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| Sam Rivers Trio Concert Saturday,
November 9, 2002
Sam Rivers is a major figure in contemporary American music, an authentic, original voice contributing to modern music development through avant-garde jazz. Robert Palmer (NY Times) wrote about Sam, "Rivers' great strength is that he has so much imagination and fire. On tenor he is practically without peer, with a sound and style that are wholly his own." He is a veteran musician who has been featured with such greats as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Charles Mingus, Jimmy Witherspoon, T. Bone Walker, and B.B. King, Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Anthony Braxton, and Billy Holiday. Sam was a featured soloist on recordings of the San Francisco Symphony, the American Symphony, United Nations Orchestra, and the Symphony of the New World. He is a former faculty member of Wesleyan University, Connecticut and Dartmouth Colleges, and Cornish Institute. His current work centers on his own recording company, Rivbea Sound, and the firm's debut CD of the Sam Rivers Trio, "Concept," with co-contributors Doug Mathews and Anthony Cole. |
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