouragement in the lacunae)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings Cassette #3 and 93; Il Nuovo Veronese Jun 27 and la Cronaca Jun 27 clippings, Amadeus Sep 1995,
    + Il Mattino Jun 27 + Recordings log, RivBea Archive; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.30; Giovanni Zanoni 02.07.12}


    95.07.01 • Sam Rivers' Freedom Jazz Band [RBA]

    July 1, 1995, 9:30pm / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    [6] compositions: Jubilation; composition; Revelation; Crux; Inspiration; Rejuvenation [ : ]
    2nd Set:
    7. Reverie [ : ]
    —RBA Cassettes #4 and 33 are Set 1; #7 and 71 are Set 2.
    —DMA DAT has "Set 1."
    —DMA Cassette has "Tranquility, Willow, Crux, and Rejuvenation;" Set list has "Set 2, 1) ok, 2) Beatrice, 3) Reverie, 4) Tranquility,
     5) Willow, 6)" [blank], and "Rejuvenation" toward bottom of page.
    —DMA VHS has "Demo," and also has tracks from a Trio gig on 94.05.27; another has "Set 1."
    —This is the only known time that Rivers used "Freedom Jazz Band" in promoting the orchestra.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... "17-piece"

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #4, 7, 33, and 71 + Session Logs;
    Doug Mathews Archive DAT + CS-60 + 2VHS + Partial set list + Sapphire July schedule; Florida Today Jun 30 p.64}


    95.07.08 • Sam Rivers: Concept

    1997: RivBea RB50101 (CD) [+ re-issue 2000];
    2015: RivBea Music RB50101 (digital download)
        —1st Session: [See also 96.02.10; 96.03.18; 96.04.23; 96.05.13; 96.07.12]

    July 8, 1995 / Cafe Bravo, Coliseum, Daytona Beach, FL

    1. Line [14:01]  (ts, b, dr)
    —The CD liner incorrectly puts the time of this track at 10:59.
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassettes (3) have "Set 1 pt. 1," "Set 2 pt 1," and
     "Set 1 pt. 2, Set 2 pt. 2," with 8-track recording instrument assignments.
    —DMA Cassette has "Set 2, no horn 3."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RB50101; Matt Gorney Archival Recordings, CS-60, 2CS-90, + Concept recording session sheet;
    Doug Mathews Archive (3) ½" Mastering Audio CS; CS-60}

    okay

    95.07.14 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA—127:50 & MGA]

    July 14, 1995, 10:00pm / Il Pasticcio, Savannah, GA

      1st Set:
     1. opening funk [10:09]  (ss)
     2. Ripples [6:33]  (ss)
     3. drum solo [6:20]
     4. D funk [4:28]  (ts)
     5. Beatrice [6:07]  (ts)
     6. C7 samba funk [3:23]  (ts)
     7. bass solo [4:01]
     8. E7 funk [4:45]  (fl)
     9. Joy [5:49]  (fl)
    10. A funk (Dor.) [4:33]  (fl)
      2nd Set:
    11. intro [0:37]  (unclear if this is a vamp or spoken intro)
    12. F7 funk [5:30]  (ts)
    13. Solace [4:52]  (ts)
    14. C funk [7:46]  (ts)
    15. improvisation [7:30]  (b solo b, dr ss, b, dr)
    16. Inspiration [12:15]  (ss)
    17. Magic in the Art Gallery [9:48]  (fl)
    18. Iris [4:56]  (fl)
    19. G7 funk [4:30]  (fl)
    —Track times and titles from Session sheet detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-120 + Session sheet; Matt Gorney Archive CS-90; Poster, The RivBea Archive}


    95.07.15 • (V/A) Relaxing the Undertow

    1996: Put It On a Cracker Records PIOAC 005 (CD)

    July 15, 1995, 9:00pm / The Covered Dish, Gainesville FL
    —A Miles-list posting had this as the 14th, but Covered Dish had Rivers on Saturday evenings.

    1. Blessings [5:12]
    —This was a for-charity compilation CD for the North Central Florida Aids Network.

    Sam Rivers (ts-voc), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {PIOAC 005}


    okay okay

     —Cover paintings by Alyne Harris

    95.08.02 • Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [AR—76:50]

    August 2, 1995 / Yoshi's, Oakland, CA

    1st Set:
    1. Conversation Piece (Sonelius Smith) [24:57]
    2. Suite Tristan (Workman) [12:43]
    3. composition (Hill) [8:22]
    4. Joanne (Hill) [13:08]
    5. Breath (Priester) [9:55]
    6. Midnight River Crossing (AkLaff) [4:23]
    —Circulating with titles of tracks 5 and 6 reversed. ["Sotise," inconstantsol.blogspot]

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,5,6, ss-4, fl-2,3), Julian Priester (tb), Andrew Hill (p), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.30; www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Hill/hill-disc.htm}


    95.08.12 • Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [BVR—30:56]

    August 12, 1995 / Jazz Middelheim '95, Antwerp, Belgium
    —TV2 & BRTN Radio 1

     opening credits [0:10]
    1. Encounter (John Carter) [10:52]
    2. piano solo—bass solo [2:21]
    3. Summit Conference (Workman) [10:33]
    4. Gone (Hill) [6:22]
     production end credits [0:36]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1, ss-3, fl+voc-4, voc-3), Julian Priester (tb), Andrew Hill (p), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {Le Soir Aug 16, lesoir.be/archive; de Volkskrant Aug 14; YouTube video NJn8j_20msc, track detailing RL 19.01.30}


    95.08.17 • Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [AR—119:07]

    August 17, 1995 / Yoshi's, Oakland, CA
    —Cadence Vol.21 no.8 Aug p.38 has Reggie Workman's Summit Conference at Yoshi's in Oakland, CA on 95.08.16,
     but display ads have the run from the 17th through the 20th. —RL

      1st Set:
     1. Conversation Piece (Sonelius Smith) [16:10]
     2. composition (Hill) [11:58]
     3. Summit Conference (Workman) [11:35]
     4. Gone (Hill) [8:41]  (split track at 8:27)
     5. composition [5:07]
      2nd Set:
     6. compositions [24:39]  (A medley, probably of Hill compositions. Rivers starts this on tenor and ends on soprano.)
     7. Summit Conference (Workman) [9:03]
     8. Solace (Rivers) [11:36]
     9. Gone (Hill) [11:02]
    10. composition [4:13]
    Sam Rivers (ts-3,5,6,8, ss-1,6,7, fl-2,4,9), Julian Priester (tb), Andrew Hill (p), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.30; Express Aug 18 p.35; www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Hill/hill-disc.htm}


    • 95.08.18 through 95.08.20 - Reggie Workman's Summit Conference: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Julian Priester (tb), Andrew Hill (p),
      Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr) / Yoshi's, Oakland, CA [Cadence Vol.21 no.8 Aug p.38; Express Aug 18 p.35]

    95.05.23 + 05.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    May 23 & 24, 1995 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassette has "Session Tape #9."
    —One of the CS-60 tapes has "Flute-Piano-Bass 8/24/95" on B-Side, with no other track notes.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, b), Anthony Cole (dr, p)

    {Doug Mathews Archive 2CS-60 + ½" Mastering Audio CS-60}


      Introduction to Jazz and Blues Course (Fall)—August 24 through December 7, 1995

      "Performances and presentations by Nat Adderley, Linda Cole, Mark Hodgson, Jesse Stone, Evelyn McGee Stone,
      Noble "Thin Man" Watts, Sam Rivers," others... / 7:00pm, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
      —Thursdays, so possible dates of Aug 24,31/Sep 7,21,28/Oct 5,12,19/Nov 2,16,23,30/Dec 7.
      [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 11 p.85]

    95.08.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    August 26, 1995 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassette has "Avant Workshop #10," "Song #1-5," and includes two tracks from 95.10.22.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-60}


    • 95.09.14 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts) / Sapphire Club, Orlando, FL
      [www.scramblecampbell.com]

    95.09.30 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    September 30, 1995, 9:00pm / Big Potato Academy, Apopka, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette # 116 has "Set 1."

    "Benefit for art school and gallery." —The Orlando Sentinel

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #116; Flyer, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 15 + Sep 16 p.64}


    • 95.10.16 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      10:00pm, Go Lounge, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Oct 6 p.128]

    95.10.22 • Sam Rivers Trio: Offering

    1995: RivBea Sound RB 00 (CS)
        —1st Session: [See also 95.10.26]

    October 22, 1995 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL
    1. Divination [6:21]  (ss, b, dr)
    2. Precepts [18:59]  (ss, bcl, ts—ss, bcl, dr—ss, elb, dr—p, elb, ts+bass drum—p, elb, dr—ts, elb, dr)
    3. Apropos [5:25]  (fl, b, p)
    —RBA CDr #226 is misdated "6.18.2006" for some mysterious reason.
    —CDr #10, 11, and 226 are both marked "Original Mix."
    —CS #214, titled "Sessions," is dated "8/26/95 - 10/22/95."
    —"Precepts" is timed at 19:43 in liner notes.
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassette has "Avant Workshop #10," "Songs #1-2,"
     and includes five tracks from 95.08.26.
    —Doug Mathews Archive also has copious notes on a Demo prepared
     "for Sicily" [95.12.09], that includes tracks from 95.10.26.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp),
    Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl),
    Anthony Cole (dr, ts)
    okay

    {RB 00; RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #10, 11, and 226 + CS #214 + RivBea recordings log;
    Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-60 + Demo notes}


    95.10.26 • Sam Rivers Trio: Offering

    1995: RivBea Sound RB 00 (CS)
        —1st Session: [See also 95.10.22]

    October 26, 1995 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL
    1. Offering [27:31]  (ss, elb, p—b, dr—ts, b, p—)
    —CDr #226 is misdated "6.18.2006;"
     CS #214, titled "Sessions," is dated "8/26/95 - 10/22/95."
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassette has "Avant Workshop #12."
    —Doug Mathews Archive also has copious notes on a Demo prepared
     "for Sicily" [95.12.09], that includes tracks from 95.10.22.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp),
    Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl),
    Anthony Cole (dr, ts)
    okay

    {RB 00; RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #10, 11, and 226 + CS #214 + RivBea recordings log;
    Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-60}


    • 95.10.27 - Sam Rivers Trio + Q-Burns: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts),
      + Q-Burns' Abstract Message (synth, sampler, tape echo) / 9:00pm, The Rubb, Ybor City, Tampa, FL
      [Tampa Tribune Oct 27 p.84; Michael Donaldson 18.09.24]
      "Even employing Q-Burn's Abstract Message to do turntable echo tomfoolery with the trio for a Tampa show..."
      —Acid-Jazz forum, boralv.se/acidjazz//Backup/1996-Mar/0190.html
      "It wasn't exactly acid jazz, but maybe jazz on acid." —Michael Donaldson aka Q-Burn's Abstract Message 18.10.13

      "The gig was somewhat scary at first as there was no rehearsal, no instruction, no direction. I just drove down Interstate 4 for an hour to arrive
      at The Rubb with an echo box, a turntable, and (maybe?) a synthesizer. I remember I was told to just be crazy and not hold back.
      I was apprehensive at getting too wild at first, and I don't even know if my contributions were even noticed. But after a few songs, I started
      to get the feel, and I even remember being invited to start a couple of improvisations with solo weird noises or drum loop samples.
      The best moment, which I'll never forget: The trio is deep in improvisation, and I trigger some noise and run it through the tape echo. The echo
      takes on a life of its own, as tape echoes do sometimes, going ch-ch-ch-CH-CH-CH-CH-CH! like it was possessed by the spirit of King Tubby.
      Sam is in the middle of a sax riff and he suddenly just stops, turns and looks at me. He's motionless, glaring at me. I'm thinking, ‘Oh, no—I've
      screwed this up. I've gone too far. This will be my last song.’
      And then suddenly Sam starts jumping up and down, waving his fist, and shouting ‘YEAH YEAH YEAH!’ while looking right at me.
      One of my favorite personal music moments of all time."
      —Michael Donaldson aka Q-Burn's Abstract Message on the Acid-Jazz forum.

    • 95.10.28 - Sam Rivers "17-Piece elecTERRIFIED Big Band": Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      9:30pm, The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [Flyer, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 13 p.70; Parry Gettelman, The Orlando Sentinel Oct 27]

    95.11.04 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—121:19]

    November 4, 1995 / The Vault, Melbourne, FL

      1st Set:
     1. Waves [9:05]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Laid Back Jack... [4:03]  (ss+voc wiggin', elb, dr)
     3. drum solo [6:13]
     4. improvisation [11:19]  (ts, elb, dr)
     5. Ripples [6:58]  (ts, elb, dr)
     6. bass solo [3:00]
     7. improvisation [5:29]  (fl+voc, elb, p)
     8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:33]  (fl+voc, elb, p)
      2nd Set:
     9. improvisation [12:25]  (p, elb, dr—ts+voc, elb, dr—a few dramatic stops and starts)
    10. Beatrice [5:43]  (ts, elb, dr)
    11. improvisation [11:44]  (elb, dr—ss+voc, elb, dr—split track at 5:46)
    12. Iris [5:58]  (fl, elb, p)
    13. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [8:13]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    14. piano improvisation [1:41]
    15. improvisation [14:59]  (ts+voc, elb, ts, + guest drummer—fl+voc, elb, p, + guest drummer)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts), Mike Farrow?, Sparrow? (dr-trk 15 only)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.02; John Chacona 09.02.02}


    95.12.09 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    December 9, 1995 / Festival Ibleo del Jazz, Sala Falcone-Borsellino, Ragusa, Sicily, Italy

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #84 is dated "1995."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #84; Flyer paste-up, The RivBea Archive; Doug Mathews 19.07.15}


    95.12.23 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    December 23, 1995 / The Vault, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —Announcement at end of 95.11.04 recording: "We'll be back next month, after our trip to Sicily."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-120}



    1996 : : :



      Introduction to Jazz and Blues Course (Spring)—January 4 through April 18, 1996

      "Guests will include Nat Adderly, Linda Cole, Noble Watts, Mark Hodgson, Jack Simpson, Ed Metz Jr, Sam Rivers," others... /
      7:00pm, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
      —Thursdays, so possible dates of Jan 4,18,25/Feb 1,8,15,22,29/Mar 7,14,28/Apr 4.
      [The Orlando Sentinel Nov 24 p.41]


    • 96.01.12 + 01.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      The Rhythmic, London, UK [WIRE #143 January 1996 p.9]

    96.01.19 • Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA]

    January 19, 1996 / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    2nd Set:
    [6] compositions: Jubilee; Beatrice; Bubbles; Reverie; Tranquility; Willow [ : ]
    —DMA DAT has "*Remixes Begin 106:50, Tranquility, Willow."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... "17-Piece"

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #10; Doug Mathews Archive DAT; Matt Gorney Archive CS-60 + RivBea Jan-Mar Calendar;
    The Orlando Sentinel Jan 19 p.100}


    • 96.02.03 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr) / Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL
      [RivBea Jan-Mar Calendar, Doug Mathews Archive; Flyer, Matt Gorney Archive]

    96.02.09 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    February 9, 1996, 9:00pm / The Vault, Melbourne, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA has "The Vault Set 2" and "Vignette's 1,2,3 (Park)" from 96.02.23.
    —RBA Cassette #147 is marked "Vianette's 123" in database.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #147; Doug Mathews Archive DAT; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 2 p.65; RivBea Jan-Mar Calendar, Doug Mathews Archive}


    96.02.10 • Sam Rivers: Concept

    1997: RivBea RB50101 (CD) [+ re-issue 2000];
    2015: RivBea Music RB50101 (digital download)
        —2nd Session: [See also 95.07.08; 96.03.18; 96.04.23; 96.05.13; 96.07.12]
    • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    February 10, 1996, 8:30pm / Caffe da Vinci, Deland, FL

    Concept:
    1. Figure [3:33]  (ts+voc, bcl, ts)
    Matt Gorney Archive / CS
    2. composition [ : ]  (ss, b, dr)
    3. composition [ : ]  (ss, bcl, ts)




    okay
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassette also has a Mathews Trio Demo sans Rivers.
    —MGA Cassette has two alternate tracks with only instrumentation, and also has 4 improv tracks from 96.04.23 (Avant Workshop #18).

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {RB50101; Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-120 + RivBea Jan-Mar Calendar; Matt Gorney Archive CS + Flyer;
    The Orlando Sentinel Feb 2 p.65;}


    96.02.23 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    February 23, 1996 / Park Studios, Altamonte Springs, FL

    [3] compositions: Vignettes 1; Vignettes 2; Vignettes 3 [ : ]
    —DMA DAT also has "The Vault Set 2" from 96.02.09.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT + Full Sail Tape #748 invoice}


    96.03.01 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

    March 1, 1996, 9:30pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts)

    {WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31; Central Florida Future Feb 29 p.F3; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 2 p.65; RivBea Jan-Mar Calendar, Doug Mathews Archive}


    96.03.05 + 03.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA—60:29]

    March 5 & 6, 1996 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha

    1. composition [3:54]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    2. composition [17:09]  (ts, bcl, ts—ss, elb, dr—ts, elb, dr)
    3. composition [6:15]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    4. composition [5:25]  (fl, bcl, ts)
    5. composition [6:10]  (elb, dr)
    6. composition [12:15]  (fl, b—fl, elb)
    7. composition [9:04]  (ts, elb, dr)
    —RBA Cassette #162 is marked "Sessions."
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassette has "Avant Workshop #16;" Recording sheet has untitled tracks w/ instrumentation and timings.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #162; Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-60 + Recording sheet}


    96.03.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    March, 1996 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA Recording sheet has Avant Workshop "#17;" and no track info.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Recording sheet, Doug Mathews Archive}


    • 96.03.16 - Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb),
      Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... / Gainesville Jazz and Pop Festival, 11:00pm, Florida Theatre, Gainesville, FL
      [Bill Dwyer posting www.cmd.uu.se/AcidJazz/Backup/1996-Mar; The Orlando Sentinel Mar 1 p.125; RivBea Jan-Mar Calendar, Doug Mathews Archive]

    96.03.18 • Sam Rivers: Concept

    1997: RivBea RB50101 (CD) [+ re-issue 2000];
    2015: RivBea Music RB50101 (digital download)
        —3rd Session: [See also 95.07.08; 96.02.10; 96.04.23; 96.05.13; 96.07.12]

    March 18, 1996 / Park Studios, Altamonte Springs, FL

    1. Point [7:55]
    —DMA Recording sheets have 16-track settings and no other info.

    Sam Rivers (p, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RB50101; Full Sail Recording session sheets for "Tape #25," Doug Mathews Archive}

    okay

    • Early 1996:

      Ted Panken: In our final hour, as we celebrate Sam Rivers' 74th birthday on WKCR, we'll hear some recent recordings. You've
      recorded prolifically in recent years on other people's recordings and collaborative situations. Let's hear the various recordings
      and cover the circumstances of each. The first track is from the 1996 CD, Configuration, on NATO, a French label, with Sam Rivers on
      reeds; Noël Akchoté, guitars; Tony Hymas on piano (who is a composer on much of this); Paul Rogers, bass; Jacques Thollot on drums.
      Sam Rivers: It's more or less an international album. Tony Hymas is from London. Akchoté is French, and he's also teaching in Switzerland.
      The bass player is also from London. The drummer, Thollot, is French. This fellow [Producer Jean Rochard of NATO Records] decided
      to put this together. But he was mainly interested in doing commemorative kind of music for Cassavetes' movies. This is just a preliminary
      thing that happened during the extra.... This was part of a project the French government is doing. He put the musicians together, I knew
      them all, and he asked me how it was. Everyone on the album is a bandleader, so it's an all-star group, and each one had to contribute
      some music too. So I contributed three or four compositions on it.
      [Interview, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM NYC, September 25 1997, www.jazzhouse.org/library/?read=panken20]
      ———

      "[Jean Rochard] and we wanted first to make an album that would link with original jazz history and with his mentor after he released
      first come back album of Thollot... Originally we had in mind John Gilmore, it took a while to track him down but once we got a link to
      the person told us John just died so Sam came on... Jean also produced that Film with Sam and Tony Hymas by Pascale Ferran (98.12.14).
      [Noël Akchoté 19.02.09]
      ———

      "The experience shared with Sam was a beautiful one. One day I was in my office and was thinking about him. I saw him several times
      in memorable concerts in the seventies (trio with Dave Holland and Barry Altschul, solo and other configurations). I called Gérard Terronès
      who told me how nice he was and gave me his phone number. I called him. Then I called Noël Akchoté who was thrilled by the idea of doing
      something. We did the record with Tony Hymas, Paul Rogers, and Jacques Thollot. For health resasons, Jacques wasn't able to do the whole
      session so the ‘configurations’ had changes.
      [Jean Rochard 19.03.22]
      ———


    96.03.21 to 03.24 • Sam Rivers: Configuration

    1996: Nato 777 711 (CD) Fr;
    1998: Pelican Sound Recordings PSR 9803 (CD);
    2015: RivBea Music RB77711 (digital download)

    March 21 through 24, 1996 / La Buissonne Studio, Pernes Les Fontaines, France

     1. Beatrice (Rivers) [4:44]  (ts, g, p, b)
     2. Cheshire Hotel (Akchoté) [7:49]  (ts, g, p, b, dr)
     3. Etchings (Rivers/Rogers) [5:11]  (fl, b)
     4. Configuration (ensemble) [13:09]  (ts, g, p, b, dr)
     5. Jennifer (Hymas) [5:33]  (ts, p)
     6. Zing (Rivers/Rogers) [4:51]  (ts, b)
     7. Sketches (Rivers/Akchoté) [4:17]  (fl, g)
     8. Rififi (Rogers) [8:38]  (ts, g, p, b, dr)
     9. Gleam (Rivers/Akchoté) [2:41]  (ss, g)
    10. Ripples (Rivers) [5:13]  (ss, g, p)
    11. Moonbeams (Rivers/Hymas) [5:48]  (ts, p)
    12. Nightfall (Rivers) [5:34]  (ts, g, p)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Noël Akchoté (g)
    Tony Hymas (p), Paul Rogers (b), Jacques Thollot (dr)

    {PSR 9803; Nato 777 711; session dates via Jean Rochard}

    okay

    • 96.04.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      8:30pm, Caffe da Vinci, DeLand, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Apr 12 p.101]

    96.04.23 to 04.25 • Sam Rivers: Concept

    1997: RivBea RB50101 (CD) [+ re-issue 2000];
    2015: RivBea Music RB50101 (digital download)
        —4th Session: [See also 95.07.08; 96.02.10; 96.03.18; 96.05.13; 96.07.12]
    • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA & MGA]

    April 23 to 25, 1996 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

      Concept:
     1. View [5:04]  (ts, bcl, ts)
     2. Link [9:40]  (fl, b, ts)
    Concept tracks are both from 96.04.23 according to the CD liners.
      Doug Mathews Archive Audio Mastering Cassettes:
     3. Impulse [ : ]
     4. Sprung [ : ]
     5. Everafter [ : ]
     6. Twilight [ : ]
     7. improvisation [ : ]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     8. improvisation [ : ]  (fl, b, ts)  —Possibly "Link" from the Concept release
     9. improvisation [ : ]  (fl, ddg, ts)
    10. improvisation [ : ]  (ts, b, ts)
    okay
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassettes: Two are undated; one has "Avant Workshop" and "Impulse 1-2 Sprung 1-2 Blank 22:04 (dump trio w/ M. Cafaro);"
     the other has [Avant Workshop] "#18" and "Impulse - Sprung - Everafter - Twilight - Trio Horns - Horns + Bass - Horns + Didj - Horns Bass 2;"
     the third has "Avant Workshop #19" and is dated "4/25" with "4/23-24" crossed out, and "Horn [illegible] - Ten, Dr, Ac Bass."
    —DMA Recording sheet has Avant Workshop "#18" and "#19" [See 96.04.25]. Notes have #18 with tracks 3-10 above;
     #19 has "(Format) Horns NG - tenor - dr - AcBass."
    —MGA Cassette has the 4 tracks of improv with instrumentation, is dated 96.04.23, and includes two alternate tracks from 96.02.10.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl, didgeridoo), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {RB50101; Doug Mathews Archive (3) ½" Mastering Audio CS-60s + Recording sheet; Matt Gorney Archive CS}


    96.04.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    April, 26, 1996 / (probably) Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA Cassette is labeled "4/26/96" on the A-Side; B-Side has "4/26/96 cont. 5/23/96;"
     96.05.23 was an Avant Workshop session without Rivers.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive CS-60}


    • 96.05.02 - Thurman Barker Quintet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), James Emery (g), Barker (dr, perc), unknown others,
      probably Jerome Harris (b) and Rob Schwimmer (p) / 8:00pm, FW Olin Auditorium, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
      [The Journal News May 2 p.61; www.bard.edu]

    96.05.13 • Sam Rivers: Concept

    1997: RivBea RB50101 (CD) [+ re-issue 2000];
    2015: RivBea Music RB50101 (digital download)
        —5th Session: [See also 95.07.08; 96.02.10; 96.03.18; 96.04.23; 96.07.12]
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA—32:35+]

    May 13, 1996 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    Concept:
    1. Sprung [5:05]  (ts, elb, dr)
    2. Concept [5:57]  (ss, elb, dr)
    3. Notion [2:44]  (ss, elb, dr)
    DMA Mastering Audio Cassette #21:
    1. composition [6:36]  (ts, elb, dr)
    2. composition [6:31]  (ts, elb, dr)
    3. composition [5:05]  (ts, elb, dr)  —Possibly "Sprung" from Concept release
    4. composition [5:04]  (ts, elb, dr)  —same as above
    5. composition [6:13]  (ss, elb, dr)  —Possibly "Concept" from Concept
    6. composition [2:57]  (ss, elb, dr)  —Possibly "Notion" from Concept
    7. composition [ : ]  (ss, elb, dr)
    —DMA Recording sheet has track timings (except 7) and instrumentation.
    —RBA Cassette #39 has no info other than date; possibly a straight dub
     of the DMA ½" Master.
    —"Aspect" recorded on 96.07.12, is credited incorrectly on this date in CD liners.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)
    okay

    {RB50101; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #39; Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS + Recording sheet}


    96.05.17 • Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA]

    May 17, 1996 / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —CS #27 is marked "Sam Rivers Set I."

    "There was a (weekly? monthly?) residency for the RivBea Orchestra, a 17-piece, almost all-horn ensemble..."
    —Rivers stated in an interview that the Big Band was booked a half-dozen times or so per year during this period. —RL

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #27; RivBea May-June schedule, Matt Gorney Archive; John Chacona 09.01.24; The Orlando Sentinel May 17 p.86}


    96.05.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA—146:03+]

    May 20, 1996 / "Full Sail Live," unknown venue, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
     1. composition [4:59]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. composition [3:16]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     3. composition [6:59]  (ts+voc, elb, dr)  —drum solo noted.
     4. bass solo [2:23]
     5. composition [1:49]  (ts, b, ts)
      2nd Set:
     6. composition [9:08]  (fl, b, dr)
     7. composition [4:42]  (fl, bcl, ts)
     8. composition [6:20]  (fl, elb, dr)
      3rd + 4th Sets:
     9. composition [7:27]  (ss, elb, dr)
    10. composition [4:24]  (?, bcl, ts)  —"Horn Trio"
    11. composition [8:43]  (dr solo—ts, b, dr—ts, b, ts)
    12. Impulse [13:10]  (ts, elb, dr—fl, elb, dr)
    13. Beatrice [5:42]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    14. composition [4:02]  (ss, b, dr)
    15. improvisation [6:59]  (b solo—fl, b)
    16. mallet drum solo [ : ]
    17. composition [ : ]  (ts, bcl, dr)
    18. composition [ : ]  (ts, elb, dr)
      5th + 6th Sets:
    19. composition [18:57]  (ss, elb, dr—ts, elb, dr)
    20. composition [ : ]  (?, bcl, ts)  —"Horn Trio"
    21. Inspiration [ : ]  (ts, elb, dr)
    22. composition [ : ]  (fl+voc, b, dr)  —Lapse in timings, tracks 20-22 are 21:23 total.
    23. composition [9:40]  (fl, elb, dr)
    —DMA recording sheet implies that there are 6 "Tapes," one set on each; only a few of the tracks were titled.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {Full Sail Recording sheet, Doug Mathews Archive}


    • 96.05.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      8:30pm, The Vault, Melbourne, FL [Florida Today May 21 p.62]

    96.05.29 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—110:30]

    May 29, 1996 / Knitting Factory, New York City

      1st Set:
     1. Spark [8:24]  (ss+voc, elb, dr—incomplete, cuts in)
     2. Flame [5:33]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     3. improvisation [9:53]  (ts+voc, b, p—ts, b, dr)
     4. bass solo [3:14]  (+SR voc during ending)
     5. improvisation [6:19]  (p, b, dr)
     6. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [8:35]  (dr solo—fl+voc, b, dr)
      2nd Set:
     7. Inspiration [9:31]  (ts, elb, dr—incomplete, cuts in)
     8. improvisation [7:20]  (ts, elb, dr)
     9. Beatrice [5:57]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    10. Nightfall [13:13]  (ss+voc, b, p)
    11. Iris [14:43]  (fl+voc, b, dr—p, b, dr—split track, fades out and back in at 6:29)
    12. improvisation [4:28]  (fl+voc, bcl, dr)
    13. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [8:05]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.08; RivBea May-June schedule, Matt Gorney Archive; Peter Watrous The New York Times Jun 1 p.17;
    New York Magazine Jun 3, 1996 p.117}


    96.05.30 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & AR—66:19]

    May 30, 1996 / Knitting Factory, New York City

    Audience Recording:
    1. Spark [9:15]  (ss, elb, dr—incomplete, fades in)
    2. Nightfall [6:13]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. improvisation [12:25]  (ts+voc, b, p)
    4. composition [3:20]  (ts+voc, b, p)
    5. bass solo [3:07]
    6. improvisation [9:32]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr)
    7. Iris [10:40]  (fl+voc, b, dr—fl, b, p)
    8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [10:08]  (fl, b, p—fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —RBA Cassette #225 has "Set #1."
    —DMA DAT-94 has "Set #2."
    —MGA Cassettes have Set 2 with no details given.

    —Audience Recording: "Set 1 only. XL2s, Hi-Bias 90-minute tape. Great sound, audience, probably master or 1st gen,
     a little hot in places, +8dB." —Jason Hook

    The Record (Hackensack, NJ) has Rivers mistakenly listed at the Knit on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 (May 31 Nightlife p.29).
    New York Magazine ("Rivers holds forth in a two-night residency. He plays with the New Thing and Neo Sonic Ensemble
     on 5/29 and with Sadhana on 5/30.") and Watrous in The New York Times refute this.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recording CS #225; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.09; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-94;
    Matt Gorney Archive 2CS-90 + RivBea May-June schedule; Peter Watrous The New York Times Jun 1 p.17;
    New York Magazine Jun 3, 1996 p.117}


    96.06.08 • Sam Rivers Quartet [DMA]

    June 8, 1996 / The Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA DAT has "Sam Rivers Quartet" and "Set 1."
    —RivBea Schedule had this billed as a Trio.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown other

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124; RivBea May-June schedule, Matt Gorney Archive}


    • 96.06.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      9:30pm, The Vault, Melbourne, FL [Florida Today clipping Jun 21, The RivBea Archive; RivBea May-June schedule, Matt Gorney Archive]

    96.07.12 • Sam Rivers: Concept

    1997: RivBea RB50101 (CD) [+ re-issue 2000];
    2015: RivBea Music RB50101 (digital download)
        —6th Session: [See also 95.07.08; 96.02.10; 96.03.18; 96.04.23; 96.05.13]
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA—41:33]

    July 12, 1996 "Day 1" / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    Concept:
    1. Aspect [12:19]  (ss, b, dr)
    Doug Mathews Archive AudioDAT:
    1. Improv 1 [10:49]  (ts, b, dr)
    2. Improv 2 [12:24]  (ss, b, dr)  —Very probably "Aspect" as above
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassettes has "Avant Workshop #22," "Improvs 1+2 (Day 1),"
     and "(Day 2) Impulse 1-7, Sprung 1-5, Impulse 8-9, Free #1, Free #2 (Sprung)."
    —DMA Recording sheet with tracks above also has at bottom
     "DAT-45 ? Impulse, Out, Sprung, (Free #2)."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)
    okay

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #135; Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-60 + CS-60
    + Avant Workshop Recording sheets + Concept recording sessions sheet}


    96.07.13 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA—41:33]

    July 13, 1996, "Day 2" / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1. Impulse [9:38]  (ts, b, dr)  —"Song 8 Take 6"
    2. Improv 3 [5:25]  (ts, b, dr)
    3. Improv 4 [2:46]  (ts, b, dr)
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassette has "Avant Workshop #22," "Improvs 1+2 (Day 1),"
     and "(Day 2) Impulse 1-7, Sprung 1-5, Impulse 8-9, Free #1, Free #2 (Sprung)."
    —DMA Recording sheet also has at bottom "DAT-45 ? Impulse, Out, Sprung, (Free #2)."

    Sam Rivers (ts, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #135; Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-60 + CS-60 + Avant Workshop Recording sheets
    + Concept recording sessions sheet}


    96.07.14 • Sam Rivers Trio with Mike Cafaro [DMA—9:01]

    July 14, 1996 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1. composition [9:01]  (ts, b, dr)
    —DMA Recording sheet has Avant Workshop "#23," "One song only w/ Mike Cafaro," and "Blank after 9:01."

    Sam Rivers (ts, Comp), Mike Cafaro (?), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Avant Workshop Recording sheets, Doug Mathews Archive}


    • 96.07.19 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      9:00pm, Moto Lounge, Jacksonville, FL [Poster, Matt Gorney Archive]
      —This was the first Moto Lounge gig.

    96.07.20 • Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA & AR]

    July 20, 1996, 9:30pm / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
    —"Twice a month... gigs at the Sapphire Club..." —Cadence Vol.23 no.2 Feb 1997, p.4

    1... compositions [ : ]  (unknown except for "Beatrice")
    —RivBea Archive CS #25 has "Set II," #26 has "Set I."
    —Posting on Dimeadozen torrent site of audience recording had only "Beatrice"—"Taken from the digital master...
     In loving memory of Beatrice Rivers, one of the sweetest women you could ever have the pleasure of hugging."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #25 and 26; Doug Mathews Archive CS-90; www.dimeadozen.org 05.06.12}


    96.07.00 ... 08.00 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA—12:54]

    Late July, possibly early to mid-August, 1996 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1. composition [12:54]
    —DMA Recording sheet has Avant Workshop "#24," no date or track info, and "Blank at 12:54."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Avant Workshop Recording sheet, Doug Mathews Archive}


    96.08.22 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA]

    May 17, 1996, 9:30pm / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —MGA Cassette has no info other than the date.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts)

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-90; Sapphire August schedule + RivBea Calendar, Doug Mathews Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Aug 16 p.85}


      Introduction to Jazz and Blues Course (Fall)—August 29 through December 12, 1996

      "Presentations from such artists as Nathen Page, Linda Cole, Panama Francis, Sam Rivers," others... /
      7:00pm, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
      —Thursdays, so possible dates of Aug 29/Sep 5-12-19-26/Oct 3-10-17-24-31/Nov 7-21-28.
      [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 23 p.84]


    • 96.08.31 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl),
      Anthony Cole (dr, ts), Mike Cafaro (dr) / Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL
      [Radio Free Gainesville, 96.08.29, www.alligator.org/edit/issues/96-fall/960829/; Flyer, Matt Gorney Archive; RivBea Calendar, Doug Mathews Archive]
      —An unidentified and undated review clipping fro the Gorney Archive has "3 Sets," describes drummer Cafaroa backing the horn trios,
       and mentions the compositions Ripples and Beatrice. This was billed as a trio date.
    • 96.09.20 - Sam Rivers Trio / 9:00pm, Moto Lounge, Jacksonville, FL
      [RivBea Calendar + Poster, Doug Mathews Archive; The Times-Union Sep 25 p.D3]

    96.09.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & AR]

    September 21, 1996, 9:30pm / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    [6] compositions: Glee (261); Vortex (207); Beatrice (202); Rejuvenation (244); Vines (246); Jubilee (238) [ : ]
    2nd Set:
    [6] compositions: Inspiration (240); Catharsis (217); Reverie (211); Collage (225); Tranquility (245); Revelation (261) [ : ]
    —RivBea Archive CS #52 labeled "Sapphire Supper Club Set I;" #56 has "Tunes from the Happy Book II;" and #167 is simply "Sapphire."
    —The first instance of the Dance Science Orchestra being renamed The RivBea Orchestra (though only for a moment), from the program/set list.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), others... "17-Piece"

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #52, 56, and 167; Program/set list, The RivBea Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 20 p.97}


    • 96.10.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      Fourth Annual Alachua Music Harvest, 7:00pm, Alachua County Fairgrounds, Gainesville, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Sep 20 p.82; RivBea Calendar, Doug Mathews Archive]

    96.10.00 • Sam Rivers & Trudy Morse [BR]

    WPRK-FM Broadcast

    October, 1996 / Live at WPRK, Orlando, FL

    1... improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (fl), Trudy Morse (poetry)

    {www.the-temple.net/trudy/videos-tapes.html}


    96.11.08 • Sam Rivers Trio & SHIM [DMA]

    November 8, 1996, 8:00pm / Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —MGA Mastering Audio Cassette has "Backup" and no info other than the ensemble and date.

    —1st Set, Sam Rivers Trio; 2nd Set, SR3 + SHIM doing "Tranquility" (Rivers) and "Zombie" (Fela); 3rd Set, SHIM.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts),
    + SHIM: David Irwin (cl, bcl), Keith Hedger (tp), David Manson (tb), TJ Glowacki (b), Jim Stewart (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive ½" Mastering Audio CS-64 + Program; Tampa Bay Times Nov 1 Weekend p.18}


    96.11.14 + 11.15 • Julian Priester / Sam Rivers: Hints on Light and Shadow

    1997: Postcards POST1017 (CD)

    November 14 & 15, 1996 / Sound on Sound Recording, New York City

    1. Heads of the People (Martine) [6:51]
    2. Desire (Rivers) [5:55]
    3. Zone (Rivers) [3:41]
    4. The New System (Priester/Rivers) [5:14]
    5. Mister Mayor and Mister Miser (Priester/Rivers) [7:11]
    6. Autumnal Influences: The Book of Beauty (Priester/Rivers) [5:54]
    7. Public Servant (Priester/Rivers) [4:16]
    8. The Circumlocution Office (Priester/Rivers) [4:15]
    9. Chiaroscuro (Priester/Rivers) [5:07]
    —RivBea Archive CS #113 has "12/18/96 New Mixes."
    —CS #157 has "11/27? Final Mixes / Postcards, Inc."
    —CS #90 is "Post Cards #2;" #91 "Post Cards #3;" and #111 "Postcards #4."
    —CS #90, 91, and 111 are all dated 11/15/96 and may be commercial release copies rather
     than studio work discs.

    "My desire to record Sam and Julian in duet emerged from listening to them duet, de facto,
    as they rehearsed melodies and routines while they were front-line players on Reggie Workman's
    Postcards CDs, Summit Conference and Cerebral Caverns. Over those four days, their blend
    coalesced in my ear almost as if it were a photo emerging from shadow into light."
    —Producer Ralph Simon

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,5,7,8, ss-6, fl-9, p-2,4, voc-9), Julian Priester (tb), Tucker Martine (elec)

    {POST1017; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #90, 91, 111, 113, and 157}

    okay

    96.11.21 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    November 21, 1996 / Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —MGA Cassette has "Set 1+2."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts)

    {Doug Mathews Archive Mastering Audio CS-94; Nov-Dec RivBea Calendar, Matt Gorney Archive}


    96.11.22 • Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA—64:37 +]

    November 22, 1996, 9:30pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    [6] compositions: Flair; Vines; Solace; Revelation; Vortex; Rejuvenation [ : ]
    2nd Set:
    [6] compositions: Inspiration; Beatrice; Crux; Spunk; Tranquility; Bubbles [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #74, 75, and 156 are all "Set I."
     CS # 160 has "Anthony's Intro" preceding Inspiration, and is marked "Set II."
    —Audience Recording [64:37] is 2nd Set only.

    "Very nice sound, excellent low-gen audience tape." —Jason Hook [on CS #160]

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #74, 75, 156, and 160 (Gorney copies are CS-90s); The Orlando Sentinel Oct 25 Calendar p.4}


    96.12.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    December 6, 1996, 7:00pm / Phat Cat Supper Club, Melbourne, FL
    Florida Today had this as the 5th.

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA DAT-64 has "1+2;" Gorney has DAT-94 copies with a set on each.
    —DMA Cassette has Set 1 on Side A and "Set 1 (cont)" on B, and "Set 2 (pt. 1)" on Side B.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-94 + CS-60; Nov-Dec RivBea Calendar, Matt Gorney Archive; Florida Today Dec 5 p.57}


      "Sam Rivers was the first major guest artist I invited in my first semester as Chair of Jazz Studies at NEC. (I asked him about it first
      at the Knitting Factory after hearing his trio there, got his number in Orlando, and called him.) He did two public clinics in the afternoons
      that week, both in St. Botolph Building Room 118, later called Pierce Hall... 12/10/96 was an improvised trio performance, about 80 minutes,
      with faculty members Cecil McBee (bass) and Rakalam Bob Moses (drums). On 12/11/96, we did a reading of one of Sam Rivers' pieces
      for 10 saxophones. When I can view my VHS tape of this reading, I can give you all the names, probably. Quite a few of the student players
      in this and the big band concert have gone on to recording careers and will be recognizable names to serious jazz listeners and NY musicians.
      I believe the only other teaching he did at NEC was directing two rehearsals of the big band, probably Tuesday and Thursday 4-6 PM in Brown
      Hall, or the second one may have been on stage in Jordan Hall as a soundcheck/rehearsal." —Allan Chase, NEC Director

    • 96.12.09 - Sam Rivers: teaching / New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
      [Cadence Vol.23 no.2 Feb 1997, p.4]
    • 96.12.10 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Cecil McBee (b), Rakalam Bob Moses (dr) /
      New England Conservatory, Boston, MA [ibid]
    • 96.12.11 - Sam Rivers: teaching / New England Conservatory, Boston, MA [ibid]

      [Allan Chase 18.06.13; Kay Bourne "Reed man Rivers recalls roots in Boston..." Bay State Banner Dec 19;
      Cadence Vol.23 no.2 Feb 1997, p.4; Jon Garelick "No Ol' Man Rivers" Boston Phoenix Dec 5]

    96.12.12 • Sam Rivers & the New England Conservatory Orchestra [RBA]

    November 22, 1996, 8:00pm / Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA

    [10] compositions: Duke; Collage; Solace; Reverie; Revelation; Indigo; Beatrice; Tranquility; Ripples; Flair [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp, Cond), Felipe Salles and Grant Langford (ts), Jerry Uden and Gareth Orsmond (as),
    Michael Alberici (bar), Scott Aruda, Rob Dehlinger, Colin Fisher, and Kevin Tracy (tp), Joel Yennior, Phil Ostrander, JC Sanford, and Chris Mason (tb), Greg Burk (p), Frank Seeberger (g), Garrett Sayers (b), Lolly Allen or Jinwoo Paek (vbs), Eric Thompson (dr)

     —Program had Jinwoo Paek (vbs); "I think Lolly Allen may have played the concert, maybe as a last-minute sub." —Allan Chase

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #118; Allan Chase 18.06.13 + 06.14; Maryalice Perrin-Mohr, NEC Archivist/Records Manager 18.06.14;
    Concert programs, 1996-1997. Boston: New England Conservatory. Courtesy of the New England Conservatory Archives;
    digitalcommons.ithaca.edu; Bob Young Boston Herald Dec 14 p.20}



    1997 : : :


    97.01.08 • Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA]

    January 8, 1997 / Rehearsal, unknown venue, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #34}



      Introduction to Jazz and Blues Course (Spring)—January 9 through April 24, 1997

      "Performances and presentations by such Central Floridians as Panama Francis, Linda Cole, Nathen Page, Nobel Watts, Sam Rivers," others... /
      7:00pm, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
      —Thursdays, so possible dates of Jan 9-16-23-30/Feb 6-13-20-27/Mar 6-13-20/Apr 10-17-24.
      [The Orlando Sentinel Dec 13 p.91]


    • 97.01.24 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      10:00pm, The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL [RivBea Jan-Feb Calendar, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Jan 24 p.90]

    97.02.01 • Sam Rivers Dance Science Orchestra [RBA]

    January 8, 1997, 10:00pm / Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —CS #55 has "Set I;" #153 has "II Aud." Both are labeled "RivBea Orchestra," as are
     the RivBea Calendar and flyers for the gig. Media however has the DSO. [They'll sort this out soon.]

    "Two Nuclear Sets."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Rex Wertz, Charlie DeChant, and Trent Spears (ts), Daniel Jordan and Jeff Rupert (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Trent Spears, John Castleman, John Robinson, Todd Beals, Bill Karow, and Larry Williams (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, Andrea Rowlison,
    Jim Lehman, and Jerry Edwards (tb), Willie Clark (tu), Doug Mathews (elb, b), Anthony Cole (dr)
    —As in photo below, taken at a rehearsal preceding the event.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #35 and 153; Jim Doherty "Out Late" Gainesville Sun Jan 31; Brian Mackie 19.02.10}


    okay

    Brian Mackie: "Front Row L-R: Brian Mackie, Rex Wertz, Charlie DeChant, Daniel Jordan, Jeff Rupert, Don Black,
    Back Row L-R: Trent Spears, Willie Clark, Jerry Edwards, Larry Williams, Andrea Rowlison, Bill Karow, Keith Oshiro,
    John Castleman, John Robinson, Jim Lehman, Todd Beals, Anthony Cole, Dave Sheffield, Doug Mathews.
    Don’t remember the last guy—he wasn’t in the band."

     —Gainesville Sun Jan 31, 1997


      Sam Rivers Dartmouth College Residency, February 4 through February 6, 1997 : : :

    • 97.02.04 through 97.02.06 - Residency activities
      [Formal agreement letter from Dartmouth dated September 4, 1996, The RivBea Archive]

    97.02.08 (1) • The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble with special guest Sam Rivers [AR—76:14]

    February 8, 1997, 8:00pm / Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    —Double bill with Sam Rivers Trio / See 97.02.08 (2)

    1. Duke [9:09]
    2. Beatrice [11:06]
    3. Indigo [5:51]
    4. Revelation [15:24]
    5. Solace [6:33]
    6. Tranquility [6:52]
    —Concert began with the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble; Gershwin's "Embraceable You" with vocalist Thompson and a piano trio of Butler, Horton, and Meriweather; and Count Basie's "Every Day I Have the Blues" with vocalist Thompson and Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble.

    "The music for Barbary Coast and Sam Rivers will be selected from the following... Beatrice, Duke, Indigo, Revelation,
    Reverie, Solace, Tranquility... additional selections featuring Aiyana Thompson will be announced from the stage."

    Sam Rivers (ts-2,5, ss-1, fl-6, Comp—does not play on trks 3 and 4), The Barbary Coast: Don Glasgo (Dir, vtb),
    Lisa Gilbert and Drew Mowery (ts), Kevin Tompsett and Ian Gollub (as), Cabray Haines (fl), Jarrod Tisdell (bar),
    Adrian Tompsett, Kazu Munikata, Andrew Butterworth, Bunker Highmark, Anita Hamalainen, and Andy Bernasconi (tp),
    Hans Kieserman, Ben Mishkin, and Curt Dozier (tb), Fred Reiss (btb), Aiyana Thompson (voc-2,3),
    Taurey Butler and Vadim Sarma (p), Travis Horton (b), Steve Ferraris (cga), Peter Meriwether (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #232; CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.26; Pete Gershon; The Dartmouth Feb 7 p.15; Event Program, The RivBea Archive}


    97.02.08 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—55:36]

    February 8, 1997 / Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
    —Double bill with The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble with special guest Sam Rivers (above).

    1. Spark [6:55]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. Ripples [5:24]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    3. Inspiration [13:18]  (ts, bcl, ts—ts, bcl, dr—ts, b, dr)
    4. bass solo [3:00]
    5. Nightfall [14:46]  (SR p solo—p, b)
    6. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [8:40]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss-1, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #20; CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.11; Pete Gershon; The Dartmouth Feb 7 p.15; Event Program, The RivBea Archive}


    • 97.02.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      10:00pm, Moto Lounge, Jacksonville, FL
      [Flyer + RivBea Jan-Feb Calendar, Matt Gorney Archive; Tony Green The Florida Times-Union Feb 21 p.D8]
      —Double-bill with Matthew Shipp & William Parker Duo!

    97.02.22 • Sam Rivers & His 17-Piece Orchestra [RBA—69:07]

    February 22, 1997, 10:00pm / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
    —Audience circulating mis-dated as 97.02.23.

       1st Set:
     [6] compositions: Riffin'; Vines; Beatrice; Spunk; Burst; Rejuvenation [ : ]
       2nd Set:
      7. Inspiration [12:57]  (begins with 4:14 of drum solo + SR voc, and occasional brief blasts of orchestral cacophony)
      8. Tapestry [9:24]  "Hot off the press, it's not dry yet, I just finished it this morning!"
      9. Revelation [10:42]
     10. Flair [7:53]
     11. Happy Birthday [0:35]  "To the twins! Daryl and Nancy!"
     12. Tranquility [7:00]
     13. Bubbles—outro w/ intros + solos [9:03]
    —RBA Cassette #131 has "Set I;" #16 has "Set II." Database has composition titles
    —All of the pre-gig media billed this simply as "Sam Rivers and His 17-Piece Orchestra."

    "RivBea Orchestra conducted by Sam Rivers. Inspiration, Tapestry, Revelation, Flair, Happy Birthday, Tranquility, Bubbles (Forever Blowing),"
    labeled with "II," as in set number two... Probably 1st generation audience. —Jason Hook 07.12.06

    Sam Rivers (ts-7,9, ss-8,10,13, voc, fl-12), Charlie DeChant, Rex Wertz (ts), Jeff Rupert and unknown (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    John Castleman, Mike Iapichino, Todd Beals, unknown (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, (tb),
    Willie Clark (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... "17-Piece"

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #16, 131; CDr copy 2nd Set only, track detailing RL 19.02.18; RivBea Jan-Feb Calendar, Matt Gorney Archive}


    97.02.26 • Sam Rivers Orchestra [RBA]

    February 26, 1997 / probably CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #134}


    • 97.02.28 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      Tigertail's Japan/US & Friends Creative Music Festival, 8:00pm, Coral Gables Congregational Church, Coral Gables, FL
      [Cadence Vol.23 no.4 Apr 1997 p.125; newspaper clipping "In Concert" Feb 28; RivBea Jan-Feb Calendar, Matt Gorney Archive]
    • 97.03.21 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Noël Akchoté (g), Tony Hymas (p),
      Paul Rogers (b), Jacques Thollot (dr) / 21:00hr, The Radazik, Les Ulis, France [Handbill, The RivBea Archive]
      "Une Soiree Exceptionnelle!"

    • "Then we did few concerts and some were absolutely striking. Two concerts in Metz, one with the quintet and one as a quartet
      (Sam, Tony, Paul and Jacques). This was not recorded but that was the highest point of that episode. After came the idea
      of doing Eight Day Journal (98.01.21)...
      —Jean Rochard 19.03.22

    • 97.03.25 - Sam Rivers Quintet: as above / 21:00hr, Aux Trinitaires Metz, Metz, France
      [Concert poster, www.rhourtney-collector.com; Display ad, The RivBea Archive]
    • 97.03.26 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Tony Hymas (p), Paul Rogers (b), Jacques Thollot (dr) /
      21:00hr, Aux Trinitaires Metz, Metz, France
      [Display ad, The RivBea Archive; Concert poster, www.rhourtney-collector.com; Noel Akchoté 19.03.26]

      RL: Why did you only make one of the dates during the two-day engagement in Metz?
      Akchoté: "In fact I was still thinking why it could be. The first obvious reason I could see is I was part of Henri Texier's
      band, and in those years we played all festivals constantly and [they] would be booked longed ahead as it would be rather big theatres.
      Otherwise, no reason. It would happen elsewhere too that i would join tour on most gigs but one for same reason."

    97.03.29 • Noël Akchoté: Complete K7 Recordings (1996-1997)

    2011: Noël Akchoté Recordings (8-CDr, MP3 Downloads) Fr
    —Set also includes Duos with Guillaume Orti (discs 1 and 8); Solo Akchoté (discs 6 and 7);
     and Akchoté Quartet with Evan Parker, Mark Sanders, and Paul Rogers (discs 2 and 3).

