Sam Rivers: A New Conception (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-11 Swing’s The Thing features the

Swing’s The Thing features the tenor great in a stellar sextet with Roy Eldridge (trumpet)

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Jordan delivered delightful versions of songbook and jazz standards including swinging takes on Rodgers & Hart’s “Falling In Love With Love” and Irving Berlin’s “Let’s Face The Music And Dance”

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Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones and recorded at the end of a two week run at Birdland

Sam Rivers: A New Conception (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP ETJS-11 Swing’s The Thing features theBlue Note, 1967 After releasing two astonishing albums of original material with his remarkable debut Fuchsia Swing Song (1964) and the follow up Contours (1965), multi instrumentalist Sam Rivers went another direction on his third Blue Note album A New Conception (1966) by presenting a set of standards that were given riveting interpretations with a quartet featuring Hal Galper on piano, Herbert Lewis on bass, and Steve Ellington on drums. Despite