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“Astonishing.”
—Richard Scheinen, The New York Times

“A dizzying, stunning achievement. ... A joyful, sometimes psychedelic experience.”
—Mike Chamberlain, All About Jazz

“A model of independent scholarship, ... A highly immersive experience.
—NPR music critic Kevin Whitehead, Point of Departure

“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

“As comprehensive a portrait of Rivers as you could possibly imagine.”
—John Sharpe, The New York City Jazz Record

“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.
—Wolfram Knauer, Jazzinstitut Darmstadt (January 2023)

“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 It is over four years out of date; missing thousands of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, full of inaccuaracies, and lacking the biographical additions 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 and its first PDF
update is at 40 pages and growing. So please enter here knowing that much is missing, there are errors
uncorrected, formatting and editing issues, etc.

—RL 23.03.01

Update, March 2024 : : :

I’ve begun adding page samples here so that interested readers can compare this old web version to the
expanded content of the print version. To date, I’ve added Book p.26 at the end of 1960; Book pp.37+38
at the end of 1962; Book p.77 at the end of 1967; and Book pp.79+80 at the end of 1968. More to come...

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

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

The 21st Century...

2010

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]
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1947:

Rivers moved to Boston in 1947...
[allmusicguide.com]
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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]
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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]
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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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1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

The 21st Century...

2010

Serge Chaloff

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]

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]
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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]
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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]
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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
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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]
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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]
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"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]
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1950

1960

1970

1980

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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]
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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]
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Book p.26 (scaled to fit)

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]
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"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]
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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]

Sam Rivers: Samthology
2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
—1st Session: [See also 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]

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}

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]
———

Book pp.37+38 (scaled to fit)

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

Miles Davis-Heard 'Round The World

F L U X : : :

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Trenton Evening Times

The Milwaukee Journal

Oakland Tribune

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:

Swing Journal

A-group only, June, 1964:

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..."

the Quintet apparently performed only three:

Miles Ahead Sessions

Swing Journal

"I remember performing in Osaka, Tokyo, and Kyoto..."

Despite there being no evidence for these two concert dates (64.07.10; 64.07.11)

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

There is no evidence for this concert having occurred

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}

Honolulu Star-Bulletin

Ebony

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

Down Beat

Life Time

John Ephland

Change of the
Century

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:

SR:

Bea Rivers:

Panken:

Fuchsia Swing Song

SR:

Fuchsia Swing Song

Panken:

SR:

Panken:

Fuchsia Swing Song

SR:

Fuchsia Swing Song

Lifetime

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}

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."

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..."

Rivers not on this date

Newport Jazz Festival / Illustrated History

{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;}

Baltimore Afro-American

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:

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]

Book p.77 (scaled to fit)

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]

Book p.79+80 (scaled to fit)

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}

—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}

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}

1969:

Skillfullness

WIRE

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]
———

Dayton Daily News

"Cecil Taylor Unit will be available to the entire campus for discussion, etc..."

Cecil Taylor Previewed: Uncompromising Artist Presents New Jazz

69.02.08

Grinnell College Scarlet and Black

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}

The Scarlet and Black

Cecil Taylor Previewed

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

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

S&B

—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)

{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; }

Albert Ayler, Sunny Murray, Cecil Taylor, Byard Lancaster & Kenneth Terroade: On Disc & Tape

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:

"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}

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}

69.11.06

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}

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.]
———

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

The 21st Century...

2010

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]

Jimmy Lyons Sessionography

Village Voice

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".

Village Voice

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)

—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}

Press and Sun-Bulletin

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]

Sam Rivers Trio [RBA—63:26]
—Recorded by Sam Rivers and Larry Villella.
Sam Rivers: Samthology
2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
—3rd Session: [See also 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]

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

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]

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 . . .

Village Voice

New York Magazine

Village Voice

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]

The Central New Jersey Home News

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

Detroit Free Press

Fifth Estate

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}

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

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:

Down Beat

Record World

Daily News

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

Down Beat

The Daily Chronicle

The Paper

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

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}

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]
———

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

Voice

Village Voice

Voice

The New York Times

Voice

The New York Times

Times

The New York Times

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}

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

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

The New York Musicians Organization

The New York Times

Village Voice

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]

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)

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]
———

Conference of the Birds

WIRE

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}

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

Encore

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

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 : : :

Cadence

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.

Village Voice

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

The Village Voice

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]

Village Voice

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]

Village Voice

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

Village Voice

Record World

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

Village Voice

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]

Columbia Daily Spectator

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)

{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

—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

{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]

The New York Times

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.

