''Hues'' is a

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by American jazz saxophonist Sam Rivers featuring performances recorded between 1971 and 1973 and released on the

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label.Sam Rivers sessionography
accessed July 8, 2011

Reception

The

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review by Andrew Hamilton awarded the album 4 stars stating "''Hues'' is thoroughly enjoyable and should be reissued".Hamilton, A
Allmusic Review
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Track listing

:''All compositions by Sam Rivers'' # "Amber" - 4:26 # "Turquoise" - 4:01 # "Rose" - 5:13 # "Chartreuse" - 3:17 # "Mauve" - 4:17 # "Indigo" - 1:28 # "Onyx" - 4:04 # "Topaz" - 4:02 # "Ivory Black" - 4:13 # "Violet" - 5:48 :*Recorded at The Jazz Workshop in Boston, Massachusetts on February 13 (tracks 1-3) & 14 (track 4), 1971 at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan on October 27, 1972 (tracks 5 & 6), at the Molde Jazz Festival in Molde, Norway on August 3, 1973 (tracks 7 & 8), and at Battell Chapel, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut on November 10, 1973 (track 9 & 10)

Personnel

* Sam Rivers -

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tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

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(track 7 & 8), Richard Davis (tracks 5 & 6),

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(track 1-4, 9 & 10) - bass *

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(tracks 7-10),

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(tracks 1-4), Warren Smith (tracks 5 & 6) -

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References

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