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Charles Tolliver

 
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Richard Gene Williams, Donald Byrd, Howard McGhee, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Marcus Belgrave, Nat Adderley, Wynton Marsalis, Wilbur Harden

Influenced By:

Freddie Hubbard

Worked With:

Jackie McLean, Garnett Brown, Clint Houston, Andrew Hill, Stanley Cowell, Ron Carter, Gary Bartz, Roy Ayers
  • Born: March 06, 1942, Jacksonville, FL
  • Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, 2000s
  • Genres: Jazz
  • Instrument: Trumpet
  • Representative Albums: "The Ringer," "Mosaic Select: Charles Tolliver," "Music, Inc. Big Band"
  • Representative Songs: "On the Nile," "Impact," "Orientale"

Biography

In the early '70s, Charles Tolliver was one of the brightest young trumpeters in jazz. He studied at Howard University and then moved to New York in 1964, playing and recording with Jackie McLean. Tolliver was on quite a few excellent advanced hard bop records in the mid-'60s, played with Gerald Wilson's Orchestra in Los Angeles (1966-1967), and was a member of Max Roach's group at the same time (1967-1969) as the compatible Gary Bartz. In 1969, Tolliver formed a quartet called Music Inc. that often featured pianist Stanley Cowell and was on a few occasions expanded to a big band. Tolliver and Cowell founded the Strata East label in 1971, which released many fine records in the 1970s. Although it was an era when there was a serious shortage of talented young trumpeters (prior to the rise of Wynton Marsalis), Tolliver after the mid-'70s maintained a low profile. Charles Tolliver, whose fat tone was influenced by Freddie Hubbard while his ideas display bits of John Coltrane, has recorded as a leader for Impulse (two songs from a 1965 concert), Black Lion, Enja, and Strata East. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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Charles Tolliver (born March 6, 1942) is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. In 1971, Tolliver and Music Inc. co-founder Stanley Cowell started Strata-East Records, one of the pioneer artist-owned Jazz record labels. Tolliver himself released many albums and collaborations on Strata.[1]

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Biography

Tolliver was born in Jacksonville, Florida, where, as a child, he received his first trumpet as a gift from his grandmother. He attended Howard University in the early 1960s as a pharmacy student, where he decided to pursue music as a career and moved to New York City. He would later describe his experience, "There was so much going on with the music. Like with bebop, we had a long period of just salivating on. There were all these different idioms within a genre, the avant-garde and free music, bebop still, and of course the music of John Coltrane and Miles. It was just a hell of a period. And then there was also the political scene going on..." (interview, Laurence Donohue-Greene, All About Jazz Online)

He came to prominence in 1964, playing and recording with Jackie McLean. He also performed on many important hard bop records of the 1960s and 70s, recording with, among others, Booker Ervin, Max Roach, Horace Silver, Stanley Cowell, John Hicks, McCoy Tyner, Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Oliver Nelson, and worked with Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins, and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

In 1968, Tolliver won the Down Beat Magazine Critics' Choice for trumpet, and formed the quartet Music Inc. for which he is probably best known, with Jimmy Hopps, Cecil McBee, and Stanley Cowell.

Discography

As leader

Strata East
  • 1970: Live at Slugs, Vols. 1 & 2
  • 1971: Music Inc.
  • 1972: Impact
  • 1973: Live in Tokyo
  • 1977: Compassions
  • 1988: Live in Berlin at the Quasimodo
Other labels
  • 1968: Paper Man
  • 1969: The Ringer
  • 1972: Grand Max
  • 1972: Grand Max

As a sideman

References

  1. ^ Allmusic biography

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