Sam Rivers: Contours LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-1.01 which topped jazz charts around

which topped jazz charts around the globe in 2020

After his six years with the seminal John Coltrane Quartet

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and drummer Leon Pettis

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Sam Rivers: Contours LP (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) ETJS-1.01 which topped jazz charts aroundBlue 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