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Samsung NME Radar Tour 2009: Heartbreak

Samsung NME Radar Tour 2009: Heartbreak

We catch up with Heartbreak on the Oxford leg of the Samsung NME Radar tour 2009.

Sam Issac Forum - podcast

Sam Issac Forum - podcast

Sam Issac Forum - podcast

Samsung NME RadarTour 2009: Magistrates

Samsung NME RadarTour 2009: Magistrates

We join the Magistrates in Oxford to hear the latest gossip from the tour.

Samsung NME Radar Tour 2009: The Chapman Family

Samsung NME Radar Tour 2009: The Chapman Family

Find out how The Chapman family are enjoying life on the road with La Roux, Magistrates and Heartbreak.

Samsung NME Radar Tour 2009: La Roux Interview

Samsung NME Radar Tour 2009: La Roux Interview

We meet up with La Roux at the final show of this year's new talent extravaganza in Oxford.

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Sam Rivers Quartet 1989 - Beatrice

Sam Rivers Quartet 1989 - Beatrice (08:43)

Rivers is one of the great jazz musicians from the early start long ago with bros as Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Tony Williams and Wayne Shorter. Absolute confirmed by this pretty rare footage, a gem for the hardcore...

Sam Rivers Trio 1979

Sam Rivers Trio 1979 (09:58)

Sam Rivers (tenor sax, flute, piano, soprano sax, voice) Dave Holland (bass, cello) Thurman Barker (drums, percussion) Germany November 14th 1979

Sam Rivers and Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit) Interview @ Warped Tour 1997

Sam Rivers and Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit) Interview @ Warped Tour 1997 (00:59)

Sam Rivers and Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit) Interview @ Warped Tour, August 1997

Sam Rivers-Beatrice

Sam Rivers-Beatrice (06:13)

Fuchsia Swing album, same song. Personel: Sam Rivers: Tenor Sax Jaki Byard: Piano Ron Carter: Bass Tony Williams:Drums

Sam Rivers Rivbea All-Star Orchestra Rehearsal, Part 1

Sam Rivers Rivbea All-Star Orchestra Rehearsal, Part 1 (09:45)

PART 1 (of 3)....some moments during the rehearsal of the Rivbea All-Star Orchestra with many famous New York jazz musicians, led by Sam Rivers; September 1998; shot by filmmaker Alan Roth; also check out the Sam...

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Sam Rivers Biography

Samuel Carthorne Rivers (born September 25, 1923, in El Reno, Oklahoma) is an American jazz musician and composer. He performs on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano.

Active in jazz since the early '50s, Rivers earned wider attention during the mid-'60s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command of music theory, orchestration and composition, Rivers has been an influential and prominent artist in jazz music.

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Sam Rivers's Best Songs

  • 1. Beatrice
  • 2. Tranquility
  • 3. Exultation
  • 4. Luminous Monolith
  • 5. Postlude
  • 6. Earth Song
  • 7. Downstairs Blues Upstairs
  • 8. Cyclic Episode
  • 9. Fuchsia Swing Song
  • 10. Point of Many Returns
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Sam Rivers Discography

Sam Rivers albums.

  • Crystals - (impulse!/US)
  • Contours - (Blue Note/US)

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