Sam Rivers Contours - Blue Note Tone Poet Series [LP] 8/21/06 Description J

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all singing and playing on a set of 12 country classics cut during the sessions for the 2012 album Heroes

Things I’ll Never Say 10

Randy Stein (English concertina)

Active bookshelf speaker system with 42W total power output

Sam Rivers Contours - Blue Note Tone Poet Series [LP] 8/21/06 Description JSaxophonist Sam Rivers certainly assembled a team of hot soloists for this album. However, his compositions are more than just vehicles for improvisation. Rivers's largely angular, even jarring, melodies clearly seek to define a new direction in jazz; they do not fall back on bebop forms or hard bop funkiness. Each composition contains an abstract "head" and the harmonic underpinning flatly rejects the usual chord progressions found in most standard