Comments on: Selling It

By: SUMMER RE-UP: Pan-tones

SUMMER RE-UP: Pan-tones — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:58:30 +0000

[...] great run for Impulse in the 1970s, which included such gems as Streams: Live at Montreux, Sizzle, and his absurdly superb large ensemble effort Crystals. The album above was assembled from studio [...]

By: NickR

NickR — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:45:56 +0000

Great to have access to these tracks again. I got the album in about 1980 having seen it recommended in Teach Yourself Jazz by John Chilton (of all people)…

By: godoggo

godoggo — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:57:13 +0000

Wrong thread.

By: godoggo

godoggo — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:50:24 +0000

Never heard of him. If it were a blindfold test, I’d guess Threadgill, although I’d say this guy plays better.

By: Bill Denert

Bill Denert — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:30:59 +0000

Sam Rivers, in my humble opinion, is the greatest musician on the planet. I wasn’t aware of the Fest and am kicking myself for not knowing about it. I’ve been a Sam Rivers fan for the past thirty years and have a lot of his recordings. Back in February, 2003, my family and I had the privilege of attending a Sam Rivers concert at Wesleyan University. It was marvelous! It was a dream come true! Not only did we get to enjoy his compositions on tenor and soprano sax, piano and flute, but we also got to meet with him after the concert.

I have a jazz program on WESU FM 88.1 at Wesleyan in Middletown CT and always fit in a Sam Rivers composition within my format. The man is a giant amoung the avante garde greats of jazz! He is right up there with John Coltrane, Albert Ayler, Al Brignola, Ornette Coleman and Joe Henderson.

By: centrifuge

centrifuge — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:41:09 +0000

yeah, this is still the real thing isn’t it – proof that the presence of a groove doesn’t just consign the recording to the dustbin as some might say! rivers just can’t help stuck in there no matter what the setting is, i don’t think he’s capable of playing anything sh*t if he tried…

… just for the record i cannot get on with into somethin’ by larry young, though, and i only bought that for rivers… there’s not enough of him there to salvage it for me, he’d need to be playing every second for that… eek…

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:51:20 +0000

Hey guys, thanks for posting the tracks, and for the informative blog. I didn’t realize Rivers had a reunion show with Altschul and Holland–would’ve loved to have seen that. I did see Rivers play an outstanding show in March at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg FL as part of the EMIT series (emitseries.org). By the way, Andrew Hill’s “Change” CD was re-released this week by Blue Note, which has 6 tracks that originally appeared on Rivers’ “Involution” album.

By: Tim (wallofsound)

Tim (wallofsound) — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:24:53 +0000

The WKCR Sam Rivers extravaganza was marvelous. Hard to believe Rivers produced so much diverse music. It certainly kept me listening for long periods of time. Now if we could only get college radio DJs to be a bit snappier in getting back to the music.

And Rick Lopezâ??s discography/gigography is also a gem.

I loved these tracks. Samâ??s R&B background comes through in the grooves and the blowing. Playing the tracks on my iTunes they then segued into Donald Fagen; and you know it worked!