Sam Rivers, one of the 60’s and 70’s most pivotal if unappreciated bandleaders and composers has died today aged 88. Rivers, a multi-instrumentalist most noted for his skill with the tenor and soprano sax, played briefly as part of The Miles Davis Quintet before being replaced by Wayne Shorter and subsequently finding fame as a bandleader in his own right with his highly regarded 1964…
The festival landscape has undergone major upheaval in the last three years, and Covid’s long-term impact on the music industry…
