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Sam Rivers Quartet

The Quest
Deluxe reissue edition. Restoration and digital transfer from original analogue tapes. Reissue of a 1976 duo recording. The Quest is a live album by Sam Rivers on which he is accompanied by double bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul. It w…
Conference of the Birds
*2023 stock* It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle’s great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland’s first album as a full-fledge…
Archive Series (5LP Box)
* Edition of 300 numbered copies * The Sam Rivers Archive Series looks to be a beautiful physical manifestation of the love and respect that NoBusiness Record's Danas Mikailionis has for NYC loft era free jazz (we're working with PDFs and digital fil…
Caldera
*In process of stocking* NoBusiness Records presents Caldera by Sam Rivers trio (Sam Rivers, Anthony Cole, Dug Matthews). Recorded on March 9, 2002 at Freeport-McMoRan Theatre, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Crosscurrent Live At Jazz Unité
*2022 stock* Futura Marge presents Crosscurrent / Live at Jazz Unité by Sam Rivers quartet. Sam Rivers (tenor & soprano saxophones, flute, piano & voice), Jerry Byrd (guitar), Rael Wesley Grant (electric bass) & Steve Ellington (drums). Recorded live…
Life Time & Spring (Revisited)
Temporary Super Offer! "Life Time posited a radicalism quite different from the other watershed recordings of 1964. Anthony Williams had an overt, unconventional approach to form, accentuated by the time constraints of a LP side and the various confi…
Archive Series Volume 5 - Undulation
NoBusiness Records presents Undulation, the fifth release of the Archive Series dedicated to Sam Rivers. Recorded May 17, 1981, Florence, Italy. Re-mastered by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios. Photos (cover and pages 2, 7, 9): Courtesy of Monique Rivers …
Archive Series Volume 4 - Braids
Braids by the Sam Rivers Quartet was recorded May 15, 1979, in Hamburg, Germany and re-mastered for this release by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios. Personnel includes: Sam Rivers - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, piano; Joe Daley - tuba, euphonium;…
Archive Series Volume 3 - Ricochet
Ricochet by the Sam Rivers Trio was recorded January 12, 1978, at Keystone Korner, San Francisco, CA, and re-mastered for this release by Arūnas Zujus at MAMAstudios. Personnel includes: Sam Rivers - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, piano; Dave H…
Emanation (1971)
Recorded 3rd June, 1971 at the Jazz Workshop, Boston. Sam Rivers - tenor and soprano saxophones, flute, piano, Cecil McBee - bass and Norman Connors - drums. "Musician discographies are like icebergs. Commercially released recordings often only repre…
Contours
Deluxe reissue, on Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series, roduced by Joe Harley and features all-analog, mastered-from-the-original-master-tape 180g audiophile vinyl reissues in deluxe gatefold packaging."A brilliant statement of modernist jazz from Sam Ri…
Fuchsia Swing Song
2016 edition. Remastered. "One of the greatest modern moments on Blue Note – ever! From the cover, to the compositions, to the playing on the set – the whole album crackles with an unbelievable fire that was hardly ever matched again. A young Sam Riv…
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