Sam Rivers
Musician
United StatesUnited States

25 September 1923 – 26 December 2011

Sam Rivers

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Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011), was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano.

Rivers was born in Enid, Oklahoma. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command of music theory, orchestration and composition, Rivers was an influential and prominent artist in jazz music.

Style over time

Genres of the artist's albums over the years: the higher the line, the stronger the genre on that album

  1. 1964
  2. 1967
  3. 1974
  4. 1975
  5. 1976
  6. 1977
  7. 1979
  8. 1980
  9. 1986
  10. 1996
  11. 1997
  12. 1998
  13. 2005

Participation

The Sam Rivers Quartetoriginal, saxophone
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Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestraeponymous, flute, original, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
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