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Rick Lopez, author of "The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work In Progress"

December 26, 2022 • The Jazz Journalists Association • Season 1 • Episode 14

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Host Susan Brink speaks with author Rick Lopez, who has just self published "The Sam Rivers Sessionography: A Work In Progress". With 768 pages and over 500 illustrations, this comprehensive and meticulously researched sessionography/biography was 25 years in the making.

To purchase the book: https://www.gofundme.com/f/sam-rivers-sessionography

Sam River's obituary, written by Nate Chinen, in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/arts/music/sam-rivers-jazz-musician-dies-at-88.html

Arts for Art is hosting Studio Rivbea Revisited 2023, January 4 - 8, 2023 in New York City. This will be both live and streamed. For information/tickets : https://www.artsforart.org/rivbea.html

Support for The JJA comes in part from the Jazz Foundation of America, providing emergency assistance, healthcare, and performance opportunities to performers, composers and others in need; Connecting jazz, blues, and roots musicians facing crisis with housing support, pro bono medical care, and paid work through nearly 750 community concerts across 17 states. Saving blues, jazz, and roots one musician at a time. jazzfoundation.org.

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