    • Sam Rivers, Noël Akchoté, Tony Hymas, Paul Rogers, Jacques Thollot: Lyon 29.03.1997
      2018: Noël Akchoté Downloads SAM-707 (Believe Digital) Fr

    March 29, 1997 / La Tour Rose, Paris, France

    Lyon 29.03.1997:
    1. Free for All (Configuration) [20:40]
    2. Low Down Moses (Configuration) [14:22]
    3. Cheshire Hotel (Akchoté) [31:43]
    4. Beatrice (Rivers) [14:22]
    K7 Recordings Discs 4 + 5 Tracking
    1. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.A1 [12:30] → →
    2. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.A2 [11:15] → →
    3. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.A3 [11:12] → →
    4. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B1 [12:07] → →
    5. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B2 [8:21]  → →
    6. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B3 [11:25] → →
    7. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B4 [9:10]  → →
    8. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B5 [10:17] → →
    9. SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B6 [11:31] → →
    Actual play sequence                                  Lyon 29.03.1997
     announcement [0:54]
    1. improvisation [19:13]  (split track at 11:56, fades in and out)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.A1—11:56)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.A2—7:17 / part one of A2)
    announcement [0:51]                                      End track 1.
    2. improvisation [13:42]  (split track at 3:08, fades in and out)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.A2—3:08 / part two of A2)                 —OMIT
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.A3—10:34 / voice-over intros 10:58-11:34)
    announcement [0:32]                                      End track 2.
    3. improvisation [29:28]  (split track at 12:07 and 20:28, fades in and out)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B1—12:07)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B2—8:21)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B3—9:01)
    announcement [2:09]                                      End track 3.
    4. Beatrice (Rivers) [11:28]  (split track at 9:10, fades in and out)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B4—9:10)
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B5—2:18 / part one of B2, voice-over intros 0:13-0:40)
    5. crowd chatter, low-volume string-4tet walk-out [19:31]            3:00 in End track 4.
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B5—8:00 / part two of B2)                 —OMIT
      (SrNaThMsPr.29.03.1997.B6—11:31)                            —OMIT

    "More or less a self-bootleg, just a collection of live tape, recorded by a person who was at early stage in my works." —Noël Akchoté

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,4, ss-1, fl+voc-2,3), Noël Akchoté (g), Tony Hymas (p), Paul Rogers (b), Jacques Thollot (dr)

    {Noël Akchoté 11.12.29, 18.05.00; CDrs; SAM-707}


    okay

    —Cover of Lyon 29.03.1997


    97.04.04 • Sam Rivers Quintet (Configuration) [AR—61:54]

    April 4, 1997 / Festival Banlieues Bleues, House of Culture, Bobigny, Paris, France

    1. Free for All (Configuration) [18:52]
    2. Cheshire Hotel (Akchoté) [12:22]
    3. Jennifer (Hymas) [11:08]
    4. Low Down Moses (Configuration) [7:52]  (glitch at 0:09, split track at 1:02)
    5. Beatrice (Rivers) [8:55]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,4,5, fl-1, ss-2,3), Noël Akchoté (g), Tony Hymas (p), Paul Rogers (b), Jacques Thollot (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.24; La Tribune Apr 4; Les Inrockuptibles Apr 8 no.98 p.20}


    97.04.12 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    April 12, 1997, 8:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
    —Double bill with The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble with special guest Sam Rivers (above).

    2nd Set:
    6. compositions: Inspiration; Riffin'; Tapestry; Flair; Tranquility; Bubbles [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #22 has 1st Set (no composition titles); CS #179 has 2nd Set. Database has 2nd Set compositions.
    —All pre-concert press had simply "Sam Rivers," with no mention of an ensemble name.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #22 and 179; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 11 p.106}


    97.04.20 (1) • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA, AR—87:57, & SBR—57:19]

    April 20, 1997, 7:00pm / Gainesville Jazz & Pop Festival, Center for Performing Arts, Gainesville, FL

    Audience Recording:
    1. Inspiration [11:25]
    2. Riffin' [6:31]
    3. Vines [14:02]
    4. Beatrice [9:50]
    5. Tranquility [7:42]
    6. Rejuvenation—outro w/ intros + solos [10:26]
    Soundboard Recording: (Orchestra only) is circulating with the six tracks out of order. "Tranquility" is track 1,
     and "Rejuvenation" is track 2. SBR track 3, "Inspiration," is incomplete and cuts in 2:40 from actual beginning.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl+voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Rex Wertz (ts), Jeff Rupert and Daniel Jordan (as), Don Black (bar),
    Todd Beals, Don Rogozinski, John Castleman, and Mike Iapichino (tp-), Keith Oshiro, Jerry Edwards, and Dave Sheffield (tb),
    Willie Clark (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    —Unknown sources add Chris Charles (as) and Bruce Staelens (tp), neither of whom were present.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #22 and 179; Audience and Soundboard CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.24; Brian Carpenter}


    97.04.20 (2) • Sam Rivers Quartet + Duo with Chick Corea [RBA & AR—87:57]

    April 20, 1997 / Gainesville Jazz & Pop Festival, Center for Performing Arts, Gainesville, FL

    Audience Recording:
    1. Improvisation on C13 [12:55]  —Sam Rivers Trio + Corea
    2. Sam Rivers & Chick Corea Duo [7:10]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Chick Corea (p), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #22 and 179; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.24; Brian Carpenter}


    97.04.23 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    April 23, 1997 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #72}


    • 97.04.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Jazz Fest Kissimmee '97, 2:00pm, Lakefront Park, Kissimmee, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Apr 20 p.99]

    97.05.14 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA—57:31]

    May 14, 1997 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

     #290 "From A?" [ : ]
     #290 "From B" [ : ]
    1. #290 [7:47]  —Good Take
     #291 "Saxes & Rhythm Sec. letter C (2x)" [ : ]
     #291 "From the top" [ : ]  —SR: "Too bright"
     #291 "From the top" [ : ]  —SR: "Let's do it again"
    2. #291 [8:24]
     #291 "From H" [ : ]
     #292 "From C(?) - Saxes only" [ : ]
     #292 "excerpt" [ : ]
    3. #292 "From the top" [10:16]
     #293 "From B" [ : ]
     #293 "From the top" [ : ]
    4. #293 "Right at A" [9:09]
     #294 "Letter A, saxes only" [ : ]
     #294 "False Start" [ : ]  —(great bari-squeak)
    5. #294 "From 16A?" [7:12]
    —MGA Recording sheet only provides timings for complete takes, with written comments as above.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Matt Gorney Archive DAT-120 + Recording sheet}


    97.05.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA]

    May 21, 1997 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —DMA DAT is misdated "May 20, 1997."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-48}


    97.05.28 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA]

    May 28, 1997 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-48}


    • 97.05.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      8:00pm, Moto Lounge, Jacksonville, FL [Flyer, Doug Mathews Archive; Florida Times-Union May 2]

    97.06.14 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & MGA]

    June 14, 1997, 9:00pm / The Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL
    —"Special Dish Fifth Anniversary Engagement"

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —MGA VHS has "Sit in on tenor - Brian Mackie" and "Birthday - Bill Byson [Bryson]."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Brian Mackie (ts), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #173; Matt Gorney Archive VHS-120 + Flyer}


    97.06.18 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA]

    June 18, 1997 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-90}


    • 97.06.22 - Pheeroan akLaff Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Reggie Workman (b), akLaff (dr) / Texaco New York Jazz Festival,
      Knitting Factory, NYC [Ben Ratliff "A Syncopated City Swings As Twin Jazz Festivals Ignite," The New York Times Jun 20]

    • "We were a collective which is why it was listed via my leadership. I belive it was a one-off, unless it was connected to Lisbon
      and a small Italian city of which the name escapes me..." —Pheeroan akLaff 19.02.25
      —The Lisbon date mentioned is a Summit Conference gig on 97.08.02.

    97.06.25 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA]

    June 25, 1997 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-100}


    97.06.29 • Pheeroan akLaff Trio [RBA—53:06]

    June 29, 1997, 3:00pm / 14th Kalottjazz & Blues Festival, Pikisaari, Tornio, Finland

    1. Solace (Rivers) [4:25]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    2. improvisation [23:18]
     (ts section–2:49; ss section–10:13; fl section–3:45; ts section–6:31)
    3. Encounter (Workman) [9:04]
    4. blues improvisation [13:40]
    —RBA Cassette #164 dated "July 97."

    —"1997julyXX, Live at Kallot Jazz Fest / aklaff 718-398-4294 / Cassette from DAT" (Presumably a stage master that akLaff did.) —Jason Hook

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3, ss-2, fl-2,4, voc-3), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    —Rivers also credited with "And piano!" in last announcement, but not on this recording.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #164; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.02.26; Jason Hook 08.03.28; www.tornio.fi/kulttuur/jazz/kjazz97/tiedot.htm}


    97.07.09 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [MGA]

    July 9, 1997 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Matt Gorney Archive CS-100; Doug Mathews Archive VHS}


    97.07.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    July 26, 1997 / "Adventures in Jazz '97, Alliance for Improvised Music, ArtsCenter Carrboro, Carrboro, NC

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #200 has "Set 2;" #217 has "Set 1."
    —DMA DAT has "NC Set 1."
    —MGA Cassettes have "7/26/97? NC Set 1" and "NC Set 2."
    —Contract notes Soundcheck at 5:00pm "With possibility of radio interview."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #200 and 217; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-64; Matt Gorney Archive 2CS-90 + Contract + ArtsCenter Carrboro series mailer}


    97.07.27 • Sam Rivers Trio [MGA & AR—122:44]

    July 27, 1997, 8:00pm / Jazz Arts Festival '97, Space Lives Series, Washington Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC
    —In honor of "DC Space."

      1st Set:
     1. Impromptu (for You) [10:07]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Ripples [5:01]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Flame [1:58]  (ss, bcl, ts—ss, b, dr)
     4. bass solo [3:35]
     5. Firestorm [8:00]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo...)
     6. Inspiration [10:06]  (...dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
     7. Solace [0:06]  (ts, changes his mind, decides to do Nightfall)
     8. Nightfall [6:31]  (ts, b, dr—ts, b, p)
     9. improvisation [4:00]  (AC p solo—fl+voc, b, p)
    10. Iris [7:56]  (fl, b, p—fl, b, ts—fl, bcl, ts)
    11. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:49]  (fl, bcl, ts—fl+voc, b, dr)
      2nd Set:
    12. Beatrice [5:40]  (ts, elb, dr—ts, bcl, ts)
    13. Smoke [2:13]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    14. Dominant [6:43]  (ss+voc, b, dr)
    15. bass solo [2:48]
    16. Firestorm [12:05]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—voc, b, dr—ts, b, dr)
    17. Solace [7:56]  (ts, b, dr—ts, b, p)
    18. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [11:18]  (AC p solo—fl, p—fl+voc, elb, p—fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Matt Gorney Archive VHS + Jazz Arts Festival '97 Program + Contract; 2CDr Audience Recording, track detailing RL 19.02.26;
    Washington Post Jul 13 p.G03; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.25; Cadence Vol.23 no.8 Aug p.123}


    • 97.08.02 - Reggie Workman's Summit Conference: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Julian Priester (tb), Andrew Hill (p),
      Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr) / Sala Polivalente, Lisbon, Portugal
      [Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian Newsletter p.15, The RivBea Archive]

    97.08.09 • Sam Rivers Interview [RBA—50:21]

    August 9, 1997 / KPFA Studios, San Francisco, CA

    1. Sam Rivers interview [50:21]
    —CDr has all studio "bumper" music around actual interview cut.

    Sam Rivers (talking)

    {RivBea Archival Broadcast Recordings CS #36; Jason Hook}


    97.08.16 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & AR—90:00]

    August 16, 1997 / Jazz In Flight 8th Annual Eddie Moore Jazz Festival, Yoshi's, Oakland, CA
    —"Part 1 of his Living Legend Tribute"

    1... compositions + improvisations [90:00]
    —RBA Cassette #47 had date as "unknown."
    —DMA VHS is dated simply "August 1997."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #47 and 101 + Jazz In Flight Flyer; Doug Mathews Archive VHS; Anonymous trade list;
    Will Getter 03.11.21; Cadence Vol.23 no.8 Aug p.124}


    97.08.17 • Sam Rivers & Julian Priester Project [RBA—87:26]

    August 17, 1997 / Jazz In Flight 8th Annual Eddie Moore Jazz Festival, Yoshi's, Oakland, CA
    —"Part 2 of his Living Legend Tribute"

    2nd Set:
    1. Heads of the People [6:43]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    2. trombone solo [8:44]
    3. improvisation [11:33]
    4. improvisation [10:08]
    5. alto recorder solo [3:06]
    6. improvisation [8:18]
    7. improvisation [6:34]
    8. improvisation [4:35]
    9. improvisation w/ intros + solos [18:37]  (split track at 8:12)
     (ts solo–1:57; tb solo–2:39; ts+tb+elec—2:51; dr solo–4:25; elec solo–1:07; tb solo–1:58; fl solo–3:17)
    —RBA Cassette #50 is "Set II;" #185 has "1st Set." Database has "Priester/Rivers Project."
    —"From soundboard cassette, 2nd Set. ...low generation recording." —Jason Hook

    "We are collectively known as Priester, Rivers, something..." —Julian Priester end announcement

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,7,8,9, ss-3, fl-6, p-4), Julian Priester (tb, except trk 5)
    Tucker Martine (elec, except trks 2 and 5), Eddie Marshall (dr, except trks 2 and 5, alto recorder-5)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #50 and 185; 2CDr, track detailing RL 19.02.28; Jazz In Flight Flyer, The RivBea Archive; Jason Hook 08.03.28;
    Will Getter 03.11.21; Cadence Vol.23 no.7 July 1997, p.124 + Vol.23 no.8 August 1997 p.124}



      Introduction to Jazz and Blues Course (Fall)—August 28 through December 11, 1997

      "An opportunity to learn from guest artists and experts such as Nathen Page, Panama Francis, Linda Cole,
      Nobel Watts, Jeff Rupert, ...and Sam Rivers," others... /
      7:00pm, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL
      —Thursdays, so possible dates of Aug 28/Sep 4-11-18/Oct 16-23-30/Nov 13-20-27/Dec 4-11.
      [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 27 p.27]

    97.09.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—79:35+]

    September 6, 1997, 9:00pm / The Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL

      1st Set:
     1. intro [ : ]  ("Cut off")
     2. funk [ : ]
     3. bass solo [ : ]  —Pieces 1-3 tracked together at 33:30
     4. pretty funky [7:20]  (fl, elb, dr)
      2nd Set:
     5. Sprung [ : ]  (ts, elb, dr)
     6. Dominance [ : ]  (ts, elb, dr)
     7. Beatrice [ : ]  (ts, b, dr)  —Pieces 5-7 tracked together at 16:49
     8. bass solo + SR voc [4:45]
     9. improvisation [4:27]  (voc, b, ts—ss, b, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
    10. Rapture [3:07]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    11. improv. horns to drum solo [3:16]  (ss, bcl, ts—dr solo)
    12. flute solo [5:15]  (fl+voc—fl+voc, b, dr)
    13. funky [ : ]  (fl+voc, b, dr w/ bowed b solo + dr solo)
    —Tracks and times as provided from DMA recording sheet; no end-time for last track.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #99; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-94 + Recording sheet; St. Petersburg Times Sep 5 p.5}


    • 97.09.23 and 97.09.24 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 9:00 & 11:00pm + 12:30am, Sweet Basil, NYC
      [New York Magazine Sep 22 p.122; Daily News Sep 21 Extra p.58]
    • 97.09.25 (1) - Ted Panken Interviews Sam Rivers— "as we celebrate Sam Rivers' 74th birthday on WKCR" /
      WKCR-FM, NYC [www.jazzhouse.org/files/panken20.php3?read]
    • 97.09.25 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) / 9:00 & 11:00pm, Sweet Basil, NYC [New York Magazine Sep 22 p.122; Daily News Sep 21 Extra p.58]

    97.09.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA, DMA, & AR—74:51]

    September 26, 1997, 9:00, 11:00pm & 12:30am / Sweet Basil, New York City

     1. SR ts solo [5:00]
     2. SR ts solo [3:24]
     3. SR p+voc solo [9:41]  —Nightfall, others... "A medley of some of my compositions."
     4. Impromptu (for You) [6:23]  (ss, elb, dr)
     5. Ripples [5:07]  (ss, b, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     6. Flame [1:08]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     7. bass solo [2:41]
     8. Inspiration [13:08]  (dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
     9. Beatrice [5:45]  (ts, b, dr)
    10. Iris [9:38]  (ts, b, p—voc, p—fl, elb, p)
    11. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:22]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —DMA DAT also has Set 1 of 97.09.28.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #25; Audience Recording CDr, detailing RL 19.07.31; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124;
    Daily News Sep 21 Extra p.58; New York Magazine Sep 22 p.122}


    97.09.27 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA, DMA, & AR—65:49]

    September 27, 1997, 9:00, 11:00pm & 12:30am / Sweet Basil, New York City

    Audience Recording:
    1. Impromptu (for You) [6:49]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. Ripples [5:27]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    3. Flame [0:56]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    4. bass solo [3:02]
    5. Firestorm [10:27]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr—dr solo)
    6. Inspiration [9:16]  (ts, elb, dr)
    7. Beatrice [4:04]  (ts, elb, dr)
    8. Iris [8:34]  (AC p solo—fl+voc, p—fl+voc solo—fl+voc, bcl, ts)
    9. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:31]  (fl, bcl—fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —DMA DATs have Set 1 on DAT-124 with 97.09.26; Set 2+3 are on a second DAT-124.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #26; Audience Recording CDr, track detailing RL 19.03.02; Doug Mathews Archive 2DAT-124;
    Daily News Sep 21 Extra p.58; New York Magazine Sep 22 p.122}


    97.09.28 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—83:16 & DMA]

    September 28, 1997 / Sweet Basil, New York City

     1. Impromptu (for You) [10:43]  (ss+voc, elb, dr)
     2. Ripples [6:33]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Flame [2:15]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     4. bass solo [6:46]
     5. medley [6:58]  (SR p solo, split track at 0:05)  "Some explorations on the piano, interspersed with melodies."
     6. Inspiration [10:35]  (p+voc, b, dr—dr solo—ts, elb, dr / incomplete, cuts out)
     7. Beatrice [5:46]  (SR ts solo—ts, b, dr)
     8. Dominant [4:51]  (ts+voc, bcl, ts)
     9. Nightfall [3:01]  (ts, b, p)
    10. Iris [9:06]  (AC p solo—fl+voc, b, p)
    11. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [11:35]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —Also circulating as an Audience Recording dated simply "September, 1997."
    —RBA Cassette #145: "'III' (as in Roman number 3) and 'trio' is all that is written on tape. Recent trio show, very nice, clean, well-balanced
     soundboard, master or 1st generation. Last tune really inspired. At end of show, something mentioned about New York?" —Jason Hook
     This: "We knocked 'em out in New York, Goddamn it!" —Sam Rivers, during closing announcement, last show of the week.
    —DMA DAT also has Set 2 part 2 from 97.09.30.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, el, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #145; 2CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.03.02; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124;
    Daily News Sep 21 Extra p.58; New York Magazine Sep 22 p.122}


    97.09.30 • Sam Rivers Trio [AVR—69:11]

    September 30, 1997, 10:30pm / Middle East Downstairs, Boston, MA

     1. Impromptu (for You) [7:23]  (ss, elb, dr, incomplete, cuts in)
     2. Ripples [5:15]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Flame [1:01]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     4. bass solo [5:04]
     5. Firestorm [9:33]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo into...)
     6. Inspiration [10:22]  (...ts, elb, dr)
     7. Beatrice [4:50]  (ts, b, dr)
     8. Iris [5:55]  (ts, b, dr—ts, b, p)
     9. Nightfall [6:56]  (AC p solo—fl, p—fl, bcl, ts, incomplete split track at 4:16)
    10. Flame [1:21]  (fl, bcl, ts)
    10. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:41]  (fl, elb, dr)
    —DMA DAT-124 has "Set 2 part 2" of this date and Sets 1+2 from 97.09.28.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Youtube videos Cy6C5ZjGEGo + rvwMiRAJE_4, track detailing RL 19.03.16; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124; Flyer + Contract, Matt Gorney Archive;
    Bob Young Boston Herald Sep 26 p.S19}


    97.10.02 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    October 2, 1997, 8:00pm / Erie Art Museum Annex, Erie, PA

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124; RL in attendance}


    97.10.03 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—119:18]

    October 3, 1997, 8:30am / Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple, Oak Park, Chicago, IL

      1st Show:
     1. Impromptu (for You) [8:52]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Ripples [5:40]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Flame [1:38]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     4. bass solo [5:28]
     5. Firestorm [18:48]  (SR p solo—p, dr—dr solo—ts, b, dr)
     6. Beatrice [6:31]  (ts, b, dr)
     7. composition [4:03]  (?)
     8. Iris [9:43]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p—?)
     9. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:55]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
      2nd Show:
    10. composition [6:01]  (?)
    11. Solace [4:48]  (?)
    12. composition [2:05]  (?, probably reed trio)
    13. bass solo [7:14]
    14. Firestorm [5:17]  (SR p solo–?)
    15. "Spring Has Sprung" [6:15]  (?)  (probably "Inspiration")
    16. Iris [7:17]  (AC p solo—fl, p)
    17. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [7:26]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —No recording available for track detailing. Archive had a sheet from Pro Musica, Chicago with tracks as above (corrected and annotated
     according to recent session selections and instrumentation), "Recorded by Ken Christianson."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Event Program + Poster + Pro Musica Recording sheet, The RivBea Archive; Cadence Vol.23 no.10 Oct p.2;
    The Life Oct 3 p.10; Chuck Nessa 18.12.25}


    97.10.04 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    October 4, 1997, 8:00 & 9:30pm / McKenzie Fine Arts Center, Henry Ford Community College, Detroit, MI

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-94; Matt Gorney Archive CS-90 + Flyer; Cadence Vol.23 no.12 Dec p.2}


    97.10.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA—117:44]

    October 6, 1997, 8:00pm / Tralfamadore Cafe, Buffalo, NY

    1st Set:
    1... compositions + improvisations [60:08]
    2nd Set:
    2. Dominance [4:55]  (ss, elb, dr)
    3. bass solo [5:16]
    4. improvisation [8:50]  (SR p solo—p, dr—dr solo—ts, b, dr)
    5. Solace [6:08]  (ts, b, ts)
    6. improvisation [4:56]  (AC ts solo—AC p solo)
    7. Iris [0:57]  (fl solo—fl, bcl, ts)
    8. flute funk [9:28]  (fl, elb, dr)
    —RBA Cassette #54 has "Part I and II" and is dated "10/5/97 & 10/6/97;" #174 has "Set 1 + 2" and is dated "10/6/97."
    —DMA Recording sheet had tracks list for Set 2; only an end-time for Set 1.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #54 and 174; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124 + Recording sheet;
    RL in attendance with wife Sandra, Rick DiBello, and Alethea Bodine; ticket stub, memories;
    "Triple Double" Buffalo News Oct 3 p.G3}


    97.10.08 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA]

    October 8, 1997, 8:00pm / Recital Hall, USC School of Music, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #35 has "USC or USL" and "p + z."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #35 + Poster + Flyer; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124; geocities.com/SunsetStrip/alley/1166/concerts.html}


    • 97.10.09 - Sam Rivers Workshop / 9:30am, USC School of Music, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
      [Marc Minsker preview Free Times October 1-7 p.22]
    • 97.10.11 - Rova Saxophone Quartet + Sam Rivers (ts) sitting in on "Body and Soul" / Earshot Jazz Festival, OK Hotel, Seattle, WA
      [Paul De Barros Seattle Times Oct 16 p.G18]
    • 97.10.12 - Sam Rivers & Julian Priester Project: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Priester (tb), Tucker Martine (elec), "...with Tim Young" (keys) /
      Earshot Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Poncho Concert Hall, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
      [Contract, Matt Gorney Archive; Roberta Penn "Earshot Music Festival a Kaleidoscope of Musical Styles" Seattle Post-Intelligencer Oct 10]
    • 97.10.13 (1) - Daytime Workshop: Sam Rivers, Julian Priester, and Tucker Martine /
      Earshot Jazz Festival, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA [Contract, Matt Gorney Archive]
    • 97.10.13 (2) - Rob Schepps (ts), Nancy King (voc), Glen Moore (b), + surprise guest Sam Rivers (ts) /
      Earshot Jazz Festival, Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA [Paul De Barros Seattle Times Oct 16 p.G18]
    • 97.10.25 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... /
      Lynx Jazz Festival, 2:00 & 4:00pm, Orchid Garden Ballroom, Orlando, FL
      [Program, The RivBea Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Orlando Music Awards Supplement Oct 16 to 22 p.15A + Oct 24 p.84; Cadence Vol.23 no.11 Nov p.125]

    97.11.08 • Sam Rivers & Alexander Schlippenbach: Tangens

    1998: FMP CD 99 (CD) Ger;
    2015: RivBea Music RB40009 (digital download)

    November 8, 1997 / "Total Music Meeting," Podewil, Berlin, Germany
    —CD Liners have the recording from "Novemer 8th & 9th," but none of these tracks are from the continuous performance on the 9th.

    1. tangens (alpha) [6:26]  (fl, p)
    2. tangens (beta) [31:47]
     (ss section–10:52; p solo–1:19; ts section–10:36; p solo–1:26; fl section–7:17)
    3. tangens (gamma) [14:58]
     (ts section–6:39; p solo–1:30; ss section–6:21)
    4. tangens (delta) [7:08]  (ts, p)
    5. tangens (epsilon) [9:47]
     (ts section–3:23; fl section–5:50)
    —Tracks 2, 3, and 5 all end with applause.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Alexander Schlippenbach (p)

    {FMP CD 99; FMP 30te Total Music Meeting pamphlet, The RivBea Archive}

    okay

    97.11.09 • Sam Rivers & Alexander Schlippenbach Duo [AR—42:52]

    November 9, 1997 / "Total Music Meeting," Podewil, Berlin, Germany

    1. improvisation [41:47]  (continuous performance)
     (ss section–11:59; p solo–1:10; ts section–13:41; p solo–1:39; fl section–13:17)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Alexander Schlippenbach (p)

    {Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.01; FMP 30te Total Music Meeting pamphlet, The RivBea Archive; Peter Losin 19.05.05}


    • 97.11.21 - Sam Rivers & His 17-Piece Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      9:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Nov 21 Calendar p.11]

    97.11.22 • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR]

    November 22, 1997, 8:00pm / EMIT Concerts, Raymond James Community Room, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA DAT-94s have Sets 1 and 2.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Program, The RivBea Archive; Doug Mathews Archive 2DAT-94; Promo sheet Matt Gorney Archive; Ron Lyles 10.04.30;
    Tampa Tribune Nov 22 Baylife p.2; Cadence Vol.23 no.11 Nov p.125}


    1998 : : :


    • Early 1998:

      "[Then] came the idea of doing Eight Day Journal, Tony Hymas writing a suite for a 12-piece ensemble and Sam as a solist.
      We did the recording in London and then two concerts, in Paris and in Maubeuge. A great experience. Evan Parker and Stan Sulzman came to visit during the sessions.
      —Noël Akchoté 19.02.09
      ———

      SR: Tony Hymas is doing a concerto for me which will be performed with the London Symphony in January.
      It's all written, and I'm going over to do that. The piece needs someone who can improvise and sound... [LAUGHS]
      [Interview, Ted Panken, WKCR-FM NYC, September 25 1997, www.jazzhouse.org/library/?read=panken20]
      ———


    98.01.21 • Sam Rivers & Tony Hymas: Eight Day Journal

    1998: Nato 777 726 (CD) Fr

    January 21, 1998 / Hear No Evil Studio, London, UK

    1. Samedi 4 mars 1984 [8:37]
    2. Dimanche 5 mars 1984 [11:05]
    3. Lundi 13 mars 1984 [4:47]
    4. Mardi 21 mars 1984 [5:08]
    5. Mercedi 5 avril 1984 [4:46]
    6. Jeudi 6 avril 1984 [5:05]
    7. Venvedi 22 septembre 1984 [6:12]
    8. Samedi 29 septembre 1985 [7:33]
    —Tony Hymas Compositions "for Sam Rivers."
    —Artwork and Illustrations by Mœbius

    "Tony and Sam going thru the score [22nd and 23rd]... I mixed it after with Tony Hymas
    and engineer Steve Lowe. The movie director Pacale Ferran—who had been at the
    Sons d'Hiver concert—came to the mixing sessions (and somehow this is how the duo
    film [Quatre jours É Ocoee, 98.12.14-17] and record was thought of). In the actual mix,
    there is actaully a glimpse of the Maubeuge concert [98.01.31]."
    —NATO Producer Jean Rochard

    okay
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,4,7,8, ss-2,5,6), François Corneloup (ss, bar), Sylvain Kassap (ss, alcl, bcl), Carol Robinson (cl, bcl),
    Tony Hymas (p, bird calls, Dir, Comp), Henry Lowther (tp, bgl), Noël Akchoté (g), Rita Manning and Sonia Slany (vn),
    Philip Dukes (va), Sophie Harris (ce), Chris Lauvence (b), Paul Clarvis (dr, bird calls)

    {Nato 777 726; Video; La Tribune Jan 9, 1998; Jean Rochard 19.03.25}


    • 98.01.24 - Sam Rivers & Tony Hymas: Sam Rivers (ts, ss), François Corneloup (ss, bar), Sylvain Kassap (ss, alcl, bcl),
      Carol Robinson (cl, bcl), Tony Hymas (p, bird calls, Dir, Comp), Henry Lowther (tp, bgl), Noël Akchoté (g),
      Rita Manning and Sonia Slany (vn), Philip Dukes (va), Sophie Harris (ce), Chris Lauvence (b), Paul Clarvis (dr, bird calls) /
      8:30pm, Sons d'Hiver Festival, Theatre Romain Rolland, Villejuif, Paris, France [Nato 777 726; Jean Rochard 19.03.30]
    • 98.01.31 - Sam Rivers & Tony Hymas: Sam Rivers (ts, ss), Serge Bertocchi (bar), Sylvain Kassap (ss, alcl, bcl),
      Carol Robinson (cl, bcl), Tony Hymas (p, bird calls, Dir, Comp), Henry Lowther (tp, bgl), Noël Akchoté (g),
      Rita Manning and Sonia Slany (vn), Philip Dukes (va), Sophie Harris (ce), Chris Lauvence (b), Paul Clarvis (dr, bird calls) /
      Festival de jazz Maubeuge, Le Manege, Maubeuge, France [ibid]
    • 98.02.13 - Sam Rivers: (no personnel details) / Studio Session, "East Coast," FL
      [Scramble painting of the event: Live Performance, Framed Canvas, Drawing, 3ft x 4ft —www.scramblecampbell.com]
      "A special session in the Studio that Keith "Scramble" Campbell sat in on."

    98.02.22 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Live on the Internet [Web Broadcast—45:00]

    February 22, 1998, 8:00pm / UCF Arena, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
    —A Concert in Real Time on WebStationZero, Full Sail's 1998 Success Seminar, Full Sail Real World Education

    1... compositions [90:00]
    —Broadcast was a 45:00 excerpt of the concert.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p), unknown others...

    {www.fullsail.com; Peter Hulsen; Andrew Solberg at Full Sail; Matt Gorney Miles-list posting 98.02.19; Keith Lay 18.12.30 + 19.12.09}


    • 98.03.05 - Sam Rivers: (no personnel details) / Jazz at Teatro Central, Sevilla, Spain [Cadence Vol.24 no.12, Dec '98 p.142]
    • 98.03.13 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... /
      9:30pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Mar 13 Calendar p.8]
      —The media PR has "Sam Rivers" without ensemble mention until the day of the gig, when The Orlando Sentinel begins
       the regular references to the "RivBea Orchestra."

    98.03.21 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    March 21, 1998, 8:00pm / Rogers Room, Keene Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA Mastering Audio Cassettes are marked "Set part 1 Deck 1;" Set 1 part 1 Deck 2:" "Set 1 part 2 Deck 1;" Set 1 part 2 Deck 2."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #146; Doug Mathews Archive (4) ½" Mastering Audio CS; "Acts To Watch For This Week" The Orlando Sentinel Mar 20 Calendar p.8}


    98.03.27 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & AR]

    March 27, 1998, 9:30pm / Gainesville Jazz & Pop Festival, Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —First reference in quite some time to "The RivBea Orchestra" being used in media PR.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), others... "16-Piece"

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #73; Poster, Matt Gorney Archive; www.ink19.com/issues_F/98_05;
    "Acts To Watch For This Week" The Orlando Sentinel Mar 20; Brian Carpenter}


    98.04.11 • Sam Rivers Trio: Firestorm

    2002: RivBea Sound Company RB50102 (CD);
    2015: RivBea Music RB50102 (digital download)
        —1st Session [See also 98.04.12]
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]
    • (V/A) JazzSouth #39, Fall 2001
      2001: Southern Arts Federation SAF #39 (Broadcast Promo only CD)
           —1st Session [See also 98.04.12]

    April 11, 1998, 9:00 and 11:00pm / Knitting Factory, New York City

    1. Flame [5:30]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    2. Embers [3:12]  (b solo)
    3. Unity [4:46]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    4. Nightfall [11:51]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl, b, p)
    5. Iris [3:52]  (fl, b, p)
    JazzSouth has track 5.
    —RBA Cassettes #94 and 221 are final mixes of Firestorm with tracks from both dates
     with track 1 above as "Horns" on CS #221 and "Woodwinds" on CS #94.
    —RBA Cassette #221 is undated; database had "unknown."
    —DMA (4) Mastering Audio Cassettes have "Set 1 part 1," Set 1 part 2,"
     Set 2 part 1," and "Set 2 part 2."
    —DMA DAT and CS-90 both have Set 2.
    okay

    "When Sam made his return to NYC with his Florida trio, he played the Knitting Factory... There was an extra set on the Saturday night gig.
    I had a gig midtown and rushed to the Knit to catch the last piece of the trio gig. When I went to the dressing room to give Sam my regards,
    he said, ‘Come on, we're going to do a Sun Ra tribute.’ I remember Sam on flute, me on soprano, J.D. Parran on bamboo sax.... There was a poet,
    Trudy [Morse]... I'll never forget playing next to Sam that night." —Joe Giardullo 18.09.15

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (ts, p)

     + (Last set only, a Sun Ra tribute not on Firestorm release) Joe Giardullo (ss), J.D. Parran (bamboo sax), Trudy Morse (poetry)

    {RB50102; SAF #39; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #94 and 221; Doug Mathews Archive (4) ½" Mastering Audio CS + DAT + CS-90;
    Flyer, Matt Gorney Archive; The New York Times Apr 10 p.E27; Jeff Zeitz posting to Miles list 98.03.31}



    98.04.12 • Sam Rivers Trio: Firestorm

    2002: RivBea Sound Company RB50102 (CD);
    2015: RivBea Music RB50102 (digital download)
        —2nd Session [See also 98.04.11]
    • (V/A) JazzSouth #39, Fall 2001
      2001: Southern Arts Federation SAF #39 (Broadcast Promo only CD)
           —2nd Session [See also 98.04.11]
    • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—72:17]

    April 12, 1998, 9:00 and 10:00pm / Knitting Factory, New York City

    Firestorm:
    1. Spark [6:33]  (ss, b, dr)
    2. Firestorm [11:52]  (p,voc, b, dr)
    3. Solace [5:33]  (ts, b, dr—ts, bcl, ts)
    4. Smoke [1:44]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    5. Dominant [4:59]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    6. Firewall [11:56]  (fl+voc, b, dr)
    Firestorm track 1 is an excerpt without the 2:21 lead-in on Audience Recording.
    JazzSouth has tracks 3 and 6, as well as an excerpt [2:40] from the beginning of track 5 under radio program intro.
    —RBA Cassettes #94 and 221 are final mixes of Firestorm with tracks from both dates,
     with Smoke (trk 7 above) as "T. Sax, T. Sax, B. Clar" on #221 and "Reeds" on #94;
     and Firewall (trk 11 above) as "Ending" on #221 and "Finale" on #94.
    —RBA Cassette #221 was undated; database had "unknown."
    —RBA Cassette #154 has "Set I."
    —DMA (4) Mastering Audio Cassettes have "Set 3 part 1," Set 3 part 2,"
     Set 4 part 1," and "Set 4 part 2."
    —MGA 2CS-90 Cassettes each have one set.
    Audience Recording:
    1. Dominant [5:07]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    2. Nightfall [12:22]  (ts, b, p—fl, b, p)
    3. Beatrice [5:54]  (ts, b, dr)
    4. Firewall—w/ intros + solos [12:02]  (fl+voc, b, dr—split track, fades out and back in at 6:54)
    5. Spark [8:52]  (ss, b, dr)
    6. Firestorm [12:38]  (SR p solo—p+voc, b, dr—dr solo)
    7. Tempo [5:44]  (ts, b, dr)
    8. Solace [5:46]  (ts, b, dr—ts, bcl, ts)
    9. Smoke [1:42]  (ts, bcl, ts)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RB50102; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #94, 154, and 221; Doug Mathews Archive (4) ½" Mastering Audio CS;
    Audience CDr, track detailing RL 19.01.13; Matt Gorney Archive 2CS-90 + Flyer; Daily News Apr 5 Extra p.58;
    The New York Times Apr 10 p.E27; Jeff Zeitz posting to Miles list 98.03.31}


    98.05.10 • Jeff Silvertrust Quintet: Plan Et Surf Is

    1998: Bulldozers from Jupiter Records CD D25Z-6 (CD)

    May 10, 1998 / The Studio NYC, New York City

    1. Plan Et Surf Is [7:36]
    2. Venray Buds [9:04]
    3. Chopped Liquid We Know [10:40]
    4. Notpforten Strasse [11:36]
    5. Diagnosis Killer Weed [6:01]
    6. Deliberation [8:52]
    7. Sief [6:11]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,5,6, ss-4,7), Jeff Silvertrust (tp, Comp),
    Jon Davis (p), Ron McClure (b), Steve Johns (dr)

    {CD D25Z-6}

    okay

    • 98.05.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel May 15 Calendar p.9; Incorrectly dated Poster ("May 16"), The RivBea Archive]

    98.06.10 • Reggie Workman's Summit Conference [AR—79:59 & BR—61:00]

    June 10, 1998, midnight! / New York Jazz Festival, Knitting Factory, New York City
    —Broadcast BBC Radio3 "Jazz on 3" September 5, 1998

    Audience Recording:
    1. a blues [8:33]  "It doesn't have a title yet."
    2. composition (Julian Priester) [9:55]
    3. improvisation [27:16]
     (p solo–2:15; fl section–11:47; b solo —2:10; ts section–11:04)
    4. Prophet's Path (Workman) [11:31]
    5. composition [14:57]
    6. composition (Workman) [4:20]
    —Audience Recording has track 5 incomplete at 10:06 (cuts out at end), and omits track 6.
    —Broadcast Recording has tracks 3-6, and includes an interview segment [5:19] with Workman, Rivers, Priester, and akLaff.

    "I was telling someone a story as I walked through here tonight. About nine-ten days ago I got a call on my cellphone as I was walking home from the Local 802, which is our union. And there waas a representattive at the union who said ‘Reggie Workman, I been trying to get in touch with you. Could you please tell me how to get in touch with Eric Dolphy?&rsuo; [Laughter] ‘And Abdul Malik? Jimmy Garrison? What are their phones?’ Our local representative! I said ‘I'm gonna put you in touch with him.’ [Laughter] That was an unbelievebale one, it took me days to get over it." —Reggie Workman during pre-show announcement.

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,4,6, ss-5, fl-3), Julian Priester (tb), John Hicks (p), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {Broadcast and Audience CDrs, track detailing RL 19.03.05}


    98.06.12 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Live on the Internet [Web Broadcast]

    June 12, 1998, 7:00pm / Full Sail Real World Education Success Seminar Series, University of Central Florida Arena, Orlando, FL
    —A Concert in Real Time on WebStationZero

    1... compositions [ : ]
    "The school was called 'Full Sail Real World Education' back then. We gained University status a few years later. 'Success Seminar'
    met for two weeks once per year back then, and the entire student body attended. These concerts were given at the UCF Arena at the
    University of Central Florida a few miles east. UCF was in summer mode then. I remember Sam and Bea handing out envelopes
    to the band with their pay at the gig. The year after this, 1999, was the extended orchestral work for 'Success Seminar.' —Keith Lay

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p), unknown others...

    {Matt Gorney posting to Miles-list 98.06.10; live audio-video netcast, www.fullsail.com; Success Seminar '98 program, Keith Lay 19.07.08}


    • 98.06.18 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00pm, Moto Lounge, Jacksonville, FL
      [Florida Times-Union Jun 12 p.D7; www.starbacks.ca/BourbonStreet/Delta/2370/tour.htm]

    98.07.02 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—104:00]

    July 2, 1998 / Vienne Jazz Festival, Vienne, France
    —Radio France Broadcast "Jazz à Vienne : Sam Rivers Trio."

     1. Impromptu (for You) [6:52]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Ripples [5:20]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. bass solo [3:56]
     4. Impulse [11:48]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—voc, dr solo—ts, b, dr)
     5. Beatrice [5:14]  (ts, b, dr)
     6. Iris [5:48]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—ts, b, p)
     7. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:58]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
      2nd Set:
     8. Inspiration [11:54]  (ts, elb, dr)
     9. Solace [5:20]  (ts, b, dr—ts, b, ts)
    10. composition [10:00]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—ss, b, dr)
    11. improvisation [5:18]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p)
    12. Iris [3:37]  (fl, bcl, ts)
    13. [6:32]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    14. encore/improvisation [2:32]  (fl, elb, dr)
    —A shorter version is circulating at 23:46 with tracks 4 through 6.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Soundfiles + CDr, track detailing RL 20.01.20; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09; La Tribune Jun 26;
    www.starbacks.ca/BourbonStreet/Delta/2370/tour.htm}


    • 98.07.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Norway Jazz Festival, 23:00hr, Byorkesterets Hus, Kongsberg, Norway
      [www.starbacks.ca/BourbonStreet/Delta/2370/tour.htm; Unidentified clipping, The RivBea Archive]
    • 98.07.10 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...
      "17-Piece" / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Jun 26 Calendar p.6]
    • 98.08.17 - Sam Rivers Duo: Rivers (ts, as, fl), Tony Hymas (p) / 21st Hestejada de las Arts of Uzeste Musical, 9:00pm, Le Bourg, Uzeste, France
      [Jean Rochard 19.03.22; La Dépàche du Midi Jul 3; Le Monde Aug 17; pro.magnumphotos.com/Catalogue/Guy-Le-Querrec]
    • 98.08.29 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Bobby Koeble (g), Kevin Stever (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      9:30pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL ["What's On" The Orlando Sentinel Aug 29 p.E2]
    • 98.09.03 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL [www.scramblecampbell.com]
    • 98.09.12 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL [www.starbacks.ca/BourbonStreet/Delta/2370/tour.htm]
    • 98.09.20 - Sam Rivers Trio / The Can, Altamonte Springs, FL [www.scramblecampbell.com]
    • 98.09.22 - Sam Rivers Trio / 9:00 & 11:00pm, Sweet Basil's, NYC
      [Sweet Basil Sep Program, The RivBea Archive; Will Getter 03.11.21; The New York Times Sep 13 Sec.2 p.102;
      Daily News Sep 20 Extra p.52]

    98.09.23 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—56:15]

    September 23, 1998, 9:00 & 11:00pm / Sweet Basil's, New York City

    1st Set:
    1. Impromptu (for You) [6:55]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. Ripples [6:09]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    3. Flame [1:04]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    4. "Medley of two or three..." [14:40]  (SR p solo—p+voc, b, dr—ts, b, dr)
    5. Beatrice [5:08]  (ts, b, dr)
    6. Nightfall [3:12]  (ts, b, p)
    7. Iris [8:55]  (b, p—voc, b, p—fl+voc solo—fl+voc, bcl, ts)
    8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:56]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    "Anthony and Doug were caught in a traffic jam, so Sam Started out Solo."
    —An e-mail I've been unable to locate. At any rate, the recording is all trio business. —RL

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)



    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #27; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.03.06; Sweet Basil Sep Program, The RivBea Archive;
    The New York Times Sep 13 Sec.2 p.102}


    • 98.09.24 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00 & 11:00pm, Sweet Basil's, NYC [Will Getter 03.11.21; The New York Times Sep 13 Sec.2 p.102]

    • The Journal News (White Plains, NY) ran a lovely notice for the RivBea Orchestra end of this engagement a week early:
       "Today through Sunday..." [The Journal News Sep 18 p.38]

      "The RivBea Orchestra Program for Performance at Sweet Basil's / Fri 25, Sat 26, Sun 27, Sept 1998"
      1st Set: Vines (246); Nebula (230); Beatrice (202); Tranquility (245); Rejuvenation (244)
      2nd Set: Inspiration (240); Whirlwind (215); Solace (232); Spectrum (205); Bubbles (281)
      3rd Set: Revelation (261); Culmination (233); Ripples (234); Neptune (218); Riffin' (277)
      [Pre-engagement set list, The RivBea Archive]
    • 98.09.25 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Chico Freeman and Gary Thomas (ts),
      Steve Coleman and Greg Osby (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar), Ravi Best, Ralph Alessi, James Zolar, and Baikida Carroll (tp),
      Ray Anderson, Joseph Bowie, and Art Baron (tb), Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bob Stewart (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      Sam Rivers' 75th Birthday Celebration !!! (September 25-27), 9:00 & 11:00pm, Sweet Basil, NYC
      "With many of the great players who've passed through Rivers' ensembles when he ruled NYC's loft scene in the '70s.
      Sam mailed out some 30 compositions played over the three nights... Originally advertised that James Carter was going
      to be in the band, but that never happened, unfortunately."
      [Will Getter 03.11.21; The New York Times Sep 13 Sec.2 p.102]

      "Sam Rivers' Program for Performance. Sweet Basil's Sept 25, 1998"
      1st Set: Vines (246); Nebula (230); Beatrice (202); Tranquility (245); Rejuvenation (244)
      2nd Set: Inspiration (240); Whirlwind (215); Solace (232); Spectrum (205); Bubbles (281)
      [Set list, The RivBea Archive]

    98.09.26 • Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra: [AR—63:24]

    September 26, 1998, 9:00 & 11:00pm / Sweet Basil, New York City

    1. Vines [15:24]
    2. Nebula [13:24]
    3. Beatrice [10:08]
    4. Tranquility [9:05]
    5. Rejuvenation [9:20]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Chico Freeman and Gary Thomas (ts), Steve Coleman and Greg Osby (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    Ravi Best, Ralph Alessi, James Zolar, and Baikida Carroll (tp), Ray Anderson, Joseph Bowie, and Art Baron (tb),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bob Stewart (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.03.06; Will Getter 03.11.21; The New York Times Sep 13 Sec.2 p.102}


    98.09.27 • Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra [AR—57:19]

    September 27, 1998, 9:00 & 11:00pm / Sweet Basil, New York City

    1. Vines [15:23]
    2. Nebula [12:08]
    3. Beatrice [10:30]
    4. Tranquility [7:38]
    5. Rejuvenation [9:54]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Chico Freeman and Gary Thomas (ts), Steve Coleman and Greg Osby (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    Ravi Best, Ralph Alessi, James Zolar, and Baikida Carroll (tp), Ray Anderson, Joseph Bowie, and Art Baron (tb),
    Joe Daley (tu/eu), Bob Stewart (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.03.06; Peter Watrous The New York Times Jazz Review Oct 3 p.B15}


    98.09.28 • Sam Rivers' RivBea All-Star Orchestra: Inspiration

    1999: BMG/RCA Victor 74321-64717-2 (CD);
        BMG France 74321647172 (CD) Fr;
    2000: Grammy JPCD 2000318 (CD, Unofficial) Rus;
    2015: RivBea Music RB59238 (digital download)
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]
    • (V/A) Jazziz On Disc
      2000: Jazziz Magazine BJZJD (Magazine & CD)
          —Millenium Issue, January 2000 Ltd Edition

    September 28, 1998 / Systems Two Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY

    1. Vines [13:36]
    2. Nebula [11:18]
    3. Beatrice [10:36]
    4. Inspiration [9:41]
    5. Solace [11:01]
    6. Whirlwind [5:43]
    7. Rejuvenation [8:32]
    Jazziz On Disc has track 6.
    —RBA Cassette #191 is "Roughs 1 of 3" of Inspiration
     and has tracks "Neptune, Whirlwind, Tranquility, Vines, Beatrice, Nebula;"
    —CS #184 has "Roughs 2 of 3" and is dated 9/28/98 + 9/29/98."
    okay

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Chico Freeman and Gary Thomas (ts), Steve Coleman and Greg Osby (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    Ray Anderson, Joseph Bowie, and Art Baron (tb), Ravi Best, Ralph Alessi, James Zolar, and Baikida Carroll (tp),
    Joe Daley (eu), Bob Stewart (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {74321-64717-2; Jazziz On Disc; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #184 + 191; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 28 Calendar p.41}


    98.09.29 • Sam Rivers RivBea All-Star Orchestra: Culmination

    1999: BMG/RCA Victor 74321683112 (CD); BMG France 74321-68311-2 (CD) Fr
    • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]
    • (V/A) Calendar—This is My Music 2
      2006: Orlando Sentinel no release# (CD)

    September 29, 1998 / Systems Two Recording Studios, Brooklyn, NY

    1. Spectrum [7:22]
    2. Bubbles [8:27]
    3. Revelation [10:36]
    4. Culmination [8:12]
    5. Ripples [13:38]
    6. Neptune [5:53]
    7. Riffin' [6:26]
    Calendar—This is My Music 2 has Culmination track 2.
    —RBA Cassette #60 is "Roughs 3 of 3" of Culmination and has tracks
     "Culmination, Riffin', Ripples, Ripples Edit from C;"
    —CS #184 has "Roughs 2 of 3" and is dated 9/28/98 + 9/29/98."
    Culmination liners have "Neptune" mistakenly titled "Culmination."
    okay

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Chico Freeman and Gary Thomas (ts), Steve Coleman and Greg Osby (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    Ray Anderson, Joseph Bowie, and Art Baron (tb), Ravi Best, Ralph Alessi, James Zolar, and Baikida Carroll (tp),
    Joe Daley (eu), Bob Stewart (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {74321683112; Calendar—This is My Music 2; RivBea Archival Recordings CS #60, 184, + 191; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 28 Calendar p.41}


    • Steve Coleman Interviews Von Freeman, May 24, 2000:

      Von Freeman: Have you heard Sam's big band?
      Steve Coleman: I just...
      VF: Samski's out there, baby.
      SC: We just did a record. Me and Joe, we're on it. This record got nominated for a Grammy, actually. I was shocked.
      VF: Listen, Samski is out there, baby.
      SC: I know, because that was one of the first people I hooked up with in New York [79.06.22].
      VF: I remember that.
      SC: He's got some wild—Chico, as a matter of fact. Your son took me by the—he said, "Can you read?" I said, "Yeah,
        I read a little bit." He said, "Come on over here. Let's check out Sam—this guy Sam Rivers." Man, I ain't never heard
        no stuff like this in my life. I was like, what kind of...
      VF: I know, Samski, boy.
      SC: Like Mars music or something. It's like the impact—it even had a bigger impact on me than something
        like Sun Ra. It was like, out there.
      VF: I know. He, wasn't he on the fence last year?
      SC: He was here for a while, in Chicago, wasn't he?
      VF: Yeah, Samski.
      SC: What was he—was he playing clubs and stuff, or what?
      VF: He was all over. Samski is doing it, baby.
      SC: You know he's about the same age as you?
      VF: I know.
      SC: A lot of cats don't think that, because of his style and what he's associated with. He didn't come to the fore until the '60s.
      VF: When I go to New York, I stay with Chico. He'd always carry me to and from the gigs and to the airport.
      SC: Who, Sam?
      VF: Yeah.
      SC: I know he likes your playing a lot. He was talking—we've been talking about you.
      VF: He and I hit it right off, and Bea, boy, she is a treasure. She is a treasure. She really is.
      SC: She's crazy. They've been together for a long time.
      VF: Ever since I can remember.
      SC: Because they told me—they were telling me that they had Charlie Parker over for dinner. I was like—that means
        you all have been together for a long time.
      VF: Yeah, past—I think it's past 50 years.
      SC: Which is rare nowadays, especially for musicians.
      VF: Listen. Tell me about it.

      [Steve Coleman Interviews Von Freeman, Transcript pp.65-67, Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program NEA Jazz Master Interviews,
      Archives Center, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC]
      ———


    • 98.10.02 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts) /
      Duquesne University Music School Recital Hall, Pittsburgh, PA [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sep 11 p.4]

    98.10.03 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

    October 3, 1998, 8:00 & 10:00pm / Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    "2CDr [Audience] Recording exists."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts)

    {Flyers, handbills, and season programs, The RivBea Archive; Sergiusz Lipnicki 04.07.08; ticket stub; Courier-Post Oct 2 p.T9}


      : : : AKBANK 8th Jazz Festival : : :

      —98.10.14 - Sam Rivers Trio arrives from Amsterdam, 14:35hr.

    • 98.10.14 - Sam Rivers Trio Jam Session with Ilhan Ersahin Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ersahin (ts), Doug Mathews and Doug Weiss (b),
      Anthony Cole and Kenny Wolleson (dr), and possibly Roscoe Mitchell (as, ss), Hugh Ragin (tp), Leon Dorsey and Jaribu Shahid (b),
      Tani Tabbal and Gerald Cleaver (dr), others... / 23:30hr, Café Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
      —"I played with Roscoe in Turkey around that time and I remember having dinner with Sam. I don't recall [the jam session]."
      —Matt Shipp 19.08.02

    • —98.10.15 - Soundcheck, Sam Rivers Trio, 13:00-15:00hr.

