Live at Slugs'

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Live at Slugs'
Volume I cover
Live album by
Charles Tolliver's Music Inc.
Released1972
RecordedMay 1, 1970
VenueSlugs' (New York)
GenreJazz
Length59:45
LabelStrata-East
ProducerCharles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver chronology
Impact
(1972)		 Live at Slugs'
(1972)		 Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
(1973)
Volume II cover

Live at Slugs' is a live album by American jazz trumpeter-composer Charles Tolliver and his quartet Music Inc. It was recorded in 1970 and released by Strata-East Records as two volumes in 1972.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllmusicStarStarStarStarHalf star[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record GuideStarStarStarStarStar[3]

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The music straddles the boundary between advanced hard bop and the avant-garde and rewards repeated listenings".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Tolliver except as indicated

Volume I

  1. "Drought" - 9:04
  2. "Felicite" (Cecil McBee) - 8:05
  3. "Orientale" (Stanley Cowell) - 17:32

Volume II

  1. "Spanning" - 8:30
  2. "Wilpan's" (McBee) -10:37
  3. "Our Second Father (Dedicated to the Memory of John Coltrane)" - 13:26

Personnel

References

  1. Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 848. ISBN 9781852277543.
  2. Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed October 28, 2014
  3. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 192. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.