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Dimensions And Extensions | 
| Artist: Sam Rivers
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 15482
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099921536427
ASIN: B001CAVLXC
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Precis | | • | Paean | | • | Effusive Melange | | • | Involution | | • | Afflatus | | • | Helix |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Sam Rivers' Most Avant-Garde BN Album September 17, 2008
Michael B. Richman (Portland, Maine USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
With the reissue of "Dimensions & Extensions," three of Sam Rivers' four Blue Note albums are now available domestically on CD. (I personally couldn't have ever imagined this happening when I purchased the Rivers Mosaic Set a dozen years ago.) This March 17, 1967 session is certainly the most avant-garde outing Rivers had for the label, and signaled the tone of later efforts he would make in the 70s for Impulse and ECM. The expanded frontline personnel of James Spaulding, Donald Byrd and Julian Priester, and the pianoless rhythm duo of Cecil McBee and Steve Ellington lay the ground work for this departure. But it is Rivers' increasingly complex original compositions that showcase a new level in his talent. Granted his extreme take on standards on his previous album (the still OOP "A New Conception") was far from run of the mill, but the depth and layering in these tunes compared to Fuchsia Swing Song or Contours (see my reviews) is striking. Fans of the more "eccentric" mid 60s Blue Notes -- Out to Lunch, Dialogue, Point of Departure, Life Time, etc. -- will be delighted with the dimension of this disc!
Beautiful December 2, 2008
Jimi Jazz (Portland, OR)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Man, what a great record... I don't do too many reviews, but this music should be heard by more people. Love the Rudy Van Gelder editions too.
 advent to orchestration December 6, 2008
Case Quarter (CT USA)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
i'm not a big fan of sam rivers' playing. i don't rank his playing with the saxophone greats who came out of the 60s. his style has never captivated my attention during focused listening or leaped out and pounced, catching me unaware with some incredible combination of notes while i was doing housework.
to his credit, as a player, he's been fortunate, a brief tryout with the miles davis quintet, recording on dave holland's conference of the birds, and with andrew hill. his best playing to date i've heard has been with jason moran, one of the newer players honoring the musicians who paved the road of jazz for them with spots on their recording dates. on the strength of rivers on the moran recording, black stars, i jumped on the revival bandwagon, mentioning the name sam rivers as fervently as a teenager shouting out the name of the latest mega successful rapper tearing it up.
in my case, i'm just trying to keep the music alive for those who would listen, while still waiting for that moment when an early sam rivers' recording happens to be grouped with cd's on my carousel that fits his brand of playing for my ear.
dimensions and extensions is important component in the sam rivers' technology. four horns and the absence of piano stretch the sound toward things to come years later with the sam rivers' rivbea all-star orchestra, free form solos and vibrant energy on a large scale, the rivers' sound i prefer.
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