Contours (album)
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Contours
| type = Album
| artist = Sam Rivers
| cover = Contours (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = January 1967[https://books.google.com/books?id=9SgEAAAAMBAJ&dq=sam+rivers+Contours+4206&pg=PA52 Billboard Jan 28, 1967]
| recorded = May 21, 1965
| venue =
| 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.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/blue-note-records/catalog-4200-series/#blp-4206 Blue Note Records discography] accessed November 22, 2010 The CD reissue contains an alternate take as a bonus track.
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev2 = DownBeat
| rev2Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}Down Beat: April 6, 1967 vol. 34, no. 7
| rev3 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |editor-last=Larkin |editor-first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |pages=1968 }}
|rev4 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings
|rev4score = {{Rating|3|4}}{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=1217}}
| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev5Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 168
}}
| rev6 = Tom Hull – on the Web
}}
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 {{Sic|hide=y|high water|marks|expected=high-water marks}} of the mid-'60s avant-garde movement".Erlewine, S. T. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=contours-r146341|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed November 22, 2010
Track listing
All compositions by Sam Rivers.
- "Point of Many Returns" - 9:20
- "Dance of the Tripedal" - 10:07
- "Euterpe" - 11:43
- "Mellifluous Cacophony" - 8:58
- "Mellifluous Cacophony" [Alternate Take] - 9:04 Bonus track on CD reissue
Personnel
References
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Category:Blue Note Records albums
Category:Sam Rivers (jazz musician) albums