RIVERS, SAMUEL CARTHORNE

RIVERS, SAMUEL CARTHORNE (SAM). Jazz Saxophonist (25 September 1930 in El Reno, Oklahoma). He came from a musical family: his mother played piano, and his father sang with a gospel group, the Silvertone Quartet. His grandfather, Marshall Taylor , published a collection of slave songs and hymns in 1883. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Chicago, Illinois (where his family lived until he was seven), and Little Rock, Arkansas; at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins,...