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The Charles Tolliver Big Band Live at The Iridium Jazz Club
by Dave Kaufman
The Charles Tolliver Big BandThe Iridium Jazz ClubNew York, NYOctober 17, 2009Charles Tolliver leads a modernist 16 piece big band that pushes the envelope of contemporary orchestral jazz sounds. The Big Band played a four night stand at the Iridium Jazz Club and I was fortunate to catch the second set on Saturday night. The Iridium is situated in Midtown Manhattan, just a few blocks away from Time Square, the tourist corner of the world. ...
Continue ReadingCharles Tolliver Big Band: Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note
by Troy Collins
With Love (Blue Note, 2007) chronicled the return of the Charles Tolliver Big Band, one of the most progressive big bands of the Post-War years. Inspired in part by the vibrant creative energy of the burgeoning Loft Scene, trumpeter Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell's cooperatively led big band was immortalized by two landmark records, Music Inc. & Big Band (Strata-East, 1970) and Impact (Strata-East, 1975). After a quartet reunion gig with Cowell in 2002, Tolliver was encouraged by fellow trumpeter ...
Continue ReadingCharles Tolliver: Monk at Town Hall
by AAJ Staff
By Charles TolliverThelonious Monk was and is a central and seminal figure, along with Bird and Diz, et. al., responsible for the creation and growth of the jazz idiom. His patented and innovative stride-intervallic improvisatorial style was inextricably tied to his harmonic genius as a composer. In fact, nearly all of these original innovators possessed this quality. At the dawn of the creation of modern jazz in the early '40s, Monk had already worked out how to utilize ...
Continue ReadingCharles Tolliver: Music Inc.
by Marc Medwin
Under trumpet virtuoso Charles Tolliver's direction, the Music Inc. quartet would go on to record several challenging live albums-- from locales as varied as the famed club Slugs and Yubinchokin Hall in Tokyo--for his and pianist Stanley Cowell's fledgling Strata East label during the '70s, later collected in a Mosaic Select box devoted to the group. This late 1970 studio session was the group and label's debut and features 13 additional winds and horns including Virgil Jones, Danny Moore, Jimmy ...
Continue ReadingCharles Tolliver Big Band: With Love
by AAJ Italy Staff
Trombettista tra i più interessanti degli anni Sessanta, a fianco di Jackie McLean come di Andew Hill, animatore poi dell'etichetta Strata-East insieme al pianista Stanley Cowell, Charles Tolliver è recentemente tornato all'attenzione degli appassionati, principalmente per la sua intensa partecipazione a Time Lines, l'ultimo, straordinario, capolavoro del compianto Andrew Hill. La Blue Note offre ora a Tolliver la non sempre facile possibilità di incidere con una big-band - formazione che il trombettista ha già sperimentato nella seconda metà degli anni ...
Continue ReadingCharles Tolliver Big Band: With Love
by Troy Collins
With Love, Charles Tolliver's first official Blue Note session as a leader, brings the under-sung trumpeter's career full circle. His recording debut on Jackie McLean's '64 Blue Note classic It's Time, led to fruitful partnerships with many of the era's finest bandleaders, culminating in his formation of the Strata-East label with pianist Stanley Cowell in '71. Tolliver was one of the few artists to lead a progressive big band in the '70s, a fertile decade which is only now getting ...
Continue ReadingCharles Tolliver: With Love
by Joel Roberts
Charles Tolliver burst onto the scene in the '60s as a young trumpet player to be reckoned with, appearing on seminal Blue Note albums by the likes of Jackie McLean, Horace Silver and Andrew Hill. He later fronted the adventurous Music Inc. quartet and founded his own label, Strata East, with pianist Stanley Cowell, before more or less dropping off the jazz map. But the 64-year-old Tolliver is back with a vengeance, and With Love is his ...
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