    • 98.10.15 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop / 16:00hr, AkSanat, Istanbul, Turkey
    • 98.10.15 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts) /
      Akbank Jazz Festival, 21:30hr, Cemal Resit Rey Concert Hall, Istanbul, Turkey
    • 98.10.15 (3) - Jam Sessions: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ilhan Ersahin (ts), Doug Mathews and Doug Weiss (b),
      Anthony Cole and Kenny Wolleson (dr), and possibly Pharoah Sanders (ts), Okay Temiz (perc), others... /
      23:30hr, Café Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
    • 98.10.16 - Jam Sessions: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ilhan Ersahin (ts), Doug Mathews and Doug Weiss (b),
      Anthony Cole and Kenny Wolleson (dr), and possibly Pharoah Sanders (ts), Yildiz Ibrahimova (voc), Okay Temiz (perc), others... /
      23:30hr, Café Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey
    • 98.10.17 - Jam Sessions: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ilhan Ersahin (ts), Doug Mathews and Doug Weiss (b),
      Anthony Cole and Kenny Wolleson (dr), and possibly David Murray (ts, bcl), Oliver Lake (as, fl), Manu DiBango (ss),
      Hamiet Bluiett (bar, contra-alto cl), John Purcell (sxl, afl), others... / 23:30hr, Café Dulcinea, Istanbul, Turkey

    • —98.10.18 - Sam Rivers Trio departs from hotel at 3:50hr; flight to Amsterdam at 6:10hrhr.

      [Sam Rivers' festival lanyard, The RivBea Archive; Pozitif Productions tour itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive; Turkish Probe Sep 20;
      Wall Street Journal Europe Oct 16 p.15; Down Beat Jan 1, 1999 p.67]

      —Lineups for Jam Sessions projected from that day's scheduled ensembles.
       Billed simply as "Jam Sessions at Café Dulcinea with Ilhan Ersahin Trio."



    "Sam and Tony played as a duo in Uzeste [98.08.17] and came the idea of a duo recording. As I was good friend with the movie director Pascale Ferran
    who was not a jazz specialist but deeply interested in the process of what we were doing. We went to Orlando with a small movie crew. I produced
    the record and Pascale filmed it. The tv channel (Arte) wanted to shorten it but since Pascale was a successful director, she managed to get them
    respecting the original length. That was quite unique to have something like this at a decent hour on tv. The film has been highly regarded by
    reviewers (movie ones as well as music ones)." —Jean Rochard 19.03.22

    "When record producer Jean Rochard proposes to filmmaker Pascale Ferran to film the recording of a jazz duo CD composed, for the occasion,
    of saxophonist Sam Rivers and pianist Tony Hymas, she politely refuses. Her very partial knowledge of this music does not authorize her, according
    to her, to benefit from a project that would undoubtedly give rise to genuine enthusiasm from some of her fellow filmmakers and music lovers. It was
    therefore only after much hesitation that she went on December 14, 15, 16, and 17, 1998 to the Ocoee studio in Florida. The specificity of the project
    ended up winning: the two musicians have four days to, without any previous rehearsal, complete an album, the recording to be ready for printing on
    the fourth day. In his own words, Ferran sees in this closed session ‘a precipitate of the process of collective creation, an excellent opportunity.’"
    [Filming the improvisation: Four days at Ocoee de Pascale Ferran (2001), essay by Gilles Mouélic p.49-55, from "First part—1. Creation gestures,"
    in Filming the Act of Creation, by Pierre-Henry Frangne, Gilles Mouélic, and Christophe Viart, ©Rennes University Press, 2009;
    bookstore.openedition.org/fr/ebook/9782753527034]


    98.12.14 • Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee

    2000: ARTE France [Documentary Film at 1hr56mn] Fr
    —1st Session [See also 98.12.15, 98.12.16, and 98.12.17]
        —Broadcast "Music Planet" March 31, 2001 00:20hr

    December 14, 1998 / Storklake Studio, Ocoee, FL

    Acte I lundi: [31:24]
    —opening credits with brief snippet (p+ss) of Hymas' "Fajitas Winter Garden." [1:06]
    —set up, musicians arrive, sound checks [8:16]
    1. improvisation no. 1 + listen back [1:06]
    2. Glimpse alt takes (Rivers) [6:27]
     Rivers and Hymas alternate playing "Glimpse" chords on the piano,
     devolves into argument(s) over terminology and written form of chords.
     TH: "I mean, you can call it what you're calling it, but..."
     SR: "Tony. I'm telling you how it's written in the jazz world."
    3. That Which Might Have Been alt takes (Hymas) [6:39]
     Multiple halting takes + rising voices... or some other trouble, which ends
     with laughter after Hymas says "This is quite [bleeped] for being on film!"
    4. improvisation no. 4 + listen back [1:54]
    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3, ss-4, p-2), Tony Hymas (p)

    {Quatre jours á Ocoee DVD; Nato Producer Jean Rochard}

    okay

    Sam Rivers: "All right, it was the tempo more than anything. I didn't know what the tempo was, it keeps moving around, so if we keep
    the tempo straight then I'm straight. It has to be very precise or. Here we just go free, you know, one of the two, you know. We can't
    be in between for me, I mean, it upsets my thing, my equilibrium...
    Tony Hymas: Do you want to hear each chord or the beginning of the bar?"
    SR: "No, no, I just want to make sure that, I mean, we are in the same place at all times. That's what I'm trying to say."
    TH: "Obviously I try to listen..."
    SR: "We have to be not too fluid, Tony."
    TH: "Yeah, but, you know, I also listen to you as well while you listen to me, obviously."

    [Transcription of "Glimpse" argument segment from ARTE Magazine 31 mars through 6 avril 2001 p.7; pro.arte.tv/archives/bulletin/2001bull14.pdf;
    www.viennale.at/en/films/four-days-ocoee-sam-rivers-and-tony-hymas]


    98.12.15 • Sam Rivers - Tony Hymas: Winter Garden

    1999: Nato 777 769 (CD) Fr
    • Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee
      2000: ARTE France [Documentary Film at 1hr56mn] Fr
      —2nd Session [See also 98.12.14, 98.12.16, and 98.12.17]
          —Broadcast "Music Planet" March 31, 2001 00:20hr

    December 15, 1998 / Storklake Studio, Ocoee, FL

    Winter Garden:
    1. Twelve (Rivers/Hymas) [5:03]
    2. Sunset (Rivers) [3:26]
    3. Ten (Rivers/Hymas) [9:07]
    4. Rapture (Rivers) [4:21]
    5. Iris (Rivers) [3:57]
    6. Eleven (Rivers/Hymas) [4:35]
    7. Nine (Rivers/Hymas) [4:42]
    Quatre jours á Ocoee:
    Acte II mardi: [31:07]
    —arrival, discussion, snacks [2:43]
    1. Iris segment [5:25]
     prep, 1st and only take at 3:57, filmed seamlessly live and then during listen back.
    2. Eleven segment [6:38]
     "improvisation no. 11," discussion, 1st and only take at 4:09 (tracks faster than CD).
    3. Rapture segment [7:44]
     false starts, search for the right sheet music, released track at 4:21.
    4. Twelve segment [0:24]
     "improvisation no. 12," 1st and only take,  cuts out ten seconds in.
    5. Glimpse alt takes segment [7:11]
     "Glimpse (2)," shuffling paper, more work on terms, Sam at piano explaining,
     brief run-throughs, then deciding to do it "tomorow." Booth asks for a final free improv.
    Sam Rivers (Winter Garden—ts-1,4,6, ss-2,3, fl-5,7), Tony Hymas (p)

    {Nato 777 769; Quatre jours á Ocoee DVD; Nato Producer Jean Rochard}

    okay


    98.12.16 • Sam Rivers - Tony Hymas: Winter Garden

    1999: Nato 777 769 (CD) Fr
    • (V/A) Musiques—Eté 99
      1999: Les Inrockuptibles CD LI 9916 (CD) Fr
          —Les Inrockuptibles Magazine Issue No.207 Jul 1999
    • Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee
      2000: ARTE France [Documentary Film at 1hr56mn] Fr
      —3rd Session [See also 98.12.14, 98.12.15, and 98.12.17]
          —Broadcast "Music Planet" March 31, 2001 00:20hr

    December 16, 1998 / Storklake Studio, Ocoee, FL

    Winter Garden:
    1. Ahneen (Hymas) [5:17]
    2. Jennifer (Hymas) [4:21]
    Quatre jours á Ocoee:
    Acte III mercredi: [ ]
    1. Ahneen alternate takes segment [9:07]
     arrival and good mornings, Hymas mentions trying "That Which Might Have Been"
     and "Ahneen," they work the melody, two lovely head run-throughs, and a third oddly
     rambunctious version is tried.
    2. Jennifer segment [7:14]
     playing through melody, Hymas explains his composition, final 1:25 of released track.
    3. That Which Might Have Been alt takes segment [13:25]
     "That which might have been (suite)," more paper shuffling, Sam asks for the changes
     to be written out and wanders off as Hymas writes. SR: "These long days are getting
     to me, I can't have long days like this. I'll never do this again." fatigue sets in, they work
     through the melody, segment ends with the last five minutes of a "10 minutes?" take,
     Hymas: "It might need a bit of editing."
    4. Ahneen segment [1:37]
     "Ahneen take 6," listen back to opening 1:03 of released track.
    okay
    Musiques—Eté 99 has "Jennifer" from Winter Garden.

    Sam Rivers (ts), Tony Hymas (p)

    {Nato 777 769; Quatre jours á Ocoee DVD; Nato Producer Jean Rochard; inrockuptiblesarchives.blogspot.com/p/2000-1999-1998.html}



    98.12.17 • Sam Rivers - Tony Hymas: Winter Garden

    1999: Nato 777 769 (CD) Fr
    • Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Quatre jours á Ocoee
      2000: ARTE France [Documentary Film at 1hr56mn] Fr
      —4th Session [See also 98.12.14, 98.12.15, and 98.12.16]
          —Broadcast "Music Planet" March 31, 2001 00:20hr

    December 17, 1998 / Storklake Studio, Ocoee, FL

    Winter Garden:
    1. Glimpse (Rivers) [4:13]
    2. That Which Might Have Been (Hymas) [6:08]
    3. Impulse (Rivers) [4:40]
    4. Everafter (Rivers) [2:29]


    okay

    —CD track order
    Quatre jours á Ocoee:
    Acte IV jeudi: [22:42]
    —the day begins [2:09]
     early morning piano tuning, talk of hard-drives and archives with a 0:56 snippet (p+ss) of Hymas' "Fajitas Winter Garden" playing
     on the studio monitors, "Jennifer [take] 3" is identified as released track.
    1. Everafter segment [6:50]
     Hymas runs chord progression on piano, take 1 and 2 + listen back, and then a false start. Released track at 2:29 followed by discussion.
    2. Glimpse segment [6:49]
     talking changes, making decisions, a brief run-through, and released track at 4:15. "Brilliant, I think we got it," from the sound booth.
    3. unknown title tease [1:07]
     SR to TH: "Oh oh oh, would you want to look at this for just one second? We can't do it, but I just want you to look at it for one second there."
     They run through it. SR: "That's it! So, next time."
    —tear down [4:26]
     SR: "See you in the morning," talk of cassettes, Rivers leaves the building while Hymas plays piano in the dark, light fades on still of soundboard.
    —end credits [1:18]
     over a mix of released tracks "Impulse" and " Sunset."
    Sam Rivers (Winter Garden—ts-1,2,3, ss-4), Tony Hymas (p)

    {Nato 777 769; Quatre jours á Ocoee DVD; Nato Producer Jean Rochard}




    Sam Rivers / Tony Hymas: Four days in Ocoee: "For four days, [Director] Pascale Ferran followed the rehearsals, recordings,
    and passenger complaints between the two men and their happiness to play together... It's Jean Rochard, the producer of disc, which
    proposes to Pascale Ferran de film all the recording sessions. The director chooses to structure his documentary as a piece of theater
    in four acts—one per day—for better highlight the evolution of work.
    But the theatrical metaphor stops you're not there. The studio itself is divided into two spaces at once distinct and united: on one side,
    the recording studio to prop speaking, where both musicians play, contradict and inspire alter natively; on the other, the cabin in which
    stands Jean Rochard, the engineer soundman Gary Baldassari, and Bob Webb, his assistant. The window that separates them makes
    the studio a stage theater and cabin backstage, a listening place, the hole of the sufflur [sic].
    From time to time, indications from Jean Rochard come to guide the musicians work, bring another regard. From very different cultures,
    two men are not at their first recollaboration (they participated together three albums), but this is the first time they work as a duo.
    Disagreement, brief disputes, musical reconciliation, expenditure of pure energy, sudden fatigue, meticulous work: the music is born
    according to their moods and bonds that weave themselves gradually.
    Immersed for four days in a closed studio, the viewer has the privilege to witness the process live artistic presiding at birth of a music.
    —pro.arte.tv/archives/bulletin/2001bull14.pdf shoved, screaming, through GoogleTranslate.



    1999 : : :



      "Seated at his desk in his Central Florida home earlier this week, Rivers scrolled down his computer screen through an exhaustive internet
      discography created by a jazz enthusiast and admirer. Rivers laughed as he noted the astonishing range of musicians he has played with..."
      [Parry Gettelman "A Major Player" The Orlando Sentinel Jan 10 p.F12]


    • 99.01.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL [www.starbacks.ca/BourbonStreet/Delta/2370/tour.htm]
    • 99.01.16 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [Parry Gettelman "A Major Player" The Orlando Sentinel Jan 15 Calendar p.8]
    • 99.03.05 - Sam Rivers Trio / El Teatro Central, Sevilla, Spain [ABC Sevilla Mar 7 p.80]
    • 99.03.06 - Sam Rivers Trio / Ciclo Jazz, 21:00hr, Teatro Alhambra, Granada, Spain [Ticket stub, Doug Mathews Archive]
    • 99.03.11 - Sam Rivers Trio / 18th Jazz Festival, Nova Jazz Cava, Terrassa, Spain
      [Diari de Terrassa Mar 11 p.29 clipping, The RivBea Archive; "En la Cabaña del tio Sam" La Vanguardia Mar 18]
    • 99.03.19 - Sam Rivers Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others unknown /
      Rollins College, Winter Park, FL [www.scramblecampbell.com]

    99.03.26 • Sam Rivers & Julian Priester Project [AR—32:01]

    March 26, 1999 / Other Minds Festival: OM 5, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA

    1. improvisation 1 [7:46]  (ts)
    2. improvisation 2 [6:21]  (ss)
    3. improvisation 3 [6:48]  (fl)
    4. improvisation 4 [9:32]  (p)  —Actually "Nightfall" (Rivers)
    "These four improvisations are available through the Other Minds archive."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss4, fl, p), Julian Priester (tb), Tucker Martine (elec)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.12.24; www.archive.org/details/other_minds; www.otherminds.org/shtml/Concerts5.shtml;
    creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0; radiom.org}


    • 99.04.02 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL [Parry Gettelman The Orlando Sentinel Apr 2 Calendar 8]
      "Rivers has been gallivanting all over Europe and the United States in recent weeks, but he decided to stop off
      at home long enough to play a gig with his trio at the Sapphire tonight."
    • 99.04.06 through 99.04.11 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:30 & 10:30pm, (11th at 7:15 + 9:15pm), Catalina's, Hollywood, CA
      [Los Angeles Times Apr 8 p.F59]
      "I spent the evening at Catalina's for opening night ... they close on Sunday night." —Anthony B. Rogers, Miles-list 99.04.07, 1:21am

    99.04.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    April 21, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1. Maelstrom #299 [ : ]
    —This piece was composed for the Rovaté II Improvisers Music Festival in San Francisco on 99.06.25 + 06.26.
     This was likely a run-through so that Rivers could workshop the composition.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #28}


    • 99.05.01 - Sam Rivers Trio / Wailin' on Whaley Street Jazz Festival, Gallery 701, Columbia, SC
      [Mark Minsker production list at www.geocities.ws/eyelounge/concerts.html]

    99.05.05 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    May 5, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —MGA CDr has "Cinco de Mayo" and "Will's Full Sail students rehearsal at rehearsal hall."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp, Cond), probably Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Matt Gorney Archive C-60}


      99.05.00 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers, Doug Mathews, Anthony Cole /
      Fourth Annual Vision Festival, St. Nicholas of Myra Church, NYC [WIRE #183 May 1999 p.12]
      —No evidence anywhere that this actually took place. —RL

    99.06.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—66:55]

    June 2, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

     false starts "A-1" [0:04–0:12–0:09–0:13–0:27]
     "Okay, C" [0:10–0:17]
     "D-4" [0:06–0:26–0:24]  "Okay, we got it, we'll go from the top." [Sam sings the head]
     a sputtering attempt [0:04]
    1. composition segment [2:10]
    2. "Okay, B-3" [6:13–1:10]
    3. composition segment [7:53]
     a new section (tagged onto what came before) [5:09–2:05]  (ends abruply: "Whooooa, my fault.")
    4. composition [14:19]
     running a languid, down-tempo section [0:29, "What happened?"–2:08–1:11–1:00–1:02–]
     into a fast staccato section [0:07–0:22–0:22–0:23]
     running flute section [0:06–0:07–0:25]  (at end: "Okay again from the top," and he sings it)
     false starts [0:33–2:46]
    5. composition [7:09]
    —RBA CDrs have "Sam Rivers" with no mention of ensemble. This was probably a Wednesday Orchestra rehearsal.
    —RBA CDr #31 has "Evan Shafran" and an Orlando telephone number.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #29, 30, and 31; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.10}


    99.06.04 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [Full Sail Session Recording]

    June 4, 1999, 7:30pm / Full Sail University Success '99 Seminar, University of Central Florida Arena, Orlando, FL

    [6] compositions: Panorama (364); Montage (366); Incantation (369); Watercolors (370); Apparitions (375); Eudemon (377) [ : ]
    —MGA VHS has "ISO 2" and "Suits."
     "ISO 2 would mean that it was a multiple camera shoot, and that each video camera would have its own recording
     that could be edited later... —Keith Lay

    Sam Rivers (Comp, Cond), Brian Snapp and Shane Shanks (ts), George Weremchuk and Phillip Martin (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Chris Charles (bsn),
    David Irwin and Jennifer Blahnik (cl), Dalton Hagler and Doug Spoonamore (fl), Todd Beals, Tom Parmeter, John Castleman, and Mike Iapichino (tp),
    Pat Booth, Keith Oshiro, David Manson, and Dave Sheffield (tb), Mike Roylance and Claude Kashnig (tu), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {VHS Recording + Contract, Matt Gorney Archive; Session notes, and Seminar itinerary, Keith Lay 19.06.07, 06.27, 07.08, + 07.18}


    99.06.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    June 21, 1999 / Platinum Post Studio, Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL

    1. Arcs (290) [7:47]
    2. Curtains (291) [7:45]
    3. Patches (292) [9:26]
    4. Beads (293) [7:28]
    5. Peaks (294) [6:33]
    6. Colours (295) [5:43]
    —RBA CDr #32 has "Master Mixes," with compositions listed only by number; track timings from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #32; Anthony Cole 19.03.12}


    99.06.22 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—75:21]

    June 22, 1999 / Platinum Post Studio, Full Sail University, Winter Park, FL

    1. Arcs (290) [ : ]
    2. Curtains (291) [ : ]
    3. Patches (292) [ : ]
    2. Rows (315) [9:01]
    4. Streamers (316) [8:11]
    5. Rays (317) [8:56]
    6. Filaments (318) [7:59]
    7. Spots (319) [8:02]
    8. Sheets (320) [8:12]
    —RBA CDr #33 has "Master Mixes," and compositions listed in database ordered "290, 291, 292, 315, 316, 317."
    —CDr #34 has "Volume I / Disk 1," engineer's name "Darren Millar," and no track info.
    —CDr #35 has has "Master Mixes" and compositions on disc ordered "315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320."
    —Track times from CDr #35, others unavailable, no detailing.

    —Another rehearsal for the upcoming recording of these compositions for Aurora (99.09.01+02),
     though Curtains (291), Rows (315), and Rays (317) were not included on the release. Beads (293), Peaks (294), and Colours (295) are not listed
     (they may be present on CDr #34).

    On "Streams" and "Streamers:"
    "'Streams' is just a group improvisation stream of consciousness from Montreux given a title for the [1973] album.
    'Streamers' was an actual Sam Rivers Big Band composition." —Doug Mathews
    —"Streams" was only used on two dates, Montreux on 73.07.06, and a Quartet gig on 89.10.07.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #33, 34, and 35; Anthony Cole 19.03.12}


      Rovaté II: An Improvisers Music Festival : : : June 25 & 26, 1999

      —Sam Rivers conducts Orkestrova in his original set-long composition ‘Maelstrom’ (1999).

    • 99.06.25 - Sam Rivers Conducts Orkestrova: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Cond, Comp), Larry Ochs, John Raskin, Bruce Ackley, Steve Adams,
      and Dave Barrett (reeds), Julius Mendez, Chuck McKinnon, Don Beck, and John Birdsong (tp),
      Marty Wehner, Tom Yoder, and Toyoji Tomita (tb),Peter Warhaftig (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      ROVAté 2: An Improvisers Festival, 8:30pm, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
    • 99.06.26 - Sam Rivers Conducts Orkestrova + The ROVA Quintet: Orkestrova as above; The ROVA Quintet—Rivers (ts, ss), Larry Ochs,
      John Raskin, Bruce Ackley, and Steve Adams (reeds) / ROVAté 2: An Improvisers Festival, 8:30pm, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
      "Also played an improvised piece with ROVA on the 26th."

    • "Rova presented Sam on June 25 and 26, 1999, premiering his work ‘Maelstrom’ for big band. He brought Doug Mathews and Anthony Cole
      from Florida, and we hired local musicians for the rest of the band. [Attached is] a scan of the program which has all the names of the players.
      Not sure what the April mention is about. I don't remember him sending a recording... We also premiered quartet pieces by John Schott,
      Ben Goldberg, and Miya Masaoka that night, and I think we played an improvised quintet with Sam as an encore. I’m not 100% the personnel
      is correct—I remember the lead trumpet backed out at the last minute, but I think that it's the sub who is listed." — Steve Adams
      —The "April mention" refers to RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #28, marked "4/21/99" and "Maelstrom #299."
       No preview recording of the composition was made available to ROVA, so this may have just been a RivBea run-through
       during a Wednesday rehearsal so Sam could hear the piece being played. —RL

      [Cadence Vol.25 no.5 May 1999, p.140; Will Getter 03.11.21; Larry Ochs 19.03.08; ROVAte II Festival Program from Steve Adams 19.03.09;
      Bruce Ackley 19.12.14; www.bayimproviser.com/events.htm]


    • 99.06.27 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      7:30pm, Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz, CA [Santa Cruz Sentinel Jun 25 Spotlight p.15]


    •  99.06.28 - Trio arrives in Vancouver on Alaskan Airlines flight 367 at 1:10pm.


    99.06.28 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

    June 28, 1999, 8:00pm / du Maurier International Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —RBA CDr #36 is erroneously marked "Sam Rivers/RivBea Orchestra."
     If 'twere a Wednesday, it may have been a recording of an Orlando Rehearsal sans Rivers, but no.

    "The evening began with Rivers on soprano, Mathews on electric bass, and Cole on drums. Doug Mathews then remained on stage
    for an acoustic bass piece, followed by an extended Rivers piano improvisation. Finally, the trio regrouped with Rivers on flute,
    Mathews on bass clarinet, and Anthony Cole on tenor saxophone. And this was only the first part of the set."
    —Greg Buium CODA Magazine Issue #289 January/February 2000 p.7

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #36; Vancouver Jazz Festival Artist Travel Information, Matt Gorney Archive;
    WIRE #184 June 1999 p.16; Seattle Times Jun 17 p.H12}



       99.06.29 - Trio departs from Vancouver heading home to74.11 Orlando on TWA flight 590 at 12:05pm.


    99.07.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BR—76:12 & AVR—45:00]

    July 2, 1999 / Vienne Jazz Festival, Vienne, France
    —Radio France Broadcast "Concert de Sam Rivers et du Rivbea Orchestra."

    The RivBea Orchestra:
    1. Inspiration [13:39]
    2. Beatrice [9:33]
    3. Vines [13:18]
    4. Rejuvenation [10:55]
    The RivBea Orchestra + Steve Coleman's Council of Balance:
    5. [22:09]
    —Audience Video of first four tracks from an unremembered original source and a long-lost VHS tape. I've been doing this for a long time.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Gary Thomas and John Stubblefield (ts), Steve Coleman and James Spaulding (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    Stanton Davis, Ralph Alessi, James Zolar, and Jack Walrath (tp), Ray Anderson and Joseph Bowie (tb)
    Joe Daley (eu/tu), Bob Stewart (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    Steve Coleman (as), Gary Thomas (ts), Valerie Coleman (fl), Mariam Adam (cl), James Zollar, Shane Endsley (tp), Tim Albright (tb),
    Marshall Sealy (frh), Toyin Spellman (ob), Vijay Iyer (p), Anthony Tidd (elb), Sean Rickman (dr)

    {Soundfiles + Video, track detailing RL 20.01.20; Sergey Ivzhenko, Radio France Archive 19.12.21 + 20.01.09;
    Jazzman June '99 Festival Guide, The RivBea Archive; The Tribune Jul 1}


    99.07.03 • Sam Rivers & The All-Stars RivBea Orchestra: Music Planet—Un Nuit a La Villette Jazz Festival 1999

    1999: Co-production: ARTE France, Ex Nihilo ARTE FRANCE, Gilles Daude Director (Documentary Film, 52mn) France
    —Broadcast July 23, 1999, 23:00hr
    • Sam Rivers & The All-Stars RivBea Orchestra [BVR—84:03]
      —Arte and France Musique Broadcast "Planet Music" LIVE, Jazz Nacht, LV '99

    July 3, 1999 / Charlie Parker Room, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris Jazz Festival, Paris, France
    —Longer Broadcast is also circulating with an incorrect date of 99.04.07

    Music Planet—A Night at La Villette Jazz Festival 1999 [52:20]
     Steve Coleman & The Council of Balance [35:42]
     Compositions: Awareness, Anu, Tehu, Maat (opening credits and voiceover during first 1:39; SC interview over music from 9:39-10:59)
     program intro over RivBea Orchestra excerpts [1:06]
    1. Beatrice (Rivers) [10:06]
     Rivers interview excerpts over "Inspiration" excerpt [2:13]
     program intro to duo performance [0:43]
    2. improvisation [2:20]  (Rivers/Coleman duo)
     program end-credits [1:05]
    Arte Magazine says "This alternate set also includes the improvisations and compositions for ‘double band’ written by Sam Rivers,"
     but I find no other reference to this.
    —Longer video broadcast at 84:00 has a program intro; RivBea Orchestra playing "Inspiration (ts)," "Beatrice (ts)," and "Vines (fl);"
     and two 19-minute long Steve Coleman & Council of Balance segments with the the Rivers/Coleman duo improvisation between them.
    —"The Council of Balance performed first. After this, I performed as part of Sam Rivers RivBea Orchestra.
     Also, Sam Rivers and I performed as a duo, tenor and alto saxophones." —Steve Coleman

    Sam Rivers (ts), Steve Coleman, James Spaulding (as), John Hubblefield and Gary Thomas (ts), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    James Zolar, Stanton Davis, Ralph Alessi, and Jack Walrath (tp), Ray Anderson (tb), Joseph Bowie (btb),
    Joe Daley (eu/tu), Bob Stewart (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Paris Jazz Festival Program, The RivBea Archive; Un Nuit a La Villette Jazz Festival 1999 ("Part B") VHS, Matt Gorney Archive;
    Broadcast Video at 84:03; YouTube video #MsuTGu5Ia2o at 52:20, detailing RL; www.loc.gov/item/jots.200022893; The Tribune Jul 1;
    Steve Coleman 19.03.20}


    • 99.07.04 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Paris, France [The Tribune Jul 1]

    99.07.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—21:45]

    July 21, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1. composition [9:14]  —falls apart at end: "Uh. Where were we?"
     running sections (0:28–"Letter C, was that letter C?"; 3:18–"Beautiful"; fragment–0:30; 3:21–"I remember now"; 2:52–"Beautiful";
     "Let's try and find the tempo" (horns only)–0:31; "Try to get the right tempo"–0:17; (Sam vocalizing parts, the Orchestra plays it)–0:16;
     back to horns only–0:47; "That's it, that's it, let's take the last four bars again"–0:06; "Let's try it from the top"–0:59;
     Whoa! Let's all be together. Let's try the last 12 bars. I thought you had it memorized by now, man" [laughter]—and recording ends)
    Sam Rivers (ss, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #37; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.02}


    99.07.28 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—36:33]

    July 28, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [8:06–4:47–6:08–0:24–17:08]
    —Track times (5) from CDr, no detailing. First four tracks may be workups to track 4.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #38}


    99.08.04 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—39:52]

    August 4, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [12:31–9:40–0:50–1:38–0:14–2:06–0:23–2:17–0:14–0:17–9:32]
    —Track times (11) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #39}


    99.08.09 • Sam Rivers [RBA]

    August 9, 1999 / unknown location

    1... unknown [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #40}


    99.08.11 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—33:15]

    August 11, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1. Beatrice [10:54]
     section [2:39]  (falls apart at end)
    2. composition [6:30]
    3. composition [12:27]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #41; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.07.01}


    99.08.18 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—43:57]

    August 18, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [9:40–5:40–11:36–9:20–7:41]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #42}


    99.08.25 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—37:06]

    August 25, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [3:36–9:46–7:08–0:26–6:55–0:32–8:43]
    —Track times (7) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #43}


    99.08.28 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & DMA]

    August 28, 1999 / Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —RBA Cassette #44 has "Set II," #59 has "Set 1."
    —DMA DAT has "Last Dish," though the RivBea Orchestra does appear here once more on 00.02.25.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #44 and 59; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-94}


    99.09.01 + 09.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Aurora

    2005: RivBea Sound Company 48285 01032 1 (CD)
    2015: RivBea Music RB50103 (digital download)
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—81:23]
    • (V/A) 1999 Orlando Music Awards
      1999: No label, no release# (CD)
          —Compilation CD produced by Orlando Weekly

    September 1 & 2, 1999 / Studio B, Full Sail Real World Education, Winter Park, FL

      Aurora:
     1. Arcs [7:46]
     2. Streamers [8:09]
     3. Peaks [6:33]
     4. Spots [7:58]
     5. Patches [9:24]
     6. Filaments [7:59]
     7. Beads [9:23]
     8. Sheets [8:10]
     9. Colours [5:45]
      RBA Production Copy Vols. 1:
     1. 290 (Arcs) [7:44]
     2. 315 (Rows) [8:53]
     3. 291 (Curtains) [7:41]
     4. 316 (Streamers) [8:05]
     5. 292 (Patches) [9:21]
     6. 317 (Rays) [8:43]
      RBA Production Copy Vol. 2:
     7. 293 (Beads) [7:19]  (alternate take?)
     8. 318 (Filaments) [7:51]
     9. 294 (Peaks) [6:30]
    10. 319 (Spots) [7:55]
    11. 295 (Colours) [5:35]
    12. 320 (Sheets) [8:06]
    okay
    1999 Orlando Music Awards has track 9.
    —RBA CDr #16 has "Part 1;" #17 has "Part 2."
    —CDr #291 has "Vol. I," only composition #s as in order of tracks above, "Production Copy Only," and "Unmastered."
    —CDr [unnumbered] has "Vol. II" and composition #s only as in order of tracks above, "Production Copy Only," and "Unmastered."
    —CDr #292 has "Mixed and Mastered Final."
    —CDr #297 has "Master."
    —CDr #298 has "69138" and "Order #1," with ‘Sheets’ as track 4 (omits Spots), and ‘Bands’ as track 8.
    —CDr #299 has "69138" and "Order #2," with no order listed.
    —CDr #300 has "Master Mixes" and composition #s 290 through 295.
    —MGA 2CDr is undated with "Rough Mixes," one with tracks ordered 317 (take 2), 293 (take 1), 293 (take 2), 318, 294, 319, 295, and 320;
     the other with tracks ordered 290, 315, 291, 316 (take 1), 316 (take 2), 292 (take 1), 292 (take 2), and 317 (take 1).

    Sam Rivers (Aurora: ts-2,3,4,8,9 ss-1,6, fl-5,7, Comp), Rex Wertz and Charlie DeChant (ts), Jeff Rupert and Dan Boissy (as),
    Dalton Hagler (bar), Tom Parmerter, John Castleman, Mike Iapichino, and Todd Beals (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Jerry Edwards (tb),
    Willie Clark (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Aurora; RivBea Archival Recordings CDrs #16, 17, 291, 292, 297, 298, 299, 300, and 2CDr unmastered production discs;
    2CDr Production Copy, track detailing RL 19.08.02; Matt Gorney Archive 2CDr; 1999 Orlando Music Awards}


    99.09.03 (1) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—57:22]

    September 3, 1999, 12:00noon / Preston Bradley Hall, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago, IL

    1. Inspiration [11:48]  (dr solo—ts, elb, dr / incomplete, cuts in)
    2. Beatrice [6:13]  (ts, elb, dr—ts, elb, ts—ts, bcl, ts)
    3. Flame [1:12] —(ts, bcl, ts)
    4. composition [6:23]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr)
    5. bass solo [5:04]
    6. composition [5:56]  (ss, b, dr)
    7. Ripples [5:13]  (ss, b, dr)
    8. Nightfall [6:55]  (ts, b, p—p solo / incomplete, cuts out)
    9. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:31]  (fl+voc, elb, dr / incomplete, cuts in)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 19.03.17; Chicago Tribune Sep 3 Weekly Guide p.3}


    • 99.09.03 (2) - Afterfest Jam Sessions at Jazz Showcase: Steve Lacy (ss), Sam Rivers (reeds, etc.),
      Hamiet Bluiett (bar), "and others" / Chicago Jazz Festival, Grant Park, Chicago, IL

    99.09.04 • Sam Rivers: Quasar—Live at the Chicago Jazz Festival September 1999

    2015: RivBea Music RB52900 (digital download)
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & BR—62:18]

    September 4, 1999, 7:00pm / Petrillo Band Shell, Chicago Jazz Festival, Chicago, IL
    —Live simulcast on National Public Radio

    1. Inspiration [11:51]
    2. Beatrice [10:30]
    3. Melange [6:26]
    4. Impulse [12:12]
    5. Colours (Section 3) [8:56]
    6. Quasar [8:44]
    Broadcast Recording is complete, with track 6 split at 3:48.
    —RBA CDr #45 has tracks as above.
    —CDr #44 and 46 marked "1 Copy (Danger) / 4 various recordings taped together."
    —RBA Cassette #17 and 45 have tracks 3-6 above.
    —CS # 120/121 has tracks as above.
    —CS #224 has no track notes.

    okay
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Charlie DeChant and Brian Mackie (ts), George Weremchuck and Chris Charles (as), Hamiet Bluiett (bar),
    Tom Parmerter, Brian Scanlon, John Robinson, and Mike Iapichino (tp), Ray Anderson, Keith Oshiro, and Jerry Edwards (tb),
    Mike Roylance (tu), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #44, 45, 46, and 302, + CS #17, 45, 120/121, and 224; Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.03.18;
    Lloyd Sachs Chicago Sun-Times Sep 3 p.9; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 19 p.88}


    • 99.09.04 (2) - Afterfest Jam Sessions at Jazz Showcase: Steve Lacy (ss), Sam Rivers (reeds, etc.),
      Hamiet Bluiett (bar), "and others" / Chicago Jazz Festival, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
    • 99.09.05 - Afterfest Jam Sessions at Jazz Showcase: Steve Lacy (ss), Sam Rivers (reeds, etc.),
      Hamiet Bluiett (bar), "and others" / Chicago Jazz Festival, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
    • 99.09.18 - Longineu Parsons Ensemble: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Parsons (tp, flg, rec, voc), Lindsey Sarjeant (p),
      Neil Faison (g), Jeff Hanley (b), Longineu Parsons III (dr) / Jazz al Parque Festival, Simón Bolívar Park, Bogota, Columbia
      [Tallahassee Democrat Oct 13 p.4]
      "Other projects while in Colombia, including recording an album [unreleased] with his ensemble, which is due out in the spring... Also held
      a jazz clinic at the School of the Arts in Bogota." —Ray Fowler Tallahassee Democrat
      "Several workshops are held in the Leon de Greiff auditorium of the National University and in the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Municipal Theater."
      El Tiempo Sep 17

    99.09.26 • Sam Rivers Interview [AR—60:16]

    September 26, 1999 / Telephone interview by David Mittleman
    —Excerpts published in Miami's New Times Dec 9 p.93

    1. conversation [60:16]
    There are several excerpts from this interview quoted throughout this document. —RL

    Sam Rivers (answering the phone, talking, hanging up the phone)
    David Mittleman (tone-dialing, talking, hanging up the phone)

    {CDr}


    99.09.29 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—49:09]

    September 29, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [21:48–0:37–0:57–0:26–0:05–8:09–0:21–0:30–1:30–0:58–0:21–0:19–3:53–0:33–0:36–8:06]
    —Track times (16) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #47}


    99.10.06 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—29:48]

    October 6, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [1:54–17:35–0:17–0:14–0:35–9:13]
    —Track times (6) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #48}


    99.10.20 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—33:51]

    October 20, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [5:37–9:33–0:15–0:49–17:37]
    —Track times (5) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #49}


    • 99.10.23 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Sapphire Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Oct 22 p.84]
      —Reference has "Orlando Jams Concert," American Cancer Society Benefit, "with Sam Rivers, Wayne Gratz, Evelyn McGee Stone,
       Cristian Valenzuela, Parafanelia, One-Eyed Jack... Starting at Sapphire... and continuing at Le Provence/Monaco... and Kate O'Brien's."
      —Not clear if this was simply a multi-venue affair or if Rivers actually appeared at more than just the Sapphire on this evening.
    • 99.10.26 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL [www.scramblecampbell.com]

    99.11.03 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—57:09]

    November 3, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [3:07–0:19–1:05–0:11–0:18–2:07–5:18–0:21–4:19–14:38–2:07–2:05–1:25–1:28–18:21]
    —Track times (15) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #50}


    99.11.10 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—58:27]

    November 10, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [0:30–0:19–0:16–1:09–12:33–0:17–01:26–0:05–0:23–0:26–0:04–9:36–1:46–29:37]
    —Track times (14) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #51}


    99.11.17 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—44:13]

    November 17, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [1:09–0:09–14:07–0:21–0:16–18:36–0:12–6:33...]
      perhaps bits & pieces, after which they seem to have called it a night [0:17–0:19–0:21–0:26–0:16–0:24–0:28–0:29]
    —Track times (16) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #52}


    99.11.20 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra + Orchestral Explorations for 30 Musicians [BR—82:43]

    November 20, 1999, 8:00pm / Rogers Room, Keene Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
    —WLRN-FM Miami Public Radio Broadcast, December 1999
     "New Works Series sponsored by WPRK-FM (91.5) and The Civic Minded Five."
    —Announcer incorrectly dates this session as... well, he says "This was recorded, oh a few weeks ago, I believe, on the, umm,
     12th of November, though I could be wrong, it could be like the 13th, uh, I'm very bad with note-taking...". —RL

    1st Set: RivBea Orchestra
     Broadcast announcement [1:09]
    1. Melange [6:05]  (incomplete, cuts in at beginning) "A section of his composition..."
    2. Impulse [11:44]
    3. "Another 5 Minutes of a Composition I Played in New York" [8:37]
    4. Quasar [8:21]
    2nd Set: Orchestral Explorations
     Broadcast announcement [2:28]
    5. Incantation [9:19]
    6. Water Colors [14:05]
    7. Panorama [17:31]
    —RBA CDr #53 has "Set 1 ?" and is misdated "11/19/99."
    —Broadcast Recording circulating with a beginning 21:19 of unrelated jazz programming and a tagged-on airing
     of "Blossoms" [11:17], from Sam Rivers & The Winds of Manhattan: Colours 82.09.13.

    "All the compositions for the concert will be public debuts." —Matt Gorney, PR slip.

    RivBea Orchestra (16-Piece)
    Sam Rivers (ss, Comp), Brian Snapp and Shane Shanks (ts), George Weremchuk and Philip Martin (as),
    Brian Mackie (bar), Todd Beals, Tom Parmeter, John Castleman, and Mike Iapichino (tp),
    [likely three of these four:] Keith Oshiro, Mike Roylance, David Manson, and Dave Sheffield (tb),
    Claude Kashnig (tu), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)
    Orchestral Explorations (30-Piece)
    Sam Rivers (ss, Comp), Brian Snapp and Shane Shanks (ts), George Weremchuk and Philip Martin (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Doug Spoonamore, H. Dalton Hagler III, and unknown (fl), David Irwin and Jennifer Blahnik (cl), 2 unknown (ob),
    Chris Charles and unknown (bsn), Todd Beals, Tom Parmeter, John Castleman, and Mike Iapichino (tp),
    Keith Oshiro, Mike Roylance, David Manson, and Dave Sheffield (tb), Patrick Booth (btb),
    Richard Stevenson and David Hedgecoth (frh), Claude Kashnig and unknown (tu), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #53; 2CDr Broadcast, track detailing RL 19.03.18; Roster + Flyer, Matt Gorney Archive; Review www.ink19.com;
    Parry Gettelman "Rivers Keeps It Fresh" The Orlando Sentinel Oct 22 p.7 + Nov 19;
    Sonja S. Mongar "Rivers Delivers" Orlando Weekly Dec 8}


    99.11.24 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    November 24, 1999 / CFMA Local 389 Rehearsal Hall, Orlando, FL

    1. composition [16:14]
    —Track time from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #54}


    • 99.12.18 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      8:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Dec 17 Calendar p.12]


    1950

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    The 21st Century...

    2010


    IMG CODA Magazine Issue #289 January/February 2000 w/ interview pp.6-8

    00.01.05 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—7:50]

    January 5, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [6:06—1:44]
    —Track times (2) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #55}


    00.02.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—47:13]

    February 2, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

     false start [0:13]
    1. composition [18:24]
     working sections [0:38–3:39]
    2. composition [4:50]
     working sections [0:05 (cuts off)–0:26–0:50–0:20–2:45]
    3. composition [9:27]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #56; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.07.01}


    00.02.09 • Sam Rivers & Winds [RBA—30:10]

    February 9, 2000 / "1st Rehearsal," American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

    1. Zodiac [30:10]
    —This was a rehearsal for 00.02.19.

    Sam Rivers (ts, Comp), 3 unknown (ts), 2 unknown (as), 3 unknown (ss), 3 unknown (bar), unknown (bcl)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #166}


    • 00.02.11 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Side Bar, Gainesville, FL [The Independent Florida Alligator, www.alligator.org/edit/issues/00-spring/000210/e04.htm]

    00.02.16 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—66:22]

    February 16, 2000 / "Rehearsal," American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [0:30–21:33–0:30–7:31–20:13–16:02]
    —Track times (5) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #57 and 58}


    00.02.19 • Sam Rivers & Winds + Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—75:39]

    February 19, 2000, 8:00pm / Bush Auditorium, Bush Science Center, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL

    1st Set—Winds:
    1. Zodiac [35:57]
    2nd Set—The RivBea Orchestra:
    2. Images [7:40]
    3. Hurdle [21:17]
    4. Fireball [8:11]
    —RBA CDr #59 has "Winds;" #60 has "Big Band."
    —CDr #60 has the timings for 2nd Set only.
    —DAT #7 has both sets as "Zodiac Reeds 3 Pieces for 16-Piece Orchestra."
    —CS #181 has "1st Gen from DAT."
    —'Zodiac,' a brand-new composition for 12 reed instruments.
    —Set two, The RivBea Orchestra will debut three cuts: 'Images,' 'Hurdle' and 'Fireball.'
    —Track times for 2nd Set from CDr database, no detailing.


    Winds—Sam Rivers (ts, Comp), 3 unknown (ts), 2 unknown (as), 3 unknown (ss), 3 unknown (bar), unknown (bcl)
    The RivBea Orchestra—Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #59 and 60 + CS #181 + DAT #7; CDr copy of 1st Set, track detailing RL 19.07.01;
    Event flyer, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 4 Calendar p.7 + Feb 13 p.F2; Cadence Vol.26 no.3 p.141}


    00.02.25 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    February 25, 2000 / Covered Dish, Gainesville, FL

      1st Set:
    [5] compositions: Quasar, Beatrice, Nebula, Impulse, Rejuvenation [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [5] compositions: Inspiration, Cindy, Melange, Solace, Riffin' [ : ]
    —RBA CDr has "Rehearsal," though this is a Friday.
    —CS #117 has "Tape I;" #43 has "Tape II;" and both have composition titles.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #61 + CS #43 and 117}


      —Paris: February 27 through March 1, 2000

      00.02.29 - Soundcheck, 14:30hr

    • 00.02.29 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Banlieues Bleues Festival, 21:30hr, Cultural Forum, Le Blanc Mesnil, France
      [Festival program, The RivBea Archive; Itinerary + Flight schedule, Doug Mathews Archive; La Tribune Feb 24; www.banlieuesbleues.org]
    • 00.03.04 - Peter Kowald Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Peter Kowald (b), Michael Welch (dr) /
      Rollins College, 8:00pm, Bush Auditorium, Bush Science Center, Winter Park, FL


    • "Depart to Italy with Bob Moses Group." [March 2000 Calendar, The RivBea Archive]
      —March 2000 Calendar also has a concert scheduled on 00.03.21, but there are no other references.

    • 00.03.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts), Paolino della Porta (b), Bob Moses (dr) / Auditorium S. Chiara, Trento, Italy
      [Info from web-site, Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.23—Festival archive with personnel but no exact dates]
    • 00.03.23 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Teatro Verdi, Poggibonsi, Italy [ibid]
    • 00.03.24 - Sam Rivers Trio / 21:00hr, Multisala, Bologna, Italy [www.crossroads-it.org/crossroads_2000/eventi.htm]
    • 00.03.25 - Sam Rivers Solo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl) / 6:00pm, Sala Farnese, Bologna, Italy [ibid]



    • 00.03.28 - Depart to upstate New York.

    • 00.03.29 (1) - Workshop with Thurman Barker, Sam Rivers, and James Emery /
      Olin Hall, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY [March/April 2000 Calendar, The RivBea Archive]
    • 00.03.29 (2) - Thurman Barker Trio: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), James Emery (b), Barker (dr) /
      8:00pm, Olin Hall, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY [Poughkeepsie Journal Mar 24 p.6E]
    • 00.04.08 - Sam Rivers Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others /
      8:00pm, Sapphire Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Apr 7 Visitor Guide p.1]


    • 00.04.11 - Initial Broadcast date (10:00pm) for NPR's one-hour Sam Rivers "Jazz Profiles"
      00.04.13 - Sam Rivers & Anthony Cole / "Depart for New York [April 2000 Calendar, The RivBea Archive]
      00.04.14 - Sam Rivers & Anthony Cole / "Rehearsal, Lincoln Center, New York [ibid]


    00.04.15 • Sam Rivers & Anthony Cole Duo [RBA—39:10]

    April 15, 2000 / "Duets on The Hudson," Jazz at Lincoln Center, 8:00pm, Stanley Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building, New York City

    1. Impromptu (for Lincoln Center) [6:50]  (ss, dr)
    2. Ripples [4:27]  (ss, ts)
    3. improvisation [11:30]  (p+voc, dr—dr solo—ts, dr)
    4. Iris [12:18]  (ts, p—AC p solo—fl, p)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #30 + April 2000 Calendar; Sound files, track detailing RL 19.07.02;
    The Newark Star-Ledger Feb 21 p.27}


    00.04.16 • Sam Rivers & Anthony Cole Duo [RBA—38:31 & BR—20:02]

    April 16, 2000, 8:00pm / "Duets on The Hudson," Stanley Kaplan Penthouse, Rose Building, New York City
    —NPR Broadcast, "Jazz from Lincoln Center" with Ed Bradley

    RBA Cassette #208:
    1. Impromptu (for You) [5:34]  (ss, dr)
    2. Iris [3:38]  (ss, ts)  —Rivers says they're going to play "Ripples," but they morph into "Iris" instead.
    3. improvisation [12:15]  (SR p solo—p, dr—SRT voc, dr solo—ts, dr)
    4. Nightfall [10:43]  (ts, p—AC p solo—fl+voc, p
    Broadcast Recording has a "Nightfall" excerpt (the beginning 3:13) and Impromptu (for You) in that order,
     along with various excerpts under interview and broadcast voiceover.
    —Remainder of program, see 00.11.04

    "While they had provided lists of tunes for program notes, they ended up placing a few melodic landmarks within footloose improvisations."
    —Jon Pareles, The New York Times

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p, vib)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CS #9 and 208 + April 2000 Calendar; Sound files + Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.07.02 + 18.12.01;
    The Newark Star-Ledger Feb 21 p.27; The New York Times Apr 19}


    00.04.21 • Sam Rivers Trio [BVR—65:00]

    April 21, 2000, 9:00pm / Teatro Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy
    —Italian Television Broadcast, Jazz e Altro, io Italia Romagno

    1... compositions + improvisations [65:00]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Video; Tour notes, Doug Mathews Archive; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.23; www.crossroads-it.org/crossroads_2000/on-line.htm}


    • 00.04.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Crossroads, Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, Italy
      [Tour notes, Doug Mathews Archive; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.23; www.crossroads-it.org/crossroads_2000/on-line.htm]

    00.05.07 (1) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—60:22]

    May 7, 2000, 3:00pm & 4:00pm / New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, BET on Jazz/WWOZ Jazz Tent, The Fairgrounds, New Orleans, LA

    1. Impromptu (for You) [4:53]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. Ripples [5:28]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    3. bass solo [3:19]
    4. Firestorm [8:16]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo)
    5. Inspiration [8:50]  (ts, elb, dr)
    6. Iris—Solace [10:51]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl+voc, b, p—fl, bcl, ts)
    7. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [8:09]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    9. encore improvisation [5:02]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.01; 2000 Jazz Fest Program Book centerfold schedule pp.41-42, nojh.saas.dgicloud.com;
    New Orleans Times-Picayune Feb 13 p.A24 + May 15 p.E1; Hammond Daily Star Apr 28 p.19}


    • 00.05.07 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00 and 11:00pm, Le Chat Noir, New Orleans, LA
      [New Orleans Times-Picayune May 7 p.E9; OffBEAT May 2000 p.52]
      OffBEAT has "End the Fest in style with..."
    • 00.06.02 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p), + Trudy Morse (poetry) /
      8:00pm, Rogers Room, Keene Hall, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Jun 9, Calendar p.8; Joseph Hayes 06.12.16]
      —Double-bill w/ Cecil Taylor SOLO... and Morse read two Sun Ra poems.

    00.06.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR—62:29]

    June 24, 2000, 19:00hr / IX Warsaw Summer Jazz Days, Sala Kongresowa, Warsaw, Poland
    —Mistakenlyly dated 00.06.25.

    1. Impromptu (for You) [5:44]  (ss+voc, elb, dr)
    2. "Variations into..." Solace [5:00]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. bass solo [5:13]
    4. Inspiration [16:18]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr—dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
    5. Beatrice [5:04]  (ts, b, dr)
    6. Nightfall [11:12]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl, p—fl, bcl, ts)
    7. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [10:45]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.01; IX Warsaw Summer Jazz Days program, Doug Mathews Archive; Siegfried Otto}


    00.07.19 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—66:30]

    July 19, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [2:56–0:07–0:07–0:04–0:13–10:10–1:06–0:19–4:14–2:43–2:01–8:10–11:35–8:37–14:08]
    —Track times (15) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #62}


    • 00.07.29 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      9:30pm, The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      ["Rivers Rolls Back to the Sapphire" The Orlando Sentinel Jul 29 p.E2; Program, The RivBea Archive]
      —1st Set: Inspiration (#240); Flair (#266); Beatrice (#202); Bubbles (#281); Impulse (#289); Rejuvenation (#244)
       2nd Set: Quasar (#322); Spunk (#271), Solace (#232); Crux (#247); Nebula (#230); Riffin' (#277)

    00.08.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—32:04]

    August 2, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

     false starts [0:35–1:20]
    1... compositions [8:19]
    2. composition [9:40]
     running sections [0:22–2:16–0:34–2:21–0:42–2:18–0:44–2:53]
    —Track times (10) from CDr, no detailing.
    —RBA CDr #63 has tracks 3 and 4 with timings, and the other eight are blacked out on label, hopefully confirming
     my guesses without being able to listen to all of these...

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #63}


    00.08.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—57:48 & AR—63:43]

    August 5, 2000, 2:00pm / Caramoor Jazz Festival, Venetian Theatre, Caramoor Estate, Katonah, NY
    —Also circulating mistakenly dated 00.08.04.

