Contours | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Sam Rivers |
Cover: | Contours (album).jpg |
Released: | January 1967[1] |
Recorded: | May 21, 1965 |
Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
Genre: | Avant-garde jazz |
Length: | 40:08 |
Label: | Blue Note BST 84206 |
Producer: | Alfred Lion |
Chronology: | Sam Rivers |
Prev Title: | Fuchsia Swing Song |
Prev Year: | 1964 |
Next Title: | A New Conception |
Next Year: | 1967 |
Contours is the second album by American saxophonist Sam Rivers recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.[2] The CD reissue contains an alternate take as a bonus track.
The Allmusic review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine awarded the album 5 stars and stated "On Contours, his second Blue Note album, tenor saxophonist Sam Rivers fully embraced the avant-garde, but presented his music in a way that wouldn't be upsetting or confusing to hard bop loyalists... Rarely is Contours anything less than enthralling, and it remains one of the of the mid-'60s avant-garde movement".[3]
All compositions by Sam Rivers.