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Germany's FMP Records invited reed player Sam Rivers to perform in Berlin in 1995, and the results were released just over a year later on this CD. Rivers performs completely solo, with soprano and tenor saxophone plus flute and piano, and finds a distinctive voice on each instrument. His tenor style is hard-driving, while the soprano moments, and his remarkably clean flute playing, are atmospheric and free-flying. One foible may be Rivers' constant punctuation of his playing with vocal shouts, which might turn off listeners. ~ John Bush
Photographer: Dagmar Gebers.
Translators: Isabel Seeberg; Paul Lytton.
Personnel: Jonas Bergler, Holger Scheuermann (recorder).
Recording information: Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany (06/17/1995-06/??/1995); The Akademie Der Künste, Berlin, Germany (06/17/1995-06/??/1995).
Sam Rivers Portrait Songs | 1. | Image |
| 2. | Silhouette |
| 3. | Reflection |
| 4. | Mirror |
| 5. | Vignette |
| 6. | Shadow |
| 7. | Visage |
| 8. | Profile |
| 9. | Cameo |
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