The Quest is a live album by Sam Rivers on which he is accompanied by double bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul. It was recorded on March 12 and 13, 1976, during the Rassegna Internazionale Jazz at the Palazzo dello Sport in Milan, Italy, and was initially released later that year by Red Records. It was reissued the following year by Pausa Records, and was also reissued by Fabbri Editori in a variety of forms over the next four years.[1][2][3][4]
The trio was active from 1972 until 1978,[5] and was influential in the New York loft jazz scene centered around Rivers' Studio Rivbea.[6] Although the group toured and performed widely, it was not well documented on record, with the exception of this album, plus the Rivers album Paragon (1977) and Holland's Conference of the Birds (1973), which also included Anthony Braxton.[5] In 2007, the trio reunited and recorded the music that was released in 2012 on the album Reunion: Live in New York.[6] In 2020, NoBusiness Records released Ricochet, a live recording of the trio from 1978, as volume 3 of the label's Sam Rivers Archive Series.[7]
In a review for All About Jazz, Tim Niland wrote: "This trio had been playing together for quite a while, and it really shows with the group turning on a dime... This was a very exciting recording and demonstrates for those who might have might have forgotten what a powerful improviser Sam Rivers was."[10]
Kevin Le Gendre of Jazzwise commented: "there was a strong chemistry that underpinned this particular venture... Rivers, Holland and Altschul fulfilled the ideal of spontaneous composition insofar as the music moves freely in a number of different directions all the while retaining a sense of form because the players are so closely allied in the way they negotiate every twist and turn, responding to one another but also spurring each other on."[8]
Track listingedit
Composed by Sam Rivers.
"Expectation" – 6:45
"Vision" – 12:43
"Judgement" – 10:34
"Hope" – 7:13
Personneledit
Sam Rivers – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piano
^ ab"Sam Rivers: The Quest". AllMusic. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^"Sam Rivers - The Quest". Jazz Music Archives. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^"Sam Rivers discography". JazzLists.com. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^Lopez, Rick. "The Sam Rivers Sessionography". Bb10k. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^ abEdwards, Brent Hayes (2012). Reunion: Live in New York (liner notes). Sam Rivers, Dave Holland, and Barry Altschul. Pi Recordings. PI45.
^ ab"Reunion: Live in New York". Pi Recordings. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^"Archive Series Volume 3 - Ricochet". NoBusiness Records. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^ abLe Gendre, Kevin. "Sam Rivers: The Quest". Jazzwise. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^Hull, Tom. "Grade List: Sam Rivers". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
^Niland, Tim (April 4, 2011). "Sam Rivers - The Quest (Red Records, 1976, 2011)". All About Jazz. Retrieved October 3, 2023.
January 01, 1970
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