- country:USA
- style(s):Jazz
- label:Gearbox Records
- type:Quintet
- artist posted by:Ina Dittke & Associates
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Charles Tolliver's first studio album in 13 years was released in July 2020 by Gearbox Records featuring his All Star Band: Jesse Davis on alto
saxophone, Keith Brown on piano, Buster Williams on double bass, and Lenny White on drums. The album has already received excellent reviews.
During the 60s Charles Tolliver worked extensively with several leading bop musicians of the time including Jackie McLean, with whom he recorded the 1964 Blue Note Records session It’s Time, Art Blakey and Sonny Rollins. He spent the second half of the decade on the west coast playing with Gerald Wilson, in whose band he met Roy Ayers. He recorded with both Wilson and Ayers as leaders and he was a member of the Max Roach Quintet, recording the 1968 Atlantic Records session Members Don’t Get Weary. At the end of the 60s he was a founder member of the cooperative quartet, Music, Inc. Another member of this band was Stanley Cowell with whom Tolliver formed a record company, Strata-East.
In 2007, Charles released the big band album With Love, which was nominated for a Grammy award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble. He followed this up two years later with another big band release, Emperor March: Live at the Blue Note.
