Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul - Reunion: Live in New torrent

Sam Rivers / Dave Holland / Barry Altschul
Reunion: Live in New York
2012 - Pi Recordings: Pi45
http://www.pirecordings.com/album/pi45

* Sam Rivers: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piano
* Dave Holland: bass
* Barry Altschul: drums

http://www.rivbea.com/
http://www.daveholland.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Altschul

Recorded live at Miller Theatre at Columbia University,
New York, NY on May 25, 2007.

Dedicated to the memory of Samuel Carthorne Rivers...
September 25, 1923 to December 26, 2011,
"Tell them what they missed".

Reviews
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By Tim Niland

This special reunion concert was recorded at the climax of radio station WKCR’s
week long Sam Rivers Festival, where the saxophonist/flutist/pianist was
reunited with bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul for a concert
recorded live at Columbia University in 2007. During its heyday from 1972 -
1978, the group was influential for helping lead the movement towards free jazz
on the New York City loft scene, especially Rivers’ own Studio Rivbea. It’s
hard to believe that the three musicians had not played together for twenty
five years before this concert, because they seemingly picked right up where
they left off. Rivers was a remarkable multi-instrumentalist, playing tenor and
soprano saxophone, piano and flute and switching between instruments with
remarkable clarity and agility. Instead of the scalding energy music that is
associated with much free playing, the music presented here by the trio is high
energy, but the freedom is a freedom of ideas, of moving across space and time
as they choose in the course of two lengthy uninterrupted sets. Holland is
remarkable as always, playing a deep toned and rock solid bass that flows
beautifully and Altschul sounds similarly inspired developing deep swirls of
percussive sounds, interacting beautifully with Holland and Rivers. There are a
few solo and trio settings over the course of the two sets, but the focus of
the music is the deeply empathetic collective improvisation. The band is
totally focused in the moment, like artists walking up to a blank canvas and
extemporaneously creating in real time with no preconceived notions. It almost
has the feel of listening to an intimate conversation between longtime friends,
and that conversation is thrilling.

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By Paul Acquaro
http://www.freejazzblog.org/2013/02/weekend-roundup-fractures-fragments.html

By Marc Medwin
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/7376

By Mark Corroto
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=42952

Maciej Karłowski (pl)
http://jazzarium.pl/przeczytaj/recenzje/reunion-live-new-york-0

Elfio Nicolosi (it)