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I thought this was going to be Trio recordings from the 70's? Was there a change? Either way I'm still looking foward to this up coming release. Sam Rivers & The Rivbea Orchestra - Trilogy (3 CDs) (Release Date: End of June 2011) By the time Sam Rivers was able to document his orchestral writing in 1974 (on the Impulse album "Crystals") at the tender age of 51, he was best known for leading a magnificent, purely improvised trio devoid of all written music. But composition was (and is) as much a part of his incessantly fertile mind as improvisation. His densely-layered and beautifully voiced multi-sectional orchestra pieces burn with an intensity that never forsakes the music's beauty. Rivers seamlessly integrates improvisation into the written score. Solos are distributed democratically as effective, concise statements. In 1992, Rivers moved to Orlando, Florida where he quickly formed another powerful improvising trio and set about seeking personnel to form an orchestra for the music that he was constantly writing. After two all-star albums for RCA Records in 1998 ("Inspiration" and "Culmination"), recorded in New York, an Orlando edition of the Rivbea Orchestra started to emerge in the early 2000s. Drawn from teachers and students at surrounding colleges, frustrated members of various Walt Disney World aggregations and retired veterans of orchestras like Tommy Dorsey and Woody Herman, Sam Rivers crafted a first-class orchestra to realize his music. In 2007, he issued the new Rivbea Orchestra's first recording "Airora" on his own Rivbea label. When we heard the album, we called Sam to offer our jaw-dropping praise, he told us essentially there is plenty more where that came from and set about sifting through hours of studio and live recordings to cull the three CDs of previously unreleased material contained in this set. The results are forward-thinking and electrifying.

I have all of Sams official releases and over 200 bootlegs, and I think Contrast is great, my alltime favorite ECM release. I think they should have included Sam on piano and made it a double record. I always wondered why it wasn't wasn't released on CD?

I hope it doesn't get delayed too long. I have a lot of bootlegs of Sam's performances and have heard rumors that he has a large collection of self produced recordings "in the can." I can't wait to find out what the content will be for this Mosaic release.