Caldera (Sam Rivers album)

Caldera is a live album by the Sam Rivers Trio, led by multi-instrumentalist and composer Rivers, and featuring double bassist and bass clarinetist Doug Mathews and drummer and saxophonist Anthony Cole. It was recorded on March 9, 2002, at the Freeport-McMoRan Theatre, Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was released in 2022 by NoBusiness Records as volume 6 of the Sam Rivers Archive Series.

The Rivers Trio with this lineup also appeared on Concept (Rivbea, 1995–1996 [1997]), Firestorm (Rivbea, 2001), and Celebration (Posi-Tone, 2003 [2004]). Caldera is based on material selected from Rivers' massive recorded archives, which are curated by writer and producer Ed Hazell, who spent a year reviewing tapes with the goal of choosing the best recordings for release by NoBusiness Records.