The saxophonist Sam Rivers, who died last December, was ousted from Miles Davis’ mid-sixties quintet for his unfettered free playing, but on his final British dates, in 2004, he seemed constrained fronting a big band playing his own formal compositions.
Happily, this posthumous double CD, a 2007 set by his classic ‘70s trio of the drummer Barry Altschul and the bassist Dave Holland, a fellow early free jazz adopter, sits comfortably amidst conflicting styles, segueing from squawky dissonance to lyrical, tonal, melodic improvisation.
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