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}

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)

—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

Record World

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]

: : : 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}

Village Voice

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}

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

Village Voice

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

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

The Music Universe Orchestra: The Peace Church Concerts

Music Universe, Music Mind, Revisiting the Creative Music Studio

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}

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]

San Francisco Chronicle

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..."

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

Village Voice

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}

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

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}

October 5, 1974

Village Voice

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 : : :

In Montreux—Streams

CODA

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

CODA

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

CODA

Downbeat

Record World

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]

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:

Billboard

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

CODA

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."

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}

Village Voice

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.

—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]

—Poster by © D. Herring

Creative Music Studio Intensive Festival—June 20 through June 22, 1975

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

Village Voice

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]

75.07.05 • 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}

for Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf

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)

"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}

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 europ�ennes : 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}

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

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}

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."

Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia Daily Pennsylvanian

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]

New York Magazine

The New York Times

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

Sam Rivers: Samthology
2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
—7th Session: [See also 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]

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}

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

The Kingston Daily Freeman

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

The Paul Bley Fonds / Addenda to the Rivers/Holland IAI Recordings : : :

MUS 297/J,62

MUS 297/J,63

MUS 297/J,64

MUS 297/J,65

The Paul Bley Fonds—Numerical List

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

Stingray

The Jealous Kind

Joe Cocker's Greatest Hits

Joe Cocker: ЛЕГЕНДЫ РОКА (Legends of Rock)

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}

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 • 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

{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}

The Washington Post

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]

Columbus Citizen-Journal

Winston-Salem Chronicle

Memphis Press-Scimitar

The Commercial Appeal

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

Cash Box

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}

: : : 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]

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]

Village Voice

The Villager

Creative Music Studio June Intensive—June 1 through June 14, 1976

Kingston Daily Freedom

Loft Jazz Celebration—June 4 through June 6, 1976

Jazz Magazine

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}

Wildflowers

76.05.15

The New York Times

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.

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]

The Village Voice

The New York Times

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.

{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

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)

—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]

Melody Maker

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)

{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 }

: : : 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)

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

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}

Stereophile

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.

The Black Perspective in Music

Washington Post

Village Voice

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)

—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}

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 - 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]

Studio RivBea Spring Festival of New Music April 77—April 1 through April 30, 1977

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]

CODA

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}

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)

{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.

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.

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

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.

CODA

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]

Boston Globe

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}

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}

The Village Voice

The New York Times

Village Voice

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 Ch�teauvallon : 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

Studio RivBea's Summer Festival of New Music, August 30 through September 4, 1977

CODA

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

CODA

Studio RivBea Early Autumn Festival of Contemporary American Music : : : September 30 through October 2, 1977

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]

Village Voice

October 10, 1977 : : :

The New York Times

: : : Nancy Jazz Pulsations '77—New Music by the Loft Generation of New York : : :

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]

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 • 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]

{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)

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

{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)

{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]

Baltimore Sun

Evening Star

CODA

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]

—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

CODA

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)

{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}

78.01.21 - 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]

Village Voice

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}

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

CODA

Current Research in Jazz

Jazz Magazine

Jazz Hot

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}

Jazz Magazine

Jazz Hot

Jazz Magazine

Jazz Hot

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}

Jazz Hot

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

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]

78.05.24 - 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

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)

(V/A) The Tomato Sampler
1989: Tomato Records 2696164 (2-CS, Ltd Edition, 1st issue) Hol;
Tomato 2696162 (2CD) Hol
Sam Rivers: Samthology
2015: RivBea Music RB59813 (digital download)
—8th Session: [See also 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]
Sam Rivers Quartet [RBA—56:00]

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.

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}

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

Down Beat

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

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}


	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

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.

Village Voice

Daily News

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

Billboard

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)

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]

Down Beat

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)

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}

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.

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]

OREOS Collection Jazz—Niklaus Troxler Jazz Posters

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]

"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

The New York Times

WKCR Miles Davis Festival Handbook

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)

{ECM 1-1162; ECM PRO-E-895; Franklin Mint Jazz 098A; Samthology; Tina Pelikan (ECM publicist) via John Chacona 19.04.11}

78.06.30

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2010

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]
———

The Boston Globe

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]

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]

The Record

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 : : :

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]

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}

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]

CODA

Rutland Daily Herald

CODA

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]

The Golden Star

Creative Music Studio New Year's Intensive—December 27, 1980 through January 4, 1981

CODA

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

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

The Times

Statesman

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}

Down Beat

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.

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}

CODA

Down Beat

Lansing Star

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]

Daily News

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.

{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.