Charles Tolliver Big Band
Booking Charles Tolliver Big Band
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..." Toliver 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. 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.
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