Jazz Articles about Charles Tolliver

About Charles Tolliver

Radio & Podcasts

Charles Tolliver, Irène Schweizer, Enrico Rava, Michael Blake & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
November 3, 2026

A playlist weaving together many threads: Halloween vibes, dance-inducing memories of the Bowery, piano solos and large ensembles, stimulating collaborations, and welcome reissues.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Michael Blake “Anatomy of a Murder" Halloween Tales (Baby Tank) 0:16 Host talks 7:03 Enrico Rava & Fearless Five feat. Joe Lovano “Bowery Dance" Corners (ECM) 8:51 Host talks 13:55 Irène Schweizer “Dancing on the Bowery" Prelude to a Kiss ...

Live Review

Charles Tolliver Quintet At Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
November 1, 2026

Charles Tolliver Quintet Miner Auditorium Charles Tolliver Presents Africa/Brass: Trane Forever San Francisco, CA October 25, 2026 Charles Tolliver had plenty to communicate at Miner Auditorium on Sunday night. He clapped to summon the brass, pointed a section toward its entrance, and pulled his hands back as though tightening reins on the ensemble's gathering force. A sharp downward gesture silenced the horns while the rhythm section pressed ahead. His hands seldom lacked something to ...

Album Review

Charles Tolliver: Right Now... And Then

Read "Right Now... And Then" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder
May 9, 2026

While jazz fusion dominated the commercial jazz scene during the 1970s, beneath the surface many musicians eschewed current market trends, and continued to develop and push forward the hard bop, modal, and spiritual sounds established during the previous decade. Many of those artists recorded for Strata-East Records, the now-seminal label co-founded by trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell in 1970. Before co-founding Strata-East, Tolliver had established himself in the New York scene as a strong and intense horn player, ...

Album Review

Charles Tolliver Music Inc: Live at Captain's Cabin

Read "Live at Captain's Cabin" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
February 27, 2025

Inciso nel locale del titolo, sito a Edmonton, Canada, il 24 giugno 1973, questo doppio album del trombettista Charles Tolliver, una delle glorie dello strumento in quel preciso momento storico, ci restituisce i riflessi di un periodo particolare--e particolarmente vitale--del jazz in cui anche coloro che non avevano sposato la causa dell'avanguardia mantenevano pur tuttavia nella loro musica un preciso riferimento alle istanze che la stavano (e l'avevano) informata. C'era, in altre parole la sensazione che comunque non mancasse la ...

Album Review

Charles Tolliver Music Inc.: Live at the Captain's Cabin

Read "Live at the Captain's Cabin" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
November 29, 2024

Charles Tolliver's Live at the Captain's Cabin is a previously unheard two-CD set captured at an intimate venue in Edmonton, Alberta, on June 24, 1973, produced for release on Reel to Real Recordings by tenor saxophonist and jazz entrepreneur Cory Weeds. The synergy and spontaneity heard in this session can only come from a group accustomed to the rigours of the road. With no prior intention to record, trumpeter Tolliver and his quartet, comprised of pianist John Hicks, bassist Clint ...

Album Review

Lajos Dudas: Radio Days Vol. 2

Read "Radio Days Vol. 2" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
July 26, 2022

The previous compilation Radio Days: The Music Of Lajos Dudas (JazzSick Records, 2016) was released to celebrate German-Hungarian jazz clarinetist/composer Lajos Dudas' 75th birthday. It collected performances dating from 1984 to the early 2000s: about twenty years. The new volume's coverage is both wider and deeper. The dates range from 1976 to 2017—over forty years—and the total time is about the length of three CDs. It comes on a special memory card, an unusual format well-suited to what Dudas describes ...

Radio & Podcasts

A focus on Charles Tolliver

by Bob Osborne
October 8, 2020

Connect is the first release from trumpeter Charles Tolliver in over a decade. The new album finds him in fine form and good company. With a recording career which began in the mid-1960s, and an impressive, albeit relatively small, back catalogue he is possibly one of the great unsung trumpeters in jazz. The show includes music from the new album and a selection of some of the highlights of his career. Playlist Charles Tolliver “Blue Soul" from Connect ...