The Quest is a live album by Sam Rivers on which he is accompanied by double bassist Dave Holland and drummer Barry Altschul.

[1][2][3][4] The trio was active from 1972 until 1978,[5] and was influential in the New York loft jazz scene centered around Rivers' Studio Rivbea.

[5] In 2007, the trio reunited and recorded the music that was released in 2012 on the album Reunion: Live in New York.

[7] In a review for All About Jazz, Tim Niland wrote: "This trio had been playing together for quite a while, and it really shows with the group turning on a dime...

"[10] Kevin Le Gendre of Jazzwise commented: "there was a strong chemistry that underpinned this particular venture... Rivers, Holland and Altschul fulfilled the ideal of spontaneous composition insofar as the music moves freely in a number of different directions all the while retaining a sense of form because the players are so closely allied in the way they negotiate every twist and turn, responding to one another but also spurring each other on.