    1. Impromptu (for You) [6:31]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. "Number Two" [3:27]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. bass solo [4:06]
    4. Iris—Inspiration [23:04]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—ts+voc, elb, dr)
    5. Nightfall [11:53]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl+voc, p—fl, bcl, ts)
    6. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [10:14]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #64; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.07.02; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.24;
    The Journal News Aug 3 p.G27}


    00.08.09 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—35:53]

    August 9, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [0:56–0:36–0:11–0:33–1:40–5:26–2:05–2:18–16:07–6:01]
    —Track times (10) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #65}


    00.08.23 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—34:06]

    August 23, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

     false start [0:18]
    1. Robyn (#401) [7:11]
     false start or count-in or... [0:08]
    2. Cindy (#402) [6:37]
    3. Iisha (#406) [5:46]
     working parts [0:51–1:03–0:54–0:23–0:35–0:09]
    4. #351 [10:11]
    —RBA CDr #67 has track titles above.
    —Track times (12) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #66 and 67}


    • 00.09.03 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      Brian Carpenter marries Caroline—The Carpenter's Wedding Reception, Sweetwater Branch Inn, Gainesville, FL
      [Doug Mathews 19.06.26; Brian Carpenter 19.06.30 + 07.02 + 08.10]
      "I don't think they played any wedding tunes except for maybe the ending. They played mostly ballads and some of his standards.
      I don't recall it getting really out there. I didn't give him any instruction at all, though." —Brian Carpenter


    00.09.08 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—35:21]

    September 8, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL
    —RivBea database and CDr both have this as Tuesday the 7th.

    1... compositions [0:05–5:22–0:04–9:21–15:15–4:55–0:19]
    —Track times (7) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #68}


    00.09.13 • Sam Rivers [RBA—24:46]

    September 13, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [0:11–0:21–0:20–0:21–1:57–15:49–5:47]
    —Track times (7) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #69}


    00.09.20 • Sam Rivers [RBA—23:48]

    September 20, 2000 / Rollins University, Winter Park, FL

     false start [0:28]
    1. composition [16:25]
     again [0:28]
    2. composition [6:01]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #70; Sound files, track detailing RL 19.07.02}


      8th Annual Cutting Edge Music Business Conference and Roots Music Gathering (September 20-24)

    • 00.09.21 - Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ed Moss (p), Amiri Baraka and John Sinclair (poetry) /
      Cuting Edge Gathering, Ashe Center, New Orleans, LA
      [outerspaceways.info/forum/saturn/27244 schedule posted 00.09.16]
    • 00.09.23 - Sam Rivers: (no personnel listed) / Sandbar, The Cove, University of New Orleans, LA
      [New Orleans Times-Picayune Sep 22 p.39]
      "Saturday night, Cutting Edge hosts the NewWorks Showcase with a Roots Party at Café Brazil and an avant-garde jazz show sponsored
      by Spyboy Productions, featuring Sam Rivers, Kidd Jordan, Amiri Baraka and John Sinclair at the new ROSY's located at 500 Valence St.
      The site of the famed 1970's Jazz club by the same name." —outerspaceways.info/forum/saturn/27244
    • 00.09.24 - Oral History Brunch: subjects are Deacon John Moore, traditional jazzman Bob French, and Sam Rivers /
      10:00am, Dooky Chase's Restaurant, New Orleans, LA [outerspaceways.info/forum/saturn/27244]
      "This event will close the Conference for 2000."

    00.10.04 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—42:08]

    October 4, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [7:56–0:12–0:18–0:14–1:16–11:23–9:43–0:22–1:46–1:37–1:41–5:42]
    —Track times (12) from CDr, no detailing.
    —RBA CDr #71 has "Rehearsal," is dated "10/4/00," and has "Will's Pub" as the venue, though Will's engagements did not begin
     until April 2004. This may be a misdated recording of an October, 2004 gig at the venue.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #71}


    • 00.10.06 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... / Florida Theatre, Gainesville, FL
      [PopCanon R&Rchive 2000: web.popcanon.com/RnR/R&Rchive2K.html]
    • 00.10.07 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts) /
      Two shows, Deland Artisan Inn, Deland, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Oct 1, p.K5]
      "The last time I saw the Sam Rivers Trio, upstairs at the Artisan Inn in Deland... [Rivers] was playing
      that show without a piano—the equivalent of one hand tied behind his back." —Jim Abbott The Orlando Sentinel Aug 23 2002 Calendar p.8

    00.10.13 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    October 13, 2000, 9:30pm / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —DMA DAT is dated simply "/13/2000 (Fri.)"

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), probably Jeff Rupert (as), George Weremchuk, Rex Wertz, David Pate, and Chris Charles (reeds),
    Lyman Brodie, John Castleman, Tom Parmenter, and Mike Iapichino (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Andrea Rowlison (tb),
    Mike Roylance (tu), definitely Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124}


    00.10.18 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—38:59]

    October 18, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL

     false start [2:26]
    1. composition [10:08]
     sections [0:08–0:20]
    2. composition [25:30]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #72; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.08}


    • 00.10.20 - Sam Rivers & The Rivbea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... / "New Works," 8:00pm, Bush Auditorium, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
      [Handbill, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 20 Calendar p.14; Jeff Rupert CV]

    00.10.25 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    October 25, 2000 / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL
    —Dated "Wed 25 2000," October being the only Wednesday the 25th in the year.

    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr, no database number}


      00.10.31 - "Musicians from Orlando's edgier avant-garde jazz projects (Beat Science, Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra, to name a few),
      will improvise sounds to great freaky films, including some David Lynch faves and weird computer animation."
      [The Orlando Sentinel Oct 30 p.B6]
      —No indication of whether or not Rivers was present.
    • 00.11.01 - Sam Rivers Web Chat / 7:00-8:00pm, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
      [The Los Angeles Times Oct 13 p.F22; www.jazzatlincolncenter.org; Press release, RivBea Archive]
    • 00.11.03 (1) - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: as below / Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC
      —Rehearsals and Rivers interview for Jazz at Lincoln Center program on 00.11.04.

    00.11.03 (2) • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    November 3, 2000, 8:00pm / Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —RBA DAT #1 is misdated "11/2/1996."
    —Possibly same compositions in 00.11.04 below. Program was probably not the same both nights.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as), George Weremchuk, Rex Wertz, David Pate, and Chris Charles (reeds),
    Lyman Brodie, John Castleman, Tom Parmenter, and Mike Iapichino (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Andrea Rowlison (tb),
    Mike Roylance (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #73 + DAT #1; JALC Chat transcript and program, Press release, The New Yorker Nov 6 clipping,
    + Rivers' handwritten proposal, The RivBea Archive; The New York Times Nov 3 p.E23}


    00.11.04 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & BR—57:32]

    November 4, 2000, 8:00pm / Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
    —NPR Broadcast, "Jazz from Lincoln Center" with Ed Bradley

    1. Willow [1:30]  (opening excerpt under interview and introduction [2:39], fades in and out)
    2. Images [7:06]  (incomplete, fades in)
    3. Beatrice [10:09]
    4. Monique [5:20]
    5. Monsoon [13:17]  (Commissioned for this concert)
    —RBA DAT #1 is misdated "11/3/1996."
    —Broadcast is punctuated with voiceover commentary by host Ed Bradley and interview segmentss with Rivers and Jeff Rupert.
    —Program included two Rivers/Cole duet pieces from 00.04.16.

    "Jazz at Lincoln Center will hold the world premiere of works commissioned from soulful pianist Eric Reed and fiery multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers
    in the latest edition of its cross-generational commissioning series 'As of Now' on Friday and Saturday, November 3 and 4, 2000, at 8:00pm in Alice Tully
    Hall. During the first half, Mr. Reed (a former member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra) will premiere his gospel-influenced work 'The Word of God'
    joined by jazz ensemble, gospel choir, and solo vocalist Roberta Gumbel, in addition to performing other original material. In the second half, Mr. Rivers
    (who performed a JALC duet concert in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse in April 2000) will conduct a program of his new compositions for big band
    with his Florida-based RivBea Orchestra." [www.jalc.org/jalc/news/archive/000927a-news.html]

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as), George Weremchuk, Rex Wertz, David Pate, and Chris Charles (reeds),
    Lyman Brodie, John Castleman, Tom Parmenter, and Mike Iapichino (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Andrea Rowlison (tb),
    Mike Roylance (tu), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #301 + DAT #2; Broadcast CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.19; Cadence Vol.27 no.8 Aug 2001, p.141}


    • 00.12.09 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      8:00pm, Sapphire Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Dec 9 p.E11]
    • 00.12.13 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: as above / Sapphire Club, Orlando, FL [www.scramblecampbell.com]
    • 00.12.16 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00pm, Voodoo Lounge, Jacksonville, FL [Nick Marino The Florida Times-Union Dec 15 p.E1]


    2001 : : :


    • 01.02.12 - Open discussion with Sam Rivers & Matt Gorney / "The Artist Against the World,"
      7:00pm, Classroom 109H, Full Sail Real World Education, Winter Park, FL [Poster, RivBea Archive; Matt Gorney 19.01.08]
      —"My lecture got me my job [there]." —Matt Gorney
    • 01.02.16 and 01.02.17 - Sam Rivers Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Jonas Hellborg (b), Bob Moses (dr),
      + The St. Lawrence String Quartet: Geoff Nuttall and Barry Shiffman (vn), Lesley Robertson (va), Marina Hoover (ce) /
      8:00pm, Muzik3 Festival, Sushi's, San Diego, CA
      [San Diego Union-Tribune Feb 16 p.E2; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Lawrence_String_Quartet]

    • 01.02.20 to 02.25 - Jason Moran Quartet: Moran (p), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Tarus Mateen (b), Nasheet Waits (dr) /
      Jazz Standard, NYC

    • IMG / Grammy Awards 43 [Invitation + Nominee list, The RivBea Archive]

    • 01.02.29 - Sam Rivers Solo (ts, ss, fl, p, voc) / Bezanson Recital Hall, University of Massachussets at Amherst, MA
      "The Magic Triangle Jazz Series, WMUA, 91.1FM and Residential Arts presents..."
    • 01.03.06 - Sam Rivers: (no personnel listed) / Harmony 2001, Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre, Osceola, FL
      [Peter Covino Osceola News-Gazette Mar 2; archive.osceolanewsgazette.com]

    01.03.16 + 03.17 • Jason Moran: Black Stars

    September 11, 2001: Blue Note 7243 5 32922 2 5 (CD) [+ Eur release]
    • (V/A) Blue Instrumentalists: Piano
      2002: Blue Note 7243 5 39890 2 6 (CD) Eur
    • (V/A) Jazz Chillout, v1.0
      2002: Blue Note/EMI 7243 5 37971 2 6 (2CD) Can
          [+ BMG Club Edition w/ Alt cover,
          + single CD (disc 1 of 2CD set) "Jazz Chillout, Volume 1"];
          EMI Music Canada 7243 5 39466 2 3 (CD, "The Jazz Chillout") Eur
    • (V/A) The Cool Breed Live Grooves
      2002: Blue Note Jazz Nu Jaargang 25-4
          (CD + magazine, Jazz Nu Series, Promo only) Neth
          —Appendix to the Dutch JAZZ Magazine, Year 25, Nr. 4 2002
    • (V/A) All That Jazz Blue Note Festival Edition 2003
      2003: Blue Note 07243 590074 2 7 (CD) Bel
          —"The above artists will perform at the Blue Note Festival
            Edition 2003, De Bijloke, Ghent"

    March 16 & 17, 2001 / Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY

     1. Foot Under Foot (Moran) [5:29]
     2. Kinda Dukish (Duke Ellington) [5:26]  (piano trio)
     3. Gangsterism on a River (Moran) [3:42]
     4. Earth Song (Rivers) [7:23]
     5. Summit (Moran) [7:07]
     6. Say Peace (Moran) [4:12]
     7. Draw the Light Out (Moran) [6:00]  (piano trio)
     8. Out Front (Jaki Byard) [4:02]  (piano trio)
     9. The Sun at Midnight (Moran) [5:42]
    10. Skitter In (Moran) [4:39]
    11. Sound it Out (Moran) [3:43]
    Blue Instrumentalists: Piano has track 2.
    All That Jazz Blue Note Festival Edition 2003 has track 3.
    Jazz Chillout, V1.0 and The Cool Breed Live Grooves have track 9.

    "I am reminded of the time when I was brave enough to call The Sam Rivers
    to join The Bandwagon to record BLACK STARS for Blue Note I looked at
    the mountain and started to climb on this one. The final piece in the video
    is pure joy, SOUND IT OUT." —Jason Moran
    —Vimeo clip has track 11 (beginning at 4:31 mark); at 1:29 in, Rivers hands off
     to Moran and goes to the booth with his flute.

    Jason Moran (p), Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,4,6,10, ss-5, fl-5,9,11, p-11),
    Tarus Mateen (b), Nasheet Waits (dr)

    {Blue Note 7243 5 32922 2 5; Jason Moran, FB 19.01.15; vimeo.com/11266926}

    okay

    okay

    • 01.03.20 + 03.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Sweet Basil, NYC [Gary Giddins Village Voice Feb 27]

    01.03.22 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—112:29]
      —WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 24, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

    March 22, 2001 / Sweet Basil, New York City

      Broadcast Recording:
      1st Set:
     1. Taurus [4:58]  (ss, b, dr)
     2. Ripples—Solace [5:37]  (ss, b, dr—ss, b, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Flame [0:57]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     4. bass solo [4:04]
     5. Firestorm [11:58]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—ts, b, dr)
     6. Beatrice [3:25]  (ts, bcl, ts)
     7. Iris [8:23]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl, b, ts)
     8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [10:22]  (fl+voc, b, dr)

      2nd Set:
     9. Taurus [7:47]  (ss+voc, b, dr)
    10. Ripples [6:50]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    11. Flame [1:28]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    12. bass solo [3:56]
    13. Firestorm—Impulse [14:48]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr—dr solo—elb, dr—ts, elb, dr)
    14. Iris [12:09]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl+voc, bcl, ts)
    15. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [9:53]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #74 (1st Set only); Broadcast 2CDr (Sets 1 & 2 only), track detailing RL 18.12.03;
    Gary Giddins Village Voice Feb 27}


    01.03.23 • Sam Rivers Trio: [RBA]

    • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—120:57]
    • Sam Rivers Trio [WKCR Archival Recording]

    March 23, 2001 / Sweet Basil, New York City

      Audience Recording:
      (1st Set Missing)

      2nd Set:
     1. Sunflower [7:12]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Solace [5:43]  (ss, b, dr—ss, b, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Flame [3:31]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     4. bass solo [4:27]
     5. Firestorm—Spark [17:05]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—b, dr—ts, b, dr)
     6. Twilight [4:12]  (ts, b, p)
     7. Iris [8:03]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl, b, ts)
     8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [10:52]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)

      3rd Set:
     8. improvisation [6:46]  (ss, elb, dr)
     9. Unity [3:39]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    10. bass solo [4:10]
    11. Impulse—Spark [21:44]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr—dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
    12. Iris [8:28]  (ts, elb, p—AC p solo)
    13. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [10:20]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —Rivers announces track 9 as "Dominant," but corrects himself afterward.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #75 (2nd Set only); 2CDr Audience Recording (Sets 2 & 3 only), track detailing RL 18.12.03;
    Gary Giddins Village Voice Feb 27; Ben Young, WKCR-FM Archive 07.07.31}


    01.03.24 • Sam Rivers Trio: [RBA]

    • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—110:39]

    March 24, 2001 / Sweet Basil, New York City

      Audience Recording:
      1st Set:
     1. Taurus [5:24]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Solace [5:37]  (ss, b, dr—ss, elb, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Solace [1:18]  (ss, bcl, ts)  "...again, off the cuff."
     4. bass solo [4:46]
     5. Firestorm—Impulse [13:30]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr—dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
     6. Beatrice [5:26]  (ts, b, dr—ts, bcl, ts)
     7. Iris [6:54]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo)
     8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [12:04]  (fl+voc, p—fl+voc, elb, dr)

      (2nd Set Missing)
      3rd Set:
     9. Taurus [7:08]  (ss, b, dr)
    10. improvisation [3:32]  (ss, b, dr)
    11. bass solo [4:34]
    12. Solace [10:13]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr)
    13. Impulse [11:07]  (dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
    14. Iris [3:37]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo)
    15. Nightfall [4:57]  (fl, bcl, ts)
    16. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [2:10]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #76 (1st Set only); 2CDr Audience Recording (Sets 1 & 3 only), track detailing RL 18.12.03
    Gary Giddins Village Voice Feb 27}


    01.03.25 • Sam Rivers Trio: [AR—66:50]

    March 25, 2001 / Sweet Basil, New York City

      (1st Set Missing)

    2nd Set:
    1. Taurus [5:46]  (ss+voc, b, dr)
    2. improvisation [3:39]  (ss, b, dr)
    3. Solace [5:50]  (ss, b, dr—ss, b, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
    4. Flame [2:19]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    5. bass solo [4:40]
    6. improvisation—Impulse [15:33]  (SR p solo—p+voc, elb, dr—dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
    7. Beatrice [6:12]  (ts, b, dr—ts, bcl, ts)
    8. Iris [10:59]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl, b, ts)
    8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [9:06]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)

      (3rd Set missing)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.03; Gary Giddins Village Voice Feb 27}


    01.03.26 • Sam Rivers Solo & Trio [AR—45:13]

    March 26, 2001 / Boston Creative Music Alliance, ICA Theatre, Boston, MA

    1. soprano sax solo [4:53]
    2. piano solo [9:08]
    3. tenor sax solo [6:58]
    4. flute+vocal solo [6:00]  (develops into Rivers' composition "Iris")
    5. trio improvisation [5:21]
    6. trio improvisation [4:58]
    Sam Rivers (ts-3,5, ss-1, fl-4, p-2,6, voc-4), Bill Lowe (tb-5,6), Syd Smart (perc-5,6 synth-6)

    {Digital files, track detailing RL 18.12.06; Christopher Carville 06.12.03; Cadence Vol.27 no.3 March 2001, p.36;
    Bob Blumenthal Boston Globe Mar 28 p.C5}


    • 01.03.27 - Sam Rivers Solo (ts, ss, fl, p, voc) / Triangle Jazz Series, 8:00pm, Bezanson Hall, University of Massachussets, Amherst, MA
      [Bob Blumenthal Boston Globe Mar 23 p.C17; The Berkshire Eagle Mar 23 p.D3; Cadence Vol.27 no.3 Mar 2001 p.136]
    • 01.03.28 - Sam Rivers Solo (ts, ss, fl, p, voc) / 8:00pm, First Congregational Church, Portland, Oregon
      [Notes on 2001 gigs, Doug Mathews Archive; The Oregonian Mar 25 p.F6; Cadence Vol.27 no.3 Mar 2001 p.136]
    • 01.03.29 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)
      + Steve Coleman (as-2nd Set only) / 9:00 and 11:00pm, Bruno's Cork Club, San Francisco, CA
      [Notes on 2001 gigs, Doug Mathews Archive; San Francisco Bay Guardian Feb 14-20 Vol. 35 No.20 p.74;
      Philip Elwood San Francisco Chronicle Mar 31 p.E1; Cadence Vol.27 no.6 June 2001 p.137]
    • 01.03.30 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00 and 11:00pm, Bruno's Cork Club, San Francisco, CA [ibid]
      —Steve Coleman may have made this night as well.
    • 01.03.31 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)
      + Steve Coleman (as) / 9:00 and 11:00pm, Bruno's Cork Club, San Francisco, CA [ibid]

    01.04.16 • (V/A) Visions—performances from the EMIT series

    2002: isospin labs (no release#) (CD)

    April 16, 2001 / The Lobby, St. Petersburg, FL

    1. Confluence [6:55]
    "Parker began the 1st Set solo, and Rivers joined him for the last piece....
    After a brief intermission, Parker and Sam Rivers returned [for the 2nd set]
    with Rick Adams on bass and Jim Stewart (of Shim) on drums." —Bob Pomeroy

    Sam Rivers and Evan Parker (ss)

    {Visions; Review by Bob Pomeroy, www.ink19.com}

    okay

    • 01.04.19 - Julian Priester Benefit: Sam Rivers and Bennie Maupin (reeds), Eddie Henderson (tp), Herbie Hancock (p),
      Buster Williams and Christian McBride (b), others... / Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA [Cadence Vol.27 no.6 June 2001 p.138]
      "Sam played as part of a fund-raiser for Julian Priester. He only played for a few songs."
    • 01.04.21 - Sam Rivers and the Duke Jazz Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Special guest Mimmo Cafiero (perc), others unknown... /
      17th Annual North Carolina International Jazz Festival, Baldwin Auditorium, Duke University, Durham, NC
      [The Raleigh News & Observer May 21 p.132; Metro Magazine March 2001 www.metronc.com/article/?id=758]
      —Webpage at www.duke.edu had this dated incorrectly as April 21, 2000.
    • 01.04.00 - "'Le Salon,' a group of mostly Orlando and Winter Park supporters of the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach,
      held its monthly get-together at Avalon Gallery. They were entertained by abundant wine, the Cansir Troupe, and Grammy Award winner
      and Orlando resident Sam Rivers. Rivers even led the 'salon,' Pied Piper-like, to the galleries in Church Street Exchange and to OVAL
      on Orange Studios and Gallery." / Arts District, Orlando, FL
      [Terry Hummel "Let's Brag About the Arts District" The Orlando Sentinel Apr 29 p.F6]
      —No exact date for this event.
    • 01.05.16 - All-Star Benefit Concert for Julian Priester: Sam Rivers and Bennie Maupin (reeds), Eddie Henderson (tp), Herbie Hancock (p),
      Buster Williams (b), others... / 8:00pm, Bimbo's 365 Club, San Francisco, CA [San Francisco Chronicle May 12 p.B2]
    • 01.05.19 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... "15-piece" /
      Tropical Heatwave Festival, 10:20pm, El Pasaja Plaza, Tampa, FL
      [Phillip Booth Sarasota Herald-Tribune May 18 p.6]


    • 01.05.25 - Depart Miami 11:10pm on Air France Flight 91 arriving Paris DeGaulle Airport 2:00pm on 05.26;
      —Improbable times above as given on itinerary sheet. It's a nine-hour flight...
      01.05.26 - Depart Paris 4:40pm on Air France Flight 1936 arriving Porto, Portugal 5:55pm.

    • 01.05.27 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), David Pate and Rex Wertz (ts), Chris Charles (ts, as, bar),
      George Weremchuk (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Lyman Brodie, Mike Iapichino, Tom Parmenter, and John Castleman (tp),
      Andrea Rowlison, Keith Oshiro, and Dave Sheffield (tb), Mike Roylance (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      Festival Matosinhos em Jazz 2001, 22:00hr, Auditório da Exponor, Matosinhos, Portugal
      [Jornal de Notícias May 29; Nuno Martins 03.11.17; Brian Mackie 18.12.05;
      Matosinhos em Jazz Program + Sam Rivers' festival lanyard, The RivBea Archive]

    • 01.05.28 (1) - Depart Porto 1:25pm on SABENA Flight 3812 arriving Brussells 4:50pm;
      01.05.28 (2) - Depart Brussells 7:35pm on SABENA Flight 2559 arriving Warsaw 9:45pm.

    • 01.05.29 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Sfera-Arco Club, Warsaw, Poland [Sergiusz Lipnicki 02.12.14]
      "After that I had the occasion to talk for a while with all three musicians. I have a ticket from this gig and a full set of photos,
      also my own short relation with two pictures [appeared] in the Polish magazine Zycie na Goraco from the 7th of June 1991 (nr 23)."

    • 01.05.30 (1) - Depart Warsaw 7:05am on Air France Flight 1247 arriving Paris DeGaulle Airport 9:30am;
      01.05.30 (2) - Depart Paris 10:50am on Air France Flight 90 arriving Miami 2:25pm.

      [Velibor Pedevski Hard Edge Productions Portugal/Poland Tour Itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive]

    01.06.06 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA & SBR—69:37]

    June 6, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

      1st Set (Rehearsal):
     1. Venus (#432) [10:23]
     2. Io (#433) [11:34]
     3. Earth (#434) [11:00]
      2nd Set:
     4. Inspiration [9:27]  (incomplete, fades in)
     5. Beatrice [9:49]
     6. Patches [9:03]
     7. Solace [10:13]
     8. Vines [5:20]
     9. Impulse [10:01]
    10. Rejuvenation [10:26]
    —Rehearsal tracks (1st Set) from one of the RBA CDrs; tracks 4-10 on circulating Soundboard.
    —RBA CDr #80 has "Where 2 Groove."

    "On Wednesdays throughout the entire month of June—maybe longer if the idea sticks—Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra offers a glimpse of how
    the magic happens. Rivers and the group take up residence at Sapphire... From 9 to 10p.m., the orchestra will rehearse new material on stage."
    —Tyler Gray

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant (reeds), Brian Mackie (bar), Lyman Brodie and John Castleman (tp),
    Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Andrea Rowlison (tb), Mike Roylance (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #77 through 80; Soundboard CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.05; Paul Bastien 03.09.11, 03.10.07;
    Tyler Gray "Rivers Will Flow At Open Sessions" The Orlando Sentinel May 18 Calendar p.35}


    01.06.13 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA]

    June 13, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    2 Sets:
    1... compositions [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #81; Tyler Gray "Rivers Will Flow At Open Sessions" The Orlando Sentinel May 18 Calendar p.35}


    01.06.20 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—50:59]

    June 20, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    2nd Set:
    1... compositions [10:17–5:11–9:54–6:42–9:23–7:15]
    —Track times (6) from CDr, no detailing.
    —RivBea CDr #82 has "Live" and "Will's?" [Pub]
    —CDr #83 has "Post-Rehearsal Set;" disc has first compositon (10:32) last because of issues with recording levels.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #82 and 83; Tyler Gray "Rivers Will Flow At Open Sessions" The Orlando Sentinel May 18 Calendar p.35}


    01.06.27 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—53:13]

    June 27, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1. Hurdle [17:58]
    2. Maelstrom [34:25]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #84; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.03; dialogue assistance Sandra Lopez 19.08.03
    Tyler Gray "Rivers Will Flow At Open Sessions" The Orlando Sentinel May 18 Calendar p.35}


    01.07.04 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop Residency [RBA—51:08 & AR—50:22]

    July 4, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    RBA Recording—1st Set:  (unknown disc#)
    1... compositions [13:44–12:37–9:17–15:30]
    Audience Recording—2nd Set:
    1. Bubbles [8:29]
    2. Blue Shift [16:38]
    3. Flair (#266) [8:44]
    4. Crux [8:22]
    —Track times for 1st Set (4) from CDr, no detailing.
    —RBA CDr #85 has "2nd Set Only?"
    —Sapphire schedule notes "Rehearsal 9:00, Live Show 10:00."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Lyman Brodie (tp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #85 through 88; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.06; Paul Bastien 03.09.11, 03.10.07;
    The Orlando Sentinel Jul 4 p.E5; Sapphire July schedule, Doug Mathews Archive}


    • 01.07.11 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop Residency: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b),
      Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... / 9:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Jul 11 Calendar p.E5; Sapphire July schedule, Doug Mathews Archive]
    • 01.07.18 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop Residency: as above /
      9:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Jul 18 Calendar p.E5; Sapphire July schedule, Doug Mathews Archive]

    01.07.21 • Longineu Parsons: Tribal Disorder

    2003: Longineu Music no release# (CD)

    July 21, 2001 / Phat Planet Studios, Orlando, FL

    1. Party at Von's Place [8:40]
    2. 13th and Blue [6:39]
    3. Too Tight [8:05]
    —Track 1 appears to have a backing track from a porn film. Honestly.

    Sam Rivers (ts), Longineu Parsons (tp),
    Lindsey Sarjeant (p), Neal Faison (g),
    Jeff Hanley (b), Von Barlow (perc),
    Longineu "LP" Parsons III (dr)

    {Library of Congress Classification ICD 19467; www.longineu.com}

    okay

    01.07.25 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop Residency [RBA—43:48]

    July 25, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1st Set: (Rehearsal)
     comedy-routine false starts [1:28]
    1. Pulsar [5:16]
    2. Patches [9:16]
    3. Streamers [7:38]
    4. Revelations [9:55]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, Andrea Rowlison, and Manuel Jeffers (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #89; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.28; Sapphire July schedule, Doug Mathews Archive;
    The Orlando Sentinel Jul 25 Calendar p.E5}


    • 01.08.01 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop: as above / 9:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 1 Calendar p.E5]
      The Orlando Sentinel Aug 8 Calendar p.E5 also has the Orchestra at Sapphire on 01.08.08, but notes on 2001 gigs
       in Doug Mathews Archive have Stanford Jazz Workshop from August 5 through August 12.


    • 01.08.06 - Sam Rivers Big Band Rehearsal: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), + John Ayala, Hitomi Oba (ts),
      Harvey Wainapel and Jesse Levit (as), Andrew Speight (bar), Fred Berry, John Worley, Chuck MacKinnon, and Anja Parks (tp),
      Wayne Wallace, Dana Leong, Jill DeWeese, and Chris Andersen (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      1:00pm, Braun Rehearsal Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
    • 01.08.09 - Sam Rivers Big Band Rehearsal: as above / 1:00pm, Braun Rehearsal Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
    • 01.08.11 - Sam Rivers Trio and Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr),
      + John Ayala, Hitomi Oba (ts), Harvey Wainapel and Jesse Levit (as), Andrew Speight (bar), Fred Berry, John Worley,
      Chuck MacKinnon, and Anja Parks (tp), Wayne Wallace, Dana Leong, Jill DeWeese, and Chris Andersen (tb) /
      Stanford Jazz Festival 2002, 8:00pm, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
      [The Metro Jul 5-11; www.stanfordjazz.org; Stanford Jazz Festival Program, The RivBea Archive]
      "The trio performed first—big band in the second set. 'Impromptu' [was the] opener (as announced by Sam), and 'Solace' somewhere in there...
      Sam did mention that one of the songs he played with the trio, was also played with the big band.... maybe 'Inspiration'? ...There was a great
      moment when Sam patiently inspired a very young and petite Japanese girl near the end of the riser, and gave her the most solo time. She must
      have been one of the workshop students and I think that several of the other players were as well."

      [Rehearsal schedule, Doug Mathews Archive; news.stanford.edu/news/2001/july11/jazzschedule-711.html; Ron Rubin 03.02.03 and 03.02.04;
      Cadence Vol.27 no.8 Aug 2001 p.139]

    01.08.15 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—50:32]

    August 15, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1st Set: (Rehearsal)
    1... compositions [6:33–10:27–9:40–12:41–11:11]
    2nd Set:
    6. Inspiration [10:57]
    7. Spunk [13:07]
    —RBA CDr #90 has "1st Set;" #91 has "2nd Set."
     Track times (5) for 1st Set from RBA CDr, no detailing.

    "With DJs Rich Henizman and Queso." —Not clear if this was a double-bill, or a merger.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #90 and 91; Soundfiles 2nd Set, track detailing RL 19.08.03 The Orlando Sentinel Aug 15 Calendar p.E5}


      The Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra = NOJO

    • 01.08.18 (1) - NOJO + Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dan Bone (ts, as, fl, cl), Sean O'Connor (ts, ss, fl, bar, cl),
      Jason Logue and Kevin Turcotte (tp, flg), Scott Suttie (tb), Paul Neufeld (p), Michael Occhipinti (g), Roberto Occhipinti (b), Barry Romberg (dr) /
      Markham Jazz Festival, Toogood Pond Park, Unionville, Ontario, Canada
      [Paul Neufeld 07.09.28; paulneufeld.ca/careerhighlights.htm; Michael Occhipinti 18.08.12-13; Toronto NOW Aug 16-22 p.36]
      "Afternoon concert outdoors."
      "[Festival director] Hal Hill presented NOJO with Sam, first time ever, at the Markham Jazz Festival, which allowed us to then book two nights
      at the Top O' The Senator in Toronto." —Paul Neufeld

    01.08.18 (2) • NOJO + Sam Rivers [RBA—73:45]

    August 18, 2001, 8:00pm / The Top O' The Senator, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    1. Forensic Evidence [12:48]
    2. Broad Daylight [5:12]
    3. Shadowed [5:48]
    4. 1st Day of School [7:40]
    5. Skunk Punchers [9:47]
    6. Prayer [11:23]
    7. Great Farini [13:32]
    8. Go Fly a Kite [5:59]  (incomplete, fades out)
    —Concert at prestigious jazz club, now defunct. Line-ups down the block of Victoria Street in Toronto.
     Brilliant, magical night with 16-piece NOJO plus Sam." —Paul Neufeld

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,4,5,6,8, ss-2,7, fl-3), Dan Bone (ts, as, fl, cl), Sean O'Connor (ts, ss, fl, bar, cl), Jason Logue and Kevin Turcotte (tp), Scott Suttie (tb),
    Paul Neufeld (p), Michael Occhipinti (g), Roberto Occhipinti (b), Barry Romberg (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recording CDr #276; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.03; The Globe and Mail Jul 28 p.R17;
    Toronto NOW Aug 16-22 p.36}


    01.08.19 • NOJO + Sam Rivers [RBA]

    August 19, 2001, 8:00pm / The Top O' The Senator, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —Packed house again, and pure joy from the band and crowd." —Paul Neufeld

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dan Bone (ts, as, fl, cl), Sean O'Connor (ts, ss, fl, bar, cl), Jason Logue and Kevin Turcotte (tp), Scott Suttie (tb),
    Paul Neufeld (p), Michael Occhipinti (g), Roberto Occhipinti (b), Barry Romberg (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recording CDr #276; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.03; The Globe and Mail Jul 28 p.R17;
    Toronto NOW Aug 16-22 p.36}



    01.08.22 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—41:34]

    August 22, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1. Pulsar [5:55]
    2. Spectrum [7:56]
    3. Melange [6:25]
    4. Blue Shift [15:39]
    —RBA CDr #92 has "1-4 songs of 2nd Set."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #92; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.28; The Orlando Sentinel Aug 22 Calendar p.E5}


    01.08.29 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—50:09]

    August 29, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1. Flair [7:50]  "Not the flare that goes up. This is the flair that, the way you, I mean, the way you deal, y'know what I mean?"
    2. "No title for this" [9:17]  (Perigee #231)
    3. Willow (236) [9:50]
    4. Monique [5:23]
    5. Rejuvenation [10:25]
    —RBA CDr #93 has "10:00 PM Set."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charlie DeChant (ts), George Weremchuck (ts, as), Chris Charles (as),
    Tom Parmeter, Mike Iapichino, Brian Scanlon, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Andrea Rowlison (tb),
    Bob unintelligible (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

     —Tuba player's surname sounded like a sneeze or the edible seed of a Brazilian tree.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #93; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.28; The Orlando Sentinel Aug 29 Calendar p.E5}


      "A weekly workshop with his RivBea Orchestra and a couple of turntablists to keep that all important groove.
      The DJs, Rich Henizman and Queso..." [Bob Weinberg "Rivers' Flow" City Link Sep 5 pp.65-66]

    01.09.05 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—56:52 & AR—56:51]

    September 5, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    Audience Recording (12:00pm Set):
    1. Jubilation [6:03]
    2. Monsoon [14:16]
    3. Cindy [6:22]
    4. Streamers [8:00]
    5. "Selection from the Double Orchestra" [3:20]
    6. Jubilee [7:02]  (with extensive SR introductions)
    —RBA CDr #94 has "10:00 PM Set;" #95 has "12:00 AM Set."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate (ts), Brian Mackie (bar), Lyman Brodie, Mike Iapichino, Tom Parmenter, and John Castleman (tp),
    Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, Andrea Rowlison, and Manuel Jeffers [?] (tb), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #94 and 95; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.07;
    Paul Bastien 03.09.11 + 10.07; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 5 Calendar p.E5}


    • 01.09.10 - Sam Rivers Lecture / 7:00pm, Borders Book and Music, Fort Lauderdale, FL
      [Bob Weinberg "Rivers' Flow" City Link Sep 5 pp.65-66]

    01.09.12 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—50:06]

    September 12, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1. Flair [7:40]
    2. #339 Orchestra I [8:04]  "Written for two Orchestras, but we only have room here for one... In progess, something like that."
    3. Monique [5:51]
    4. Rays [9:39]
    5. composition [10:12]
    —RBA CDr #96 was noted as "empty;"
     CDr #97 has "10:00 PM Set;"
     CDr #180 has "10:00 PM Set," and was misdated "9/12/2005," obviously switched at birth with empty case #96.
    —Personnel from SR introductions during last piece.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and unintelligible (ts), George Weremchuk and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Mike Iapichino, John Castleman, Tom Parmeter, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, andAndrea Rowlison (tb),
    Bob unintelligible again (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #96 (180) and 97; Soundfiles 2nd Set, track detailing RL 19.08.03; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 12 Calendar p.D5}


    • 01.09.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Kanjiza Jazz Festival, Kanjiza, Yugoslavia [www.hardedge.tv/tour01.html]

    01.09.19 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—26:10]

    September 19, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [5:01–14:41–6:28]
    —RBA CDr #98 has "12:00 AM Set;" no detailing on (3) track times.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #98; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 19 Calendar p.E5}


    01.09.26 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—38:21]

    September 26, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [5:07–4:46–14:22–14:06]
    —RBA CDr #99 has "10PM Set;" no detailing on (4) track times.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #99; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 26 Calendar p.E5}


    • 01.10.03 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop / 9:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Sep 26 Calendar p.E5]

    01.10.06 • Jason Moran and The Bandwagon [AR—94:40]

    October 6, 2001, 8:00pm / Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

     1. improvisation [9:32]  (piano trio)
     2. improvisation [8:58]  (piano trio)
     3. Foot Under Foot (Moran) [11:04]
     4. Gangsterism on a River (Moran) [4:27]
     5. Inspiration (Rivers) [9:39]
     6. Say Peace (Moran) [4:35]
     7. Out Front (Jaki Byard) [6:10]  (piano solo)
     8. Unity (Rivers) [7:12]
     9. The Sun at Midnight (Moran) [10:53]
    10. Inspiration—reprise (Rivers) [4:25]  (incomplete, cuts in)
      standing ovation [2:00+++]
    11. Unity—reprise (Rivers) [7:51]
    —Track 1 has a pre-recorded intro (1:05) of a simple plucked guitar theme with theatrical voiceover, percussion snippets,
     a Public Enemy sample, electronics, and a brief intro of Rivers with a tenor phrase. (Fades out as Moran begins playing.)

    Jason Moran (p), Sam Rivers (ts-3,4,5,6,10, ss-8,11, fl-9), Scott Colley (b), Nasheet Waits (dr)

    {Programs, The RivBea Archive; 2CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.08; The Des Moines Register Sep 30 p.3F}


    01.10.10 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—58:56]

    October 10, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [14:09–5:22–5:42–17:43–6:47–9:13]
    —RBA CDr #101 has "10:00 PM Set" and "The RivBea Orchestra Workshop;" no detailing on (6) track times.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #101; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 10 Calendar p.E5}


    • 01.10.13 - Orlando Music Awards: "With Sam Rivers, Roger McGuinn, the Joint Chiefs, Swamburger, Rico Monaco & Sol Sons,
      Cider, Grumpy*, Junkie Rush, and special guests." / 8:00pm, Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Oct 13 p.E10]

    01.10.24 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA—46:40]

    October 24, 2001, 8:00pm / The Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
    —"In a joint concert" with Sex Mob.

    1... compositions [14:31–6:00–7:35–9:50–8:44]
    —Track times (5) from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Matt Gorney Archive CDr; Poster, Doug Mathews Archive;
    Jim Abbott "Sex Mob: Pop With Jazz Credibility" The Orlando Sentinel Oct 19 Calendar p.8}


      01.10.27 - Depart Miami 4:00pm on Lufthansa Flight 463 arriving Frankfurt 5:50am on 10.28;
      01.10.28 - Depart Frankfurt 9:10am on Lufthansa Flight 4264 arriving Lisbon 11:10am.

    01.10.29 • Sam Rivers Trio [BVR—28:00]

    October 29, 2001, 9:30 + 11:00pm / 6th Seixal Jazz 2001 Festival, Auditório Municipal do Forum Cultural do Seixal, Seixal, Portugal

    7. excerpts of compositions + improvisations [28:00]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, bass, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {www.cm-seixal.pt/seixaljazz/conteudos/documents; Nuno Martins 03.11.17; Heinrich Smejkal 03.07.25}



      01.11.01 (1) - Depart Lisbon 2:20pm on TAP Air Flight 5576 arriving Frankfurt 6:20pm;
      01.11.01 (2) - Depart Frankfurt 7:30pm on TAP Air Flight 778 arriving Helsinki 11:00pm.

    • 01.11.02 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, bass, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Tampere Jazz Happening, 9:30, Old Customs House Hall (Pakkahuone), Tampere, Finland
      [Notes on 2001 gigs, Doug Mathews Archive; Jukka Hauru review Helsingin Sanomat Nov 5 p.11]

    • 01.11.03 (1) - Depart Helsinki 6:50am on Lufthansa Flight 3029 arriving Frankfurt 8:45am;
      01.11.03 (2) - Depart Frankfurt 10:00am on Lufthansa Flight 462 arriving Miami 2:10pm. [as given]

      [Velibor Pedevski Hard Edge Productions Portugal/Finland Tour Itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive]


    • 01.11.10 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      Sass-O-Jazz Festival, 4:30pm, Heritage Square Park, Orlando, FL
      [Stage plot email, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 9 Calendar p.13]

    01.11.14 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—113:08]

    November 14, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

      10:00pm Set:
    1... compositions [8:18–15:05–17:52–13:12–12:00]
      Midnight Set:
    1... compositions [8:12–7:51–12:44–16:41]
    —RBA CDr #102 has "10:00 PM Set;" #103 has "12:00 AM Set;" track times (9) friom CDrs, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #102 and 103; Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 14 Calendar p.E5}


    01.11.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—43:17]

    November 21, 2001, 9:00pm / Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL

      2nd Set:
    1... compositions [7:08–18:42–10:29–6:58]
    —RBA CDr #104 has "10:00 PM Set;" track times (4) from CDr, no detailing.
    —CDr #105 has "Trio". Not clear if this is another Orchestra set; or an actual Trio set.
     Only one physical CDr was located.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #104 and 105; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 21 Calendar p.E5}


    • 01.11.28 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop / 9:00pm, Sapphire Supper Club, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Nov 28 Calendar p.E5]

    01.12.04 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    December 4, 2001 / unknown venue, unknown locale

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, bass, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-125}


    01.12.11 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—42:14]

    December 11, 2001 / WUCF-FM Studios, Orlando, FL
    —WUCF-FM Live Broadcast

    1. Torch [3:38]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. Twilight [3:25]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. Bouquet [5:34]  (p, b, dr)
    4. Beatrice [3:35]  (ts+voc, bcl, ts)
    5. Rapture [4:41]  (ts, b, p)
    6. Ever After [4:55]  (ts, elb, dr)
    7. Iris [4:36]  (fl, bcl, ts)
    8. Xtemporaneous [2:49]  (fl, bcl, ts)
    9. Out, w/ introductions [8:28]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)  —Cole begins with "Are we there yet?"
    —Central Florida Archive had track 7 as "Firestorm."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #106; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.28;
    Jazz Collection, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida, richesmi.cah.ucf.edu, Archive items #4826-4834}


    • 01.12.12 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      9:00pm, The Social (formerly Sapphire), Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Dec 7 Calendar p.45]

    01.12.19 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop [RBA—113:08]

    December 19, 2001, 9:00pm / The Social, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —RBA CDr #107 has ""RivBea Orchestra," and is dated "12/18/01."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #107; The Orlando Sentinel Dec 19 p.E5}


    • 01.12.26 - Sam Rivers Orchestra / 9:00pm, The Social, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Dec 26 p.D5]

    2002 : : :


    02.01.03 • Fluid Motion: Fluid Motion

    2002: isospin labs iso-42057 (CD)

    January 3, 2002 / Springs Theatre, Tampa, FL

    1. Fluid Motion [7:07]
    2. Poodle Science [4:53]
    3. Tephlon [6:13]
    4. Whispers [6:48]
    5. Pengquan [7:29]
    6. Crossdrift [7:09]
    7. Following [5:14]
    8. Tangents [5:28]
    Sam Rivers (ts-2,3,5,6,8, ss-1,4,7), Jonathan Powell (tp),
    David Manson (tb, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {iso-42057}

    okay

    02.01.14 + 01.15 • Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Blues

    2002: Tzadik TZ 7164 (CD, Radical Jewish Culture-64)
    • Steve Bernstein Project [DMA—87:00+]

    January 14 & 15, 2002 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Orlando, FL

     1. V'Lirushalayim Irchu (Koussevitsky) [9:14]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
     2. Blessing (traditional) [3:08]  (ts, sl-tp, b, dr)
     3. Aveenu Malkenu (traditional) [5:51]  (ts, sl-tp, bcl, ts)
     4. Commentary (Bernstein) [2:16]  (sl-tp + dr duo)
      Lucky—take 1—8:06
     5. Lucky (Bernstein) [7:22]  (fl, tp, b, dr—take 2)
     6. Misratze B'Rachamim (Koussevitsky) [12:41]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
      Chant—take 1—5:02
     7. Chant (Bernstein) [6:05]  (ss, tp, b, dr—take 2)
     8. Commentary II (Bernstein) [1:56]  (sl-tp + b duo)
     9. Post (Bernstein) [2:55]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
    10. N'Kadesh Oz B'Kol (Koussevitsky) [5:53]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
      Ribino Shel Olom—take 1—5:30
    11. Ribino Shel Olom (Koussevitsky) [5:54]  (ts, tp, bcl, ts—take 2)
    —DMA CDr has "11 tracks (with only 2nd takes when '2')."
    —Session log order: V'Lirushalayim; Chant [tk1+2]; Misratze; "Lucky 7" [tk1+2];
     Post; N'Kadesh; Ribino [tk1+2]; Aveena; "Last Duet" [Commentary];
     and "Last Duet" [Commentary II].
    —Tracks 1, 6, 10, and 11 are based on the transcripts of Cantor Moshe Koussevitsky.
    okay

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Steven Bernstein (tp, sl-tp, Arr), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {TZ 7164; Doug Mathews Archive "Steve Bernstein Project Tapes" (2 unknown media) + CDr + Session log; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.11;
    venue from Jim Abbott in The Orlando Sentinel Aug 23 Calendar p.8}


    • 02.01.25 - Sam Rivers in Conversation with Jeff Rupert / Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities,
      8:00pm, Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School, Orlando, FL
      [Program, The RivBea Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Jan 18 Calendar p.38]
    • 02.02.01 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      9:00pm, The Social, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Feb 1 Calendar p.39]


      JazzMaster Tour 2002 : : : February 9 through March 15, 2002

      "In February and March 2002, SAF will undertake it's fourth Jazz Master Tour featuring the Sam Rivers Trio. The tour will conduct activities
      (residencies and/or concerts) in each of SAF's nine states. The project, funded in part by an NEA grant, will bring additional public recognition
      to this master jazz artist as well as provide much needed educational outreach to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other colleges,
      universities, high schools, and middle schools."
      —Southern Arts Federation Newsletter SouthARTS January/February 2002 p.1 + complete schedule p.11

    02.02.09 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—73:07]

    February 9, 2002, 8:00pm / Singletary Center for the Arts, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

    1... compositions + improvisations [18:05–6:15–35:10–2:20–0:57–4:18–3:40–2:22]
    —Track times (8) taken from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Doug Mathews Archive CDr; www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf; The Courier-Journal Feb 8 Weekend Extra p.16}


    • 02.02.10 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY [ibid]
    • 02.02.11 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / Jazz Arts Foundation Youth Jazz Band, Lexington, KY [ibid]
    • 02.02.12 + 02.13 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN [ibid]
    • 02.02.14 + 02.15 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC [ibid]

    02.02.16 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—49:55+]

    February 16, 2002, 8:00pm / ArtsCenter Carrboro, Carrboro, NC

    2nd Set:
    1... compositions + improvisations [23:52–8:59–17:04]
    —RBA CDr #108 is listed as "Soundcheck and Set 1 / Mix #2;" #109 is "Set 2."
     Both have "Southern Arts Tour."
    —Track times (3) for 2nd Set only from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #108 and 109; Southern Arts Federation Newsletter SouthARTS January/February 2002 p.1 + complete schedule p.11}


    • 02.02.19 + 02.20 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
      [www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf]
    • 02.02.21 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00pm, Gallery 701, Olympia Armory, Columbia, SC
      [www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf; Free Times Feb 20-26 p.25]

    02.02.23 • Sam Rivers Trio [AVR—93:06]

    February 23, 2002, 8:00pm / SAF-Euphonic Productions, First Existentialist Congregation, Candler Park, Atlanta, GA

      1st Set:
     1. Impromptu (for You) [6:37]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Solace [7:06]  (ss, elb, dr—p, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. bass solo [4:03]
     4. Impulse [12:46]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—voc, dr—ts, b, dr)
     5. Nightfall [3:13]  (ts, b, p)
     6. Iris [5:18]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl, b, dr)
     7. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [7:05]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
      2nd Set:
     8. Dominant [3:05]  (ss, bcl, ts, incomplete, fades in)
     9. Ripples [6:06]  (ss, b, dr—p, b, dr—ss, b, dr)
    10. Medley [14:15]  (b, dr—p, b, dr—SR p solo—p, b, dr—ts, b, dr)
    11. Beatrice [4:49]  (ts, b, dr)
    12. improvisation [5:24]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p)
    13. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [7:04]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    "The Feb. 23, 2002 concert in Atlanta was recorded by Euphonic Productions." —Jeff Crompton

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts), unknown others...

    {Euphonic Productions Archival Video Recording, YouTube vide YZnpg8H-ens, track detailing RL 19.03.16; Jeff Crompton 04.07.31;
    www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf; Steve Dollar "Resurgent Elders of Jazz Atlanta-Bound" The Atlanta Constitution Feb 17 p.L1}


    • 02.02.25 + 02.26 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
      [www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf]
    • 02.02.27 + 02.28 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL [ibid]
    • 02.03.01 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / "Informance," Baldwin Performing Arts Magnet Middle School, Montgomery, AL [ibid]
    • 02.03.04 to 03.06 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / Jackson State University, Jackson, MS [ibid]
    • 02.03.07 + 03.08 (1) - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / Southern University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA [ibid]

    02.03.08 • Sam Rivers Trio with The New Orleans Naked Orchestra [RBA—53:27]

    March 8, 2002, 6:00pm / Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    —This appearance was not part of the JazzMaster Tour 2002 itinerary.

