Sam Rivers Quartet - Undulation: Sam Rivers Archive Project. Volume 5 [CD]

"Undulation" answers central questions about this phase of Rivers’ activities, particularly the intentionality of the back and forth between ensemble and solo pieces and the hardening of funk grooves. The music encapsulated here begins to flesh out a scantily documented and underappreciated middle-age chapter in San Rivers’ long career, the ‘80s being a decade bookended by the closing of Studio Rivbea and his joining Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet and deciding to move to Florida.

Personnel:
Sam Rivers - tenor saxophone, flute, piano
Jerry Byrd - guitar
Rael-Wesley Grant - electric bass guitar
Steve Ellington - drums

Tracks:
1. Tenor saxophone section I  (11:17)
2. Tenor saxophone solo  (4:26)
3. Tenor saxophone section II  (5:37)
4. Drum solo  (8:14)
5. Piano solo  (5:52)
6. Piano section I  (4:21)
7. Piano section II  (6:19)
8. Guitar solo  (5:25)
9. Flute section I  (4:53)
10. Flute solo  (4:08)
11. Flute section II  (2:07)
12. Bass solo  (5:21)
13. Flute section III  (4:55)