Sam Rivers: Contours LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-3.4 2018 at The Village Vanguard

2018 at The Village Vanguard

Irving Berlin and Jerome Kern

while a modernistic version of Don Redman’s “Chant of the Weed” is a solo vehicle for Johnson’s clarinet

Recorded - September 2000 to December 2001 at Sorcerer Sound Studio

Sam Rivers: Contours LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-3.4 2018 at The Village VanguardBlue Note, 1967 Saxophonist & flautist Sam Rivers followed up his striking debut "Fuchsia Swing Song" with the tremendous album Contours. The quintet explored four of Rivers' engaging original compositions "Point of Many Returns" "Dance of the Tripedal" "Euterpe" & "Mellifluous Cacophony" with a profound spirit of freedom and innovation while keeping a foot firmly planted in Post Bop. A beautifully clean recording by Rudy Van Gelder gives this album