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Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer. Though most famously a tenor saxophonist, he also performed on soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica, piano and viola. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz.
Samuel Robert Rivers (born September 2, 1977) is an American musician. He is the bassist and backing vocalist of the rock band Limp Bizkit and one of its founding members. Early life. Rivers' musical career started fairly early on, with him playing the tuba in a band in Arlington Middle School.
Dec 28, 2011 · Sam Rivers, an inexhaustibly creative saxophonist, flutist, bandleader and composer who cut his own decisive path through the jazz world, spearheading the 1970s loft scene in New York and...
Sam Rivers is one of the greatest jazz legends of our time, performing for over 70 years. In the 1970’s he was the first artist to open a jazz cultural arts center in Greenwich New York, which was used as a venue to help artist exhibit their talents and gain recognition.
Biography. Few, if any, free jazz saxophonists approached music with the same degree of intellectual rigor as Sam Rivers; just as few have managed to maintain a high level of creativity over a long life. Rivers played with remarkable technical precision and a manifest knowledge of his materials.
Dec 27, 2011 · Influential jazz musician and composer Sam Rivers has died at the age of 88, according to the Orlando Sentinel. Though his primary instruments were tenor and soprano saxophone, Rivers was...
Sep 25, 2023 · Jazz composer and multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers was born a hundred years ago today in El Reno, Okla. Our jazz critic, Kevin Whitehead, says Rivers could play it all - blues, bebop, big band...