    1. composition [53:26]
    "Performing Rivers' compositions." —I only hear one long piece. —RL

    Sam Rivers (Cond, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr),
    + The Naked Orchestra: probably Dr. James "Jimbo" P. Walsh (Cond), Tim Green (ts), Joe Cabral (ts, bar), Doug Miller (ts, bar, fl),
    Brent Rose (ts, ss, fl), Scott Bourgeois (as), Hart McNee (bar, fl, bfl), Janna Saslaw (fl, pic),
    Michael Ray, Eric Lucero, and Antonio Gambrel (tp), Jeff Albert and Rick Trolsen (tb), Matt Perrine (ssph),
    Jonathan Freilich (g), James Singleton and Brady Kish (b), Mark Diflorio (dr) possibly others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings no database # assigned; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.04; New Orleans Times-Picayune Mar 8 p.26, p.27}


    02.03.09 • Sam Rivers Trio [SBR—86:11]

    March 9, 2002, 9:00pm / Freeport-McMoRan Theatre, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

      1st Set:
     1. improvisation [17:20]  (p, b, p)
     2. bass solo [2:10]
     3. Unity [3:53]  (ss, b—ss, bcl, ts)
     4. Beatrice [5:25]  (ts, b, dr)
     5. drum solo [3:02]
     6. improvisation [11:05]  (fl, b, dr)
      2nd Set:
     7. Offering [8:43]  (ss, b, dr)
     8. composition [7:17]  (ss, p-dr—ts, b-bcl)
     9. bass solo [4:07]
    10. composition [11:18]  (p, b, dr)
    11. composition [6:47]  (ts, b, dr)
    12. composition [4:34]  (ts, b, p)
    13. composition [1:00]  (p, p—incomplete, fades out)
    —RBA CDr #110 is listed as "Soundcheck Set 1;" #111 is "Soundcheck Set 2;"
     Both have "Southern Arts Tour."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #110 + 111; track detailing Ed Hazell 18.11.11; www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf}


    • 02.03.11 and 02.03.12 - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / University North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
      [www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf]
    • 02.03.14 and 02.03.15 (1) - Sam Rivers Educational Residency / Florida International University, Miami, FL [ibid]
    • 02.03.15 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Gold Coast Jazz Society and South Florida Friends of Jazz, 8:00pm, Broward County Main Library Auditorium, Miami, FL
      [www.southarts.org/download/SouthArtsJanFeb2002.pdf; Bob Weinberg "Rivers' Flow" City Link Sep 5 2001 pp.65-66;
      South Florida Sun Sentinel Mar 14 p.E5]
    • 02.03.22 and 02.03.23 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / Muzik3 Festival, 10:30pm, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA
      [Doug Mathews West Coast tour notes; Andrew Gilbert San Diego Union Tribune Mar 21 Night&Day p.7]

    02.04.01 • Sam Rivers Trio [UNT Archival Recording—128:17]

    April 1, 2002, 8:00pm / University Lyceum Theater, University of North Texas, Denton, TX

      Trio:
     1. Impromptu Prelude [3:50]  (ss, b, dr)
     2. Ripples [6:33]  (ss, b, dr—p, b, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. bass solo [4:07]
     4. Solace [9:39]  (SR p solo—ts, b, dr)
     5. Nightfall [3:27]  (ts, b, p)
     6. Iris [5:14]  (voc, AC p solo—fl, bcl, ts)
     8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [4:21]  (fl-voc, b, dr)
      Trio + UNT Jazz Repertory Ensemble:
     9. Rejuvenation [13:51]  (fl, b, dr)
    10. Beatrice [10:13]  (ts, b, dr)
    11. Riffin' [9:34]  (ss, b, dr)
    12. Fireball [54:13]  (ts-ss, b, dr)
    —RBA CDr #112 has ""UNT," "2nd Set Only," and "Missed 1st Set."
     CDr #113 has "UNT?," and tracks as "1-7, 8. Rejuvenation 9. Beatrice 10. Riffin'."
     CDr #114 is misdated "5/1/02" (possibly a studio mix date), "Music by Sam Rivers,"and tracks as "Riffin', Beatrice, Rejuvenation, Duke, Fireball."
    —"Duke," is listed both in the RivBea database, and on RBA CDr #114, but is not on the recording.
     "Solace" is listed in the Program, but nowhere else.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp, Arr), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, p, ts),
    + The UNT Jazz Repertory Ensemble: John Murphy (Dir), Marcus Wolfe and Scott Sheldon (ts), Jesse Cloninger and Idit Shner (as),
    Edward Martin (bar), Matt Bricker, Logan Keese, Mike Maher, Mike Shields, and Walter Simonsen (tp), Grant Lawson, Matt Lennex, Carl Murr,
    and Eric Ordway (tb), Kevin Brunkhorst and Brad Williams (g), Tom Blancarte (b), Brad Boal (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #112, 113, and 114 (misdated "May 2002"); Sound files, track detailing RL 19.01.12;
    Sara Outhier, UNT Music Librarian for Digital & Audio Services 18.06.26; Mark Phillips, UNT Associate Dean for Digital Libraries;
    University of North Texas College of Music, Program Book 2002-2003 Ensemble Performances Vol. 1, book, 2003, Denton, TX
    (digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc633/m1 pp.179-80: accessed June 16, 2018), digital.library.unt.edu;
    UNT Music Library—Recordings: digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84816}


    02.04.04 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA & AR—92:03]

    April 4, 2002, 8:00pm / Ceremony Hall, Austin, TX

    Audience Recording:
    —Sound Check [25:55]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    Concert:
    2. Impromptu (for You) [7:26]  (ss, elb, dr)
    3. Ripples [6:51]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    4. bass solo [6:17]
    5. Solace [14:31]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr—dr solo—ts, elb, dr)
    6. Nightfall [3:34]  (ts, b, p)
    7. Iris [8:45]  (AC p solo—fl+voc, bcl, ts)
    8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [8:33]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    9. Beatrice [6:24]  (ts, b, dr—ts, bcl, ts)
    "A friend was producing this very rare appearance of Sam in Texas, operating
    the whole gig on a small budget. I voluteered to help him out and went down
    early and set up chairs in this tiny former church called Ceremony Hall.
    Another fan of Sam's (and friend of the promoter) showed up to help set up
    as well. As we were setting out chairs, Sam quietly (and completely humbly)
    walked in, took out a flute, and started blowing. Soon, the other band members
    came in and began loosely jamming around as well. The sound was so relaxed
    but so amazing! Both of us ‘roadies’ quit working and quietly sat down and
    just listened. At one point, I just reached into my bag and hit record on my
    deck. I didn't even bother to set levels, but amazingly they came out okay.
    At one point, it was just me, the other ‘roadie,’ and Sam in the room, Sam
    blowing all mellow and cool. We just looked at each other, grinning and
    staring at each other in disbelief that we were witnessing this creative genius
    and it was just the three of us. It seemed appropriate that it was in a church.
    It was one of those sacred moments... I doubt the magic of that soundcheck
    moment was captured on tape, but it's etched into my soul. The rest of the
    concert was great, and full of the inside/outside creative jazz moments
    that characterize Sam Rivers!" —Jason Hook

    okay
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {2CDr Audience Recording, track detailing RL 18.12.09; Doug Mathews West Coast tour notes;
    Austin American-Statesman Apr 4 XLENT p.32}


    02.04.06 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—80:18]

    April 6, 2002, 8:00pm / MECA Auditorium, Houston, TX

     1. Impromptu (for You) [5:12]  (ss+voc, elb, dr)
     2. Ripples [7:03]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. bass solo [4:58]
     4. Impulse [13:32]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—voc, b, dr—ts, b, dr)
     5. Nightfall [4:18]  (ts, b, p)
     6. Iris [7:59]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl, bcl, ts)
     7. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:00] —(fl+voc, elb, dr)
     8. Flame [3:16]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     9. Firestorm—Beatrice [14:44]  (dr solo—p, b, dr—b, dr—ts, b, dr)
    10. Firewall (reprise)—outro w/ intros + solos [9:21]  (AC p solo—fl+voc, b, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.09; Program, Doug Mathews Archive;
    www.pofinc.org/houston/springconcerts.html; www.onefinalnote.com/features/2002/rivers/}


    • 02.04.07 - Sam Rivers Trio with the MECA Improvisation Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b, bcl),
      Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p), MECA students... / 4:00pm, MECA Auditorium, Houston, TX
      [Doug Mathews West Coast tour notes; Houston Chronicle Apr 4]
    • 02.04.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Santa Cruz Global African Music Festival, 9:30pm, Music Center Recital Hall, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
      [Ron Rubin 03.02.03, 03.02.04; artsites.ucsc.edu/dma/composition/gamf2002.html; Santa Cruz Sentinel Apr 12 p.B3]
      "They started with 'Impromptu,' and I didn't recognize anything [else] but 'Solace'. Some points of interest: one of the tunes included
      both Sam and Anthony on pianos, Sam did a lot of yelling and whooping, and the program says Doug plays drums." —Ron Rubin
    • 02.05.22 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra Workshop: as above / 9:00pm, The Club at Firestone, Orlando, FL
      [Flyer + 2002 gigs note, Doug Mathews Archive; The Orlando Sentinel May 17 Calendar p.42]
      "Sam Rivers, Orlando's Avant-garde jazz grandfather who took up residence in Sapphire with his RivBea Orchestra for months, is now moving
      the residency to the Club at the old Firestone building... Practice is at 9pm for those interested in a glimpse into the mind of a 78-year-old jazz
      innovator. The official performance is at 11pm."
    • 02.05.28 to 06.02 - Sam Rivers—Jason Moran "Black Stars" Quartet: Jason Moran (p, tapes), Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl),
      Tarus Mateen (b), Nasheet Waits (dr) / 8:00 & 10:00pm, + 11:30pm May 31 and June 1, Iridium, NYC
      [The Journal News May 30 Musicline p.30]

    02.07.14 • Jason Moran and The Bandwagon [BR—59:48]

    July 14, 2002 / North Sea Jazz Festival, Rembrandtzaal, Congress Centre, The Hague, The Netherlands

    1. improvisation [6:56]  (piano trio)
    2. improvisation [5:58]  (piano trio)
    3. Inspiration (Rivers) [9:21]
    4. Foot Under Foot (Moran) [5:44]
    5. Dominant (Rivers) [5:21]
    6. Nightfall (Rivers) [5:50]
    7. Out Front (Jaki Byard) [10:05]
    —Track 1, as on 01.10.16, has a pre-recorded intro (1:16). This one has a simple strummeded guitar theme with various theatrical voiceovers,
     percussion snippets, a few Public Enemy samples, electronics, and a brief intro of The Bandwagon. (Fades out as the trio begins playing.)

    Jason Moran (p, tapes-1), Sam Rivers (ts-3,4,6, ss-5, fl-7), Tarus Mateen (b), Nasheet Waits (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.09; Jakob Blumenthal 09.01.06}


    • 02.07.19 - Longineu Parsons Ensemble: Sam Rivers (ts), Parsons (tp), Lindsey Sarjeant (p), Neal Faison (g),
      Jeff Hanley (b), Von Barlow (perc), Longineau "LP" Parsons III (dr) / Chez Pierre, Tallahassee, FL
      [Tallahassee Democrat Jul 19 Limelight p.9]

    02.08.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—53:00 & BVR—50:12]

    August 24, 2002, 9:00pm / Back Booth, Orlando, FL

    Audience Recording (1st Set)
    1. Impromptu (for You) [7:50]  (ss+voc, elb, dr)
    2. Ripples [6:02]  (ss+voc, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    3. bass solo [3:32]
    4. Solace [14:23]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—ts+voc, b, dr)
    5. Nightfall [10:18]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl, bcl, ts)
    6. Firewall [8:24]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    RivBea Archive CDr (2nd Set)
    1. Inspiration [8:09]
    2. Solace [6:28]
    3. Unity [4:13]
    4. bass solo [5:35]
    5. Dominant [5:31]
    6. drum solo [7:39]
    7. Iris [9:00]
    —RBA CDr #115 has "Set 1" and "3 Copies;" #116 has "Set 2."
    —RivBea DVDs (in CD jewels) are titled "Sam Rivers Trio: a DVD Experience 8-24-02," and "RivBea Music Presents: the Sam Rivers Trio DVD."
     Another version of "RivBea Music Presents..." is in a DVD case. All have various versions of cover art and include 2nd Set titles with
     an introduction and end credits.
    —Track times for Set 2 from CDr, no detailing; total was 53:02 with a few approx. three-minute taking sections.
    —Doug Mathews Archive also had two VHS tapes, one labeled "2nd Version" (neither have Set #s).

    "The trio's inaugural engagement... at Back Booth."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #115 and 116 + DVD #10, 12, 13, and 19; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.09;
    Doug Mathews Archive 2VHS + Flyer; Norbert Kreutzer 06.10.30;
    Jim Abbott "Creativity Flows Freely From Rivers" The Orlando Sentinel, Aug 23}


      "The Rivers trio will hit the road in the fall, for a tour that includes Hungary, Yugoslavia, New York, and Los Angeles."


      02.09.12 - Depart Miami 4:00pm on Lufthansa Flight 463 arriving Frankfurt 6:45am 09.13;
      02.09.13 - Depart Frankfurt 7:45am on Lufthansa Flight 3482 arriving Budapest 9:15am. [Below in pen: "13th 8:38pm 14th 1:38am 5 hrs."]

      —Yes, I like the flight schedules. They fill out the tour and assure me (us)
       that there are no missing gigs on these particular travel dates.

    • 02.09.14 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Kanjiza Jazz Festival, 23:00hr, Foyer of Art House, Hol Doma Unetnosti, Kanjiza, Yugoslavia
      [www.hardedge.tv/tour01.html; Kanjiza Jazz Festival Program, The RivBea Archive]

    • 02.09.15 - "Day Off."
      02.09.16 (1) - Depart Budapest 10:20am on Lufthansa Flight 3477 arriving Frankfurt 12:05pm;
      02.09.16 (2) - Depart Frankfurt 1:10pm on Lufthansa Flight 418 arriving Washington DC Dulles Airport 3:45pm;
      02.09.16 (3) - Depart Washington DC 5:10pm on Lufthansa Flight 9364 arriving Miami 7:47pm;

      [Velibor Pedevski Hard Edge Productions Yugoslavia Itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive]


    02.09.26 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    September 26, 2002, 8:00pm / EMIT New Music Series, Palladium Theatre, St. Petersburg, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb, bass, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-125 + 2002 gigs note; Gina Vivinetto "Untethered Jazz" St. Petersburg Times Sep 26 p.W33}


    • 02.10.04 - Von Freeman at Symphony Center: Freeman and Sam Rivers (ts), Muhal Richard Abrams (p), Avery Sharpe (b), Winard Harper (dr) /
      Symphony Center, Chicago, IL [Howard Reich review Chicago Tribune Oct 7 Sec.5 p.3; Kevin Whitehead 10.08.30]
      "Casual listeners might not have noticed immediately that the band was romping through "Bye Bye Blackbird," but no one could mistake
      the sonic force, harmonic complexity, and headlong rhythmic momentum of the performance."
      —Also present in other ensemble configurations were Chico Freeman and Ron Blake (ts), Brad Goode (tp), John Young,
       Jason Moran, and Mulgrew Miller (p), George Freeman (g), Kurt Elling (voc), Dennis Carroll (b), and Michael Raynor (dr)
       Fifteen musicians, "Two swinging rhythm sections laid down the pulse for the shifting cast of horn players..."
       "Violets for Your Furs," "Billies Bounce," others...

    02.10.08 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR]

    October 8, 2002 / Iridium Jazz Club, New York City

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Aug-Nov Schedule poster, The RivBea Archive; Ron Lyles 10.04.30}


    • 02.10.09 to 10.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00 & 10:30pm, + midnight 11th and 12th, Iridium Jazz Club, NYC
      [Aug-Nov Schedule poster, The RivBea Archive; Daily News Oct 11 p.74]
    • 02.11.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:00pm, Bridges Hall of Music, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA /
      [Los Angeles Times Nov 9 p.35; D. Whitney Quinn posting to Miles-list 02.11.15; web listing]
      "Professionally recorded by the school... There was an interview conducted with him before the concert for the CMC oral history collection."
    • 02.11.12 + 11.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00 & 10:00pm, Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL [Cadence Vol.28 no.11 Nov 2002, p.136; Chicago Tribune Nov 12 Sec.5 p.2]

    02.11.14 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—114:56]

    November 14, 2002, 8:00 & 10:00pm / Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL

      1st Set:
     1. Impromptu (for You) [8:08]  (fl, b, dr) —"An extemporaneous piece."
     2. Iris [7:14]  (fl, b, dr—fl, b, ts—fl, bcl, ts)
     3. "Code 1" (Smoke) [2:30]  (fl, bcl, ts)
     4. Nightfall [9:14]  (AC p solo—ts, p—ts, b, p)
     5. Taurus [3:59]  (ts, b, dr)
     7. bass solo [6:00]  ()
     8. [13:46]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo–ss+voc, b, dr)
     9. Ripples [5:11]  (ss, b, dr—ss, b, ts)
    10. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [4:41]  (ss, elb, dr)
      2nd Set:
    11. Unity [3:10]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    12. Solace [3:13]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    13. Rapture [11:44]  (b solo—b, p—ts, b, p)
    14. "an unrecorded gem" [5:17]  (ts, b, dr)
    15. Glimpse [7:13]  (p+voc, dr—SR p solo—p, b, dr)
    16. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [15:00]  (fl+voc, b, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.10; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; Doug Mathews 18.12.15}


    02.11.15 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—133:36]

    November 15, 2002, 9:00, & 11:00pm / Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL

      1st Set:
     1. Inspiration [10:47]  (ts+voc, b, dr)
     2. Beatrice [6:40]  (ts, b, dr—ts, bcl, ts)
     3. Nightfall [4:08]  (ts, b, p—)
     4. Solace [10:00]  (AC p solo–ss, b, p—ss, b, dr)
     5. Taurus [5:29]  (ss, b, dr)
     7. bass solo [5:18]
     8. [9:57]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr)
     9. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [11:13]  (dr solo—fl+voc, b, dr)
      2nd Set:
    10. Sunflower [7:28]  (ss, b, dr)
    11. Ripples [7:53]  (ss, b, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
    12. improvisation/medley [17:03]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—b, dr—fl, b, dr)
    13. Iris [7:43]  (fl, b, dr—fl, bcl, ts)
    14. Solace [6:07]  (fl, p—fl, b, p—AC p solo)
    15. bass solo [4:10]
    16. Sprung [6:15]  (ts, elb, dr)
    17. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:27]  (ts, elb, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.10; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21}


    • 02.11.16 + 11.17 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00 & 11:00pm the 16th + 4:00, 8:00, & 10:00pm the 17th, Jazz Showcase, Chicago, IL
      [Doug Mathews 2002 gigs note; Chicago Tribune Nov 15 Sec.7 p.12]
    • 02.11.19 to 11.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / 8:00 & 9:30pm, The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA
      [Los Angeles Times Sep 15 p.171 + Nov 22 p.115]

    02.11.23 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—133:24]

    November 23, 2002, 8:00 & 9:30pm / The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA

      1st Set:
     1. Inspiration [10:08]  (ts, b, dr)
     2. Nightfall [4:56]  (ts, b, p)
     3. Iris [9:43]  (AC p solo—l+voc, b, p—fl, bcl, ts)
     4. Crux [3:20]  (fl, bcl, ts)
     5. bass solo [7:44]
     6. compositions medley [25:54]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—ss+voc, b, dr)
      2nd Set:
     7. Preamble [9:00]  (ss, b, dr)
     8. Ripples [6:29]  (ss, b, dr—s, b—ss, bcl, ts)
     9. composition [9:13]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr)
    10. Torch [14:33]  (b solo—voc, b, dr—ts, b, dr)
    12. Beatrice [5:38]  (ts, b, dr)
    13. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [19:24]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —RBA CDr #118 has "1st Show;" #119 has "2nd Show."
     CDr #121 is a duplicate of #119 and is mislabeled as "11/24/02, Sam Rivers Trio,
     Set 2, Jazz Bakery - California."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)




    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #118, 119, and 121; Digital files, track detailing RL 19.11.11;
    Los Angeles Times Sep 15 p.171 + Nov 22 p.115; Copious assistance with this 3-session mayhem, Ed Hazell 19.11.12}


    02.11.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA]

    November 24, 2002, 8:00 & 9:30pm / The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA

    1... compositions/improvisations [ : ]
    —RBA CDr #120 has "Set 1" but is actually tracks 1 and 2 (with announcements) from 03.07.25.
     CDr #122 has "Set 1" and "Empty Case."
     CDr #121 has "Set 2" but is actually a duplicate of 02.11.23 Set 2.
     CDr #123 has "Set 2" and "Empty Case."
    —RBA DVDs are marked "Set 1" and "Set 2," but are not noted in database.

    Upshot: No actual CDr media or digital files have been found from this session.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #120, 121, 122, 123 [supposedly], + two unnumbered DVDs;
    Los Angeles Times Sep 15 p.171 + Nov 22 p.115; Copious assistance with this 3-session mayhem, Ed Hazell 19.11.12}


    02.12.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    December 5, 2002, 7:30pm / Fine Arts Concert Hall, Seminole Community College, Sanford, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Doug Mathews Archive VHS; Poster, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 28 p.H2}


    02.00.00 • Junkie Rush: Junkie Rush II

    2003: Junkie Rush (CD)

    "Late in the year," 2002 / Richter Studios, Orlando, FL
    —Released on February 3, 2003

    1. The Girl Next Door [4:37]
    Bobby Koelble (g, keys, voc), Aaron O'Riley (b),
    Jorge Cesar "Ito" Colon, Jr. (perc), Abdias Garcia (dr, voc)
    + "Additional musicians:" Doug Spoonamore (ts, as, bar), Sam Rivers (ss),
    Mike lapachino (tp), Pat Gullotta (tb), Sisaundra Lewis (voc)

    {Library of Congress Classification ICD 20002}

    okay

    • 02.12.30 - The Legendary JC's + Special Guest Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Clay Watson (tb), Eugene Snowden (voc), Brian Chodorcoff (g),
      Jack Stirling (keys), Ralph Ameduri (b), Brett Crook (dr) / 8:00pm, House of Blues, Downtown Disney West Side, Lake Buena Vista, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Dec 27 Calendar p.8; Oct 25 p.8; Brian Mackie 18.06.21]
      —Opening act for BB King.

    2003 : : :


    Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra : : : January 26 through February 4, 2003

    —"We wish to express our deep gratitude to Sam Rivers for accepting our invitation  at such short notice to replace Dave Liebman
     who cancelled his participation." [Program, The RivBea Archive]


    03.01.26 • Sam Rivers Interview [RBA—54:55]

    January 26, 2003 / Galatz Radio Broadcast, Tel Aviv, Israel

    1. Interview [54:01]
    —Interview with pauses for translation and musical excerpts from the Sam Rivers Trio release Firestorm, Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Blues, and a Chet Baker cover of "Beatrice."

    "Sunday - Arrive to Israel at 16:15... At about 20:00, I shall pick him up to be hosted at the jazz radio programme (...about one hour)."

    Sam Rivers (answers), Dany Karpel (questions and translations)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #124; Soundfiles, detailing RL 19.08.04 "Gilli" of The Israel Camerata office, letter 03.01.21, The RivBea Archive}



      —Monday 03.01.27 - "Free day... Will probably be interviewed on that day by one or two journalists."
      —Tuesday 03.01.28 and Wednesday 03.01.29 - "Rehearsal at the Kyriat Moshe Community Center in Rehovet: 9:30-12:30."
       "Sam will probably not have to attend those two rehearsals in full... In addition, he will have a meeting with the drum and bass players
       on either Tuesday or Wednesday in Tel Aviv."
       ["Gilli" of The Israel Camerata office, letter 03.01.21, The RivBea Archive]

    • 03.01.30 (1) - Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra (see 03.01.30 for personnel) /
      Balance Rehearsal, 7:00pm, Wix Auditorium, Rehovot, Israel [ibid]

    03.01.30 (2) • Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra [RBA & BR]

    January 30, 2003, 20:30h / Wix Auditorium, Rehovot, Israel
    —Israeli Television Broadcast

    The Crossover Series, Concert No. 2—Encounters:
    1. Johann Pachelbel—Canon and Improvisations [ : ]
    2. Joseph Haydn—Symphony No. 85, "La Reine" [ : ]
     Adagio - Vivace → Romance: Allegreatto → Menuetto: Allegretto - Trio → Finale: Presto
    3. Improvisations on Themes from the Symphony [ : ]
     Intermission
    4. Sam Rivers—Impromptu [ : ]
    5. Standards by Sam Rivers [ : ]
     Ripples → Solace → Beatrice [ : ]
    6. George Gershwin—Suite from "Porgy and Bess" [ : ]
    —RBA CDr #304 and 308 both have "3-4 Pachelbel, 5 Concerto;" #304 is punctuated with question marks.

    "The only use of the filmed concert will be of broadcast within Israel, and only on the Israeli TV."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), + Guest Musicians Yorai Oron (b) and Rony Holan (dr),
    Israel Camerata: Avner Biron (Cond), Arnold Kobiliansky, Carmela Leiman, Pavel Galaganov, Michael Boyaner, Leonid Steinberg,
    Omri Tzach, Luba Parhamovsky, and Jana Gendelmann (1st vn), Yuri Gluchovsky, Svetlana Gofman, Michael Kontsevich, Marina Malkin,
    and Zina Levin (2nd vn), Michael Plaskov, Dmitri Ratush, Michael Yavker, Avi Malkin, and Alexander Shoihet (va), Yefim Eisenstadt,
    Alexander Sinelnikov, and Alexander Kotlar (ce), Esti Rofé (fl), Moshe Zohar (ob), Maurizio Paez (bsn), Alon Reuven (horn),
    Iris Globerson (hrps), Dmitri Rozentsveig and Genadi Litvin (b),
    + Guest Musicians Lilia Flaksman (ce), Ilia Schwartz (cl), Ori Meiraz (ob), Reuven Mozes (bsn), Anatoli Rozenzweig (horn)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #304 and 308; Program + "Gilli" of The Israel Camerata office, letter dated 03.01.21, The RivBea Archive}


      —Monday 03.01.31 - "Free."
      "Gilli" of The Israel Camerata office, letter dated 03.01.21, The RivBea Archive}

    • 03.02.01 (1) - Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra: as above /
      Balance Rehearsal, 19:00hr, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel [ibid]
    • 03.02.01 (2) - Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra / 20:30hr, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
    • 03.02.02 - Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra / 20:30hr, Henry Crown Hall, The Jerusalem Theatre, Jerusalem, Israel
      ["A Failed Experiment" by Ury Eppstein The Jerusalem Post Feb 4 p.8]
      —Ury liked the Trio work, but was not happy with the Orchestra mix. —RL


    • 03.02.03 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers and The Israel Camerata Orchestra / 20:30hr, Herzliya Hall of the Arts, Herzliya, Israel
      Balance Rehearsal was scheduled for 19:00hr.
      —This date was added after the programs went to press, but was subsequently cancelled. [Avner Biron letter 03.01.16, The RivBea Archive]
       "The concert will be directly broadcasted on the Israel Classical Music channel."
       ["Gilli" of The Israel Camerata office, letter dated 03.01.21, The RivBea Archive]


    • 03.02.04 (1) - Sam Rivers Trio and Israel Camerata Orchestra / Balance Rehearsal, 19:00hr, Carmiel Heichal Hatarbut, Karmiel, Israel
    • 03.02.04 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio and Israel Camerata Orchestra / 20:30hr, Carmiel Heichal Hatarbut, Karmiel, Israel

    • [Special thanks to Guy Armon, Librarian, The Israel Camerata, Jerusalem 18.06.18; Barry Davis The Jerusalem Post Jan 29 p.10]

      okay



    • 03.02.22 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      40 Years of World Music at Wesleyan—A Celebration, 7:00pm, Crowell Concert Hall, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
      [www.wesleyan.edu/music/40_years.html; Hartford Courant Feb 20 p.B6]
    • 03.02.28 - Jason Moran Trio: Moran (p), Sam Rivers (ts, fl—2nd set only), Tarus Mateen (b), Nasheet Waits (dr) /
      DeCamera presents... Cullen Theatre, Houston, TX
      [Charles Ward review Houston Chronicle Mar 3 p.3; Cadence (lists Workman on bass) February 2003 Vol.29 no.2, p.140]
    • 03.03.28 - The Legendary JC's: Clay Watson (tb), Eugene Snowden (voc), Brian Chodorcoff (g), Jack Stirling (keys),
      Ralph Ameduri (b), Brett Crook (dr), + Special Guests Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Anthony Cole (p) / 8:00pm, The Social, Orlando, FL
      ["Festivalitis" The Orlando Sentinel, Mar 28 Calendar p.4]
    • 03.04.11 (1) - "Tribute to Robert Palmer": Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), John Stubblefield (ts), Walter Henderson (tp), CeDell Davis (g),
      + the UALR Gospel Choir ("A mixed vocal ensemble of 40 to 50 members") /
      Arkansongs Music Festival, 3:30pm, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Theatre, Little Rock, AR
      [Arkansas Democrat Gazette Feb 23 p.61 and Apr 11 p.56]
    • 03.04.11 (2) - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Arkansongs Music Festival, 7:30pm, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Theatre, Little Rock, AR [ibid]
    • 03.04.26 - Sam Rivers & The Rivbea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (reeds), Jeff Rupert (as), others... /
      The Garage, Orlando, FL [Jeff Rupert CV]

    03.05.19 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—44:01]

    May 19, 2003, 21:00hr / New Conversations: Vicenza Jazz 2003 (May 13-24), 9:00pm, Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, Italy

    1. Wha's Nine (Workman) [9:03]
    2. Sweet Twister (Workman) [11:23]
    3. Unity (Rivers) [4:10]
    4. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [6:47]
    5. Nightfall (Rivers) [5:23]
    6. Dominant (Rivers) [3:24]
    Sam Rivers (ts-4,5,6, ss-1,3, fl-2, voc), Jason Moran (p, Arr-4), Reggie Workman (b)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.15; WIRE #231 p.99; www.vicenzanews.it; Vicenza Jazz 2003 program, The RivBea Archive}


    03.05.24 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—22:29]

    May 24, 2003 / Doug Mathews Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1. Morning Song [7:47]  (fl, b, dr)
     —SR, softly: "Beeeeautiful..." Response: "It's a morning song, it's the morning time." SR: "G'morning. Hmmmmmm..."
    2. soprano [7:41]  (ss, b, dr)  "That was the first take of that."
    3. tenor [6:26]  (ts, b, dr)  —Begins with a chorus of cartoonish voices "Ready-readyyy?" "Ready!" "Rrrrrready." "Readyyyyyy."
    —Titles as given, these are rather spectacular improvs. There is a brief note in the Mathews Archive with board settings for the recording,
     with "5/24/03 [smiley face icon] or plate," "5/27/03 VA Real verb, Wooden Hall," and "5/29/03 need to match pan & plug-ins from 5/24/03,"
     that indicate there were a few other Avant sessions during this week.

    —RivBea Database has "NPR-Tim Owens & John DiLiberto," which seems irrelevant, and "Live," though this was not a "Live" date.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive CDr + session notes; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.04}




      03.05.24 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra / 8:00pm, The Social, Orlando, Florida
      [The Orlando Sentinel May 23 Calendar p.8]

      —"Tonight's show by local jazz legend Sam Rivers has been cancelled because roof and water damage at a downtown Orlando club.
       [sic on the grammar] Rivers and his RivBea Orchestra were to play at 8pm at the Social... The show was not rescheduled. The club
       is expected to close at least until Tuesday [5/27] as crews work to repair the damage from a storm Thursday night. Heavy rains
       flooded the roof. Support beams cracked, and water leaked into the club, forcing hundreds of would-be concertgoers to evacuate...
       A preliminary investigation showed rooftop drains had become clogged, allowing water to collect. Officials also said some
       unpermitted roof work was done recently, but it was unclear whether that played any role."
       ["Orlando Club Cancels Concert After Damage" The Orlando Sentinel May 24 p.B3]

    okay

    —Photo courtesy Matt Gorney, with permission.


    03.05.27 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    May 27, 2003 / Doug Mathews Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —See notes on 03.05.24.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Session notes, Doug Mathews Archive}


    03.05.29 • Sam Rivers Trio [DMA]

    May 29, 2003 / Doug Mathews Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —See note on 03.05.27.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Session notes, Doug Mathews Archive}


    • June, 2003 / NOJO + Sam Rivers, Canada Tour :::

      Paul Neufeld: "We went out West and down East with Sam Rivers and recorded the tracks for City Of Neighbourhoods at Sonic Temple
      when we were in Halifax. Sam is a singular figure in the history of African-American music and just a great hang. He was 79 when we
      were on the road with him and was tireless and much less whiney than the rest of us. You can have a conversation with Sam that you can't
      have with anyone on the planet—what was it like in Chaka Khan's band, what was it like in Miles' band, with Billie Holiday, with T-Bone
      Walker, Jimmy Witherspoon, and on and on and on it goes. He has been a respected professional musician since his teens and his own
      groundbreaking records start showing up in the '60s when he was already a very experienced sideman. Fuchsia Swing Song is his debut
      as a leader (as far as I know) and he was 40. He's done so much influential recording and playing between then and now and is turning
      it out at a great rate right now in his 80s. A completely inspiring musician and very enjoyable conversationalist."
      [paulneufeld.ca/careerhighlights.htm]
      ———


      June 22, 2003 - "Sam arrives in Toronto" —Paul Neufeld 07.09.28
    • 03.06.23 to 06.25 - NOJO and Sam Rivers Rehearsals: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dan Bone (ts, as, fl, cl), Sean O'Connor (ts, ss, fl, bar, cl),
      Jason Logue and Kevin Turcotte (tp), Scott Suttie (tb), Paul Neufeld (p), Michael Occhipinti (g), Roberto Occhipinti (b), Barry Romberg (dr) /
      Array Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [paulneufeld.ca/careerhighlights.htm; Michael Occhipinti 18.08.12-13]
    • 03.06.26 - NOJO with Sam Rivers: as above / Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
      [Toronto National Post Jun 26 p.AL2]
      "Began Canadian Tour with concert at Toronto Jazz Festival" —Paul Neufeld 07.09.28
    • 03.06.27 - NOJO with Sam Rivers / Yardbird Suite, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
      [Edmonton Journal Jun 19 p.C2; Yardbird Suite June Calendar, The RivBea Archive]
    • 03.06.28 - NOJO with Sam Rivers / Victoria, British Columbia, Canada [Toronto National Post Jun 26 p.AL2]
    • 03.06.29 (1) - Sam Rivers Workshop / Vancouver International Jazz Festival,
      The Roundhouse Workshops, 2:30pm, The Studio, Vancouver, BC, Canada
      [The Vancouver Sun Jun 5 p.C13]
    • 03.06.29 (2) - NOJO with Sam Rivers / Vancouver International Jazz Festival,
      Centre for the Performing Arts, Western Front, Vancouver, BC, Canada
      [Toronto National Post Jun 26 p.AL2; Cadence Vol.29 no.6 June 2003, p.140]

    03.07.01 (1) • Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers [DMA—69:11]

    July 1, 2003, 8:00pm / The Palladium, St. Petersburg, FL

    1. Pengquan [8:12]
    2. Tephlon [6:52]
    3. Crossdrift [9:05]
    4. Whispers [9:41]
    5. Poodle Science [4:52]
    6. Fluid Motion [11:36]
    7. Following [8:11]
    8. Tangents [6:50]
    —DMA CDr is misdated "7/2/03" and has track titles.

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2,3,5,8, ss-4,6,7), Jonathan Powell (tp), David Manson (tb, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-125 + CDr; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.04; Curtis Ross Tampa Tribune Jun 27 p.16}


      "Planets and Moons was recorded at Full Sail. It was actually after the gig in St Pete. We drove back to Orlando and straight to the studio.
      Probably started recording at 12 or 1 in the evening. That one's a bit of a blur..." —Doug Matthews 18.12.18

    03.07.01 (2) + 07.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—94:50]

    July 1 & 2, 2003 / Full Sail Real World Education, Winter Park, FL

    Planets & Moons
    1. Jupiter [10:36]
    2. Europa [10:19]  (also noted as #431)
    3. Mars [11:08]
    4. Ganymede [9:55]
    5. Mercury [10:43]  (also noted as #430)
    6. Callisto [9:42]  (also noted as #437)
    7. Venus [10:45]
    8. Io [10:11]
    9. Earth [10:52]
    —RBA CDr #274 (disc "A") and 279 both have tracks 1 through 5; #275 (disc "B") and 280 both have 6 through 9.
    —CDr #274 and 275 both have "For Mosaic Records," and are mistakenly titled "Suns and Moons" on discs.
    —CDr #274, 279, and 294 are marked "A;" 275, 280, and 295 are marked "B."
    —CDR #294 and 295 are both undated.
    —Track timings taken from Vol. A & B Pre-Masters.

    "Live for Mosaic Records."

    "Daytime in St. Pete and nighttime in Winter Park. It's the have-gun-will-travel nature of Sam Rivers." —Matt Gorney 18.12.19

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, Cond), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #274, 275, #279, 280, 294, and 295; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.11.12 Matt Gorney Archive 4DV-60}


      03.07.09 (1) - Depart Orlando 7:15pm on Northwest Flight 959 arriving Memphis 8:13pm;
      03.07.09 (2) - Depart Memphis 9:35pm on Northwest Flight 58 arriving Amsterdam 1:05pm on 07.10.
      [North Sea Jazz Festival itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive]

    03.07.11 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—61:25]

    July 11, 2003, 19:30hr / North Sea Jazz Festival, Jan Steen Zaal, Den Haag, Netherlands

    1. "Hello to the North Sea Festival" [5:48]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. Ripples—Solace [4:39]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. bass solo [3:41]
    4. Firestorm—Impulse [6:33]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—ts+voc, b, dr)
    5. Beatrice [3:36]  (ts, b, dr)
    6. Iris—Nightfall [14:40]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl+voc, b, dr—fl+voc, bcl, ts)
    7. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [10:01]  (fl+voc, b, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.15; WIRE #233 p.98; de Volkskrant July 12 clipping, RivBea Archive;
    www.northseajazz.nl; Andrew Wilson 03.07.27; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; North Sea Jazz Festival program, Doug Mathews Archive}


    03.07.20 • Jason Moran Trio featuring Sam Rivers [BR—56:56]

    July 20, 2003 / Blue Note Jazz Festival, Gent, Belgium

    1. You Got to Be Modernistic (James P. Johnson) [9:13]  (piano trio)
    2. Brahms' Interlude [4:41]  (piano trio)
    3. Word (Moran) [6:08]  (piano trio with a pre-recorded voice track)
    4. Inspiration (Rivers) [8:53]
    5. Beatrice (Rivers) [7:16]
    6. Unity (Rivers) [11:10]
    7. Body and Soul (Johnny Green) [6:22]
    —Track 1 has a pre-recorded intro (2:08) of various theatrical voiceovers, percussion snippets, Public Enemy samples, electronics,
     percussive and piano phrases interspersed throughout, and other assorted whack mayhem. (Fades out as the trio begins playing.)

    —Track 4 has a pre-recorded intro (1:02) of a simple piano theme with theatrical voiceovers, percussion snippets,
     a Public Enemy sample, electronics, and a brief intro of Rivers with a tenor phrase.

    Jason Moran (p), Sam Rivers (ts-4,5,6,7, ss-6), Drew Gress (b), Nasheet Waits (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.15; Didier Wijnants review De Morgen Jul 22 p.9; Axel Van Looy to MILES-list 04.01.10 + correspondence 04.03.11}


      03.07.20 (1) - Depart Amsterdam 2:25pm on Northwest Flight 53 arriving Detroit 4:45pm;
      03.07.20 (2) - Depart Detroit 6:00pm on Northwest Flight 430 arriving Orlando 8:33pm.
      [North Sea Jazz Festival itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive]



      July 21, 2003:
      Sam Rivers Trio on the road...
      "They were recording since Monday (03.07.21) for upcoming NOJO album..." —Mike Woodworth 03.07.27
      "We were NOT in the studio on the 21st. Likely Sam and the Trio were driving up from Florida that day.
      As you know Sam likes a long drive more than a short flight!"

    03.07.22 + 07.23 • Nojo with Sam Rivers: City of Neighbourhoods

    2004: True North Records TND 323 (CD)

    July 22 & 23, 2003 / Sonic Temple, Halifax, Nova Scotia

    1. City of Neighbourhoods (Occhipinti) [7:46]
    2. The Human Blockhead (Neufeld) [7:53]
    3. Spend Every Dime (Neufeld) [10:04]
    4. Duke a Go Go (Occhipinti) [7:49]
    5. Neurotheologians (Occhipinti) [10:20]
    6. The Glassblower (Neufeld) [11:34]
    7. The Year in Review (Neufeld) [7:29]
    "The date and venue for the recording directly from Nojo" —K. Reilly

    Sam Rivers (ts-2,6,7, ss-1,3,5,6, fl-4,6), Dan Bone (ts, as, fl, cl),
    Sean O'Connor (ts, ss, fl, bar, cl), Jason Logue and Kevin Turcotte (tp),
    Scott Suttie (tb), Paul Neufeld (p, Wurlitzer, synth, tu),
    Michael Occhipinti (g, Cond), Roberto Occhipinti (b), Barry Romberg (dr)

    {TND 323; K. Reilly 05.04.14}

    okay

    • 03.07.24 - NOJO orchestra with special guest Sam Rivers: as above / 8:00pm, du Maurier Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
      [Program, The Doug Mathews Archive; Michael Occhipinti and Paul Neufeld 19.07.05]

    03.07.25 • Sam Rivers Trio [BR—74:18 & RBA—40:22]

    July 25, 2003, 8:00pm / du Maurier Theatre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

      1st Set:
     1. Impromptu (for You) [6:19]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Ripples [5:44]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     3. bass solo [6:48]
     4. Firestorm [8:33]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr)
     5. Sunflower [6:12]  (dr solo—ts+voc, elb, dr)
     6. Beatrice [5:17]  (ts, b, dr)
     7. Nightfall [3:55]  (ts, b, p)
     8. improvisation [5:38]  (AC p solo—fl+voc, b, p)
     9. Iris [4:26]  (fl+voc, b—fl, bcl, ts)
    10. Firewall—outro, introductions + solos [10:51]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    11. encore [4:26]  (fl, elb, dr)
    —RBA CDr #120 has announcements + tracks 1 and 2 at 13:07.
     CDr #122 has tracks 8 thru 11 (with track 11 incomplete) at 27:15.
     CDr #126 is complete.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #120, 122, and 126; CDr copy of 126, track detailing RL 18.12.15;
    Program, The Doug Mathews Archive; Paul Neufeld and Michael Occhipinti 19.07.05;
    Copious assistance with this 3-session mayhem, Ed Hazell 19.11.12}


    • 03.07.26 (1) - Open Rehearsal—Local Halifax musicians rehearse and play the music of the Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Cond) /
      1:00pm, Bella Muse, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [Mike Woodworth 03.07.27]
      "Six songs hand picked by local musician Paul Cram from the two most recent albums. Sam conducts, instructs, and plays..."
      —This session, as well as 03.07.26 (2) below, had the venue as Neptune Theatre: "The open rehearsal and concert of big band music
       on 03-07-25 was not at the Neptune Theatre as stated. It was in fact at a club, now closed, called the Bella Muse in Halifax, different
       street, different area, which is totally independent of the Neptune Theatre." —James Drew 06.02.04
    • 03.07.26 (2) - Sam Rivers Big Band Music: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, Cond), Local Halifax musicians... /
      4:00pm, Bella Muse, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada [ibid]
    • 03.08.07 - Gerry Gibbs' Third Trio from the Sun + Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, vc), Greg Kurstin (p), Pamelia Kurstin (theremin), Gibbs (dr) /
      Elephant Room, Austin, Texas [Jeff Salamon Austin American-Statesman, Aug 7 p.13]
    • 03.08.09 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      Carmens de la Calle Café, San Antonio, TX
      [Gilbert Garcia "Sound and the Fury" San Antonio Current Aug 7, www.sacurrent.com]
    • 03.08.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      9:00pm, Back Booth, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 15 Calendar p.8]


      03.08.27 (1) - Depart Orlando US Air Flight 894 16:25hr arriving Philadelphia 18:46hr;
      03.08.27 (2) - Depart Philadelphia US Air Flight 014 20:00hr arriving Munich 10:15hr.
      [European jaunt itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive]

    03.08.29 • Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio "play Diaspora Blues" [RBA—40:23, BR—40:23, & AR—56:54]

    August 29, 2003, 11:30 pm / Jazz Festival Saalfelden 2003, Main Stage, Saalfelden, Austria
    —ORF Ö1 FM Broadcast

    Audience Recording:
    1. V'Lirushalayim Irchu (Koussevitsky) [11:32]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
    2. Blessing (traditional) [6:10]  (ts, sl-tp, b, dr)
    3. Aveenu Malkenu (traditional) [6:44]  (ts, tp, bcl, ts)
    4. Lucky (Bernstein) [10:45]  (fl, sl-tp, b, dr)
    5. Misratze B'rachamim (Koussevitsky) [14:21]  (ts, sl-tp, b, dr)
    6. Ribino Shel Olom (Koussevitsky) [5:17]  (ts, tp, bcl, ts)
    Broadcast Recording has tracks 3 through 6 with announcements.

    Sam Rivers (ts, fl), Steven Bernstein (tp, sl-tp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #127 and 128; Audience CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.16; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; WIRE #233 p.101-2;
    www.jazzsaalfelden.at; Wolfgang Kraus 03.12.11; Sergiusz Lipnicki 04.07.08}



      03.08.31 (1) - Depart Munich US Air Flight 015 12:15hr arriving Philadelphia 15:35hr;
      03.08.31 (2) - Depart Philadelphia US Air Flight 335 17:45hr arriving Orlando 20:11hr.
      [European jaunt itinerary, Doug Mathews Archive]

    • 03.09.23 - The Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00 & 9:30pm, The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA [The Los Angeles Times Sep 23 p.E3; Jeff Caltabiano 04.01.14]
      "Celebrates Rivers' 80th birthday [the 25th] through Sunday, September 28."

    • Interview, Toronto, August 2005 thru Spring 2006:

      Nate Dorward: "How did the trio disc [Vista] with Adam Rudolph and Sam Rivers come about?"
      Harris Eisenstadt: "That was just a total stroke of luck. Sam was in town with his trio playing at the Jazz Bakery in LA for a week
      and I went to hear him one night. And we were just talking after the set, and it's like, ‘You guys have a studio?’ Adam has a small
      backyard studio and set of nice mics, and an engineer came over, and Sam was just one of the most gracious and humble people. He'd
      just turned 80 the night before and he felt like getting together with some people and playing. So we sat around, had a nice lunch,
      hung out for a couple hours, got to know each other a little bit and went in there, three or four hours maybe tops. And he blew us away,
      man. We were just trying to hang, really truly—he was blowing circles around us. He's 80, and the guy had the kind of energy that I can
      only hope to have at that age. He's not sitting in an old folks' home watching Fox News—he's out there, making music. It was a great
      experience. There was an agent for that band, but amazingly we never played a single gig. I guess it was a totally surreal six hours,
      and it might just have to stay that way."
      [www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/eisenstadt.html]
      ———


    03.09.24 (1) • Sam Rivers, Adam Rudolph, Harris Eisenstadt: Vista

    2004: Meta Records Meta 009 (CD, + reissue 2016)

    September 24, 2003 / Clear Lake Recording, Venice, CA

    1. Susarration [5:44]
    2. Capacious [6:23]
    3. Motivity [8:22]
    4. Philio [8:20]
    5. Plumaseria [9:23]
    6. Specular [5:32]
    7. Vista [8:26]
    —RBA CDr #130 and 131 both have "Celebration Trio Final Mixes."
     (Celebration Trio was the original name of the group.)
     CDr #130 is misdated "1.5.2004"; CDr #131 is misdated "1.6.2004".

    Sam Rivers (ts-2,4,7, ss-3,6, fl-1,5),
    Adam Rudolph (hand drums, perc),
    Harris Eisenstadt (dr)

    {Meta 009; RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #130 and 131}

    okay

    • 03.09.24 (2) to 09.26 - The Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00 & 9:30pm, The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA [The Los Angeles Times Sep 23 p.E3; Jeff Caltabiano 04.01.14]
      "Celebrates Rivers' 80th birthday [the 25th] through Sunday, September 28."

    03.09.27 + 09.28 • Sam Rivers: Celebration

    2004: Posi-Tone Records PR 8017 (CD)

    September 27 & 28, 2003, 8:00 & 9:30pm / The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA

     1. Recognition [7:03]  (ss, elb, dr)
     2. Commemoration [3:38]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Observance [7:51]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr)
     4. Clarion [8:27]  (dr solo—ts+voc, b, dr)
     5. Declaration [4:57]  (fl, b, dr)
     6. Currents [2:14]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     7. Dedication [5:58]  (AC p solo—ts, b, p)
     8. Effusion [4:02]  (fl+voc, bcl, ts)
     9. Laudation [7:46]  (fl, elb, dr)
    10. Glimpse [12:01]  (p, b, dr)
    11. Heritage [4:42]  (ss, elb, dr)
    12. Appreciation [7:39]  (fl, elb, dr—outro w/ intros + solos)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp),
    Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl),
    Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {PR 8017; Contract dated Feb 8 2004, Matt Gorney Archive}

    okay

    • 03.10.10 - Jason Moran and The Bandwagon + Sam Rivers: Moran (p), Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Tarus Mateen (elb), Nasheet Waits (dr) /
      8:15pm, Spivey Hall, Clayton College & State University, Morrow, GA [Atlanta Constitution Oct 10 p.D12]
      "Four of the tunes they played together were 'Inspiration,' 'Nightfall,' and 'Beatrice' by Rivers, and 'Foot Under Foot' by Moran.
      I know that The Bandwagon (without Rivers) also played 'Ringing My Phone (Straight Outta Istanbul),' the Brahms Intermezzo
      from the Village Vanguard CD, and 'Out Front.' Other tunes I'm not sure about." —Jeff Crompton 04.07.31
    • 03.10.23 - Jason Moran and The Bandwagon + Sam Rivers: as above / Seixal Jazz 2003 Festival,
      Concerts at 21.30 and 23.30hr, Auditório Municipal do Forum Cultural do Seixal, Seixal, Portugal
      [Nuno Martins 03.11.17; Jornal de Notícias Sep 24 p.7; www.cm-seixal.pt/seixaljazz/conteudos/documents]

    03.11.01 • Sam Rivers "Electric" Trio [RBA—100:52]

    November 1, 2003, 9:00pm / The Social, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
     1. "Good Evening!" [7:33]  (ss+voc, elb, dr)
     2. Iris [5:18]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, bcl, ts)
     3. Flame [1:29]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     4. improvisation [16:05]  (b, dr—p, b, dr—dr solo—ts, b, dr)
     5. Nightfall [8:34]  (ts, b, p—AC p solo—fl+voc, bcl, ts)
     6. outro w/ intros + solos [7:12]  (fl, elb, dr)
      2nd Set:
     7. improvisation [8:34]  (ss, elb, dr)
     8. improv into Flame into Iris then back into Flame [7:52]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, elb, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
     9. improvisation [16:46]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—voc, b, dr—ts, b, dr)
    10. improvisation into outro w/ intros + solos [16:33]  (AC p solo—ts, p—fl, b, p—fl+voc, b, dr)
    —RBA CDr #129 has "1st & 2nd Set."
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing; additional short sections of 3:36, 1:48, and 3:20 assumed to be fragments, or Sam announcing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #129; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.13;
    Jason Ferguson "Interminable Depths" Orlando Weekly Oct 30; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 31 Calendar p.11}


    • 03.11.09 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues: Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc), Bernstein (tp, sl-tp),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / Matt Gorney's roof, Orlando, FL [Matt Gorney 18.12.11]
      "Invitation-only... rehearsal concert for around 50 people on my apartment rooftop [1800 N Orange Ave in Orlando] preceding their European tour.
      It was outdoors under the lunar eclipse from 2003, so that is Sunday, November 9th, 2003 if it was the full eclipse evening... This was one of the
      peak mystical concerts that I've ever attended. Keith "Scramble" Campbell did a silver marker on board work for the concert and lovingly gifted
      it to me at the end of the evening... [Neither] Doug nor myself recorded that evening. Unless an attendee took a hand-held recording, there's no
      archive that I can recall. It was at the corner of a fairly busy intersection and across the street from train tracks, so I tried to plan the concert time
      to wiggle in-between my study of their average evening arrival times. I anticipated at least one Dramatic Intrusion but no trains during the set.
      Shoulda, woulda..."

      IMG



    Diaspora Blues—Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Europe 2003 : : : November 16 through December 1, 2003

      03.11.16 (1) - Depert Orlando 2:05pm Delta Flight DL112 arriving Atlanta 3:36pm;
      03.11.16 (2) - Depart Atlanta 5:45pm Delta Flight DL070 arriving Rome 9:10am on 11.17.
    • 03.11.18 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues: Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc), Bernstein (tp, sl-tp),
      Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) / (Soundcheck 4:00) 10:10pm, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy
      [www.jazzitalia.net/iocero/braxtonrivers_roma.asp; Heinrich Smejkal 04.01.12]
      03.11.19 - Travel to Lugano [660km].

    03.11.20 • Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues [BR—74:11]

    November 20, 2003, (Soundcheck 4:30) 8:45pm / Radio Suizzera Italiana, Studio 2, Lugano, Switzerland
    —RSI Broadcast

    [8] compositions [12:50–5:08–8:30–10:54–9:59–13:34–7:02–6:09]
    —"Two sets."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc), Steven Bernstein (tp, sl-tp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Patrick Pohlmann 05.11.23; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21}


      03.11.21 - Travel to Geneva [360km].
    • 03.11.21 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues: Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc), Bernstein (tp, sl-tp),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / (Soundcheck 5:30) 9:00pm, AMR, Club Sud des Alpes, Geneva, Switzerland
      [Le Temps Nov 21; Doug Mathews Archive]

    • 03.11.22 - Travel to Milano [320km].
    • 03.11.23 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues: as above /
      (Soundcheck 9:00) 11:00am, Teatro Manzoni, Milano, Italy
      [Program, Doug Mathews Archive; Il Giornale Nov 22; Corriere della Sera Nov 26 p.60]

    • 03.11.24 - Travel to Schwaz [420km].
    • 03.11.24 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues /
      (Soundcheck 5:00) 8:30pm, Eremitage, Schwaz, Austria
      [Feature on Anthony Cole The Orlando Sentinel Aug 21, 2005 p.F7]

    • 03.11.25 - Travel to Wien [450km].

    03.11.25 • Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues [SBR—118:37]

    November 25, 2003, (Soundcheck 5:00) 8:30 pm / Porgy & Bess, Vienna, Austria

      1st Set:
     1. V'lirushalayim Irchu (Koussevitsky) [11:38]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
     2. Blessing (traditional) [4:42]  (ts, sl-tp, b, dr)
     3. Aveenu Malkenu (traditional) [7:34]  (ts, sl-tp, bcl, ts)
     4. Iris (Rivers) [14:42]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—b solo—p, b, dr)
     5. Lucky (Bernstein) [12:00]  (fl, tp, b, dr)
      2nd Set:
     6. Chant (Bernstein) [11:46]  (ss, tp, b, dr)
     7. Misratze B'rachamim (Koussevitsky) [14:37]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
     8. Glimpse—Nightfall (Rivers) [16:12]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—b solo—AC p solo—fl, b, p)
     9. Ribino Shel Olom (Koussevitsky) [8:38]  (ts, sl-tp, bcl, ts)
    10. Post (Bernstein) [4:52]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Steven Bernstein (tp, sl-tp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {2CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.16; WIRE #233 p.101+102; www.jazzsaalfelden.at; Wolfgang Kraus 03.12.11, 07.02.06; Sergiusz Lipnicki 04.07.08}



      03.11.26 - Travel to Munich [440km].
    • 03.11.26 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Bernstein (tp, sl-tp),
      Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) / (Soundcheck 5:00) 9:00pm, Bayerischer Hof, München, Germany
      [Spiral-bound "Saudades" tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]

    • 03.11.27 - Travel to Tilburg [750km].

