Label: Impulse / GRP
Audio CD: (October 6, 1998)
#1-3 Recorded live on November 10,1973 at the battel Chapel ,Yale University
New Haven,connecticut.
#4-5 Recorded live on August 3,1973 at the Molde Jazz Festival,Molde,Norway.
Jazz
Previously the only record of Rivers' early 70's Impulse trio sessions available on compact disc was STREAMS (now deleted?). Through a resurgence of re-issues & new releases & a heavy touring schedule Samuel Cawthorne Rivers is finally receiving his due place in the jazz pantheon after years of mainstream critical ambivalence and ignorance. This album is evidence of his enormous stature. TRIO-LIVE follows the same basic format of STREAMS, featuring a series of Rivers' improvisations on tenor & soprano saxophones, flute, piano and primitve vocalese backed by the able & active support of Barry Altschul (a vast improvement over the clumsy traps-work of a pre-disco Norman Conners on STREAMS) & at various times Cecil McBee, Arlid Anderson & Lewis Worrell on double-bass. Each of the tunes are lengthy improv numbers with Rivers' punctuating his shifts among his arsenal of instruments with raucous howls & whoops. Rivers manages to touch upon the whole history of improvised musical expression, from passionately simple cathartic screams, to incredibly intricate runs of saxophonic genius that utilize all registers of his horn. This is a highly kinetic set that never slows down even during the more meditative passages when Rivers blows soulfully on his flute. A beautiful taste of the early 70's loft jazz esthetic.
By Derek Taylor.
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The music on this 1998 CD reissue was originally scattered over several releases until it was finally grouped together in 1978 for the double-LP The Live Trio Sessions (along with another eight minutes of related material not brought back here). The bulk of the music ("Hues Of Melanin") is from a Nov. 10, 1973 Yale University concert that features Rivers with both Cecil McBee and Lewis Worrell on basses along with drummer Barry Altschul. The continuous free improvisation has Rivers stretching out with great length on soprano, flute (complete with very odd vocal sounds), piano and then (during the final 5½ minutes of the 44-minute performance) tenor. It is a pity that Rivers chose to feature his main ax so sparingly, for this piece would have been much stronger if he had played tenor for 35 minutes rather than just five. The latter part of the CD is from a Norway concert on Aug. 3, 1973 ("Suite for Molde"), with Arild Anderson taking McBee's place. Rivers plays soprano and flute for eight minutes and then tenor for 11 minutes; the latter section is the strongest section of the entire disc. Sam Rivers' longtime fans may think of this collection as bordering on the classic, and there are certainly some emotional moments, but Rivers has sounded more consistent elsewhere.
By Scott Yanow. AGM.
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Sam Rivers- Tenor Saxophone,Soprano Saxophone,Flute,Piano
Cecil McBee- Bass(#1-3)
Arild Anderson- Bass(#4-5)
Lewis Worrell- Bass
Barry Altschul- Drums
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01. Hues Of Melanin 34:10
02. Hues Of Melanin (Ivory Black) 4:13
03. Hues Of Melanin (Violent) 5:43
04. Suite For Molde, Part One (Onyx / Topaz) 8:03
05. Suite For Molde, Part Two 11:16
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