Sam Rivers Contours - Blue Note Tone Poet Series [LP] Steal Your Face Mono Red reflect the frightened

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Sam Rivers Contours - Blue Note Tone Poet Series [LP] Steal Your Face Mono Red reflect the frightenedSaxophonist Sam Rivers certainly assembled a team of hot soloists for this album. However, his compositions are more than just vehicles for improvisation. Rivers's largely angular, even jarring, melodies clearly seek to define a new direction in jazz; they do not fall back on bebop forms or hard bop funkiness. Each composition contains an abstract "head" and the harmonic underpinning flatly rejects the usual chord progressions found in most standard