    • 03.11.28 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues: as above / Yiddish Tilburg X-Over Festival,
      (Soundcheck 7:30) 9:00pm, The Paradox, Tilburg, Netherlands
      [ibid; Jiddisj X-Over Festival program, Doug Mathews Archive; Rinus van der Heijden "Jiddisj Festival" Brabants Dagblad Nov 27]

    • 03.11.29 - Travel to Gütersloh [270km].
    • 03.11.29 - Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues / 8:00pm, Jugendzentrum, Gütersloh, Germany
      [Spiral-bound "Saudades" tour itinerary, The RivBea Archive]

    • —Travel to Amsterdam, no notation.

    03.11.30 • Steven Bernstein & The Sam Rivers Trio—Diaspora Blues [SBR—126:00]

    November 30, 2003, Bimhuis, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    —Radio Suizzera Italiana Broadcast

    1... compositions + improvisations [126:00]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc), Steven Bernstein (tp, sl-tp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Ron Lyles 10.04.30; Poster + Bimhuis November schedule, The RivBea Archive}


      03.12.01 - "Return home."


    2004 : : :


    • 04.02.03 to 02.08 - The Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00 & 9:30pm, The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, CA [The Los Angeles Times Feb 3 p.E2]

    04.02.22 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—34:15]

    February 22, 2004, 8:20pm / Crooked Bayou Festival, Central Avenue, Downtown Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. improvisation [4:42]  (voc, b, dr—ts, b, dr; incomplete, cuts in)
    2. Iris [3:03]  (ts, b, p)
    3. Nightfall [6:07]  (AC p solo—fl+voc, p—fl, bcl, ts)
    4. outro w/ intros + solos [5:02]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    2nd Set:
    5. outro w/ intros + solos, again [6:59]  (fl+voc, b, dr; incomplete, cuts in)
    6. "The Reeds, yeah" [3:21]  (fl, bcl, ts)
    Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr#132; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.08; Contract dated 2/17/04, Matt Gorney Archive}


    • 04.02.23 - Sam Rivers with the USF Jazz Ensemble I, + The Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp),
      Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p), unknown others... /
      8:00pm, CVPA Theater 2, University of Southern Florida College of Visual and Performing Arts, Tampa, FL
      [Doug Werner 04.01.26; Tampa Bay Times Feb 23 p.B2]


    Sam Rivers: UC Regents Lecturer In Residence at University of California at San Diego March 8-10 : : :

      "We had the pleasure of hosting Sam Rivers and his current trio at UCSD last month for a week of performances, presentations,
      and workshops. ... We invited trombonist George Lewis to be a surprise guest at one of Sam's performances..."
      [David Borgo and Joseph Goguen, University of California at San Diego, Sync or Swarm: Group Dynamics in Musical Free Improvisation,
      Conference of Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM 04), April 2004, Graz, Austria]

    • 04.03.08 (1) - Sam Rivers "present to our undergraduate music majors." / 11:00-11:50am, University of California at San Diego, CA
      [David Borgo 18.12.20]

    04.03.08 (2) • (V/A) Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music In A Complex Age

    2005: Continuum Publishing, 236pp. (Book + CD) by David Borgo
        "A 74-minute CD featuring performances by Evan Parker, the Sam Rivers Trio,
        George Lewis, and the author's own improvising collective, Surrealestate."

    • Sam Rivers Trio with Special Guest George Lewis [RBA—33:29 & BR—2:09]

    March 8, 2004, 8:00pm / Mandeville Recital Hall, University of California at San Diego, CA
    —WKCR-FM Broadcast on May 22, 2007 during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

    Sync or Swarm:
    1. Spark—Nightfall—Delve [10:24]  (voc, dr—ts, b, dr—ts, elb, p—AC p solo)
    2. Sketch [2:08]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. Release [5:32]  (b solo)
    4. Glimpse [7:17]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr)
    5. Sprout [1:49]  (ts, tb)
    6. Source [4:24]  (p, tb, b, dr)  (incomplete, fades in)
    Broadcast Recording has track 5.
    —Program in Doug Mathews Archive was misdated "March 1, 2004."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, p, voc), George Lewis (tb),
    Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)
    okay

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #133; Sync or Swarm CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.21; Joe Giardullo 18.12.16;
    San Diego Union Tribune Mar 4 Night&Day p.36; Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music In A Complex Age p.xi; cseweb.ucsd.edu/˜goguen/pps/graz04.doc}


    • 04.03.09 - Sam Rivers Lecture & Demonstration / 11:00am-12:20pm, Anthony Davis' Jazz History course,
      University of California at San Diego, CA [ibid; David Borgo 18.12.20]

    04.03.10 (1) • Sam Rivers with David Borgo & his Graduate Improvisation Ensemble [RBA—43:54]

    March 10, 2004, 12:00-2:00am / University of California, San Diego, CA

    RivBea Archive / CDr #134
    1. improvisation [30:42]  "Play whatever you like."
    2. improvisation [10:02]
    —Disc is marked "Sam Rivers w/ David Borgo ... and UCSD Graduate Improvisors."

    Sam Rivers (ss-1, fl-1,2, voc-1), David Borgo, + a group of 8-10 students
     Playing piano, guitar, percussion, drums, bass, reeds, and vocalising.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #134; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.08; David Borgo 18.12.20; Chris Robinson, UCSD recording archivist 19.12.15}


    04.03.10 (2) • Sam Rivers and the UCSD Large Ensemble directed by Jimmy Cheatham [UCSD Archival Recording—96:57]

    March 10, 2004, 7:00pm / Mandeville Recital Hall, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA

    1. Spontaneous Creativity [1:44]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    2. Ripples [4:54]  (AC p solo–ts, b, p)
    3. various shifting improvisational grooves w/ intros + brief solos [6:32]  (fl+voc, b, dr)
    4. unknown blues composition [10:57]  (ss, b, dr + UCSD Large Ensemble)
    —"Ensemble included students and likely a few community members. [Cheatham] may have only guested on one tune—a blues." —David Borgo
    —Concert began with an hour of the Large Ensemble doing three Basie-inspired and three Ellington/Strayhorn-inspired arrangements without the Rivers Trio.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts),
    + UCSD Large Ensemble: Jimmy Cheatham (Dir), David Borgo (sax), Dr. Cal White (tp), unknown (g), "Nyoko Ngune" uncertain (voc), "Carrie Anne" (?), unknown others...

    {DAT cassette, UCSD Department of Music Concert Archive, Library Digital Collections; Digital files, track detailing RL 19.12.15;
    David Borgo 18.12.20; Andrew Munsey 19.11.12; Chris "from Recording" 19.12.13}



    • 04.04.06 to 04.08 - Sam Rivers, Jason Moran, Reggie Workman Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Moran (p), Workman (b) /
      Iridium Jazz Club, NYC [Margaret Davis, SATURN-list 04.01.06; AllAboutJazz Apr 2004 p.9; The Record Apr 2 GO! p.22]
    • 04.04.09 - "Generations of Innovation—A trio with Sam Rivers, Reggie Workman, and Jason Moran:" as above /
      8:00pm, Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA
      [San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center Calendar of Events Apr 2004 p.2; www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2004-04-09]
    • 04.04.10 - Sam Rivers Solo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc) / "An Evening of Music and Conversation,"
      8:00 and 10:00pm, The Jazz House, Berkeley, CA
      "Will include... question/answer discussion with the audience."
      [Contract dated "January 14, 2004," Matt Gorney Archive; www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2004-04-09]
    • 04.04.15 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      7:30pm, Tri-C Jazz Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
      [Billboard Apr 17 p.16; Plain Dealer Oct 3 p.E1; RL + John Chacona in attendance!]

     The Will's Pub engagements : : : April 26, 2004 through August 30, 2006


    04.04.26 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    April 26, 2004 / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [ : ]
    —RBA CDr #135 has "1st Set."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Kevin Stever (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #135}


    • 04.05.01 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      35th International Jazz Week, 19:00hr, Stadtsaal, Burghausen, Germany
      [Passauer Neue Presse Mar 3; Jazz Zeitung 2004/06 p.3; Program, The RivBea Archive]
    • 04.05.30 - The Legendary JC's featuring Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Eugene Snowden (voc), Brian Chodorcoff (g),
      Ralph Ameduri (b), Brett Crook (dr), + others ? / O-Rock Memorial Day Keg Party, 8:00pm, Parking Lot behind Tabu, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel May 28 Calendar p.18]


    • The Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music : : : June 7 through June 12, 2004
      "With Dave Douglas, Mark Feldman, Bill Frisell, George Lewis, Jason Moran, Mike Murley, Sam Rivers,
      Brad Turner, James Genus, André Lachance, Clarence Penn, and Dylan van der Schyff."
    • 04.06.12 - Sam Rivers & Jason Moran Duo: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Moran (p) /
      Banff Centre 31st Jazz Workshop, Banff, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [Edmonton Journal May 14 p.E5]

    • On Will's Pub:

      "We perform every Wednesday night at a pub called Will's, and I just bring in what I've been working on. They're such good readers and they know the way I write, so they're into it. Sometimes, if I find there's something wrong—I've made a mistake or something—then I'll just stop the band... I'll explain what's happening to the audience and then we'll just work on it. Sometimes, I'll break it down because the music is intricate: I'll have the trumpets play it first, separately; then the saxophones will play it separately; and so on, until we put it all together. It's a learning experience for everyone: me, the band, and the audience."
      [Down Beat October 2005 pp.96-97]
      ———


    04.08.04 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—96:18]

    August 4, 2004, 9:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
    —Dated incorrectly as August 3rd in RivBea session logs.

    1st Set:
    1. Vortex [6:07]  (incomplete, fades in)
    2. Convolution [7:03]
    3. Duke [8:52]
    4. Images [7:49]
    5. Aurora [22:14]
    2nd Set:
    6. composition [16:33]
    7. Epicenter [10:43]
    5. Unity [7:48]
    —RBA CDr #136 has "1st Set 1A" and has "Suits (for Duke Ellington)" as track 3.
     CDr #137 has "2nd Set 1B;" #138 has "2nd Set." These discs are duplicates.
    —Session logs had 1st Set track 3 as "Images;" track 4 as "Aurora;" track 5 as "Duke."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Brian Mackie (ts), Chris Charles and Joe Yurio (as), Don Black (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Chris Dolske (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, Andrea Rowlison, and Dale Edwards (tb),
    Kevin Stever (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #136 through 138; CDr copies, track detailing RL 19.07.28; RivBea Session Logs;
    The Orlando Sentinel Aug 6 Calendar p.39}


    04.08.11 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Excerpts—The 2004 Summer of Sam [DEMO]

    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—104:25]

    August 11, 2004, 9:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    Excerpts:
    1. Apogee [4:34]
    2. Willow [12:28]
    3. Perigee [7:23]
    4. Crux [8:51]
    5. Sirocco [8:30]
    6. Spunk [14:48]
    RivBea Archive / CDr #139 + 140
    1st Set:
    1. composition [15:17]  (incomplete, fades in)
    2. Revelation [10:40]
    3. Sirocco [8:12]
    4. Flair [7:35]
    2nd Set:
    5. Willow [11:52]
    6. Apogee [3:57]
    7. Nebula [12:04]
    8. Perigee [7:12]
    9. Spunk [13:10]
    —RBA 2CDr #139 has "1st & 2nd Set;" 2CDr #140 has "A & B." These discs are duplicates.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Brian Girley (ts), Brian Mackie (ts-set 1, bar-set 2), George Weremchuk and Joe Yurio (as),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, Jamie Parker, and Dale Edwards (tb),
    Kevin Stever (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    —RivBea session logs pre-gig had Mackie on tenor sax both sets.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #139 and 140; CDr copies, track detailing RL 19.07.28; Excerpts Demo;
    RivBea Session Logs; Session roster, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Aug 6 Calendar p.39}


    04.08.18 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Excerpts—The 2004 Summer of Sam [DEMO]

    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—97:28]

    August 18, 2004, 9:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    Excerpts:
    1. Bubbles [8:18]
    2. Solace [10:58]
    RivBea Archive / CDr #141-143
    1st Set:
    1. Bubbles [7:46]
    2. Solace [10:46]
    3. Vines [12:45]
    4. Tranquility [15:31]
    2nd Set:
    5. Beatrice [10:32]
    6. Catapult [8:41]
    8. Apex [9:31]
    9. Rejuvenation [12:25]
    Excerpts Demo has tracks 1 and 2.
    —RBA 2CDr #141 has "A & B;" 2CDr #142 and 143 have "1st & 2nd Set" and are duplicates of #141.
     CDr #142 has "The Real Mix;" #143 has "1st Dup/2nd;" DVD #9 has "3 copies" and notes producer Lee Soule.
    —Session logs omit track 6.
    —Track 9 has "WRECK" on Gorney session sheet, and is omitted from most CDr copies.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Charles (ts), George Weremchuk and Brian Girley (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Paul Roth, Brian Scanlon, and Chris Dolske (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, Steve Smith, and Dale Edwards (tb),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

     —RivBea session logs pre-gig had Yurio added on alto sax.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings Excerpts Demo, 2CDr #141, 142, and 143, DVD #9 + Session Logs; CDr copies, track detailing RL 19.07.28;
    Session roster, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Aug 6 Calendar p.39}


    04.08.25 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—110:28]

    August 25, 2004, 9:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Blue Shift [18:12]  (incomplete, fades in)
    2. Rapture [11:00]
    3. Quagmire [14:47]
    4. Ripples [6:09]
    2nd Set:
    5. Magma [18:46]
    6. Melange [8:15]
    7. Blossoms [15:26]
    —RBA 2CDr #144 has "1st & 2nd Set."
     This date is not mentioned in 2004 RivBea Session logs though recording is present.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #144; CDr copies, track detailing RL 19.07.28}




    —"Unveiling new works each Wednesday..." [The Orlando Sentinel Aug 13 Calendar p.48]


    okay


    • 04.09.05 - Jazz Family Reunion and Tribute to Noble 'Thin Man' Watts: Sam Rivers (ts, fl, p), Linda Cole (voc), Anthony Cole (perc, ts, p) /
      6:00pm, The Stock Exchange, Halifax Harbor Marina, Daytona Beach, FL
      ["Sam Rivers in Tribute to Thin Man" Daytona Beach News Journal Sep 3 p.E4]


    • 04.09.21 - "Sam Rivers arrives in Toronto, NOJO and Sam rehearse that evening at Array Studio." [Paul Neufeld 07.09.28]
    • 04.09.22 (1) - Sam Rivers, Paul Neufeld, and Michael Occhipinti interviewed by Mike Hanson / CKLN radio, Toronto, Canada [ibid]
    • 04.09.22 (2) - NOJO + Sam Rivers: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Dan Bone (ts, as, fl, cl), Sean O'Connor (ts, ss, fl, bar, cl),
      Jason Logue and Kevin Turcotte (tp), Scott Suttie (tb), Paul Neufeld (p), Michael Occhipinti (g), Roberto Occhipinti (b), Barry Romberg (dr) /
      The Rex Jazz Bar, Toronto, Canada
      ["Packed to the Gills." Toronto Star Sep 2 p.G2; Paul Neufeld 07.09.28]
    • 04.09.23 - NOJO with Sam Rivers: as above / 9:00pm, La Sala Rossa, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
      [The Gazette Sep 23 p.D5; Paul Neufeld 07.09.28]


    • 04.10.02 - Sam Rivers: unknown ensemble / Umoja Festival, Dr. Noble Watts Amphitheatre, Deland, FL
      [Daytona Beach News Journal Sep 29 p.8C]
    • 04.10.13 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers, possibly not present (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... 9:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [Connections Magazine September 2004 p.7]
      —This date is not mentioned in 2004 RivBea Session logs and there is no recording listed.

    04.10.14 + 10.15
    • Rivers, Street, Osgood + Carrott: Purple Violets

    2005: Stunt Records STUCD 04162 (CD) Den


    • Rivers, Street, Osgood: Violet Violets

    2005: Stunt Records STUCD 05112 (CD) Den
    • (V/A) Stunt Records Compilation Vol.14
      2007: Sundance SU 906-2 (CD) Den

    October 14 & 15, 2004 / Kampo Studios, New York City

      Purple Violets:
     1. Solace (Rivers) [6:40]  (ts,vb,b,dr)
     2. The Mooche (Ellington) [7:27]  (ss,b,dr)
     3. Captain America (Osgood, Street, Rivers) [5:48]  (ts,b,dr)
     4. Abalone (Osgood) [6:48]  (ts,vb,b,dr)
     5. In Search of Black Benny (Osgood) [3:26]  (ts,b,dr)
     6. Turbulence (Osgood, Rivers) [3:32]  (ts,dr)
     7. Where to Go?!? (Osgood) [6:10]  (ts,vb,b,dr)
     8. Moderation (Osgood, Street, Rivers) [5:40]  (fl,b,dr)
     9. Space (Carrott, Rivers) [4:07]  (ts,vb)
      Violet Violets:
     1. Nature Calls, Pt. 1 (Rivers) [3:16]  (fl,b,dr)
     2. Horatio—One for Herbie Nichols (Osgood) [5:02]  (ts,b,dr)
     3. Invisible (Ornette Coleman) [4:09]  (ts,b,dr)
     4. Fast Response (Rivers, Osgood) [2:08]  (ss,dr)
     5. I Forgot to Remember (Lucky Thompson) [5:35]  (ts,b,dr)
     6. No Time Toulouse (Rivers, Street, Osgood) [4:10]  (ts,b,dr)
     7. What a Difference a Day Made (Stanley Adams) [5:14]  (ts,b,dr)
     8. Lace (Rivers, Street, Osgood) [4:07]  (ss,b,dr)
     9. Chianti Blues (Rivers) [3:27]  (ts,b,dr)
    10. Nature Calls, Pt. 2 (Osgood) [6:51]  (ts,b,dr)
    Stunt Records Compilation has Violet Violets track 7.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Bryan Carrott (vb), Ben Street (b), Kresten Osgood (dr)

    {STUCD 04162; STUCD 05112}


    okay okay


    04.10.20 • Sam Rivers RivBea All-Stars Orchestra [RBA—96:52 & AR—95:44]

    October 20, 2004 / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    RivBea Archive / CDr #145 and 146
    1st Set:
    1. Cartarsis [13:31]  (incomplete, fades in—0:00 to 1:30 sounds like the Cecil Taylor Orchestra of Two Continents)
     Monsoon false start [2:36]  (Rivers after it falls apart:) "How was that?!?"
    2. Monsoon [12:26]
     #426 false start [0:10]  "That's beautiful!"
     #426 melody [1:00]  "See that?"
     #426 false start [0:10]  "That's beautiful!"
     #426 two more starts, with laughter [0:09—0:07]
    3. #426 [10:58]
    2nd Set:
    4. Blossoms [7:03]
    5. #427 [9:53]
    6. Quagmire [13:28]
    7. Rejuvenation [11:10 ]
    Audience Recording is missing about a minute from the beginning.
    —RBA CDr #145 has "2nd Set;" #146 has "1st Set Only."
    —MGA CDr has "426 w/ section rehearsal," plus tracks 4 and 5; and "Live Project RivBea-Excerpts, but that Demo
     ultimately only included tracks from 04.08.11 + 08.18.

    Audience Recording: "Recorded by: 'fretlessj' (aka greenthumb) Lineage: (STEALTH RECORDING) Large man holding a Sony Minidisc in right hand
    with Sony ECM717 microphone draped over right shoulder, standing directly in front of stage left main speaker six feet away
    from stage. To Mackie 1604 to dbx166 to Maudio Delta 1010 to MAC G3 to Cubase to Peak to xACT to SHN to you! = ENJOY!!"
    [I have no idea what that all means. —RL]

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Charles (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, and Andrea Rowlison (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews and Kevin Stever (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

     —There is no tuba player listed in most of the RivBea session logs. Parsons is consistently listed on trombone.
      Josh Parsons: "I've only ever played tuba with Sam. I think at some point early on he used bass trombone, but the book eventually
      was written for tuba. I'm essentially functioning as a fourth trombone in the ensemble and that might be where the confusion is."

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #145 and 146 + Session Logs; 2CDr copy + Audience Recording, track detailing RL 18.12.18;
    Matt Gorney Archive CDr + Session Roster; Master Igor Danilishen 04.10.30; Josh Parsons 19.08.11}


    • 04.10.23 - Longineu Parsons Ensemble: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Parsons (tp), unknown others... /
      Downtown Marketplace, Ponce de Leon Park, Tallahassee, FL [Tallahassee Democrat Oct 22 Calendar p.20]
    • 04.10.27 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers, possibly not present (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... 9:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [Connections Magazine September 2004 p.7]
      —This date is not mentioned in 2004 RivBea Session logs and there is no recording listed.


      Sam Rivers Trio + RivBea Orchestra UK Tour November 6 through 13, 2004 : : :

    • 04.11.03 to 11.05 - Sam Rivers Trio + RivBea Orchestra UK: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp),
      Iain Ballamy, Tony Kofi, Martin Speake, Pete Wareham, and Jason Yarde (reeds), Chris Batchelor, Tom Rees-Roberts,
      Danny Marsden, and Byron Wallen (tp), Trevor Mires, Roland Bates, and Ashley Slater (tb), Andy Grappy (tu),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / Rehearsals, Premises Studios, London, UK
      "I've suggested to the rest of the band that rehearsals should be 10am-1pm and 2pm-5pm. Does that sound OK for you?"
      [Amy Pearce at serious.org email to Sam Rivers October 19 2004, The RivBea Archive]
    • 04.11.06 - Sam Rivers Trio + RivBea Orchestra UK: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp),
      Robert Townsend, Tony Kofi, Martin Speake, Pete Wareham, and Jason Yarde (reeds), Chris Batchelor, Tom Rees-Roberts,
      Danny Marsden, and Byron Wallen (tp), Trevor Mires, Roland Bates, and Ashley Slater (tb), Andy Grappy (tu),
      Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / "Presented by Birmingham Jazz," CBSO Centre, Birmingham, UK
      —Robert Townsend replaces Iain Ballamy (reeds).
      [www.cmntours.org.uk/tours/samrivers/index.html; WIRE #248 October 2004, p.93 + #249 November 2004, p.86; Ashley Slater 18.06.18]
      WIRE #248 also lists Ashley Slater on trombone, but his name had been dropped from the ad in WIRE #249.

    • —RivBea Orchestra UK personnel and replacement notes on these dates from program booklet in The RivBea Archive.
    • More mayhem for the personnel mix:

      "The most recent CMN (Contemporary Music Network) advertisement
      to catch my eye (in the Guide supplement of Saturday's The Guardian
      newspaper) has not only reinstated Ashley Slater (tb) but also replaced
      trumpeter Kevin Robinson with one Danny Marsden, and added
      Finn Peters to the saxophone section."
      —K.C. White

      "I think I was only on a few dates. [CBSO, Manchester, Turner Sims]
      Not the QEH one as far as I can remember..." —Finn Peters 18.06.29

      "The Guardian dated November 13, has the following about the Sam
      Rivers' tour: 'A defining figure of jazz joins a big band packed
      with British talent including... Fayyaz Virji.'"
      —K.C. White

      Broadcast: "Very probably 6 Nov 2004, Sam appears with small group
      on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends (mild satire and showbiz interviews)
      hosted by Ned Sherrin. It's definitely a Saturday and before the UK
      tour dates—think it goes out live—usually recorded in London.
      Two saxes, one three minute tune with a one word title."
      —NovaSpeech 06.01.00



    • 04.11.07 - Sam Rivers Trio + RivBea Orchestra UK
      —Robert Townsend replaces Pete Wareham (reeds),
      —Alistair White replaces Trevor Mires (tb).
      Concert Hall, Brighton Dome, Brighton, England
    • 04.11.09 - "Presented by Leeds Jazz," Wardrobe, Leeds, UK
    • 04.11.10 - The Michael Tippett Centre, Bath, UK
    • 04.11.11 - Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
      —Finn Peters replaces Jason Yarde (reeds).
    • 04.11.12 - Turner Sims Concert Hall, Southampton, UK
      —Finn Peters replaces Jason Yarde (reeds).
      —Fayyaz Virji (tb) added to Orchestra this date only.
    • okay

      [www.cmntours.org.uk/tours/samrivers/index.html; WIRE #248 October 2004 p.93; a vigilant K.C. White 04.11.05 +++;
      Finn Peters phonecall 18.06.19; Ashley Slater 18.06.18; Fayyaz Virji 18.08.21]

    04.11.13 • Sam Rivers Trio & RivBea Orchestra UK [BR—87:49 & BVR]

    November 13, 2004, 7:45 pm / Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Jazz Festival, UK
    —BBC Radio 3 programme "Jazz On 3" Broadcast Friday December 10, 2004, 23:30-01:00hr

    Sam Rivers Trio:
     Introduction by Kevin Le Gendre [3:03]
    1. Impromptu (for You) [6:25]  (dr solo–ss+voc, b, dr)
    2. Ripples—SR announcement [4:23]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. bass solo [5:18]
    4. Impromptu—SR announcement [9:14]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—b, dr)
    5. Beatrice [5:54]  (ts, b, dr)
     Interval: Kevin Le Gendre talks to Sam Rivers [7:42]
    RivBea Orchestra UK:
     Introductions by Kevin Le Gendre & Sam Rivers [2:51]
    6. Pulsar [5:32]
    7. Revival [11:33]
    8. Jubilee [7:24]
    9. Willow [12:21]
    "Jez Nelson presents a concert recording from one of the key figures of the sixties revolution in jazz—Sam Rivers. Recording classic albums
    for Blue Note, including Fuchsia Swing Song, he was a founder member of the Jazz Composers Guild and enjoyed a brief spell in the Miles Davis band.
    In the seventies he became a leader of the New York loft scene. Tonight's concert was a headline event at this year's London Jazz Festival and features
    Sam Rivers with his trio alongside a hand-picked British big band."

    Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)
    The RivBea Orchestra UK: Rivers (ts-7, ss-6, fl-8,9), Iain Ballamy and Pete Wareham (ts), Martin Speake and Jason Yarde (as), Tony Kofi (bar),
    Byron Wallen, Chris Batchelor, Tom Rees-Roberts, and Danny Marsden (tp), Ashley Slater, Trevor Mires, and Roland Bates (tb),
    Andy Grappy (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #293 + DVD #29; Broadcast 2CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.22; Master Igor Danilishen 04.12.24; John Chacona;
    WIRE #248 October 2004 p.93 + #249 November 2004 p.94; www.cmntours.org.uk/tours/samrivers/index.html}



    04.12.01 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—84:33]

    December 1, 2004, 8:00 & 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
    —Dated incorrectly as December 4th in RivBea session logs.

    1st Set:
    1. Revival [11:06]
    2. Pulsar [5:30]
    3. Willow [11:14]
    4. #323 [12:18]
    2nd Set:
    5. Jubilee [5:35]
    6. Impulse [11:18]
    7. Spunk [12:09]
    —RBA 2CDr #147 has "2nd Set Only" in database, but physical discs have 1st & 2nd Sets.
    —Database has last four tracks in same order except with #323 last.
    —MGA CDr has tracks 2 and 3; and "Live Project RivBea-Excerpts, but that Demo
     ultimately only included tracks from 04.08.11 + 08.18.

    —After Jubilee, someone in the crowd asks "Yo, man. Who ARE y'all?"

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Charles (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jamie Parker, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #147 + Session Logs; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.28; Matt Gorney Archive CDr;
    The Orlando Sentinel Nov 26 Calendar p.56}


    04.12.08 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—68:04 +]

    December 8, 2004, 8:00 & 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Bubbles; #324; Flair; Jubilee [ : ]
    2nd Set:
    5. Revival [13:45]
    6. Tapestry [11:53]
    7. Impulse [15:01]
    8. Blueshift [15:11]  "1+2 tb on wrong chart."
    9. Willow [12:14]
    —RBA CDr #148 has "2nd Set - Missed first set" in database, and is dated incorrectly as December 4th in RivBea session logs.
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Charles (ts), Danny Jordan, and Joe Yurio (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Jamie Parker, Jeremy Barnes, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    —RivBea session logs pre-gig had Mackie on tenor sax; added Jeff Rupert on alto; added Keith Oshiro on trombone.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #148 + Session Logs; Session roster and set lists, Matt Gorney Archive}


    • 04.12.15 - Sam Rivers & The Rivbea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Charles DeChant (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Paul Roth (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Jamie Parker, and Steve Smith (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      8:00 & 10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [Session roster and set lists, Matt Gorney Archive]
      —Compositions: Bubbles (281), #325 (Quasar Suite), Willow (236) / Spunk (271), #324 (Quasar Suite), Flair (266), #201, Jubilee (238)

    04.12.22 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    December 22, 2004, 8:00 & 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [5] compositions: Jubilation; Solace; Crux; Beatrice; Rejuvenation [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [4] compositions +: impromptu piece; Perigee; Rapture; #297; Sirocco [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Charles (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Chris Dolske (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, and Kelly Beauman (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Session roster and set lists, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Dec 17 Calendar p.62}


    • 04.12.29 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and George Weremchuk (ts),
      Jeff Rupert (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino–set 2, Dave Jones–set 1, and Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Jamie Parker, and Steve Smith (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      10:00pm & 12:00am, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [Session roster and set lists, Matt Gorney Archive]
      —Compositions: Riffin', Willow, Jubilee, Spunk, Revival, Impulse, Sirocco, #324
      —RivBea session logs pre-gig had Iapichino and Jones on trumpet both sets.

    2005 : : :


    05.01.11 • Landing on Land: S/T

    2005: private release, no release# (CD)
        —"There was a physical CD, but it was only sold at shows
          and at Park Avenue Records in Winter Park, Florida."

    January 11, 2005 / Anthony Cole's house, Orlando, FL
    —"The main tracks were recorded at Goldentone in Gainesville, but Sam came
      and did his overdubs at some house where Anthony Cole was living."

    1. To Kill a Man and Watch Him Live [4:46]
    Sam Rivers (ss),
    Jay Friedman (g, voc),
    Joshua Chiet (g, synth),
    Casey Occhialini (b),
    David Lane (dr)
    okay

    "Jazz icon Sam Rivers provides the otherworldly saxophone riffs in the closing "To Kill a Man and Watch Him Live." The song's conclusion
    spirals from the band's driving style into a crazy cacophony of unhinged sax and guitar that doesn't sound like Rush at all." —Jim Abbott

    {Landing on Land; Andrey Henkin 18.04.02; Joshua Chiet; Jim Abbott "Rush to Judgement" The Orlando Sentinel Mar 11}


    • 05.02.02 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Chris Charles (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino (2nd set), Chris Dolske (1st set),
      Todd Beals, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jerry Edwards, Jaime Parker, and Andrea Rowlison (tb),
      Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr) / 9:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 2 p.E7]
      —Compositions: Spunk, #324, Willow (236), Magma (254) / Jubilee —RivBea session logs pre-gig had Iapichino and Jones on trumpet both sets.
    • 05.02.09 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Chris Charles (bar), Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Benat Glazer, and Dave Jones (tp),
      Jaime Parker, Jeremy Barnes, and Steve Smith (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Kevin Stever (elb), Anthony Cole (dr) / 9:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 9 p.E7]
      —Compositions: Revival (201), Pulsar, Crux, Quasar (322) / Quark (323), Riffin', #325, Bubbles
    • 05.02.16 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others... /
      9:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Feb 11 Calendar p.50]

    05.02.23 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    February 23, 2005, 9:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [5] compositions: Robyn (401); Cindy (402); Monique (403); Traci (404); Lorna (405) [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [4] compositions: Iisha (406); #407; #408; Jessica (409) [ : ]
    —RBA CDr #150 is misdated "2/28/2005."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Brian Mackie (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Joe Yurio (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Todd Beals, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Steve Smith (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #150; Session roster and set lists, Matt Gorney Archive}


    05.02.24 • Brian Groder [Unissued Rehearsal Recording & VR—180:00]

    February 24, 2005 / Joseph Hayes' house, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [180:00]
    An mp3 of "Diverging Orbits" [5:57]

    "The Brian Groder 'Torque' sessions [05.04.28 & 05.04.29] began with rehearsals at my house in Orlando...
    (I have about three hours of audio and video of the sessions)..." —Joseph Hayes

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Brian Groder (tp, flg), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {Joseph Hayes 06.12.25, 07.04.15}


    05.03.05 • Sam Rivers Trio + Steven Bernstein's Diaspora Blues [AR—67:47]

    March 5, 2005, 7:00 & 9:00pm / Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

    Early Shoe:
    1. V'Lirushalayim Irchu (Koussevitsky) [10:10]
    2. Blessing (traditional) [3:28]
    3. Commentary (Bernstein) [9:08]
    4. Lucky (Bernstein) [16:52]
    5. Chant (Bernstein) [12:07]
    6. Ribino Shel Olom (Koussevitsky) [7:00]
    "The first-ever US performance of music from the Diaspora Blues CD, interpretations of cantorial melodies by chazzan Moshe Koussevitzky."
    —Shaun Brady

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,3,6, ss-2,5, fl+voc-4), Marty Ehrlich (fl-4,6, cl-1,2, bcl-3,5), Steven Bernstein (tp-1,4,5,6, sl-tp-2,3),
    Vincent Chancey (frh), Uri Caine (p), Doug Mathews (b-1,2,4,5, bcl-3,6), Anthony Cole (dr-1,2,4,5, ts-3,6)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.26; Torrentville; The Philadelphia News Mar 4 p.58}


    05.04.01 • Sam Rivers Trio + The Peabody Jazz Ensemble [Peabody Institute Archival Recording—123:00]

    April 1, 2005, 7:30pm / East Hall, Peabody Institute, Baltimore, MD

      Trio:
     1. Impromptu (for You) [5:33]  (ss, b, dr)
     2. Ripples [3:40]  (ss, bcl, ts)
     3. bass solo [4:49]
     4. Firestorm [5:05]  (p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—b+dr—ts, b, dr)
     5. Beatrice [4:42]  (ts, elb, dr, + MF-b—p, elb, dr, +MF-b)
     6. Nightfall [3:55]  (ts, b, dr)
     7. Iris [7:03]  (AC p solo—fl, b, p—fl solo—fl, b, ts—fl, bcl, ts)
     8. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:37]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    "The first set was Sam's trio, and I sat in on that version of Beatrice." —Michael Formanek
      Sam Rivers Trio + The Peabody Jazz Ensemble:
     9. Spectrum [7:31]
    10. Solace [11:17]
    11. Rejuvenation [12:48]
    12. Beatrice [10:21]
    13. Vines [15:03]
    "Sam played in Baltimore a month or so ago, in the Peabody Institute. He was a guest instructor or something for a week there,
    along with his longtime drummer and bass player. They held a concert with the Peabody Jazz Orchestra [sic], playing tunes from his
    two big-band RCA CDs for the second session, and just the trio for the first. Two hours of non-stop Rivers, and it was brilliant."
    —Stefan Wood 05.05.25 Organissimo Jazz Forums

    "The trio performed one set, doing improvisations... and of course, ‘Beatrice’. The second set was with the Peabody Band, a collection
    of students from the school that only had a few days' preparation with the trio to execute very difficult arrangements."
    [kinggab.blogspot.com/2005/04/sam-rivers-at-peabody-institute-4105.html]

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Cond, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p),
    + The Peabody Jazz Ensemble:
    Michael Formanek (Dir), Todd Simon (ts, p), Brian Bubnash and Ian Sims (ts), Russell Kirk, Grace Johnson, and Kevin Dieter (as),
    Zachary Herschen and Rose Hammer (bar), Neal Kindig, Chris Busil, Dan Gianola-Norris, and Robert Walliczek (tp),
    Mike Matarazzo, John Porter, Scott Sayre, and Dave Faleris (tb), Patrick Adams (btb),
    Jon Birkholz, Russell Nadel, and Charles Sekel (p), Devin Arne and Michael Johnston (g),
    Mark Ziegler, Joel Grip, and Ben Kramer (b), Dan Marcellus and Devin Gray (vbs, dr, perc),
    Shareef Taher, Nathan Ellman-Bell, and Laurence Schwarz (dr, perc)
    —Gregory Thompkins (reeds) was introduced but did not play.

    {Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.05.15; Michael Formanek details+++ 19.05.14 + 05.16; Todd Simon (Program!) 19.05.16;
    Peabody News Mar/Apr 2005 p.39; Archivist Matt Testa 18.06.19, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University}


    • 05.04.06 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Josh Degges (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Jim Derrick, and Dave Jones (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, and Andrea Rowlison (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Apr 1 Calendar p.39; RivBea Session Logs]
      —Compositions: Revival, Pulsar, Rejuvenation, Apex, Revelation, Riffin'

    05.04.00 • Shak Nasti: From the Belly

    2005: Richter Records no release# (CD)

    April, 2005 / Richter Records Studio, Orlando, FL

    1. Down in My Shoes [7:07]
    Sam Rivers (ts, fl),
    Tim Turner (g, g-synth, voc),
    Kris Guida (g, voc),
    Matt Lapham (b, voc),
    Rion Smith (dr, perc, drum programming)

    {From the Belly; Rion Smith 19.05.12}

    okay

    05.04.13 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—88:38]

    April 13, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
    —Session logs have this as the 14th; RivBea only played Will's on Wednesday nights.

    1st Set:
    1. Jubilation [ : ]
    2. Crux [7:35]  (incomplete, fades in)
    3. Willow [12:20]
    4. Sirocco [10:39]
    5. Perigee [6:37]
    2nd Set:
    6. #297 [17:24]
    7. Mercury [14:33]
    8. Europa [8:26]
    —RBA CDr #151 has "1st Set Only" and "Bad Copy."
     2CDr #152 has "1st & 2nd Set... in Same Packaging."
    —Rivers announces track 6 as Blueshift, but later recants.
    —RivBea session log and Gorney roster sheet both have "Jubilation" as track 1, but it is not on recording.
    —Gorney Roster sheet is misdated "04.14.05."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Josh Degges (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Gustavo Rodriguez (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #151 and 2CDr 152 + Session Logs; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.07.28 (tracks 2-5 only);
    Session roster and set lists, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 8 Calendar p.40}


    05.04.15 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra + The University of Central Florida Jazz Ensemble [RBA—69:09]

    April 15, 2005, 8:00pm / University of Central Florida Visual Arts Building Auditorium, Orlando, FL

    [4-5] compositions [6:14–14:45–18:06–30:04]   (last piece may be two compositions as one track)
    —RBA CDr #153 has "1 Copy/Board Mix."
    —A Full Sail Real World Education Recording.
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    "The premiere of a new Rivers composition written for a ‘double big-band’ and especially commissioned by the UCF musicians...
    Tonight's show will dissect the work by allowing each ensemble to play its part individually before combining them. RivBea musicians
    will solo with the UCF Ensemble, then the students will return the favor with Rivers' band... The double big-band piece is the first
    installment in a 12-part composition.
    Some of the students have been listening to and sitting in with the Rivbea Orchestra in Wednesday evening sessions
    that will continue through the end of April at Will's Pub." —Jim Abbott

    The RivBea Orchestra:
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Chris Dolske, Dave Jones, and John DePaolo (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield ["Sefield"], and Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parson (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)
    The UCF Jazz Ensemble:
    Jeff Rupert (Dir), Basil Wang and Mark Shatzkin (ts), Joe Rayhill and Reginald Ellingson (as), Matt Colwell (bar),
    Ben Clason, Matt McCarthy, Brent Hall, and Mitch Dunham (tp), Thomas Whitmer, Jamie Gonzalez, and Michael Maldonado (tb),
    Louis Linde (btb), David Brown (p), Mike Murillo (b), Carl Hamilton (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #153 + Session Logs; Matt Gorney Archive CDr; Program, Doug Mathews Archive;
    Central Florida Future Apr 18 p.A2; Jim Abbott "Jazz Great Rivers Is Schooling UCF" The Orlando Sentinel Apr 15 Calendar p.35}


    • 05.04.20 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Josh Degges (ts),
      George Weremchuck and Joe Yurio (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Chad Shoopman, John DePaolo, Dave Jones, and Gustavo Rodriguez (tp),
      Andrea Rowlison, Joe King, and Jeremy Barnes (tb), Devin Hoey (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 20 Calendar p.9]
      —Compositions: Flair (266), #324 (Pulsar Suite), Spunk (271) / Solace (232), Apogee (229), Pulsar (321)
      —RivBea Session logs had Hoey on trombone.
    • 05.04.27 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Mike Iapichino, Bill Carmichael, Dave Jones, and Ben Classon (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Steve Smith, and Jeremy Barnes (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 27 Calendar p.9]
      —Compositions: Jubilation (222), Perigee (231), #304 untitled!!!, Willow / Quark (323), Impulse (289), Sirocco (227)

    05.04.28 to 04.30 • Brian Groder: Torque

    2007: Latham Records LATHAM 5106-2 (CD)

    April 28, 29, & 30, 2005 / Doug Mathews' Avant Workshop Studio, Gotha, FL

     1. Spellcast [2:15]  (tp, dr)
     2. Betwixt [3:35]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
     3. Diverging Orbits [6:40]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
     4. Behind The Shadows Part 1 [1:46]  (ss, tp)
     5. Behind The Shadows Part 2 [1:36]  (fl, tp)
     6. Iota [3:31]  (flg, b)
     7. Cross-Eyed [4:25]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
     8. Involution [6:18]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
     9. Camouflage [2:48]  (ts, flg)
    10. Oculus [4:44]  (ts, tp, b, dr)
    11. Jingo [4:28]  (tp, b)
    12. Tragic Magic [2:26]  (ss, tp)
    13. Fulcrum [4:06]  (ts, flg, b, dr)
    14. Water Prayer [2:43]  (flg, dr)
    —DMA DVDs: One has "Day 1," another "Day 2,"
     and a third has "Duos Day 2 + 3, 4/29-30/05."
    —DMA CDr has "Rough Mix Day #2 + Iota."

    "Sessions began with rehearsals at my house in Orlando on Feb 24, 2005..."
    —Joseph Hayes

    okay
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Brian Groder (tp, flg), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {LATHAM 5106-2; Doug Mathews Archive 24-bit Audio 3DVD + CDr; John Chacona 06.12.08; Joseph Hayes, 06.12.25; www.briangroder.com/music.html}




    The Doug Mathews Archive Session Recordings: [183:00+]
      "Day 1" April 28:
     1. Diverging Orbits take #1 [6:56]  (CD track 3)
     2. Diverging Orbits take #2 [9:07]
     3. Incantations take #1 [7:02]
     4. Incantations take #2 [10:22]
     5. Incantations take #3 [9:06]
     6. Ellipsis take #1 [8:32]
     7. Ellipsis take #2 [7:06]
      "Day 2" April 29:
     8. Betwixt take #1 [8:30]
     9. Betwixt take #2 [7:16]  (CD track 2—excerpt one of 2 takes)
    10. Free #1 [4:41]  
    11. Oculus [8:33]  (CD track 10—Excerpted)
    12. Involution take #1 [8:04]  
    13. Involution take #2 [6:33]  (CD track 8)
    14. Ellipsis take #3 [7:33]  ("tenor")
    15. tenor duet take #1 [2:58]  (CD track 9—"Camouflage")
    16. tenor duet take #2 [2:06]  
    17. w/ flute take #1 [1:55]  (CD track 4—"Behind The Shadows Part 1")
    18. w/ flute take #2 [1:43]  (CD track 5—"Behind The Shadows Part 2")
    19. w/ soprano take #1 [1:54]  
    20. w/ soprano take #2 [3:11]  
    21. w/ soprano take #3 [2:49]  (CD track 12—take 2 or 3)
    22. w/ soprano take #4 [1:37]  
    19. w/ Anthony take #1 [0:51]  
    20. w/ Anthony take #2 [2:27]  
    21. w/ Anthony take #3 [3:24]  
    22. w/ Anthony take #4 [2:47]  (CD tracks 1 + 14—takes 2, 3, or 4)
    23. Free #2 [4:14]  
      
      "Day 3" April 30:
    24. Jingo take #1 [5:13]  
    25. Jingo take #2 [4:48]  
    26. Jingo take #3 [4:39]  (CD track 11—One of 3 takes)
    27. Iota take #1 [4:39]  
    28. Iota take #2 [6:30]  
    29. Iota take #3 [3:50]  
    30. Iota take #4 [3:39]  
    31. Iota take #5 [3:51]  (CD track 6—One of first 5 takes)
    32. Iota take #6 [0:50]  
    33. Disconcertion take #1 [3:23]  
    34. Disconcertion take #2 [3:10]  
    35. Disconcertion "tag" [ : ]  (end-time not indicated)
    —Of quartet tracks 2 through 7, track 10, and track 14 from Days 1 & 2, two are CD track 7 "Cross-Eyed" and CD track 13 "Fulcrum".

    [Recording Session logs, Doug Mathews Archive]
    • 05.05.12 - Sam Rivers Big Band: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Adam Pieronczyk, Klemens Pliem, Peter Massink, Thomas Zeller (reeds),
      Claus Reichstaller, Bumi Fian, Peter Tuscher, Bunny Gierlinger (tp), Christopher Varner, Gerhard Gschlossl, Leo Gmelch (tb), Ali Anerer (tu),
      Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts) / Jazz Club Unterfahrt, Munich, Germany [Program, The RivBea Archive]

    05.05.13 • Sam Rivers Trio with the Austrian Jazz All-Star Orchestra [BR—59:24]

    May 13, 2005, 19:00hr / Inntöne Festival, Buchmannhof in der Froschau, Diersbach, Austria
    —ORF Ö1 FM broadcast; Radio France, France Musique "Le Jazz, Probablement" March 12, 2006

     Broadcast announcement [1:10]
    Trio:
    1. Ripples—outro w/ intros + solos [10:37]  (p, b, dr—b solo–ss, b, dr / incomplete, fades in)
    Orchestra:
    2. Pulsar [14:18]
    3. Beatrice [10:37]
     Broadcast announcement [1:54]
    4. Spunk [11:42]
    —The ORF Broadcast Recording begins with the Andrew Hill track "Catta," from Blue Note ST 84198.
    —The Radio France program is tracks 1-2 only, at 29:17.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts),
    + Austrian Jazz All-Star Orchestra: Adam Pieronczyk, Klemens Pliem, Peter Massink, Johannes Enders, Thomas Zoller (reeds),
    Claus Reichstaller, Daniel Nösig, Peter Tuscher, Bunny Gierlinger, Florian Brandl (tp),
    Christopher Varner, Gerhard Gschlößl, Leo Gmelch (tb), Ali Angerer (tu)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.11.27; Jakob Blumenthal 07.07.21; WIRE #233 p.101+102; www.jazzsaalfelden.at;
    Wolfgang Kraus 03.12.11; Sergiusz Lipnicki 04.07.08; Patrick Pohlmann 07.11.11; Festival program, Doug Mathews Archive}


    • 05.05.17 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p) /
      8:00 & 10:00pm, Yoshi's, Oakland, CA [www.sfbg.com/39/32/x_8days.html]

    05.05.19 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—57:06]

    May 19, 2005, 8:00pm / Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA

    1. composition [5:02]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    2. composition [7:15]  (ss, b, p—ts, b, p)
    3. composition [6:24]  (ts, b, dr)
    4. bass solo [6:20]
    5. composition [8:39]  (p, b, dr)
    6. composition [14:13]  (p, b, dr—fl, b, dr)
    7. composition [9:09]  (fl+voc, b, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Program, Doug Mathews Archive; Jakob Blumenthal 09.10.25}


    05.05.20 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—38:58]

    May 20, 2005, 7:30pm / Creative Soundspace Festival, The Outpost, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    1. "An Opening Salvo" [5:34]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    2. improvisation [7:58]  (ss, b, p—AC p solo—ts, p—ts, b, p)
    3. improvisation [10:31]  (ts+voc, b, dr—b, dr—p, b, dr)
    4. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [12:21]  (fl+voc, b, dr)
    —RBA CDr #154 has total time and "Steve Schmidt/Fly on the Wall Productions."

    "Sam and his trio then played for the previously mentioned 35 minutes. Did get in all of his instruments.
    An encore was enthusiastically requested by the 100 or so people present. The person who runs The Outpost
    came out, apologized saying 'There's a lot of altitude here.' Sam was obviously having trouble breathing."
    —Stanley Pollack

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #154; Soundfiles, track detailing EH + RL 19.11.10; Albuquerque Journal May 17 p.B4;
    The Santa Fe New Mexican May 20 Pasatiempo p.83; Stanley Pollack 05.08.25; www.organissimo.org}


    05.05.21 • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—57:09]

    May 21, 2005, 8:00pm / Matt Bevel Institute, Tucson, AZ

    1. Flame [3:41]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    2. Ripples [3:25]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    3. AC p solo [4:25]
    4. Nightfall [4:48]  (ts, elb, p)
    5. Spark [4:18]  (ts, elb, dr)
    6. elb solo [4:43]
    7. Firestorm [10:14]  (SR p solo—p, elb, dr—dr solo)
    8. Iris [4:51]  (fl solo—fl, bcl, ts)
    9. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [5:44]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —Audience Recording circulating with a 5:12 filler tag piece by a bland piano trio.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.27; Norbert Kreutzer 06.05.21; Stanley Pollack 05.08.25; Arizona Daily Star May 19 Caliente p.10}


    • 05.06.01 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Josh Degges (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Jorge Quintano, and Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Jason Smith, Matt Buckmaster, and Andrea Rowlison (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      10:00pm & 12:00am, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; Orlando Weekly Jun 1 p.33]
      —Compositions: Jubilee (238), #426, Beatrice (202), Pulsar (321), Spunk (271) / #427, Europa "!!!" (381), Mercury (430), Flair (266)

    05.06.08 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—92:36]

    June 8, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Perigee [7:31]
    2. Cindy [6:34]
    3. Callisto [7:49]
    4. Rapture [11:02]
    5. Sirocco [11:30]
    2nd Set:
    6. Jubilation [6:35]
    7. Magma [11:39]
    8. Jupiter [16:54]
    9. Riffin' [10:57]
    —RBA CDr #155 has "Set 2 Only;" #157 has "Set 1 of 2."
     CDr #156 has "1st Set Only" and "Duplicate with I & II."
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Josh Degges (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Chris Charles (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Chris Dolske, and Jorge Quintaro (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #155 through #157; Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive;
    The Orlando Sentinel Jun 8 Calendar p.8; Orlando Weekly Jun 1 p.33}



    Workman tells me that there was a single rehearsal before the first WARM concert on June 14. There were no actual titled compositions,
    though a title or two may have been discussed—"Mostly just conversations, perimeters, outlines, ideas..."


    05.06.14 • WARM: WARM Live + WARM Take 1

    TUM Records (CDr)
    1st Session [See also 05.06.00 (2)]
    • WARM [AR—43:31]

    June 14, 2005, 11:00pm / Tenth Vision Festival, Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts, New York City

    1. composition [16:29]
    2. composition [25:46]
    —TUM Records Master Disc is dated 22.6.2005, the date that Esa Santonen did the mastering at "DER Digital Editing Room Oy" in Ekenäs, Finland,
     and has these two live Vision Festival tracks, plus four relaxed solo pieces recorded consecutively in-studio a day or two later (See 05.06.00 below).

