Sam Rivers - Contours
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Artist: Sam RiversEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Original recording remastered
Running Time: 49 unknown-units
Published: 2004-10-05
CD Release Date: 2004-10-05
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Point of Many Returns
- Dance of the Tripedal
- Euterpe
- Mellifluous Cacophony
- Mellifluous Cacophony [Alternate Take][#][*]
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Free Music Review: Perfect in Every Way, Seriously. 100 Stars
Hit: 5 Stars
The first thing I want to know about this release is how on earth a band can play this tightly together when the band only exists for the recording date and they are offered very limited rehearsal time for each master take? Contours is beauty, anger, humor, love, etc all rolled into a single release. I think it is a startling artistic statement and it is bold statement in that Rivers somehow manages to blend together old-school type composing, arranging and playing (there's a harmonic center and structure) with an approach that was considered to be too far out (in its time). How did he do this? Yeah, I know the guys are playing from charts but there is a tightness here that only a band who has had serious rehearsal time can achieve.
Virtuosity abounds on Contours and it's all played with fire and passion. In my opinion there is not a single moment that is "throw away" as at least one short-sighted reviewer has alluded to. I want more of this music! But the "problem" with a real artist like Rivers is you aren't ever going to get more of the same, you have to keep up with him, i.e., he's not going to try and duplicate success. If you want pure artistry and virtuosity then you must have this. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to find Contours in anything but mp3 format these days - unless you want to pay an outrageous sum of money for a CD. I do encourage you to buy the mp3 version until you can get your hands on the CD (I'm old fashioned that way, I want to hold the thing in my hands and pour over liner notes as I listen over and over again). Lucky for me I found a brand new 2004 edition for just $10.00 from a dealer in England. I received my copy in less than one week too!!!
God bless Sam, he's lived a determined, mission oriented life of improvisational music and if I ever get back down Orlando way I'll look for a Rivbea big-band performance.
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