Sam Rivers

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Born
25 September 1923
Born In
El Reno, Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States
Died
26 December 2011 (aged 88)
Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011), was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano. Rivers was born in Enid, Oklahoma. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command of music theory, orchestration and composition, Rivers was an influential and prominent artist in jazz music. Rivers's father was a gospel musician who had sung with the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Silverstone Quartet, … read more
Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011), was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano. Rivers was born in Enid, Oklahoma. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider atten… read more
Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011), was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano. Rivers was born in Enid, Oklahoma. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command o… read more

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1 Play track The State of the Tenor, Volume 1 Beatrice
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2 Play track Fuchsia Swing Song Downstairs Blues Upstairs
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3 Play track Fuchsia Swing Song Fuchsia Swing Song
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4 Play track Fuchsia Swing Song Cyclic Episode
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5 Play track The History of Blue Note, 70th Anniversary Luminous Monolith
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6 Play track Contours Point of Many Returns
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7 Play track Fuchsia Swing Song Ellipsis
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8 Play track Kinda Dukish Kinda Dukish
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9 Play track Crystals Earth Song
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10 Play track Contours Euterpe
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  1. 30,117 listeners

    1964 · 6 tracks

    Fuchsia Swing Song
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  2. 13,977 listeners

    1 Jan 1974 · 6 tracks

    Crystals
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    1 Jan 1965 · 4 tracks

    Contours
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    1 Aug 1978 · 5 tracks

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