    "The house was packed for a walloping, effective set by [a] group of elders, an ad-hoc band called WARM..." —Ben Ratliff

    "A soundman desperately tried to signal the set's end, but WARM—an elder-statesmen quartet comprising bassist Reggie Workman,
    drummer Pheeroan Aklaff, and saxophonists Sam Rivers and Roscoe Mitchell—paid no attention. They were lost in a glorious balladic tune,
    transported to some delicate, unbound space. And the crowd that packed the Angel Orensanz Center was right with them, never mind the time.
    It was an inspiring Tuesday-night start to the 10th annual Vision Festival, as fine and focused a celebration of free-jazz improvisation as we
    have and an event full of heroic hookups that regularly transcended limitation..." —Larry Blumenfeld

    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, fl-2), Roscoe Mitchell (as-1,2, ss-2), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {TUM Records Master CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.28; www.visionfestival.org; Kevin C. White 05.08.04; Patrick Pohlmann 05.11.23
    Ben Ratliff "Same City, Same Night, Different Opinions About Music" The New York Times Jun 16 p.E5}

    IMG Jeff Schlanger / photo Heidi Schumann for The New York Times Jun 15

    05.06.00 (1) • WARM "Day 1" [Unreleased Studio Recording—70:44]

    June, 2005 / LoHo Recording Studios, New York City

     1. improvisation [5:48]  (ts, as, b, dr)
     2. improvisation [7:14]  (ts, as, b, dr)
     3. first composition, take 1 [6:29]  (fl, fl, b, dr)
     4. first composition, take 2 [6:54]  (fl, fl, b, dr)
     5. second composition, take 1 [6:48]  (ts, as, b, dr)
     6. second composition, take 2 [1:14]  (ts, as, b, dr)
     7. improvisation [4:06]  (ts, as, b, dr)
     8. third composition [6:35]  (ts, as, b, dr)
     9. improvisation [3:38]  (ss, –out, b, dr)
    10. improvisation [15:20]  (fl+ts, as+ss, flex-a-tone+b, dr+perc) —with multiple starts and stops
    11. improvisation [4:58]  (–out, as, b, dr)
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Roscoe Mitchell (as, ss, fl), Reggie Workman (b, flex-a-tone), Pheeroan akLaff (dr, perc)

    {CDr Master, track detailing RL 19.06.30; Matt Gorney 19.06.27; phone conversation with Reggie Workman}


    05.06.00 (2) • WARM "Day 2" [Unreleased Studio Recording—66:23]

    • WARM: WARM Live + WARM Take 1 [Unreleased Studio Recording—10:42]
      TUM Records (CDr)
      2nd Session [See also 05.06.14]

    June, 2005 / LoHo Recording Studios, New York City

    WARM "Day 2":
    1. composition [8:10]  (ts, as, b, dr)
    2. improvisation [14:30]  (fl, fl+as, b, dr)
    3. improvisation [7:26]  (ss, as, b, dr)
    4. Nightfall (Rivers) take 1 [3:41]  (ts, RM-out, b, dr)
    5. Nightfall (Rivers) take 2 [3:39]  (ts, RM-out, b, dr)
    6. second composition, take 1 [3:58]  (ts, as, b, dr)
    7. second composition, take 2 [5:30]  (ts, as, b, dr)  "That was... Perfect!" —RW
     ...so they do it again:
    8. second composition, take 3 [5:07]  (ts, as, b, dr)
    9. Take 1, tho possibly actually take 2 [12:57]  (b solo –3:18; dr solo –2:55, fades out?; ts solo–2:34, fades in; as solo–3:57)
    WARM Live + WARM Take 1:
    1. Take 1, probably actually take 1 [10:41]  (b solo –2:24, fades in; dr solo –2:41; ts solo–2:32; as solo–2:52)
    —The "Take 1" tracks have different solo snippets by each player. No actual idea which was take 1, if there were more than two versions,
     or if all of these solo segments are actually excerpts from single solo takes.
     [See Francois Jacob's "The Possible & the Actual" Preface ¶3 p.vii, Pantheon Books 1982]
    WARM "Day 2" does not include take 1 of "Take 1." Ha.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Roscoe Mitchell (as, fl), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {CDr Master, track detailing RL 19.06.30; Matt Gorney 19.06.27; bracing phone conversations with Reggie Workman}


      05.06.15 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: (Rivers not present), Jeff Rupert (ts, fl), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts),
      Chris Charles and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Chris Dolske, and Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Jason Smith, Jaime Parker, and Tony Hill (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / 10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #158 ("Set 1 & 2") + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Jun 15 p.E9]
      —Compositions: Flair, Beatrice, Apogee, Riffin', Jubilee, Blueshift, Pulsar, Sirocco, #297

    05.06.18 • Sam Rivers Solo [AR—61:42]

    June 18, 2005, 9:30pm / 9th Empty Bottle Festival Of Jazz And Improvised Music 2005, Chicago, IL

    1. soprano sax improvisation [4:09]
    2. soprano sax improvisation [3:42]
    3. tenor sax improvisation [5:57]
    4. piano improvisation [9:21]
    5. piano improvisation [5:20]
    6. piano improvisation [6:05]
    7. flute improvisation [6:09]
    8. flute improvisation [4:52]
    9. piano improvisation [9:15]
    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, p)

    {Norbert Kreutzer 06.05.21; track detailing Christopher Carville 07.03.11}


    • 05.06.22 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Josh Degges (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, Jorge Quintano, and Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Jeremy Barnes, and Jaime Parker (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Jun 22 p.E9; Orlando Weekly Jun 1 p.33]
      —Compositions: Willow (230), Duke (220), Iisha (406), Tapestry (288), Spunk (271) / Solace (232), #297, Jubilation (222)

    05.06.25 • WARM [BR—78:56]

    June 25, 2005 / Terni Jazz Festival, Anfiteatro Romano Fausto, Terni, Italy
    —RAI (I), Radio3 Suite Jazz January 10, 2006.

    [4] compositions [8:32–50:46–15:06–3:44]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Roscoe Mitchell (as, ss), Reggie Workman (b), Pheeroan akLaff (dr)

    {CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.28; Norbert Kreutzer 06.10.30; Patrick Pohlmann 07.11.11; Stuart Nicholson The Observer Jul 10, 2005 p.12;
    Terni Jazz Festival Pamphlet and Sam Rivers' festival lanyard, The RivBea Archive}


    05.06.29 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—79:48]

    June 29, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1. Riffin' [6:11]
    2. Pulsar [16:05]
    3. Jubilee [8:09]
    4. Flair [9:08]
    5. Blueshift [16:05]
    6. Duke [10:47]
    7. Willow [13:23]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Dan Jordan and David Pate (ts), George Weremchuck and Josh Degges (as), Chris Charles (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Nick Sudnew (tp), Keith Oshiro, Josh Keen, and Steve Smith (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #160; Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; Orlando Weekly Jun 1 p.33}


      05.07.00 [CANCELLED] - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Ben Street (b), Kresten Osgood (dr) / Copenhagen, Denmark

      05.07.11 [CANCELLED] - Sam Rivers Trio: as above / The Århus International Jazz Festival, 21:00hr, VoxHall, Aarhus, Denmark
      [Thorbjørn Sjøgren Jazz Special 03 2005 (JS #82) Vol.15 pp.76-81, def-musikportal.dk;
      enspace.dk/aarhus-international-jazz-festival; Kresten Osgood 19.05.05+12]

      —I found only vague references to the Copenhagen gig, and so I wote to Osgood:
       "Both gigs were cancelled... What happened was that we had a trio gig booked at the Århus jazz festival and as I recall
       also in Copenhagen right before. I spoke to Sam on the phone a few days before and he cancelled. He sounded quite upset.
       It turns out that Beatrice was very sick and he cancelled because of that, but he wouldn't state that as the reason. I don't know
       if that was pride or professionalism... It was a strange phonecall. He was different than the other times we spoke and hung out.
       That was actually the last time I spoke to him. I never got to play a gig with Sam, but we did spend five days together in Soho
       when we made the record." [04.10.14 + 10.15] —Kresten Osgood 19.05.05 + 05.12

    05.08.03 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—99:55]

    August 3, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Jubilation (222) [8:12]
    2. Duke (220) [13:13]
    3. #426 [12:56]
    4. Riffin' (277) [7:22]
    2nd Set:
    5. Revival (201) [16:09]
    6. #427 [13:35]
    7. Flair (266) [12:23]
    8. #297 [16:05]
    —RBA CDr #161 has "1st Set," track titles as above, and "Roughest Mix."
     CDr #162 has "2nd Set," and tracks as above.
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Josh Degges (ts), Jeff Rupert and Brian Girley (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Nick Sudnew, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, and Josh Keen (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #161 and 162; Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Aug 3 p.E7}


    05.08.10 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—122:24]

    August 10, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Spunk (271) [11:41]
    2. Robyn (401) [9:17]
     Probe—false start [1:56]  "We got lost!"
    3. Unity [7:49]
    4. Jubilee (231) [4:46]
    2nd Set:
    5. Rapture (250) [10:05]
    7. Maelstrom (299) [38:20]  [Sam turns the boys loose. An unbridled epic. —RL]
    8. Cindy (402) [8:36]
    —RBA 2CDr #163 has "1/1 & 2/2" and "2 Copies."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Josh Degges (ts), George Weremchuck and Brian Girley (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Matt Buckmaster, Joe King, and Joe Vascek (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #163; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.28; Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive;
    The Orlando Sentinel Aug 10 p.E7}


    05.08.17 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—118:53]

    August 17, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
     "Just the first twelve bars." [0:12]
    1. Vortex (207) [5:29]
     Probe "Phase #1" (302) [5:45 with copious discussion]  Gorney: "Broken take—restarted and many problems reported."
     beginning–2:16, "Okay, we're gonna break this down. This is a very complicated piece."
     "Letter B, 21st bar"–0:19
     "12th bar of C"–0:16, Unidentified Orchestra Member: "Who the fuck is whistling??"
     several false starts of "B-1"–0:06–0:03–0:04–0:09, "Okay, we'll start all over again..."
    2. Probe (302) [15:19]  "Whatta you think? Phase II comes in a little later."
    3. Riffin' (277) [7:08]
     Hurdle (286) "I'd like to hear the saxophones on A-1 please."–0:13–0:15
    4. Hurdle (286) [10:20]  "Everybody was lost."
    5. Willow [12:26]
    2nd Set:
    6. Whirlwind (214) [24:19]  —announced as "Aurora."
    7. Cartarsis (217) [12:03]
    8. Io (433) [5:14]  (incomplete, cuts out)
    —RBA CDr #164 has "1/1 & 2/2" and "2 Copies."
     2CDr #165 has "1st & 2nd Set" and is misdated "8/18/05."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), George Weremchuck and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Jaime Gonzalez (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #164, and 2CDr #165; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.11; Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive;
    The Orlando Sentinel Aug 12 Calendar p.37}


    05.08.24 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—84:00]

    August 24, 2005, 10:00pm / Rehearsal, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Willow (236) [10:33]  "Why are the willows always weeping, in [unintelligible] Misissippi?"
    2. #428 [10:30]
    3. Collage (225) fragments [1:48]
    4. Collage (225) [4:18]
    5. Ganymede (435) [9:23]
    2nd Set:
    6. Crux [8:45]
    7. Venus (432) [14:31]
    8. Riffin' [6:24]
    —RBA CDr #167, 168, and 170 are all complete; #169 and 175 are not marked.
     CDr #171 has "Set 1/Disk 1/2 ... Master Disks;" #172 has "Set 1/Disk 2/2 ... Master Disks;"
     CDr #173 has "Set 2/Disk 2/2 ... Master Disks 1 & "2;" #174 has "Set 2/Disk 1/2 ... Master Disks 1 & 2."
    —Set list has track 8 misidentified as "Convolution (212)," but Rivers calls out "Riffin'" to the band.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss-4,5,6,7,8, fl-1, Comp), Chris Charles and Gary Underwood (ts),
    Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Matthew Goodwin ("doubled the 4tp section parts on Set 2"),
    Dave Sheffield, and Joe Vascek (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

     —RivBea Session logs add Matthew Goodwin (tp) and Jeremy Barnes on trombone, and omit Brian Mackie,
      but introductions after the opening tune correct this.

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #167 through 175; 2CDr copy, track detailing EH + RL 19.07.28; Session roster and set list, Matt Gorney Archive;
    The Orlando Sentinel Aug 24 p.E9}


    05.08.31 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—118:55]

    August 31, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    2 Sets:
    [9] compositions: Solace; Peaks; Beads; Aureole; Beatrice; Streamers; Quark; #319; #290 [118:55]
    —RBA 2CDr #176 has (11) tracks at (1st Set) 15:15; 12:02; 10:08; 12:00; 8:38; and (2nd Set) 13:46; 8:25; 3:36; 9:37; 18:34; 7:04, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Charles (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Jim Derrick, Mike Iapichino, John DePaolo, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #176 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Aug 31 Calendar p.E9}


    05.09.07 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—77:29]

    September 7, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Revival [13:20]
    2. Unity [9:49]
    3. Solace [12:24]
    4. Jubilee [5:35]
    5. Jubilation [6:41]
    2nd Set:
    6. Aureole [10:33]
    7. Convolution [8:17]
    8. Willow [10:50]
    —RBA CDr #177 has "Set 1;" #179 has "Set 2;" #178 is unmarked.
    —Tracks times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #177 through 179 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 7 p.E9}


    05.09.14 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—76:27]

    September 14, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Revival [11:08]
    2. Apex [8:52]
    3. Revelation [10:13]
    4. Perigee [6:47]
    2nd Set:
    5. Jubilation [5:21]
    6. Duke [9:41]
     working separate wind sections [2:31]
    7. Vortex [8:00]
    8. Jubilee [5:25]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Charles DeChant (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Paul Roth (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, Joe King, and Jaime Gonzalez (tb),
    Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #181 and 182 + Session Logs; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.29; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 14 p.E9}


    05.09.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—75:03]

    September 21, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Crux [7:50]
    2. Beatrice [10:23]
    3. Hurdle [5:28]
    4. Vortex [ : ]
    5. Rejuvenation [10:10]
    2nd Set:
    6. Jubilee [5:36]
    7. Reverie [15:50]
    8. Aureole [6:29]
    9. Flair [9:28]
    —Session logs have "Vortex" included in 1st Set as track 4, but it is not on the reference discs.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, John DePaolo, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jeremy Barnes, and Dave Sheffield (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #183 and 184 + Session Logs; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.29; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 21 p.E7}


    05.09.28 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—93:13]

    September 28, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Jubilation [11:17]
    2. Vines [16:31]
    3. Tranquility [16:56]
    4. Revival [11:28]
    2nd Set:
    5. Perigee [9:31]
    6. Duke [12:03]
    7. Pulsar [15:27]
    —Track times from 2CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and Dan Boissy (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, John DePaolo, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Dean Dukes (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #185 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 28 p.E11}


    05.10.05 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—117:06]

    October 5, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      2 Sets:
    [6] compositions: Revival; Pulsar; Reverie; Jubilee; Probe; Willow [117:06]
    —RBA 2CDr #186 has (11) tracks at (1st Set) 13:26; 16:03; 12:56; 3:59; 6:45; 7:22 / (2nd Set) 7:42; 20:30; 10:25; 7:12; 6:23; 4:33
     (must have been several segment workouts this night); only one physical disc located, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Chris Dolske, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Steve Smith, and Dean Dukes (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #186 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 26 p.E9}


    05.10.19 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—84:44]

    October 19, 2005, 8:00pm / Anti Pop Music Festival, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Jubilee [8:46]
    2. Epicenter [8:05]
    3. Rejuvenation [13:47]
    4. Perigee [12:55]
    2nd Set:
    5. Apogee [8:55]
    6. Willow [5:45]
    7. #324 [17:18]
    8. #325 [10:13]
    —RivBea Archive missing 2nd Set recording though database lists titles.
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Gary Underwood (ts), George Weremchuck and Brian Snapp (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Paul Roth (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jeremy Barnes, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #187 + Session Logs; Poster, Matt Gorney Archive; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 14 Calendar pp.3-4}


    05.10.26 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—94:00]

    October 26, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    [4] compositions [7:42 20:40 7:36 14:07]
    2nd Set:
    [3] compositions [18:47 19:06 6:52]
    —Track times from 2CDr, no titles, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), George Weremchuck and Chris Charles (as), Dan Jordan (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Jeremy Barnes, Dave Sheffield, and Dean Dukes (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #188 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 26 p.E9}


    • 05.10.31 - Sam Rivers, Herb Pomeroy, Ray Santisi, and Lennie Sogoloff (owner of Lennie's on the Turnpike in Peabody, MA)
      "Will reminisce about Boston's 1950s' jazz scene..." / 6:00pm, David Friend Recital Hall, Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
      [Boston Globe Oct 31 Sidekick p.1]

    05.11.02 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—96:51]

    November 2, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Sirocco [10:49]
    2. Duke [14:35]
    3. Robyn [11:02]
    4. Unity [7:31]
    2nd Set:
    5. Apex [10:10]
    6. Evocation [14:38]
     frags or announcements [3:18]
    7. Willow [13:04]
    8. #428 [11:44]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, and Dave Jones (tp),
    Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Dean Dukes (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #189 and 190 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 2 p.E9}


    05.11.05 • Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—52:00]

    November 5, 2005 / Full Sail Live 1, Full Sail Real World Education, Winter Park, FL

    Group 1 Final Show: [52:00]
    1. improvisation [3:07]  (ss, elb, dr)
    2. Iris [5:52]  (ss, elb, dr—ss, elb, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
    3. "spontaneous creation" [2:17]  (ss, bcl, ts)
    4. bass solo [3:51]  
    5. medley/improvisation [14:58]  (SR p solo—p, b, dr—dr solo—voc, b, dr—ts, b, dr)
    6. a somewhat familiar theme [3:04]  (ts, b, dr)
    7. Nightfall [4:42]  (ts, b, p—b, p—AC p solo)
    8. Solace [4:14]  (fl+voc—fl, bcl, ts)
    9. outro w/ intros + solos [5:46]  (fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —RBA CDr #191 has "PMLO510 Group 1 Final Show;" #192 has "PMLO510 Group 2 Final Show;" #194 has "PMLO510 Group 3 Final Show."
    —These were "Production, Music, and Lighting" course materials and appearances.

    "This is a Full Sail Show Production program final project capstone, making it a school event without being a true public event.
    I am teaching there at this point and I don't even recall this one being publicized at all. —Matt Gorney

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #191, 192, and 194 + 3DVD; Digital Video files, track detailing RL 19.08.11; Doug Mathews Archive VHS; Matt Gorney 12.18.12; Keith Lay }


    05.11.09 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—102:13]

    November 9, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
     1. Jubilee [11:14]
     2. Melange [10:19]
     3. Flair [10:31]
     4. Rejuvenation [10:18]
      2nd Set:
    [5] compositions: Cindy; Quagmire; Apogee; Perigee; #325 [59:51]
    —RBA 2CDr #193 has (6) tracks at (2nd Set) 4:20; 19:14; 10:35; 12:52; 4:27; 8:23; no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Charles (ts), Danny Jordan and Joe Yurio (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Paul Roth (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #193 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 9 p.E9}


    05.11.16 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—87:29]

    November 16, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [7] compositions: Crux; Monk; Indigo; Fun; Jubilee; #235; #285 [87:29]
    —RBA CDr has (7) tracks at (1st Set) 11:16; 3:53; 16:12; 27:28 / (2nd Set) 10:26; 22:00; 6:14. Unable to assign tracks to times with confidence.
    —RivBea database and Archival Recordings are both mistakenly dated 05.11.17.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Jim Derrick, Dave Jones, and Paul Roth (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Jeremy Barnes (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #195 and 196 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 16 p.E9}





    "Now the day is over . . . Night is drawing nigh . . . Shadows of the evening . . . Steal across the sky."
    —Samuel Beckett, Krapp's Last Tape ["Now the Day is Over" by S. Baring-Gould, 1865]


    okay okay



    • 05.11.30 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Gary Underwood (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Jeremy Barnes, Joe King, and Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), others... /
      10:00pm & 12:00am, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [RivBea Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 30 p.E7]
      —Compositions: BEATRICE, Duke, Orb, Jubilation, Ritual, Flux, Earthsong

    05.12.07 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—77:50]

    December 7, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      2 Sets:
    [8] compositions: Riffin'; Outline; Aureole; Spunk; Lurch; Traci; Jubilee; #204 [77:50]
    —RBA CDr #197 has (7) tracks at 8:23; 8:11; 8:18; 15:17; 21:15; 7:43; 8:43.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Jim Derrick, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jeremy Barnes, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #197 + Session Logs}


    05.12.14 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—71:57]

    December 14, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Revival [13:42]
    2. Perigee [7:20]
    3. Solace [11:02]
    4. Willow [10:33]
    2nd Set:
    5. Apogee [5:07]
    6. Nebula [14:26]
    7. Sirocco [9:47]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), George Weremchuck, Brian Mackie, and Jeff Rupert (as),
    Tom Parmeter, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Paul Roth (tp), Keith Oshiro and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #198 + Session Logs}


    05.12.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—76:44]

    December 21, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      2 Sets:
    [7] compositions: Reverie; #325; Rejuvenation; Theme; Catapult; Mercury; Flair [76:44]
    —RBA CDr #199 has (7) tracks at 15:58; 15:22; 10:42; 5:36; 8:09; 12:58; 7:59. No detailing; order uncertain.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as),
    Brian Scanlon, Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jason Smith, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #199 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Dec 21 p.E9}


    05.12.28 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—68:35]

    December 28, 2005, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Impulse [12:14]
    2. Willow [11:51]
    3. Monique [8:31]
    4. Sirocco [9:17]
    2nd Set:
    5. Blueshift [15:12]
    6. Flux [11:30]
    —Track times and info from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Paul Roth, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Jeremy Barnes, Jaime Gonzalez, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #200 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Dec 28 p.E9}



    2006 : : :


    06.01.04 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    January 4, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [2] compositions: Flux (incomplete); Rejuvenation [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Sirocco; #325; Flair [ : ]
    —RBA CDr has (5) track times of 2:25; 10:50; 10:26; 16:45; 8:00, no detailing.
    —"Willow" was first composition of the night and was included in database, but not recorded.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Chris Charles (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jeremy Barnes, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #202 + Session Logs}


    06.01.11 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—77:01]

    January 11, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Willow [11:02]
    2. Cartarsis [15:35]
    3. Sirocco [13:34]
    2nd Set:
    4. Spunk [13:41]
    5. Evocation [14:59]
    6. Revival [8:10]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Jason Smith, Jeremy Barnes, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #203 + Session Logs}


    06.01.25 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    January 25, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Flair; Earthsong; #216; Riffin' [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Revival; Revelation; Spunk [ : ]
    —CDr has (6) tracks at 11:19; 10:33; 9:06; 7:45; 11:16; 27:54, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), Danny Jordan and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Mike Iapichino, Jorge Quintana, Dave Jones, and Luke Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #204 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Jan 25 p.E7}


    • 06.01.28 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Reggie Workman (b), Andrew Cyrille (dr) / Helsinki, Finland
      [Lasse Nikkarev posting to MILES list 06.01.02]

    06.02.01 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—72:07]

    February 1, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Flair [10:56]
    2. Vortex [8:24]
    3. Duke [13:07]
    4. Spunk [14:40]
    2nd Set:
    5. Perigee [7:38]
    6. Monk [8:55]
    7. Riffin' [8:27]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Mike Iapichino, Luke Jones, Dave Jones, and Paul Roth (tp), Keith Oshiro, Matt Buckmaster, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #205 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 3 Calendar p.58}



      06.02.08 - [Sam Rivers not present] Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      —RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #206 / 1st Set: Scirocco, Solace, Spunk; 2nd Set: Jubilee, Beatrice, Rejuvenation

      06.02.15 and 06.02.17 (CANCELLED) - Sam Rivers Trio + The RivBea Orchestra / Tel Aviv Jazz Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
      "The main guest was supposed to be octogenarian saxophonist Sam Rivers, who cancelled his performance shortly before the festival began."
      [Eyal Hareuveni festival review, www.allaboutjazz.com]

    06.02.22 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—76:32]

    February 22, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Revival [11:24]
     "This is not really a request, I don't know what this is." [#305] "Letter B, the first duet, second trombone and tuba."–0:09–0:12;
     "Letter C"–0:06–0:11; "Okay here we go from the top..."
    2. #305 [8:51]
    3. Flair [9:15]
    2nd Set:
    4. Crux [8:43]
     "We're back into our rehaersing groove again, I want you to check this out." [#324] (sings it, counts it in)–0:12;
     "Almost!" "Okay, letter E"–0:10; "We got it, here we go..."
    5. #324 [13:32]  (it fizzles at end) "That's what we call a work in progress!"
    6. Jubilee [7:53]
    "We're playing only requests tonight... A winter's night rehearsal."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #207; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.13}


    06.03.01 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—74:05]

    March 1, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Sirocco [10:50]
    2. Flair [8:36]
    3. Willow [10:57]
    4. Crux [9:20]
    2nd Set:
    5. Jubilation [6:45]
    6. Spunk [15:10]
    7. Jubilee [12:27]
    —Track times from session logs, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Gary Underwood and Quinn Lahisf (ts), Jeff Rupert and Joe Ragall (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Luke Jones, Matt McCarthy, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Thomas Whitman, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #208 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 24 Calendar p.44}


      06.03.08 - [Sam Rivers not present] Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Chris Charles and Gary Underwood (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Jaime Gonzalez, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / 10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #209 + Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Mar 3 Calendar p.48]
      —Compositions: Flair, Revival, Quasar, Apogee, Nebula, Vortex, Rejuvenation
      —Rivers included in Sessions log, but CDr #209 has "w/out Sam" and id misdated "1-11-06."


    • 06.03.15 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles and Harry Hall (ts),
      Danny Jordan and Gary Underwood (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Jeremy Barnes, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb), Collin Moos (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) /
      10:00pm & 12:00am, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Mar 10 Calendar p.47; RivBea Session Logs]
      —Compositions: Revival, Collage, Jubilation, Perigee, Sirocco, #333

    06.03.22 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    March 22, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      2 Sets:
    [6] compositions: Sirocco; Spunk; Reverie; Revelation; #333; #334 [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Jeff Rupert (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Luke Jones (tp), Jeremy Barnes, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb), Collin Moos (tu),
    Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #210 and 211 + Session Logs; Doug Mathews Archive DAT; The Orlando Sentinel Mar 17 Calendar p.41}


    06.03.28 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra with The Valencia Jazz Lab Band [RBA—57:42]

    March 28, 2006, 7:00pm / Valencia Community College Performing Arts Center, Orlando, FL

    From the program:
    1. Willow [15:00]  (Sam Rivers & Valencia Jazz)
    2. Beatrice [15:00]  (Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra)
    3. Composition # 334 [20:00]  (Sam Rivers & Valencia Jazz)
    4. Composition # 333 [20:00]  (Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra)
    5. Composition # 333 & #334 [30:00]  (Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra & Valencia Jazz)
    —Only one CDr in RivBea Archive; Times and titles from event program.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #212 + Session Logs + Program; RivBea email 06.03.17;
    "Cool Combo: Sam Rivers And Valencia Jazz" The Orlando Sentinel Mar 24 Calendar p.48 + Mar 26 p.J1}


    06.03.29 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—81:04]

    March 29, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Jubilation [5:31]  (incomplete, cuts in)
    2. Crux [8:48]
    3. #297 [17:22]
    2nd Set:
    4. Riffin' [7:24]
    5. Revival [11:26]
    6. Sirocco [10:55]
    7. Flair [9:34]
    —RivBea Archive has a 2CDr set for this date, and two other CDrs misdated 06.03.30.
    "Live Performance of New Compositions & the Release of the new CD Aurora."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and George Weremchuck (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian "Mack-Attack" Mackie (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Luke Jones (tp), Jeremy Barnes, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #213 through 215; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.29; RivBea Session Logs; The Orlando Sentinel Mar 24 Calendar p.44}



      06.04.05 - [Sam Rivers not present] Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: David Pate and George Weremchuck (ts),
      Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, and Dave Jones (tp),
      Joe King, Dave Sheffield, and Jonathan Leamy (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / 10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      —RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #216 / Vortex, Reverie, Cindy, Quasar, Duke, Unity, Robyn, Tapestry
      [The Orlando Sentinel Mar 31 Calendar p.40]


    06.04.12 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—45:33 +]

    April 12, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Jubilee (238); Crux (247); Perigee (231); Beads (293) [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Quark (323); Spunk (271); Willow (236) [45:33]
    —RBA CDr #217 has "Set 2 only," with the '2' written in black over a red '1.'
    —DMA CDr has "Set 1 only" and is misdated "4/14/06."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuck (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Luke Jones (tp), Joe King, Dave Sheffield, and Jonathan Leamy (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #217 + Session Logs; Doug Mathews Archive CDr; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 7 Calendar p.48}


    06.04.19 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—77:59]

    April 19, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Jubilee (238); Apogee (229); Crux (247); Perigee (231) [34:25]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Quasar (322); Jupiter (438); Willow (236) [43:34]
    —DMA DAT has Set 2.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and David Pate (ts), Danny Jordan and Charles DeChant (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, and Dave Jones (tp), Thomas Whitmer, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #218 and 219 + Session Logs + Recording sheet; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-65;
    The Orlando Sentinel Apr 14 Calendar p.42}


    06.04.26 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—105:57]

    April 26, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Colours (295); Pulsar (321); Jubilation (222); Mercury (430) [54:52]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Monsoon (258); Earth (434); Blueshift (298) [51:05]
    —Suddenly, the recordings begin to appear with sets as one long track...

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant (ts, fl), David Pate and Harry Hall (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Dave Jones, and Luke Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #220 and 221 + RivBea Session Logs + Recording sheet; The Orlando Sentinel Apr 21 Calendar p.40}



       Rivers had to cancel a European tour because of illness:
      —06.05.03 - Sam Rivers, Jason Moran, and Nasheet Waits Trio / New Morning, Paris, France
       [Le Nouvel Observateur Apr 27 p.134]
      —06.05.10 - Sam Rivers, unknown ensemble (the Lee Konitz Trio stepped in) / Crossroads Festival, Emilia Romagna, Rimini, Italy
       [Il Resto del Carlino, R. Emilia May 10 p.6; ANSA May 19]
      —06.05.13 - Sam Rivers, Jason Moran, and Reggie Workman Trio (replaced by Steve Coleman) / deSingel, Antwerpen, Belgium
       [www.desingel.be; Trends May 11 p.121]
      —others...


    06.05.03 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—102:56]

    May 3, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Spunk (271); Emersion (275, incomplete); Unity (226); Sirocco (227) [60:54]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Eudemon (377); Tapestry (288); Riffin' (277) [42:02]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and Charles DeChant (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Luke Jones (tp), Thomas Whitmer, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #222 + Session Logs + Recording sheet}


      06.05.10 - [Sam Rivers not present] Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Charles DeChant (ts, fl), David Pate and Gary Underwood (ts),
      Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Mike Iapichino, Luke Jones, Dave Jones, and Matt McCartney (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr) / 10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #223 (1st Set only); RivBea Recording sheet; The Orlando Sentinel Mar 31 Calendar p.40]
      —Compositions: 1st Set, Sirocco (227), Strands (381), Monique (403), Riffin' (277); 2nd Set, Pulsar (321), Spunk (271), Flair (266)

    06.05.17 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—78:22]

    May 17, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      2 Sets:
    [6] compositions: Crux; Flux; Vines; Jubilee; Magma; Willow [37:41–40:41]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and George Weremchuck (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #224 + Session Logs; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124; The Orlando Sentinel May 12 Calendar p.45}


    06.05.31 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—114:26]

    May 31, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Flair; Willow; Monique; Monsoon [46:48]
      2nd Set:
    [4] compositions: Riffin'; Melange; Magma; Jubilee [67:38]
    —RivBea Archive has CDr of 2nd Set only.
    —DMA DAT has "(part)" after title 'Monique.'

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and Charles DeChant (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Jeremy Barnes and Dave Sheffield (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #225 + Session Logs; Doug Mathews Archive 2DAT; The Orlando Sentinel May 26 Calendar p.41}


    06.06.07 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    June 7, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Crux; Magma; Willow; Jubilee [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [4] compositions: Riffin'; Melange; Flair [ : ]
    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and David Pate (ts), Danny Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Paul Roth, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Matt Buckmaster (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Session Logs; Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124; The Orlando Sentinel Jun 2 Calendar p.42}




    —Vision Festival XI : : : Sam Rivers Lifetime Achievement Award

    06.06.14 (1) • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [AR—53:38 & AVR—52:30]

    June 14, 2006, 7:00pm / Vision Festival XI, Angel Orensanz Center, NYC
    The Orlando Sentinel Jun 9 Calendar p.44, failing to keep up with the news, erroneously has RivBea at Will's Pub in Orlando.

    Audience Recordings:
    1. Monsoon [14:46]
    2. Flair [10:11]
    3. Melange [8:33]
    4. Spunk [15:15]
    —RBA CDr #19 is dated simply "2006;" #232 is misdated "6/16/06" ...
    —RBA DVD #18 may be Trio, Orchestra, or both.

    "Rivers played relatively little, usually only at the beginning and end of the pieces and then only on soprano, in order to be heard over the din."
    All About Jazz July 2006 No.51

    Sam Rivers (ss, Comp), Jeff Rupert and David Pate (ts), Daniel Jordan and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar)
    Mike Iapichino, Tom Parmerter, Brian Scanlon, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, Andrea Rowlison, and Joe King (tb)
    Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Anthony Cole (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #19 and 232 + DVD #17, 18, 31, and 2DVD #27 (w/ Trio set included);
    Audience CDr + DVD, track detailing RL 18.12.30; The New York Times Jun 9 p.E6 + Nate Chinen review Jun 17;
    Norbert Kreutzer 06.07.31; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01}


    06.06.14 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—41:36 & AVR]

    June 14, 2006, 10:30pm / Vision Festival 2006, Angel Orensanz Center, NYC

    Audience Recording:
    1. Spark [9:15]  (ts, elb, dr)
    2. Nightfall [4:21]  (ts, b, p)
    3. AC piano solo [2:28]
    3. bass solo [4:03]
    4. Solace [5:34]  (ss, b, ts—ss, bcl, ts)
    5. Firestorm [7:17]  (dr solo—SR p solo—p, elb, dr)
    6. Firewall—outro w/ intros + solos [6:21]  (dr solo—fl+voc, elb, dr)
    —RBA CDr #18 is dated simply "2006;" #231 is misdated "6/16/06."
    —RBA DVD #18 may be Trio, Orchestra, or both.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #18 and 231 + DVD #16, 18, 30, and 2DVD #27 (w/ Orchestra set included); Audience CDr, track detailing RL 18.12.30;
    Norbert Kreutzer 06.07.31; The New York Times Jun 9 p.E6 + Nate Chinen review Jun 17}




    06.06.16 • Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA]

    June 16, 2006, 7:00pm / Festival of Jazz, The Bohemian National Home, Detroit, MI

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —This was billed as a trio.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Chris Charles (reeds), Doug Mathews (b, elb, bcl), Anthony Cole (dr, ts, p)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT; RivBea e-mail 06.05.31; Detroit Free Press Jun 16 p.9F}


    06.06.21 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—97:01]

    June 21, 2006, 8:00 and 9:30pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Jubilation [7:32]
    2. Catapult [10:29]
    3. Apogee [4:25]
    4. Sirocco [11:05]
    2nd Set:
    5. Revival [11:20]
    6. Solace [10:38]
    7. Duke [11:03]
    —DMA DAT only has 2nd Set.
    —This date is not listed in Session Logs and has no print references.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    —Jeff Rupert lists this gig in his CV, but Rivers mentions that he's "missing tonight."

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #227 and 228; Doug Mathews Archive DAT; CDr copy, track detailing RL 19.07.29}


    06.06.28 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    June 28, 2006, 8:00 and 9:30pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Spunk [13:51]
    2. Jubilee [8:55]
    3. Duke [12:13]
    2nd Set:
    4. Crux (247) [8:00]
    5. Willow [8:32]
    6. Flair [8:56]
    7. Rejuvenation [9:30]
    —This date is not listed in Session Logs, and has no print references.
    —Incomplete personnel from scattered introductions.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and Joe Rayhill (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro and Dave Sheffield (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #229 and 230; Soundfiles, track detailing RL 19.08.14}


    06.07.05 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA]

    July 5, 2006, 8:00 and 9:30pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [5] compositions: Apogee; Callisco; "quick" #322; Tapestry; Willow [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Convolution; #426; Sirocco [ : ]
    —DMA DAT have "Convaluscent" and "Scirocco" in the 2nd Set.
    —This date is not listed in Session Logs, and has no print references.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Doug Mathews Archive 2DAT-64}


    • 06.07.12 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and Charles DeChant (ts),
      Chris Charles and Joe Rayhill (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Tom Parmeter, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Freddy Gruen (tp),
      Jason Smith and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Ronnie Burrage (dr) /
      Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [RivBea Session Logs]
      —Compositions: Crux, Probe—Phase One, Deliverance, Pulsar, Jubilee, Pulsar, #297
    • 06.07.19 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charles DeChant and Nathan Anderson (ts),
      Chris Charles and Joe Ragall (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Luke Jones, Paul Roth, Dave Jones, and Matt McCartney (tp),
      Joe King, Dave Sheffield, and Jonathan Leamy (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Ronnie Burrage (dr) /
      Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Jul 14 Calendar p.41; RivBea Session Logs]
      —Compositions: Reverie, Earthsong, Duke, Unity, #290, #319, #331

    06.07.26 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA]

    July 26, 2006, 8:00 and 9:30pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Revival; Jubilee; Crux; Rejuvenation [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [3] compositions: Sirocco; Jubilation; Willow [ : ]
    —This date is not listed in Session Logs, and has no print references.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-124}


    • 06.08.02 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and Charles DeChant (ts),
      Chris Charles and Joe Rayhill (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Matt McCartney (tp),
      Jeremy Barnes, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Ronnie Burrage (dr) /
      Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [RivBea Session Logs]
      —Compositions: Jubilee, Crux, Revival, Willow, Jubilation, Sirocco, Rejuvenation
    • 06.08.09 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and David Pate (ts),
      Chris Charles and Charles DeChant (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, Dave Jones, and Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Joe King, Dave Sheffield, and Jaime Gonzalez (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Ronnie Burrage (dr) /
      10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL
      ["Don't Miss: Sam Rivers at Will's Pub" The Orlando Sentinel, Aug 4 Calendar p.35; RivBea Session Logs]
      —Compositions: Flair, Pulsar, Duke, Jubilation, Sirocco, Apogee, Pulsar, Rejuvenation
    • 06.08.16 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and David Pate (ts),
      Chris Charles and Charles DeChant (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Jeremy Barnes, Terry Barber, Joe King, and Collim Moos (tb), Doug Mathews (b), Ronnie Burrage (dr) /
      10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [ibid]
      —Compositions: Willow, Reverie, Revelation, Crux, Revival, Perigee, Vortex, Jubilee
    • 06.08.23 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and Nathan Anderson (ts),
      Chris Charles and Joe Rayhill (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, Lyman Brodie (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Ronnie Burrage (dr) /
      10:00pm, Will's Pub, Orlando, FL [ibid]
      —Compositions: Jubilee, Callisto, Quasar, Willow, Flair, Tranquility, Beatrice, Rapture, Riffin'
    • 06.08.26 - Sam Rivers Jazz Ensemble: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Joe Vick (b), Dave Rogers (dr) /
      7:30pm, Capitol Keyboard Recital Hall, Little Rock, AK
      [Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01; Arkansas Democrat Gazette Aug 25 p.82]
      —Induction into The Little Rock Jazz Hall of Fame by the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation.
      —Jim S. Porter, John Puckett, Sal Bonner, and others "Performed with other recipients for 2006."
      —A letter in the RivBea Archive from AJHF Secretary James Thomson dated May 25, 2006, informs Rivers of his selection,
       and has the induction ceremnoy scheduled for June 24. No info on what caused the date change.

    06.08.27 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    August 27, 2006, 8:00 and 9:30pm / House of Blues, Downtown Disney, Orlando, FL

    1... unknown titles [ : ]
    —RBA DVD #11 was dated "UNKNOWN" and has "Dave Segal," "Bootleg TV," and "Images/Slideshow."

    "A Charity Benefit Concert that is being hosted by Paul Mitchell, Hair Designer, for the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
    They are raising funds to go to the Hurricane Katrina Victims."

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as), Doug Mathews (b), Anthony Cole (dr), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings DVD #11; RivBea e-mail 06.08.09}


    06.08.30 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [DMA]

    August 30, 2006, 10:00pm / Will's Pub, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
     1... compositions [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [4] compositions: Flair; Crux; Revival; Rejuvenation [ : ]
    —DMA DAT has 2nd Set only.

    "There aren't many legitimate traditions on the Central Florida music scene, but there's the sense that one might be lost when Will's Pub closes
    its doors for the last time. On many Wednesday nights for the past two years or so, ...Sam Rivers has conducted open rehearsals with his RivBea
    Orchestra, a rafter-splitting, spirit-lifting routine that unfolds for a final time next week.... Rivers... will initially relocate his rehearsals to
    the American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall near Orlando Executive Airport... Rivers was hospitalized with pneumonia three times
    in two months this spring and was using a cane this week after a recent fall, but otherwise acts remarkably young." —Jim Abbott

    —There is no documentaion of any rehearsals in the near future after this date until 07.07.11. I'm sure they were happening,
     but I have no mentions or actual evidence to justify listing them every Wednesday. —RL

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and David Pate (ts), Chris Charles and George Weremchuck (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Lyman Brodie (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jeremy Barnes, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Ronnie Burrage (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive DAT-64; RivBea Session logs + e-mail 06.05.31
    Jim Abbott "Don't Miss: Sam Rivers at Will's Pub" The Orlando Sentinel, Aug 4 Calendar p.35}


      Sam Rivers, Artist-In-Residence at the ACA : : : September 4 through 24, 2006

      "We have been in New Smyrna Beach/Atlantic Center for the Arts..." —Monique Rivers-Williams 06.09.01

      "ATLANTIC CENTER FOR THE ARTS 2006 Artists-in-Residence Program.
      Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists each personally select
      a group of associates—talented, emerging artists—through an application process administered by ACA. During the residency,
      artists participate in informal sessions with their group, collaborate on projects, and work independently."
      —This ACA session: Lori Belilove, choreographer; Karen Cushman, children/young adults author; Sam Rivers, jazz musician/composer.


    • 06.09.15 - Sam Rivers Lecture, Demo, and Q&A / 2:00pm, Joan James Harris Theater, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
      [RivBea 06.09.13; www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org; The Orlando Sentinel Sep 22 Calendar p.39]
    • 06.09.22 - Artists—Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician & Composer; Lori Belilove, Choreographer; Karen Cushman, Author /
      INsideOUT at Atlantic Center for the Arts / 7:00pm, Joan James Harris Theater, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
      [RivBea e-mail 06.09.13; www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org]

      "Rivers has spent his three-week residency immersing himself in a new project, a jazz reinterpretation of ‘plantation melodies’ originally
      transcribed by his grandfather based on tunes that Rivers' great-grandfather used to sing.
      The music for the hymns is contained in a tiny, well-worn, leather-bound hymnal that bears the scars of daily usage. Recently, another copy
      in better condition was found on eBay, and the saxophonist has carried it to the Atlantic Center in a sealed plastic bag.
      ‘There's quite a few hymns,’ Rivers says. ‘It was the things they sang in the fields. Simple melodies, simple chords. I'm going to expand on it.’
      With the help of musical associates on hand for his residency, Rivers is contributing to eight melodic interpretations of the song ‘My Friends
      and Neighbors Far and Near.’ The song will be performed tonight, and there will be lyric sheets for the audience to sing along.
      It's likely the start of a new album for Rivers, who wants to do an assortment of hymns with his RivBea Orchestra and a big chorus. He has been
      scouting local churches for ensembles with a sound that matches the one in his imagination.
      Rivers has endured some tough times in this past year. Several bouts with pneumonia, a car accident, and the death of his wife, Bea, over
      the Thanksgiving holiday. He carries a portable tank with him wherever he goes, equipped with a tube that quietly puffs oxygen into his nose.
      None of it has slowed his creativity..." —Jim Abbott The Orlando Sentinel Sep 22 Calendar p.39
      Plantation Melodies, by Marshall W. Taylor D.D. (Published in 1882)

      okay


      "ACA Associates... collaborating with Sam Rivers: Patricia Burgess (ts, composer), Alex Coke (ts, ss, fl, b-fl, pic, composer),
      Rae Howell (tp, p, vibs, mellophone, tap dance), Francesco Salomoni (tb, composer, arranger), Roberta Piket (p, composer),
      Carol Daggs (p, voc, composer, arranger, lyricist, educator), Elise Witt (voc, composer, educator, community activist)
      [RivBea 06.09.19]



    • 06.11.10 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Chris Charles (as), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) /
      2006 Orlando Jazz & Funk Carnival, 8:00pm, BackBooth, Orlando, FL
      [www.backbooth.com; The Orlando Sentinel Nov 10 Calendar p.44] —Originally billed as a trio.
    • 06.11.20 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert and David Pate (ts),
      Charlie DeChant and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Mike Iapichino, Benoit Glazer, Lyman Brodie, and Dave Jones (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Terry Baber, and Joe King (tb), Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) /
      2006 Orlando Brass Festival, 8:00pm, Boone Auditorium, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Nov 19 p.F2; RivBea 06.11.20; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      "A one day event, benefitting the Boone High School Music Department."

    2007 : : :



    • 07.01.30 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Chris Charles (fl, bar),
      Kevin Stever (b), Dru Betts (dr) /
      "Foundation Prsents," 7:00pm, The Social, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea 07.01.03; The Orlando Sentinel Jan 26 Calendar p.46;
      Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      —Originally billed as a trio, this was on a double-bill with Yo La Tengo.

    • 07.02.17 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Chris Charles (ts, fl, bar),
      Bobby Koelble (g), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) /
      "Mayor Dyer's 1st Annual Blues & BBQ Festival,"
      4:00pm, City Hall Plaza, Orlando, FL
      [Monique Williams Rivers, 07.02.03 + 08.08.01;
      The Orlando Sentinel Feb 16 Calendar p.40]
      —Originally billed as a trio.

    • okay

    • 07.02.24 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), David Pate and unknown (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Mike Iapichino, Brian Gill, Luke Jones, and Matt McCarthy (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, and Joe King (tb), Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) /
      3rd Annual Orlando Downtown Art & Living Expo, 5:30pm, Lake Eola Band Shell, Lake Eola Park, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea 06.12.13; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 16 Calendar p.50-51; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      —Jeff Rupert CV has this dated 07.02.02.
    • 07.03.24 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Charles (ts, as, fl, bar), Doug Mathews (b), Drew Betts (dr) /
      25th Anniversary Community Celebration DALIFest, 3:30pm, Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
      [RivBea 06.12.31; Tampa Bay Times Mar 11 p.3L; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      —Again, pre-publicity had this as a trio.
    • 07.05.05 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Charles (ts, as, fl, bar), Kevin Stever (b), Carl Hamilton (dr) /
      7:00pm, Sudakoff Center, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL
      [RivBea 07.04.23; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      —Pre-publicity had this as a RivBea Orchestra session.



    The WKCR Sam Rivers Festival : : : May 18 through 25, 2007

    "Honoring the musical genius of Sam Rivers, airing continuously for 175 hours from 12:00pm Friday May 18th until 9:00pm Friday May 25th."

    "The broadcast will center on a presentation of Rivers' complete recorded discography, supplemented by interviews
    with his fellow musicians and in-depth features on particular aspects of his music. Additionally, Sam Rivers will join us
    in-studio to reflect on his career and share with listeners his living history."


    07.05.24 • Sam Rivers Interview [WKCR Archival Recording—204:20]

    May 24, 2007 / WKCR Studios, New York City
    —WKCR-FM LIVE Broadcast during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

     interview [29:37]
    1. The Elder Speaks (Rivers) [5:45]
     interview [7:24]
    2. Beatrice (Rivers) [8:13]
     interview [10:26]
    3. Fuchsia Swing Song (Rivers) [6:03]
     interview [23:28]
    4. Second Act of A (part 6) [12:27]
     interview [21:28]
    5. Exultation [8:25]
     interview [22:42]
    6. Ecstacy [5:35]
     interview [15:34]
    7. Firewall [11:52]
    61.12.14 - Tadd Dameron: Blue Note Records Presents The Lost Sessions
    63.00.00 - Sam Rivers Quartet, WGBH-TV, Boston.
    64.12.11 - Sam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)
    69.07.29 - Cecil Taylor: Nuits de la Fondation Maeght (Shandar)
    74.03.04 - Sam Rivers: Crystals (Impulse!)
    77.04.18 - Sam Rivers: Paragon (Fluid)
    98.04.12 - Sam Rivers: Firestorm (RivBea)
    —Track 4 is an excerpt from 8:11 in through 3:39 from music's end on LP.

    Sam Rivers (responses), Patrick Jarenwattananon, Jordan Paul, Ben Heller, Drew Pierson, and Ben Siegelman (queries)

    {3CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.25}


    07.05.25 (1) • Sam Rivers Interview [WKCR Archival Recording—204:20]

    May 25, 2007 / WKCR Studios, New York City
    WKCR-FM LIVE Broadcast during "The Sam Rivers Festival."

    —interview [15:16]
    Sam Rivers (responses), Patrick Jarenwattananon, Jordan Paul, Ben Heller, Drew Pierson, and Ben Siegelman (queries)

    {3CDr, track detailing RL 19.04.25}


    07.05.25 (2) • Sam Rivers Trio: Reunion—Live In New York

    2012: Pi Recordings PI45 (2CD)

    • Sam Rivers Trio [AR—95:33]

    May 25, 2007, 8:00pm / Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York City

    Reunion—Live In New York:
    1. First Set [51:42]
     Part 1—8:07
     Part 2—9:41
     Part 3—15:45
     Part 4—8:37
     Part 5—9:32
    2. Second Set [35:14]
     Part 1—8:55
     Part 2—14:46
     Part 3—4:10
     Part 4—7:23
    —Track markings on Reunion are arbitrary.
    okay
    Audience Recording:
    —Rivers' opening remarks [5:29]
    1. improvisation [50:41]
     (ts section–17:45; bass solo–3:02; p section–10:12; dr solo–2:37; ss section–5:51;
     b+dr—2:45; ss section–2:30; voc+b+dr—1:25; dr solo–1:34; fl section–2:59)
    —Rivers Introduction, with still more applause [2:44]
    2. improvisation [34:09]
     (fl section–7:37; b+dr—1:21—fl+voc section–4:10; b solo+dr—1:56;
     ts section–8:14; b + dr solo into b solo–4:32; ts section–6:18)
    "The Culmination of the WKCR Sam Rivers Festival was the reunion of Sam's 1970s trio... Highly anticipated, and definitely worth the wait...
    Sam's extended family were there, as well as his musical family. ...Cecil, Henry Grimes, Joe Daley, and enough of NYC's Jazz players to have
    a whole festival. None of the reports I've heard of Sam's health were in evidence, at 83 years old he still delivers the goods for almost 90 minutes
    of music, and a great deal of time joking with the audience, switching off between multiple instruments, and just generally enjoying the company
    of his old friends." —Various unattributed comments posted at dimeadozen.com torrents site.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Dave Holland (b), Barry Altschul (dr)

    {PI45; 2CDr Audience Recording, track detailing RL 19.03.24; RL & son Aaron Lopez present}



        —Posted late evening on May 31st: A memoir of the trip my son and I made to New York City for this concert.



    07.05.30 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—37:33+]

    May 30, 2007, "Day 1" / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. Apogee (229) [4:16]
    2. Jubilee (238) [7:19]  (no detailing on tracks 1-2)
    3. Deliverance (210) [16:14]
    4. Vortex (207) [5:49]
    5. Monk (248) [7:25]
    6. Blossoms (237) [7:18]
    —Track 1 is marked "Missing" in "Raw" list on back of Recording sheet.
    —RBA CDr #234 has "Day 1" (see 05.06.13 + 06.20 + 06.27 + 08.01); and has tracks as above with Apogee move to position 4.
    —CDr #235, dated "5.30.07" and marked "Deliverance for Mosaic Records" has tracks 2 through 6 above, and includes all 4 tracks from 07.06.13.
    —CDr #236, misdated "6.13.07," has Jubilee, Jubilee Master, Apogee, and Apogee Master.
    —CDr #237, misdated "6/15/07," has tracks 1 through 6 above (with Apogee moved to position 6), followed by
     tracks 2 through 4 from 07.06.13; Copy of same in Doug Mathews Archive misdated "6/15/07."
    —CDr #273 has tracks 4 through 6 above and tracks 2 and 4 from 07.06.13.
    —CDr #282 has "Deliverance," "CD No Good," and has tracks 3 thorugh 6 above (with Deliverance moved to position 4),
     followed by tracks 2 and 4 from 07.06.13; Copy of same in Matt Gorney Archive is misdated "5/20/07."
    —CDr #283 has "Deliverance," "Recorded—No Good," without any tracks listed.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), George Weremchuk and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Matt McCarthy (tp), Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, and Joe King (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #234, 235, 236, 237, 273, 282, and 283 + Recording sheet; Soundfiles RBA CDr #282 only, detailing RL 19.08.13}


    07.06.13 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—15:15+]

    June 13, 2007, Day 2 / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. Perigee (231) [ : ]
    2. Convolution (212) [6:27]
    3. Willow (236) [ : ]
    4. Flair (266) [8:25]
    —See notes on 07.05.30.
    —This was "Day 2" of the Sonic Cauldron sessions, but none of the CDrs are so marked.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Dave Jones, and John DePaola (tp), Keith Oshiro, Claire Coucherne, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #235, 236, 237, and 273 + Recording sheet; Soundfiles RBA CDr #282 only, detailing RL 19.08.13}


    07.06.20 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    June 20, 2007, "Day 3" / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    [6] compositions: Sirocco (227); Cartarsis (217); Crux (247); Impulse (289); Perigee (231); Spunk (271) [ : ]
    —DMA CDr has (6) track times of 8:37; 12:33; 7:20; 10:18; 6:30; 13:45. Tracks above ordered as on recording sheet; and I don't trust
     the ordering to match on any of the multiple-version Cauldron discs.
    —Track 1 listed as "Scirocco," a mistake that occurs frequently in the archive; track 2, "Cartarsis"
     (Spanish for Catharsis), is written as such throughout RivBea notes.
    —CDr #238 has only 5 tracks (227, 247, 231, 271, and "unknown"); "6 tracks" [sic]; and "Day 3 Disk 2."
    —An unnumbered CDr, not in database, has tracks ordered 247, 231, 227, 289, 217, and 271.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Charlie DeChant and George Weremchuk (ts), Chris Charles and Tom Dietz (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Claire Coucherne, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #238 + Recording sheet; Doug Mathews Archive CDr}


    07.06.27 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—39:23]

    June 27, 2007, "Day 4" / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. #213 take 2 [5:02]
    2. Aureole (216) [7:17]
    3. Duke (220) [9:37]  
    4. Indigo (223) [8:48]
    5. Unity (226) [8:39]
    —RBA CDr #239 has tracks ordered Aureole, Indigo, Duke, Unity, #213.
    —CDr #240 omits track 1; has 4 tracks in order 216, 220, 223, 226; and has "Scratched Bad - Day 4."
    —CDr #241 has "Ruff Mixes-Just Boom Mics;" and has tracks with times from CDr and order listed above; 213 is marked "take 2" on DMA "Ruff" CDr.
    —RivBea Composition Titles list has #213 with erased "Thermal." No indication of this ever being used.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Charlie DeChant and George Weremchuk (ts), Chris Charles and Tom Dietz (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Jason Smith, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #239, 240, and 241 + Recording sheet; Doug Mathews Archive "Ruff Mix" CDr}


    • 07.07.11 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Tom Parmeter and Mike Iapichino (tp),
      Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr), unknown others... / probably American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL
      [Mike Iapichino/RivBea email 07.07.17]
    • 07.07.18 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Brian Scanlon, Dave Smith, Dave Jones, and John DePaola (tp),
      Keith Oshiro (tb), Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr), unknown others... / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL
      [Mike Iapichino/RivBea + Keith Oshiro/RivBea emails both dated 07.07.17]
    • 07.07.25 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Dave Smith, and Dave Jones (tp),
      Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr), unknown others... / American Federation of Musicians' Union Hall, Orlando, FL
      [Mike Iapichino/RivBea email 07.07.17]

    07.08.01 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—56:33]

    August 1, 2007, "Day 5" / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. Revival (201) [11:24]
    2. Apex (257) [9:16]
    3. Collage (225) [8:47]
    4. Catapult (221) [8:16]
    5. Impulse (289) [12:14]
    6. Jubilation (222) [6:36]
    —RBA CDr #243 is marked "Raw" and has tracks ordered as listed above; times from CDr, no detailing.
    —RBA CDr #242 has tracks in order Catapult, Revival, Apex, Impulse, Collage, and Jubilation; track 5 is marked "Redo.".

