Sam Rivers  

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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.

Discography

As leader

• 1964: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)
• 1965: Contours (Blue Note)
• 1966: A New Conception (Blue Note)
• 1967: Dimensions & Extensions (Blue Note)
• 1973: Streams (Impulse!)
• 1971-73: Hues (Impulse!)
• 1974: Crystals (Impulse!)
• 1976: Sizzle (Impulse!)
• 1976: Dave Holland / Sam Rivers (Improvising Artists)
• 1976: Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol. 2 (Improvising Artists)
• 1976: The Tuba Trio Vols 1-3 (Circle)
• 1976: Jazz Of The 70's (Circle)
• 1976: The Quest (Red / Pausa)
• 1977: Paragon (Fluid)
• 1978: Waves (Tomato)
• 1980: Contrasts (ECM)
• 1981: Crosscurrent (Blue Marge)
• 1982: Colours (Black Saint)
• 1995: Portrait (FMP)
• 1997: Configuration (Nato)
• 1998: Eight Day Journal (Nato)
• 1999: Winter Garden (Nato)
• 1999: Inspiration (RCA Victor)
• 2011: Triology (Mosaic)

As Sideman

"With [Barry Altschul] "You Can't Name Your Own Tune" (32 Jazz, Muse) With Steven Bernstein

• Diaspora Blues (Tzadik, 2002)

With Miles Davis

• Miles in Tokyo (Columbia, 1964)

With Brian Groder

• Torque (2007)

With Andrew Hill

• Change (Blue Note, 1966)

With the Dave Holland Quartet

• Conference of the Birds, (ECM, 1973)

With Bobby Hutcherson

• Dialogue (Blue Note, 1965)

With Jason Moran

• Black Stars, (Blue Note, 2001)

With Music Revelation Ensemble

• In the Name of..., (DIW, 1993)

With Don Pullen

• Capricorn Rising (Black Saint, 1975)

with Cecil Taylor

• The Great Concert of Cecil Taylor (Prestige, 1969)

With Alexander von Schlippenbach

• Tangens (FMP, 1998)

With Tony Williams

• Life Time (Blue Note, 1964)
• Spring (Blue Note, 1965)

With Larry Young

• Into Somethin', (Blue Note, 1964)

With NOJO

• City Of Neighbourhoods, (2004)