Sam Rivers Trio
Colors In Thirty-Third (LP)
Original edition of the 1987 Italy-only album on Black Saint featuring Dave Holland and Andrew Cyrille.
Miles In Tokyo (LP)
Original edition of the 1969 Japan-only live album recorded in 1964 featuring Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock and Sam Rivers.
Filles De Kilimanjaro (CD)
2023 Japanese CD re-issue with bonus track on Sony's "We Want Jazz" series of the 1968 album featuring Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Herbie Hancock, George Benson and Wayne Shorter. Still sealed with obi.
Jumpin' In (LP)
Original German edition on ECM of the 1984 album featuring Julian Priester and Kenny Wheeler.
Trio + One (LP)
Original edition of the 1988 France-only album on Owl featuring Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.
The Complete Braxton (2LP)
Original French edition on Freedom of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea.
The Complete Braxton Volume 2 (LP)
Original Japanese edition on Freedom's "Trio Jazz Mania" as two separate LP's - this is the second volume - of the 1973 double album featuring Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Kenny Wheeler and Chick Corea. With insert.
Circle-1 Live In German Concert (LP)
Original 1971 Japan-only album on CBS/Sony by the quartet of Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul and Chick Corea. With insert.
Circle-2 Gathering (LP)
Original 1971 Japan-only album on CBS/Sony by the quartet of Anthony Braxton, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul and Chick Corea. With insert and obi.
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 1 (LP)
1973 Japanese edition on RCA of the 1971 live album recorded in 1969 and originally released as a 3LP box set, featuring Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille and Sam Rivers.
Nuits De La Fondation Maeght Vol. 2 (LP)
Original French edition on Shandar of the 1972 live album recorded in 1969 and originally released as a 3LP box set, featuring Jimmy Lyons, Andrew Cyrille and Sam Rivers.
Blue Maqams
On Blue Maqams, oud master Anouar Brahem brings his instrument into the very heart of the modern jazz tradition, recording in New York with a band of genuine giants. Bassist Dave Holland, drummer Jack DeJohnette and pianist Django Bates meet Brahem's Arabic maqam vocabulary on its own terms, translating its modal subtleties into the elastic swing, deep groove and open interplay of the highest level of jazz. Holland and DeJohnette, who have decades of shared history, provide a foundation that is …
Balladyna
On Balladyna, Tomasz Stanko leads Tomasz Szukalski, Dave Holland and Edward Vesala through seven originals that weld lyrical, Slavic melancholy to volcanic free‑jazz undercurrents, forging a 1970s European classic that still feels startlingly alive.
Fuchsia Swing Song
Originally released in 1965, Fuchsia Swing Song marked the powerful debut of saxophonist Sam Rivers on Blue Note Records. Recorded at Van Gelder Studio with a stellar band—Jaki Byard on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums—the album reveals Rivers' innovative take on post-bop and hard bop styles. With its balance of structure and freedom, this session showcases the saxophonist’s adventurous spirit and deep harmonic intelligence. Part of the Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series, this r…
A New Conception
After releasing two astonishing albums of original material with his remarkable debut Fuchsia Swing Song (1964) and the follow-up Contours (1965), multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers went another direction on his third Blue Note album A New Conception (1966) by presenting a set of standards that were given riveting interpretations with a quartet featuring Hal Galper on piano, Herbert Lewis on bass, and Steve Ellington on drums. Despite the well-worn repertoire—including the chestnuts “When I Fall I…
So, What Do You Think? (LP)
Original and only edition on Tangent of the 1973 album by John Stevens' and Trevor Watts' Ensemble featuring Derek Bailey, Dave Holland and Kenny Wheeler. With rare insert limited to copies exported to France. A classic never re-issued on either CD or LP.
Vista
2004 release ** "Recorded in 2003 at the Clear Lake recording studio in Venice, California. This set places Sam Rivers in the company of drummer Harris Eisenstadt and percussionist Adam Rudolph for a series of seven medium-length freewheeling improvisations. Rivers plays tenor, soprano and flute on these exercises and the effect is electrifying. While completely in the moment, utterly outside, and spontaneously realized, there is a certain warmth and accessibility on this outing that is unexpect…
Torque
2006 release ** "Here’s a superior set of contemporary jazz, blazing straight out of the long and unruly heritage of left-field explorations. Rising trumpeter and composer Groder is here teamed with the eminent saxophonist and flautist, Sam Rivers, plus Rivers’ usual rhythm section of bassist Doug Mathews and drummer Anthony Cole. Together, they whip up a bubbling, effervescent concoction of jagged, free-jazz group improvisations and hard-swinging free-bop that recalls Miles Davis’s mid-’60s ‘ti…
After the Last Sky
Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks “Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?” Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass subtly address the metaphysical question and its broad resonances in a troubled time. While drawing upon the traditional modes of Arab music, Brahem has consistently sought to engage with the wider world, too, and found inspiration in many sources from…