CHARLES TOLLIVER MUSIC INC - Live At Slugs Vols 1 & 2 - Strata East NM Vinyl LPs

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Music Inc. / Charles Tolliver - Live At Slugs Vol 1 and 2 on the Strata East label. This listing is for both lps, which were originally sold separately but make a nice set and logically go together.
These are the Pure Pleasure reissues from 2021. High quality mastering and pressings on 180gm vinyl.
Both lps are in NM condition. Sleeves are also NM, in shrink with hype stickers. Not graded "Mint" only because they have been opened.
FREE packaging and protection in a recycled lp mailer and Media Mail postage INCLUDED.
All Music Guide Review (Scott Yanow): [4.5/5 stars] "Charles Tolliver was one of the great trumpeters to emerge during the late '60s yet has always been vastly underrated. On this quartet set with pianist Stanley Cowell, bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Jimmy Hopps, Tolliver has a real chance to stretch out. The 17-minute "Orientale" is particularly memorable."

Light in the Attic Records Review: "[Vol. 1] Through its duration, the music on Live at Slugs’ is often riveting and incessantly compelling. Hopps is a lesser-known entity to me, but the other three players featured here are some of the all-time underrated presences in the jazz pantheon, and they play nothing short of masterfully. Always a presence on his recordings, Tolliver demonstrates the tremendous range, flair, and command as a trumpeter and leader. Had he not come along at a time when pure jazz was falling out of favor, I have to believe his name (along with Woody Shaw’s) would be every bit as prolific as Freddie Hubbard’s or Lee Morgan’s; the same holds for the always brilliant and expressive McBee on bass. [Vol. 2] Owning both this disc and Live at Slugs’, Volume 1 is essential for hardcore jazz fans. Part two of the Slugs’ date is just as impressive and again features three originals all penned by the group. Here we get a better example of Tolliver’s compositional work with the touching Coltrane tribute Our Second Father. Again Tolliver’s trumpet is simply stunning. The rhythm section of Cecil McBee and Jimmy Hopps also deserves mention as these two really drive the quartet along in a similar fashion to Garrison and Jones did with Coltrane. The McBee original Wilpan’s also highlights the strength of McBee’s writing and is probably the pick of the tunes here."
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