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Sam Rivers — Fuchsia Swing Song · Japanese CD
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Recorded in 1964 and released in 1965, Fuchsia Swing Song was Sam Rivers’s debut as a leader for Blue Note. On tenor saxophone he’s joined by Jaki Byard on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Tony Williams on drums. The opening title track is a good place to hear how the quartet works: Rivers stretches his phrases across the beat while Williams keeps changing the accents underneath him.
Then there’s “Beatrice.” Rivers gives the melody room to breathe, and Byard’s spare accompaniment makes the tune feel even more intimate. Play it after the restless “Luminous Monolith” and you get a sense of how much ground this quartet could cover in a single session.
Why this album deserves a place in your collection
If you enjoy the point where Blue Note’s hard bop opens into more adventurous music, this is a rewarding record to spend time with. On a second listen, follow Carter and Williams behind the solos: there’s almost as much to hear there as in Rivers’s tenor.
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