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New Music, Old Musician: Sam Rivers at ICA

From the Bostonist:

It’s almost perverse to include an 84-year-old man in a series called New Music Now, but Sam Rivers isn’t your average octogenarian. The reedsman, who has played jazz since the 1950s, is a living repository of free jazz, a performer whose recordings over the past two decades have become essential listening for those interested in the shape of jazz to come.


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