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), George Weremchuk and Chris Charles (ts), Jeff Rupert and Tom Dietz (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Matt McCarthy (tp), Keith Oshiro, Frank Wosar, and Joe King (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #242 and 243 + Recording sheet}


    07.09.05 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    September 5, 2007 / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. Robyn (401) [9:01]
    2. Cindy (402) [8:03]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.
    —Computer crashed and lost all recordings this date except 2 tunes... Recovered Robyn, Cindy."

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Chris Charles and Jack Wilkins (ts), Jeff Rupert and Tom Dietz (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Chad Shoopman, Mike Iapichino, Chris Dolske, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Frank Wosar, and Claire Coucherne (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #244 + Recording sheet}


    • 07.09.07 - Teddy Washington Big Band: Sam Rivers, Richard Payne, and Les Wing (ts), Al Waters (as), Alex Mattos (bar),
      Teddy Washington (tp, Cond), Joe Wytiaz and Paul Dobson (tp), Paul Welkie, Van Battle, and Howard Thompson (tb),
      Steve Saracson (keys, Arr), Ray Mezo and Sharon Barry (keys), Eric Herrin and "Guest" Calvin Newborn (g),
      Chris Cole (b), Ray Raymond (perc), John Mayfield (dr) / The 2007 Teddy Washington Jacksonville Follies Awards,
      The Florida Theatre, Jacksonville, FL
      [Program, The RivBea Archive; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      —Sam Rivers received the "2007 Fabric of Culture" Award and performed "The Girl" [from Ipamema] by Stan Goetz [sic].

    okay

     The Plaza Theatre engagements : : : September 12, 2007 through April 8, 2009 (with Festival appearances on 10.07.25, 11.05.24; and 11.07.15.)


    07.09.12 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—111:47]

    September 12, 2007, 9:00pm / "Works in Progress," The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Riffin' (277) [8:06]
    2. Quagmire (256) [9:00]
    3. Willow (236) [14:36]
    4. Blueshift (298) [14:30]
    5. Jubilee (238) [10:06]
    2nd Set:
    6. Reverie (211) [14:54]
    7. Collage (225) [10:41]
    8. Tapestry (288) [11:08]
    9. Rejuvenation (244) [9:46]
    —1st Set as ordered on CDr label and database; 2nd Set unknown order; track times from CDr, no detailing.
    —2nd Set had Collage followed by "225" (which is... Collage). Tapestry was marked as recorded, but was not listed.
    —Recording sheet also has Melange (269), Magma (254), Aura (297), Monsoon (258), and Maelstrom (299), which may have been played,
     but were not recorded.
    —CDr #247 is misdated as "Sam at The Plaza 9/14/07 #2," which is likely the 2nd Set above.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Matt McCarthy (tp), Keith Oshiro, Frank Wosar, and Claire Coucherne (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #245 and 246 + Recording sheet + RivBea mailing; www.theplazatheatre.com}


    07.10.10 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—87:12]

    October 10, 2007, 9:00pm / "Works in Progress," The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

      1st Set:
    [4] compositions: Riffin'; Collage; Monsoon; Rejuvenation [ : ]
      2nd Set:
    [4] compositions: Reverie; Melange; Willow; Jubilee [ : ]
    —CDr has (8) tracks with times (1st Set) 7:37; 9:06; 15:52; 11:56; / (2nd set) 13:24; 8:24; 10:41; 10:12. Order uncertain.
    —RivBea CDr database has all entries misdated "10.12.07," and has identical four titles on discs for both sets.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Frank Wosar, and Claire Coucherne (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #248, 249, 250, 251, + DVD not listed in database + Recording sheet + RivBea mailing; www.theplazatheatre.com}


    07.11.06 • (V/A) Swing in Time featuring Sam Rivers: A Christmas Gift

    2007: Sonic Cauldron Studios no release# (CD)
        —1st Session: [See also ]

    November 6, 2007 / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. Silent Night [4:39]
    "The band came in first, and then Sam came in in November to record his part." —Kevin Stever

    Nathan Anderson (ts, bar), Sam Rivers (fl), Matt McCarthy (tp, Arr), Frank Wosar (tb),
    Kevin Stever (b), KC Kelly (elb), Thomas Damon (dr)

    {A Christmas Gift; Kevin Stever 18.11.17+18; session date Stever and Nathan Anderson}

    okay

    07. • (V/A) Sam Rivers and Friends: A Christmas Gift

    2007: Sonic Cauldron Studios no release# (CD)
        —1st Session: [See also ]

    , 2007 / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. Carol of the Bells [5:40]
    2. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [6:38]


    Sam Rivers (ts-1,2, p-2), Chris Charles (vbs-1,2, ts-2),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {A Christmas Gift; }

    okay

    07.11.10 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA & AR—90:06]

    • Sam Rivers: Jazz Master of the Moment
      2008: UCF Radio-TV Department (Film), by Stephanie Rice [14:17]
         "Free Jazz pioneer Sam Rivers returns to New York for a revival concert in Harlem where musicians
         remember his kind tutelage during 1970s jam sessions held in his family loft on the Lower East Side."

    November 10, 2007, 7:30pm / Harlem Stage, Marian Anderson Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall, Columbia University, New York City

      Audience Recording
      Trio:
     1. improvisation [10:40]  (ts+voc, b, dr)
     2. Nightfall [5:37]  (b solo—ts, b)
     3. Spark [4:53]  (ts, b, dr—b, dr—ts, b, dr)
      Quartet, Septet, Quintets—
     4. Impromptu (for You) [1:53]  (SR-ts, Charles-bar, Parmeter-tp, Sheffield-tb)
     5. improvisation [4:41]  (SR + unknown-ts, Rupert-as, Charles-bar, Parmeter-tp, + b, dr)
     6. improvisation [6:38]  (SR-fl, Charles-fl, DeChant-fl, Rupert-fl, Weremchuk-fl)
     7. unknown title [5:26]  (SR-ss, Pate-ts, Rupert-as, Iapichino-tp, Oshiro-tb)
      The RivBea Orchestra:
     8. unknown title [11:07]
     9. Quagmire ("of course") [13:45]
    10. Willow [8:50]
    Jazz Master of the Moment has numerous excerpts of the trio, orchestra, and flute sextet.
    —RBA DVD #14 has "Unedited Video;" #24 has "UCF made DVD without permission and released it anyway;"
     #33 is misdated "11.26.07."

    "A great show. There was an interview with Sam, about 25 minutes [with Host Brent Hayes Edwards]. At the end of the interview Sam said
    ‘At 84 years of age there are so many directions to go.., that it would be immature to answer directly.’ Everyone there laughed! The new Trio
    with Rion Smith on drums and Doug on bass, started with Sam on tenor. They did about a 15 minute section (the monitors weren't working,
    but in the audience it sounded fine.) Then Sam and Doug did a duo version of Nightfall... Here's the new facet: Sam played tenor with a trumpet,
    baritone sax, alto sax, and tenor sax from the orchestra in a completely improvised section; flute with five other flute players from the orchestra
    (sounded similar to Winds of Manhattan.) Sam played soprano with another group of horn players from the orchestra. After an intermission
    the complete RivBea Orchestra played three songs..." —Patrick Clare

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate (ts), Charlie DeChant (ts, fl), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as, fl),
    Chris Charles (bar, fl), Tom Parmeter, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Christopher Dolske (tp),
    Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, and Frank Wosar (tb), Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #252 + DVD #14, 24, and 33 + Session Logs; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01; vimeo.com/22137419;
    2CDr Audience Recording, track detailing RL 19.01.01 (unedited, from Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies); Patrick Clare 07.11.12}


    okay


    07.11.14 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—57:30]

    November 14, 2007 / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    1. Tranquility [12:34]
    2. Riffin' [6:56]
    3. Revival [11:10]
    4. Willow [9:55]
    5. Rejuvenation [8:33]
    —RBA CDr #253 and 254 have single tracks of each set, no detailing.
    —"Two Sets," Recording sheet adds Tapestry, Monique, Quagmire, and Jubilee, and omits Riffin';
     omits George Weremchuk and adds an absent Keith Oshiro (personnel below announced from the stage);
     and has Chris Charles only on alto.

    Sam Rivers (ss-2,3, fl-1,4,5, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Chris Charles (as, bar),
    Mike Iapichino, Matt McCarthy, Dave Jones, and Ben Classon (tp), Dave Sheffield and Frank Wosar (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #253 and 254 + Recording sheet; Soundfiles, track detailing Ed Hazell 19.06.04}


    • 07.11.17 - The Sam Rivers Super Jam: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b-), Rion Smith (dr) /
      Fast Cars to Rock Stars Retrospective, City Arts Factory, Orlando, FL
      [Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]

    07.12.12 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    December 12, 2007 / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    1st Set:
    1. Crux (247) [8:02]
    2. Impulse (289) [11:29]
    3. Jubilee (238) [8:01]
    4. Pulsar (321) [14:57]
    2nd Set:
    5. Quasar (322) [16:41]
    6. Reverie (211) [14:56]
    7. Spunk (271) [14:07]
    8. Willow (236) [8:54]
    —RBA CDr #255 has Jubilee, Reverie ("Reverle"), Spunk, and Willow in that order.
    —CDr #256 is marked "Rough" and has Quasar, Reverie ("Revelry"), Spunk ("Spook"), and Willow in that order.
    —CDr #257 is marked "Rough" and has Crux, Impulse, Jubilee, and Pulsar in that order.
    —Order and timings are from "Rough" versions CDr #256 ansd 257.
    —Recording sheet pre-gig also included Catapult (221), Blueshift (298), Sirocco (227), and Tapestry (288).

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Chris Charles and Gary Underwood (ts), Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Mike Iapichino, Fred Green, and Matt McCarthy (tp), Clay Lucovich, Frank Wosar, and Claire Coucherne (tb), Josh Parsons (tu),
    Kevin Stever (elb), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #255, 256, and 257 + Recording sheet}



    2008 : : :


    • 08.01.09 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts),
      Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar), Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, and Clair Courchene (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) /
      9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [Recording sheet; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      —Compositions: Robyn (401), Cindy (402), Monique (403), Traci (404), Lorna (405), Iisha (406), Destiny (407), Tiffany (408), Jessica (409), Brianna (410). "Not Recorded" on Recording sheet.

      Auclair IMGs

    08.02.01 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [BVR—68:29]

    February 1, 2008, 8:00pm / The Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts & Humanities, Tiedtke Concert Hall, Rollins University, Winter Park, FL
    —"Vision TV Presents," Cable TV 198, Orlando. Broadcast April 23, 2008 at 9:00pm; April 24, 2008 at 12:00am

    1... unknown titles [ : ]
    —Broadcast program originally archived at www.orangetv1.net is no longer available.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), David Pate and Chris Chrles (ts) Jeff Rupert and George Weremchuk (as), Gary Underwood (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, Dave Jones, and Matt McCarthy (tp), Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings DVD #26; RivBea emails 08.01.18, 08.04.23; www.zoranealehurstonfestival.com; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 3 p.B7;
    www.orangetv1.net/sam-rivers/sam-rivers-live-at-zorafest-video_416f019ce.html; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01}


    • 08.02.13 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Chris Charles (ts, as, fl, bar),
      Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr), others... / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
    • 08.02.23 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc, Comp), Chris Charles (ts, as, fl, bar, xyl), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) /
      The Orlando Art & Living Expo, Art & Music Festival, 6:30pm, Lake Eola Band Shell, Lake Eola Park, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea 08.01.18; The Orlando Sentinel Feb 22 Calendar p.47; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]

    08.02.27 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy

    2011: Mosaic Records, Mosaic Select MS-038 (3-CD);
    2015: RivBea Music RB53232 (digital download)

    February 27, 2008 / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL
    1st Session [See also 08.09.10; 08.11.12; 09.04.08]

    Disc 2—Progeny:
    1. Robyn (401) [6:21]
    2. Cindy (402) [5:46]
    3. Monique (403) [6:44]
    4. Traci (404) [5:10]
    5. Iisha (405) [4:42]
    6. Tamara (406) [5:20]
    7. Tiffany (407) [5:40]
    8. Jessica (408) [7:32]
    9. Destiny (409) [6:54]
    —RBA CDr #149 has "Day 11-Ruff Mix" and "401 through 410" (includes "Brianna").
    —CDr #259 has "Names mixed up / 401-409."
    —CDr #260 has titles as above with "Brianna" inserted between CD tracks 8 and 9.
    —CDr #261 has "Copy Disk II."
    —CDr #319 has "Disk 2."

    Sam Rivers (ts, Comp), Charlie DeChant and George Weremchuk (ts),
    Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmenter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and David Jones (tp),
    Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, and Claire Courchene (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr)
    okay

    {MS-038; RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #149, 259, 260, 261, 314, and 319 + Recording sheet, RivBea Archive}


    • 08.03.12 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr), others... /
      9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Mar 7 Calendar p.39; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
    • 08.03.28 - Sam Rivers Quartet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Charles (vbs), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr), others... /
      EMIT Series 2008, First St. Petersburg Jazz Festival, 8:00pm, The Catherine A. Hickman Theater, Gulfport, FL
      [RivBea 08.01.18; www.emitseries.org; Tampa Bay Times Mar 27 p.27W; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      —Originally scheduled for the The Paladium Theatre in St. Petersburg. (Tampa Bay Times Mar 20 p.28W has both listed consecutively.
      —"He'll perform new works with his quartet... and maybe a guitarist."

      IMGs Bob Pomeroy

    • 08.04.09 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr), others... /
      9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Apr 4 Calendar p.37; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]

      IMGs Auclair

    • 08.05.14 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Jeff Rupert (as), Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon,
      Dave Jones, and Matt McCarthy (tp), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr), others... / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel May 9 Calendar p.39; Robert Auclair 08.05.20; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01; Jeff Rupert CV]
    • 08.05.15 - Sam Rivers Quartet Plus More: Rivers (fl, voc), Chris Charles (ts, as, fl, bar), Brian Mackie (bar), Bobby Koeble (g),
      Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) / FMF/Florida Music Festival, 12:00midnight, The Social, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea 08.05.06; www.FMF2008.com; www.outertoons.com; www.theplazatheatre.com; Robert Auclair 08.05.19]
      —"Sam Rivers was supposed to play with a trio... Instead, he arrived with five musicians..."
      —Jim Abbott The Orlando Sentinel May 23 Calendar p.26

    08.05.22 • Sam Rivers Quintet [DMA]

    May 22, 2008, 10:00pm / Outer Toons Productions, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions + improvisations [ : ]
    —DMA CDr has "Cartoon Show."

    Sam Rivers (fl, voc), Chris Charles (ts, as, fl, bar), Bobby Koelble (g), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr)

    {Doug Mathews Archive CDr; RivBea 08.05.06; www.outertoons.com; www.theplazatheatre.com; Robert Auclair 08.05.19}


    • 08.06.07 - Sam Rivers Quartet + 1: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p, voc), Chris Charles (ts, as, fl, bar, xyl), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr),
      + Dan Kozak (ts, ss) / 5:00pm, The Coleman Hawkins Legacy Jazz Festival, Kansas Expocentre, Topeka, KS
      [RivBea 08.02.22; www.hawkinsjazzfest.com; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.01]
      "During the first set, Sam told a long story between songs about a time when he saw Coleman Hawkins live in Chicago. The story morphed
      into a longer story about how a munitions facility in Chicago blew up that night and the windows of the jewelry stores downtown were
      blown out. Sam laughed... and said that he should have been downtown at the time so that he could have retired.
      Sam began the second set by announcing that as the festival is dedicated to Coleman Hawkins (it is called the Coleman Hawkins Legacy
      Jazz Festival), they would play "Body and Soul". Sam comped on piano as the festival's founder, Dan Kozak, a Topeka saxophonist, played
      the song. So Sam tried consciously to mix the Coleman Hawkins connection into his sets.
      —Hot Ptah Dr. Funkenstein, www.organissimo.org 08.06.09]


    • 08.06.11 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL
      "Sam Rivers suffers a broken hip... / but he's doing OK"
      —Jim Abbott The Orlando Sentinel blog, 11:53:09am, June 13, 2008

      "Internationally revered jazz icon and Orlando resident Sam Rivers is recuperating from hip surgery in a hospital in Lee Summit [Missouri],
      after falling in a restaurant [while] on the road. His daughter, Monique Rivers Williams, reports that Sam, 84, is doing well, but eager to leave
      the hospital. ‘We're ready to get home,’ she says, ‘if I can get him out of the hospital without picking up all the nurses.’ The injury happened
      on Sunday as the Rivers entourage was returning from the Coleman Hawkins Jazz Festival in Topeka, Kansas. Sam fell after bumping into
      a cardboard sign next to a cash register. His hospital stay meant that he missed his Wednesday Plaza Theatre gig, but Monique says the sax man
      plans to make a June 27th outdoor show in Gainesville. He hates to miss a show,’ she says. ...Sam should be out of the hospital by Monday.
      [blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_music_blog/2008/06/sam-rivers-suff.html]


      "Saxophonist Sam Rivers, who was scheduled to perform tonight at the Downtown Community Plaza, is recuperating
      from emergency hip surgery and has postponed his appearance..." [Gainesville Sun Jun 27 Weekend p.1]
      08.06.27 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers Quartet / 8:00pm, The Downtown Community Plaza, Gainesville, FL
      [RivBea 08.04.01; www.gvlculturalaffairs.org]
      —Charles DeChant, Doug Mathews, and Rion Smith went on as the "Missing Rivers Band."
      08.07.09 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [RivBea 08.04.01]

    08.08.13 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—57:47+ & BVR]

    —PBS Special Live at The Plaza Theatre, hosted by WUCF 89.9 FM

    August 13, 2008 / "Works in Progress," The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    2 Sets:
    1. Bubbles (281) [8:55]
    2. Riffin' (277) [7:46]
    3. Beatrice (202) [10:17]
    4. Flair (265) [8:33]
    5. Sirocco (227) [8:00]
    6. Crux (247) [8:40]
    2. Vortex (207) [5:36]
    —2CDr #262 has Bubbles, Riffin', Beatrice, Flair, Sirocco, Crux, and Vortex in that order with track times;
     Recording sheet also has Jubilation (222), Willow (236), Jubilee (238), Rejuvenation (244), and Spunk (271).
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.
    —DVD #28 is dated "08/2008?"

    "Sam Rivers is still on the mend from hip surgery in early June but plans to make a return to his regular Plaza Theatre gigs Aug. 13,
    his first performance since the surgery, according to his daughter, Monique Rivers Williams. She says her dad, who is 84, is still
    in some pain but continues to compose new music." —Jim Abbott, The Orlando Sentinel Aug 2, 2008

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Charlie DeChant and George Weremchuk (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Frank Wosar and Dave Sheffield (tb), Claire Coucherne (tb, 2nd Set only),
    Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr), others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings 2CDr #262, + DVD #28, + Recording sheet; The Orlando Sentinel Jul 18 Calendar p.36;
    RivBea 08.11.02; John Marsden}


    08.09.10 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy

    2011: Mosaic Records, Mosaic Select MS-038 (3-CD);
    2015: RivBea Music RB53232 (digital download)
        —2nd Session [See also 08.02.27; 08.11.12; 09.04.08]

    —This session is not included in Trilogy liner notes, but all Archive
     references include it in this Mosaic project.
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—57:47+ & BVR]
    okay

    September 10, 2008, 9:00pm, / "Works in Progress," The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    1. Pulsar (321) [14:11]
    2. Perkin' (470) [9:38]
    —RBA CDr #263 has no track titles listed in database.
    —CDr #264 has no titles, is marked "Aura," and dated "9-10-08 + 11."
     [Probably 08.11.12, and likely a working copy of Disc 1 of Trilogy]
    —CDr #265 has "Sonic Cauldron Studio," a reference to where it was mixed.
    —CDr #277 and 278 both have Crux, #297, Ganymede, Spice (all from 08.11.12), Perkin', and Pulsar;
     both are marked "Live for Mosaic Records" and "09/10 & 11/12/2008,"
     and have track times, no detailing.
    —Recording sheet also has Vortex (207), Cartarsis (217), Duke (220), Jubilation (222), Sirocco (227),
     Crux (247), Spunk (271), and Aura (297), with no indication of which were actually played or recorded.

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl), David Pate and George Weremchuk (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Brian Scanlon, Tom Robinson, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Frank Wosar, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr), others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDrs #263, 264, 265, 277, and 278 + Recording sheet + Mosaic project log; Monique Rivers-Williams 08.08.21}


    08.09.12 • Sam Rivers Trio & the NEC Jazz Orchestra [AR—57:52]

    September 12, 2008, 7:30pm / Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

      1st Set / Trio:
     1. Impromptu (for You) [ : ]
     2. unknown ballad [ : ]
     3. drum solo [ : ]
     4. unknown title [ : ]
     5. bass solo [ : ]
     6. unknown title [ : ]
      applause and closing comments from Sam [ : ]
      2nd Set / Trio + Orchestra:
      opening comments from Sam [ : ]
     7. unknown title [ : ]
     8. Beatrice [ : ]
     9. Revelation [ : ]
    10. unknown title [ : ]
    11. Riffin' [ : ]
    "The set list in the program was listed as: Beatrice, Visions, Revelation, Riffin', Bubbles, Colours." —Chris Carville

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, p), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Rion Smith (dr)
    NEC Jazz Orchestra: Ken Schaphorst (Dir), James Wylie, and Stephanie Wieseler (ts), Michael Thomas and Logan Strosahl (as),
    Anna Hoffmann (bar), John Replogle, Andrew Littleford, Ezra Weller, and Aquiles Navarro (tp), Chris Gagne, Randy Pingrey,
    Aaron Hartley, Grant Randall, and Andre Hayward (tb), Malcolm Campbell (p), Julian Maliandi (g)
    —Pre-concert info had Nate Therrien (b) and Paul Geresy (dr), but they were not present.

    {Concert programs, 1996-1997. Boston: New England Conservatory. Courtesy of the New England Conservatory Archives;
    RivBea 08.09.17; Ed Hazell 08.09.19; Chris Carville 08.09.05; Ken Schaphorst 18.06.14}


      American Artistic Renaissance Symposium, September 23 and 24, 2008 : : : Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

      —Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgill, Anthony Barboza, Fred Brown, Stanley Crouch, Megan Brown, James Jordan, Charlie Haden,
       Gregoire Muller, Blondell Cummings, Felipe Luciano, Jean-Claude Samuel, Malcolm Mooney, Jerome Cooper, Anthony Ramos, & more...
      —Hosted by Porus Olpadwala, Cornell University; Moderators: Professor of Music Steven Pond, Cornell; Brent Edwards, Columbia University

      "Panel discussions... will look at the history and conditions that helped establish the loft scene from the 1960s forward, how new creative directions evolved, effects on culture and the artists who followed, and the prospects for such collaborations to thrive today."

    • 08.09.23 (1) - Panel discussion, 12:00pm, B20 Lincoln Hall
    • 08.09.23 (2) - "A live jam session... Participants will also visit classrooms and hold master classes." / Hans Bethe House lawn
    • 08.09.24 (1) - Panel discussion, 12:00pm, Africana Center
    • 08.09.24 (2) - Panel discussion, 8:30pm, Barnes Hall
    • 08.09.25 - "Special Ending Event: Celebrating Sam Rivers' 85th birthday"

      [Daniel Aloi "Jazzed About Art: American Artistic Renaissance Symposium Looks at 1970s Creative Movement,"
      Cornell University Chronicle Sep 15; RivBea 08.09.17; www.arts.cornell.edu/jazz]


    • 08.10.08 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (as, ss, fl), Charlie Dechant and Nathan Anderson (ts), Dan Jordan and Chris Charles (as),
      Brian Mackie (bar), Brian Scanlon, John Robinson, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Frank Wosar, Ben Kon,
      and Tito Sanchez (tb), Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL
      "Every month in 2008, we will be featuring a different University. October 2008 is the official "UCF/University of Central Florida" Month...
      First 100 paid UCF Faculty/Students will receive a free CD." [RivBea emails 08.09.28; 08.10.15]
    • 08.10.17 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc), Dave Pate (ts, bcl), Brian Mackie (ts, bar), Kevin Stever (b),
      Doug Mathews (elbass), Rion Smith (dr) / 10:30pm, The Plaza Theatre Large Theatre, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea emails 08.09.28 and 09.08.01; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 17 Calendar p.36; Kevin Stever 08.10.18]
      "Obamarama: Concert for Change" A 45-minute set.

      okay okay


    08.11.12 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy

    2011: Mosaic Records, Mosaic Select MS-038 (3-CD);
    2015: RivBea Music RB59230 (digital download)
       
    3rd Session [See also 08.02.27; 08.09.10; 09.04.08]
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—41:57 +]

    November 12, 2008, 9:00pm / Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    Disc 1—Offering:
    1. Spice [8:52]
    2. Ganymede [9:04]
    3. Crux [8:13]
    4. Aura [15:48]
    —RBA CDr notes: see 08.09.10.
    —RBA Recording Sheet also lists Duke (220), Spunk (271), Pulsar (321),
     Parallel [or] Juxtapose (382), #452, #456, #461, #462, #463, and Perkin (470),
     though there is no indication that these were played and recorded.

    Sam Rivers (ss, Comp), George Weremchuk and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as),
    Brian Mackie (bar),Tom Parmenter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and David Jones (tp),
    Keith Oshiro, Tito Sanchez, Steve Smith, and Claire Courchene (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tb, tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr)
    okay

    {MS-038; RivBea Archival Recordings CDrs #265, 277, 278, 315, and 321 + Recording sheet; RivBea 08.11.02; John Marsden}


    • 08.12.10 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (as, ss, fl), Charlie Dechant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as),
      Brian Mackie (bar), Matt McCarthy, Mike Iapichino, Ben Classon, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Steve Smith, and Claire Coucherne (tb),
      Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr) / "Works in Progress," 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea 08.12.09; Musician sign-off sheet, RivBea Archive]
      —Sign-off sheet indicates no recording was made.

    2009 : : :


    09.01.14 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA—57:47+ & BVR]

    January 14, 2009, 9:00pm, / "Works in Progress," The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    2 Sets:
    [7] compositions: Spice (207); #462; Ganymede (435); #463; Parallel [or] Juxtapose (382); #462; #475 [ : ]
    —The new tagline, "Premier Performances of Original Compositions by..."

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl, voc, Comp), Dan Jordan and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and Dave Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Dave Sheffield, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Joshua Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr)

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr (no #, not in database) + Recording sheet; Monique Rivers-Williams 09.01.13}


      09.02.11 CANCELLED - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [Monique Rivers-Williams 09.01.13]
    • 09.03.11 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Brian Mackie (bar),
      Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr), others... / 9:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [Monique Rivers-Williams 09.01.13]
    • 09.03.27 - Sam Rivers and the Frost Concert Jazz Band Jazz Band: Sam Rivers (ss, fl, Comp), Dante Luciani (Dir),
      Dave Hartsman, Pat Seymour, Matt Vashlishan, Jesse McGinty, and Pete Brewer (reeds),
      Augie Haas, Chris O'Farrill, Rodrigo Gallardo, Matt White, and Mike Cordone (tp),
      Chad Bernstein, Paul Deemer, Kendall Moore, and Brian Keegan or Garett Arrowood (tb),
      Sam Petitti (g), Dan Strange (p), Josh Allen (b), Danny Susnjar (dr) /
      8:00pm, Maurice Guzman Concert Hall, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
      [Program, the RivBea Archive; South Florida Sun Sentinel Mar 27 p.4A; Monique Rivers-Williams 09.03.28]
      —Program had Keegan; South Florida Sun Sentinel had Garett Arrowood on trombone.
      —Compositions: You Got It (Tom Garling), Compensation (Kenny Werner), and Neptune, Bubbles, Beatrice, Vines, Revelation, and Colours (Rivers).
    • 09.04.04 - Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Rion Smith (dr), unknown others /
      6:30, Florida Film Festival's Revel 18, Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL
      ["Jim Abbott's Soundboard" The Orlando Sentinel Apr 3, 2009]

    09.04.08 • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Trilogy

    2011: Mosaic Records, Mosaic Select MS-038 (3-CD);
    2015: RivBea Music RB50929 (digital download)
        —4th Session [See also 08.02.27; 08.09.10; 08.11.12]
    • Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra [RBA]

    April 8, 2009, 7:00 & 9:00pm / Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL

    [Disc 3: EDGE]
    1. Ridge [10:27]
    2. Brink [11:04]
    3. Precipice [9:29]
    4. Verge [10:32]
    5. Point [10:12]
    6. Visions [11:38]
    7. Pulsar [8:25]
    okay
    —RivBea Archival CDr # 266 is marked "Disk #3," and has untitled tracks #473, 477, 456, 327, 480, and 478.
    —Play list on Recording sheet also has #304, 322, 323, 452, 458, 461, 479, and 486, with only 304, 452, and 479 marked as "recorded."
    —RBA CDr notes see 08.09.10. If you dare.

    Sam Rivers (ss, Comp), Charlie DeChant and David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles (as), Brian Mackie (bar),
    Tom Parmenter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and David Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, David Sheffield, and Steve Smith (tb),
    Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (dr)

    {MS-038; RivBea Archival Recordings CDrs #266, 267, 281, and 320; Recording sheet; Monique Rivers-Williams 09.01.13; 09.03.30}



    —"The Plaza gig, as it turns out, is going on hiatus. This week's Wednesday performance will be the last, for a time. ‘I've been there two years now,’
     Rivers says. ‘I'm gonna take a little break. I've got other things coming up out of town.’" [Jim Abbott The Orlando Sentinel Apr 3 p.28M]

     April 8, 2009 was the last Plaza Theatre performance until Festival appearances on 10.07.25, 11.05.24; and 11.07.15.


    • 09.05.31 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Matthews (b, elb, bcl), unknown (dr) /
      WMNF 88.5 FM Jazz Jam, 4:00pm, Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa, FL [The Tampa Tribune May 29 Extra p.26]

    Joseph Hayes, "Rivers' Edge," in Orlando Magazine, Wednesday, July 1, 2009:
    —"At 85 and in frail health, he's still showing musicians the way..."


    • 09.09.19 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, as, fl, voc, Comp), George Weremchuk, David Pate, and Rex Wertz (ts),
      Chris Charles and Tom Dietz (as), Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and John Robinson (tp),
      Keith Oshiro, Andrea Rowlison, and Dave Sheffield (tb), Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Carl Hamilton (dr) /
      10:00pm, Club Firestone, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Sep 18 p.26M; Monique Rivers-Williams 10.01.22]
    • 09.10.10 - Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, as, fl), David Pate (ts), Jeff Rupert and Chris Charles,
      Tom Parmeter, Brian Scanlon, Mike Iapichino, and David Jones (tp), Keith Oshiro, Andrea Rowlison, and Steve Smith (tb),
      Josh Parsons (tu), Doug Mathews (elb), Rion Smith (dr) /
      8:00pm, College Park JazzFest, College Park, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Oct 9 p.29M; Monique Rivers-Williams 10.01.22]
    • 09.11.13 - Sam Rivers Trio: Rivers (ts, as, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b, elb), Carl Hamilton (dr) /
      10:00pm, The Anti Pop Music Festival, Club 57 West, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Nov 13 p.27M; Monique Rivers-Williams 10.01.22]
      Sentinel Nov. 6 p.26M has this as a Quintet date.

    09.11.16 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—46:48]

    November 16, 2009 / Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    [5] compositions [5:17–6:14–6:55–9:15–5:59–13:08]
    —RBA CDr #268 has date and "CKF."
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #268}



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    The 21st Century...

    2010


    • 10.01.30 - The Sam Rivers Quintet: Rivers (ts, as, fl), Chris Charles (ts, fl, bar, xyl), Tom Parmeter (tp), Doug Mathews (b) Carl Hamilton (dr) /
      2:00pm, "The Sam Rivers Jazz Speakeasy Stage," Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities, Eatonville, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Jan 29 p.22M; Monique Rivers-Williams 10.02.01]
      "He plans to keep a busy tour schedule in 2010..."
      Sentinel lists this as a Quartet gig.

    10.02.04 • Sam Rivers [RBA—50:34]

    February 4, 2010 / Rehearsal, Sonic Cauldron Studios, Casselberry, FL

    1. Quasar (322) [17:04]
    2. #477 fragments [3:26]
     ("trombones, letter B" with reed players voicing their parts–0:40; trombones and reeds–0:43; trumpets–0:41)
    3. #477 [10:51]
    4. #478 [6:07]  (incomplete, cuts out)
    —No session logs or database entries, just the physical media.
    —Much discussion toward the end that #477 is meant to segue into #478, though it used to segue into #304
    Sam Rivers (ts, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr "2-4-10,"—not in database; Soundfiles, detailing RL 19.11.10}




    Lost Jazz Shrines—Ali's Alley, Jazz Cultural Theatre, & Studio RivBea : : :

    "The Lost Jazz Shrines series is dedicated to bringing legendary NYC jazz clubs south of 14th street back into the consciousness of the world
    with a thorough remembrance and celebration. This year, the series celebrates Ali's Alley, Jazz Cultural Theatre, and Studio RivBea. The series
    will encompass three concerts (Fridays, May 7, May 14, and May 21), each of them preceded by a FREE Humanities Program with live interviews
    and films that showcase some of the celebrated figures associated with this year's honorees." [www.tribecapac.org/music.htm]


    10.05.14 • Sam Rivers Trio + Guests [AR—73:53]

    May 14, 2010 / Tribeca Center for the Performing Arts, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York City
    —7:00pm Lecture, 8:30pm Concert. "Lost Jazz Shrines Part 2: Celebrating Studio RivBea."

    Lecture:
     "One-on-One with Sam Rivers & Willard Jenkins" [43:16]
    1st Set:
    1. Beatrice [5:28]  (ts, b, dr)
    2. Dominant [11:03]  (ts w/ Sextet)
    3. Rejuvenation [16:16]  (ts w/ Sextet)
    2nd Set:
    4. Iris [7:08]  (fl, b, dr)
    5. composition [17:31]  (ss w/ Sextet)
    6. composition [14:20]  (fl w/ Sextet)
    —Track 3 is referred to as "Plantation Song" in the review because Sam mentioned that the melody came from the book
     published by his grandfather entitled Plantation Songs and Melodies.
    —Two recordings exist: "One is lecture and Set 2 only, the other is Set 1 and 2, no lecture." —Christopher Carville

    "[An] interview before hand was very informative, it was nice to hear Sam talk. Michael Cuscuna from Mosaic was there and Sam confirmed that there
    would be a release in September; I hope it is the first of many. Sam has been in the hospital with a double pneumonia, he sounded great, but said he hasn’t
    been able to practice and needs to build up his stamina." Patrick Clare 10.05.25

    "Sam asked Craig Harris, David, and myself to play with him that night, as he was low on energy." —Steve Coleman

    Sam Rivers (ts, ss, fl, voc, Comp), Doug Mathews (b), Carl Hamilton (dr),
    + Guests Steve Coleman (as), Craig Harris (tb), David Virelles (p)

    {CDr—both sets without interview or announcements, track detailing RL 19.03.24; Christopher Carville 10.05.16;
    Monique Rivers-Williams 10.06.05; Steve Coleman 12.11.30; All About Jazz New York Jun 2010 p.5}




    10.06.09 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—51:11]

    June 9, 2010 / unknown venue, Orlando, FL

    1... compositions [51:11]
    —"Rehearsal," no session logs, recording info, or database entry—just the physical media.
    —CDr has a single track with time as above, no detailing.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b) unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr "6-09-2010," physical copy—not in database}


    10.06.22 • Sam Rivers & the RivBea Orchestra [RBA—39:48]

    June 22, 2010 / "Rehearsal," unknown venue, Orlando, FL

    [3] compositions [10:58–17:06–11:44]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.
    —No session logs or recording info—just the physical media.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b) unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #269}


    10.07.07 • Sam Rivers [RBA—42:07]

    July 7, 2010 / "Rehearsal," unknown venue, Orlando, FL

    [3] compositions [9:18–23:01–9:48]
    —Track times from CDr, no detailing.
    —No session logs or recording info—just the physical media.

    Sam Rivers (ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b) unknown others...

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #271}


    10.07.22 • Sam Rivers Interview [RBA]

    July 22, 2010 / "Interview," unknown venue, Orlando, FL

    —Interview [ : ]
    Sam Rivers interviewed by Jason Bivens

    {RivBea Archival Recordings CDr #270 and 272}


    • 10.07.25 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b) Carl Hamilton (dr), unknown others... /
      Wildlife Jambando, 4:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL
      [The Orlando Sentinel Jul 23 p.23M; jambando.com]

    2011 : : :


    • 11.05.24 - The Sam Rivers RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ts, ss, fl), Doug Mathews (b) Carl Hamilton (dr), unknown others... /
      2011 Spring Jambando, Plaza Theater, Orlando, FL
      [Sam's Introduction and no music (?), in a track of 1:32, YouTube video ZAPNtXdaw_o]
    • 11.07.15 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: as above / "Jambando and The Plaza Theatre presents..." /
      Wildlife Jambando II, 6:00pm, The Plaza Theatre, Orlando, FL [The Orlando Sentinel Jul 15 p.23M; jambando.com]




    • 11.10.22 - Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra: Rivers (ss, Comp), Chris Charles and George Weremchuk (ts),
      Gary Underwood, Alex Bodytico, and Jonathan Cestero (reeds), Mike Iapichino and Brian Gill (tp), Andrea Rowlison, Frank Wosar, and Corey Paul (tb),
      Josh Parsons (tu), Kevin Stever (b), Mark Kaiser (dr) / Thin Man Watts Jazz Fest, 7:30pm, Athens Theatre, DeLand, FL
      —This was Mark Kaiser's first and only appearance with the RivBea Orchestra.
      [I was there, thanks to Mr. Robert Auclair; The Orlando Sentinel Oct 22 p.2A; www.wattsjazzfest.com;
      Monique Rivers-Williams 12.02.29; Doug Mathews 18.07.19]

      —Photo by Robert Auclair

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    • 11.12.26 . . .

      Samuel Carthorne Rivers : : : September 25, 1923 - December 26, 2011

      Just talked to daughter Monique Williams-Rivers. Sam went peacefully—no pain, no discomfort—he just packed up his horns
      and his reeds and quietly slid away... I'm so sad. —RL, 12:18pm, December 27, 2011.

      "Sam Rivers went home, December 26, 2011, at 08:50pm. Sam Rivers died at the age of 88 in Orlando, Florida."
      —RivBea 12.01.01








    • The New York Times notice...

      Sam Rivers, Jazz Artist of Loft Scene, Dies at 88. —Richard Termine, for The New York Times

      Sam Rivers, an inexhaustibly creative saxophonist, flutist, bandleader, and composer who cut his own decisive path through
      the jazz world, spearheading the 1970s loft scene in New York and later establishing a rugged outpost in Florida, died
      on Monday in Orlando, Florida. He was 88.

      The cause was pneumonia, his daughter Monique Rivers Williams said.

      With an approach to improvisation that was garrulous and uninhibited but firmly grounded in intellect and technique, Mr. Rivers
      was among the leading figures in the postwar jazz avant-garde. His sound on the tenor saxophone, his primary instrument,
      was distinctive: taut and throaty, slightly burred, dark-hued. He also had a recognizable voice on the soprano saxophone,
      flute, and piano, and as a composer and arranger.

      Music ran deep in his family. His grandfather Marshall W. Taylor published one of the first hymnals for black congregations
      after emancipation, "A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies," in 1882. His mother, the former Lillian Taylor,
      was a pianist and choir director, and his father, Samuel Rivers, was a gospel singer. They were on tour with the Silvertone Quintet
      in El Reno, Oklahoma, when Samuel Carthorne Rivers was born, on September 25, 1923.

      Growing up in Chicago and on the road, Mr. Rivers studied violin, piano, and trombone. After his father had a debilitating accident
      in 1937, he moved with his mother to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he zeroed in on the tenor saxophone. Joining the Navy
      in the mid-40s, he served for three years.

      Mr. Rivers enrolled in the Boston Conservatory of Music in 1947 and later transferred to Boston University, where he majored
      in composition and briefly took up the viola and fell into the busy Boston jazz scene.

      He made an important acquaintance in 1959: Tony Williams, a 13-year-old drummer who already sounded like an innovator.
      Together they delved into free improvisation, occasionally performing in museums alongside modernist and abstract paintings.

      By 1964 Mr. Williams was working with the trumpeter Miles Davis and persuaded him to hire Mr. Rivers, who was with
      the bluesman T-Bone Walker at the time, for a summer tour. Mr. Riverss blustery playing with the Miles Davis Quintet,
      captured on the album "Miles in Tokyo," suggested a provocative but imperfect fit. Wayne Shorter replaced him in the fall.

      On a series of Blue Note recordings in the middle to late 60s, beginning with Mr. Williamss first album as a leader, "Life Time,"
      Mr. Rivers expressed his ideas more freely. He made four albums of his own for the label, the first of which—"Fuchsia Swing Song,"
      with Mr. Williams, the pianist Jaki Byard, and the bassist Ron Carter, another Miles Davis sideman—is a landmark of experimental
      post-bop, with a free-flowing yet structurally sound style. "Beatrice," a ballad from that album Mr. Rivers named after his wife,
      would become a jazz standard.

      Beatrice Rivers died in 2005. In addition to his daughter Monique, Mr. Rivers is survived by two other daughters, Cindy Johnson
      and Traci Tozzi; a son, Dr. Samuel Rivers III; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

      Mr. Rivers pushed further toward abstraction in the late ’60s, moving to New York and working as a sideman with the
      uncompromising pianists Andrew Hill and Cecil Taylor. In 1970 he and his wife opened Studio RivBea, a noncommercial
      performance space, in their loft on Bond Street in the East Village. It served as an avant-garde hub through the end of the decade,
      anchoring what would be known as the loft scene.

      The albums Mr. Rivers made for Impulse Records in the ’70s would further burnish his reputation in the avant-garde. After Studio
      RivBea closed in 1979, Mr. Rivers continued to lead several groups, including a big band called the RivBea Orchestra, a woodwind
      ensemble called Winds of Change, and a virtuosic trio with the bassist Dave Holland and the drummer Barry Altschul. With the trio,
      Mr. Rivers often demonstrated his gift as a multi-instrumentalist, extemporizing fluidly on saxophone, piano, and flute.

      Mr. Rivers tacked toward more mainstream sensibilities from 1987 to 1991, when he worked extensively with an early influence,
      the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. While touring through Orlando with Gillespie in 1991, Mr. Rivers met some of the skilled musicians
      employed by the area’s theme parks, who persuaded him to move there and revive the RivBea Orchestra. He lived most recently
      in nearby Apopka, Fla.

      The music made by his band in the 1990s and beyond was as spirited and harmonically dense as anything in Mr. Rivers’s musical
      history. And the trio at its core—Mr. Rivers, the bassist Doug Mathews, and the drummer Anthony Cole—also performed on its own,
      honing a dynamic versatility distinct from that of any other group in jazz.

      Mr. Rivers’s late-career renaissance was confirmed by the critical response to "Inspiration" and "Culmination," two albums
      he recorded for RCA in 1998 with a New York big band assembled by the alto saxophonist Steve Coleman. In 2000, Mr. Rivers
      led the Orlando iteration of the RivBea Orchestra in a concert presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The next year he served
      as the fiery eminence on "Black Stars," an acclaimed album by the 26-year-old pianist Jason Moran.

      This year saw the release of "Sam Rivers & The RivBea Orchestra—Trilogy" (Mosaic), a three-CD set featuring recordings from
      2008 and 2009. His last performance was in October in DeLand, Fla.

      In 2006. the Vision Festival, a nonprofit New York event aesthetically indebted to the loft scene, honored Mr. Rivers with a Sam
      Rivers Day program featuring both his bands. The names of two of the bustling pieces performed were, appropriately, "Flair"
      and "Spunk."

      [The New York Times, December 28, 2011 p.A16]



    • January 4, 2012

    • Sam Rivers Memorial Service / 7:00pm, Community Funeral Home, Orlando, FL [RivBea e-mail 12.01.01]

      "One other thing... At the memorial service at the funeral home" Danny Jordan (ts, fl), Dave Shefield (p), and Doug Mathews (b)
      "...performed ‘Beatrice’ and ‘Twilight.’" —Kevin Stever 12.01.06

    • Sam Rivers Memorial Tribute with members of the Rivbea Orchestra / 9:00pm, The Social, Orlando, FL
      [RivBea 12.01.01; www.thesocial.org]

      RivBea Orchestra:
      Alex Bodytko, Dave Pate, and Rex Wertz (ts), Danny Jordan (ts, ss, fl), Jeff Rupert, Chris Charles, Tom Dietz,
      and Dean Mongerio (as), Charlie DeChant (ss), Brian Mackie (bar), Brian Scanlon, Davey Jones, Mike Ippichino,
      Matt McCarthy, Paul Roth, and Benoit Glazer (tp), Corey Paul, Frank Wosser, Dave Schefield, Corey Paul,
      Jamie Gonzalez, and Clay lucovich (tb), Josh Parsons and Mike Roylance (tu),
      Doug Mathews and Kevin Stever (b), Fitzroy Harris (cga), Rion Smith (dr)

      Set included: "Spice," "Perkin," "Inspiration," "Willow," "Sorocco," "Flair," "Beatrice," "Ganymede," others...

      Sam Rivers Quartet+ (Open Jam):
      Danny Jordan (ts, ss, fl), Harry Hall (fl), Bobby Koelble (g), Doug Mathews (b), Rion Smith (perc), Carl Hamilton (dr)

      [Kevin Stever 12.01.06, 12.01.10]

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      —Photo by Stephen Malagodi




    • Eulogy . . .

      Sam Rivers (1923-2011) / A friend remembers the local legend, by Matt Gorney

      The Orlando Weekly Jan 5, 2012

      Sam Rivers Memorial Tribute with members of the RivBea Orchestra, 9:00pm, January 4, The Social, Orlando, FL

      It's as if this one was all for you, Orlando. Sam Rivers was truly among us from 1991 until the time he split on December 26.
      If you've lived here for more than 30 minutes, you know that Florida is a methodical catch basin for established artists looking
      for the next, more temperate step in life—the warm place. That basic desire is how we became neighbors with Sam and Bea Rivers,
      the founders of the loft jazz era's most celebrated location, following Rivers' appearance with Dizzy Gillespie at what is now The Social.

      We've bumped grocery carts with more than our share of iconic music types over the years in Central Florida. It would be a memorable day to have intersected with Roger McGuinn, Lee Hazlewood, or Tiny Tim while picking up the soy milk. But none of our heralded transients, for their own entirely valid reasons, have made as enduring and active an imprint as Rivers. This tribute isn't a "you missed out" finger wagging, but a summation of what we've had. It's possible that you, without a trace of bullshit, can stake a claim to have heard Rivers play live scores of times and tell almost uniformly outrageous and profound tales of access.

      Sam Rivers' international legacy is just a search engine away these days, added to by a considerable number of obituary notices. The majority of his youthful musical impressions were formed in Chicago, experiencing its historical heyday for African-American music in the midst of the Great Migration. He got his start playing evening gigs with bluesman Jimmy Witherspoon while serving in the Navy during World War II. Following the war, Rivers attended New England Conservatory and became a long-term member of the Boston music community alongside jazz heavies such as Jaki Byard, Quincy Jones, Gigi Gryce, and Charlie Mariano. During a stint in Florida, he channeled his tenor saxophone heroes—Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, and Ben Webster—by stepping into their role supporting Billie Holiday. Back in Boston, Sam and Bea often looked after an under-supervised 13-year-old neighborhood kid named Tony Williams, who quickly became Sam's drummer.

      Their musical communion led to Rivers leaving T-Bone Walker to briefly join the near-mystical Hancock-Carter-Williams version of the Miles Davis Quintet on the fly in 1964. In terms of available media, here we can trace Sam as an avant-gardist, thanks to several recordings from a Japanese tour documenting Rivers agitating the contour of Davis' concept with the New Thing, influenced by Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. Sam gravitated farther from the mainstream even as he recorded "Fuchsia Swing Song," his first Blue Note Records release, and then joined the Cecil Taylor Unit in 1969, the ultimate banzai charge for a jazz player—there was no return once you'd committed.

      Around the same time, the Rivers clan moved into a two-story space on Bond Street in downtown Manhattan, and the basement became Studio RivBea, the gold-standard loft-jazz venue for creation and experimentation by non-commercial players. As he rolled through the early '70s, Rivers' small groups were touring Europe and North America extensively, developing his concept of spontaneous composition—no pre-set anything to start, unfolding a wide-open palette of melodies, idioms and rhythms each time. Committed to his vision, Rivers largely abandoned the prospect of contributing to the standards books, leaving major festival appearances and magazine covers behind.

      A number of rhythm combinations backed Rivers' earliest rehearsals and occasional appearances in Orlando, but he found the most distinct formulation since his vaunted Dave Holland/Barry Altschul trio in bassist Doug Mathews and drummer Anthony Cole. Together, they created an almost vaudevillian, recombinant band offering free bop, out funk, ballads, ruminant impressionism, and, of course, the fire. Knowing Rivers' stubbornly persistent career path, his commitment to his telepaths in the Orlando trio and RivBea Orchestra wasn't surprising, but I bore witness to how it kept him from climbing all the way up the grandmaster/comeback-kid ladder favored by editors and producers in search of an engaging narrative. Record dates and festival offers with jazz stars were roundly crumpled up; Rivers' loyalty cost him much, including a grail-like Verve Records contract offer in the late-'90s and appearances at many international improv round-robins.

      As one of those "other music" geeks, I was commonly surprised and internally entertained by how many citizens took advantage of Rivers' appearances, and doubly so when musicians' styles and output were redirected by Sam's radiance. The jazz players were let out of the barn, free from the grumbling, Sansabelted jazz police, unmediated within Sam's orbit. Post-punk, punk, and funk bands became more experimental and far-reaching having interacted with him. Some of the DJs of the halcyon 1990s Orlando dance scene inserted less surefire language into their sets and stepped closer to the edge.

      Sam Rivers trended on Twitter on the day after his passing, and mentions of Beatrice, loft jazz, and free jazz cascaded in. A five-missive suite from Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea ended with, "It is my aspiration in the Chili Peppers to make people feel as good as Sam Rivers made me feel."

      Back to you, tertiary arts market townie. You might have your stories in place about the RivBea Orchestra residencies at Pinkie Lee's, the Sapphire Supper Club, the old Will's Pub, or the Plaza Theatre. Possibly, you risked life and limb on S.R. 520 late at night to see those unlikely, formative trio sets at the Lazy Bean in Melbourne. If so, then you know better than anyone that we were all very lucky.






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