Celebrating jazz great Sam Rivers, on what would have been his 100th birthday

The composer and multi-instrumentalist from El Reno, Okla., played blues, bebop, big-band music and free jazz — and sometimes a mix of everything. Rivers also gave other musicians a place to play.

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