Charles Tolliver - 1971 - Jazz Session - Conn 20A

[@josephgutkowski2059]

Charles tolliver is shamefuly one of the most overlooked and underrated great complete trumpeters in the history of jazz. He's a great composer of great complexity And beauty. I've seen the great rollover perform on at least ten occasions, and was thrilled with his genius every time. His playing is like no other,A bit off key with a fat brassy sound, he sores through complex lines with ease,with a slight leaning towards freer forms, while still rooted in the hard bop tradition. His range is wide going from soul jazz with a composition like paperman, to a beautiful ballad like wrong handle, to a model piece like on the nile,to a high speed pyrotechnics of his composition impact. He's definitely one of the greatest trumpet players of his era.

[@Spr95Que]

Charles Tolliver is not overlooked. He is simply not in Lee Morgan, Freddie hubbard, dizzy gillespie, Clifford Brown and Donald Byrd's class.

[@smibnor7387]

@@Spr95QueStop the cap

[@Spr95Que]

@@smibnor7387 Fxck is Cap? Speak English, Fool.

[@aaronfuller443]

I was fortunate enough to speak with Mr. Tolliver on the phone recently. He seems to be doing well and still very active in promoting the work of all the great Strata East artists!

[@rodneygolden2796]

The telepathic conceptions/connection on the trumpet between Woody Shaw and Charles Tolliver individually and separately, yet simultaneously in the same lifetime is a testament and evidence of how much we had in artistic bounty and wealth. No matter what your argument is, it just ain't the same girls and boys.

[@josephgutkowski2059]

I couldn't agree with you more. Woody and Charles were true giants of the Trumpet, and should be celebrated for their genius and contributions to the greatest art form ever created.

[@ch-yl3gv]

00:00 Orientale 08:54 Lynnsome 17:11 Prayer For Peace 23:19 Ruthie's Heart

[@JAHenry]

Just in case... Personnel: Charles Tolliver - trumpet Stanley Cowell - piano Wayne Dockery - bass Alvin Queen - drums

[@dariusdrewe1502]

Is Wayne Dockery related to Sam Dockery (pianist with Blakey's Messengers after Horace Silver?)

[@bennybennybenny1]

@@dariusdrewe1502 I'm pretty certain he is

[@ericschultz6539]

@@dariusdrewe1502 My question was always the opposite is Sam Dockery related to Wayne??? I researched it once and found out that they were indeed brothers. Wayne Dockery passed away just 2 years ago: he spent the last decade + of his life in Paris.

[@danmeyersonVideo]

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

[@biosnex]

Simply awesome! Thank you for posting this wonderful video! I remember buying my first Tolliver record in 1974!

[@dachanist]

I love my Conn 20a. I was playing it when I got my first studio gig. It blows my mind that Tolliver made this horn sound this bright and edgy.

[@djwsam575]

Agrer

[@djwsam575]

Sorry im agree i discovered him with magical post thanks to And live session are really missing now for an old jazz fan who grow up inside 👉✌🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🚬🚬☁☁☁

[@djmush1]

Fast air & small MP - looks like a Costello ?

[@ESKreitzer]

Notice they never have this stuff on American TV?

[@paxwallacejazz]

Eric Kreitzer probably not on French tv anymore either. This 71 I was 11 and the Vietnam War was still a travisty and humanities collective IQ was higher.

[@heyartbailey]

They didn't have stuff like this on every day, but when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, occasionally I'd flip on PBS on the black and white and be like, "What the...?!" Couple times, what I saw changed my life.

[@thomasrossitto6474]

@@paxwallacejazz Yes it was a programme on french tv . Real great music!

[@Ismail-ie5gi]

These cats are so cool 😎 Look at Charles after the opening vamp poised against the piano just vibing out. From the clothing, hair, attitude, 🔥

[@aaronfuller443]

He's the definition of cool. I talked to him recently and he told me about how my aunt and uncle stayed with him in his NYC apartment while they were looking for a place there in the early '70s. Awesome guy.

[@thelatearthurdent]

😮We see Tolliver and Cowell in the same year they'd kick start Strata-East with their brilliant Music Inc debut; they close with the album's powerhouse, big band banger, Ruthie's Heart. Absolute magic.

[@daveenpeterus9481]

Even the cowbell playing is superb. Thanks for posting this excellent obscurity. Long live youtube.

[@satosheeee6557]

If Cowell had played the cowbell, ????

[@patriciomurua2416]

Tolliver and Cowell, two of a kind.

[@curtisbowland4900]

Many thanks. A great group in full flight. Peace and Sounds. Cj

[@rodneygolden2796]

Thanks for the reiteration on the Dockery brothers. GO Philadelphia traditions! Musicians galore back then.

[@exjazzer]

I play jazz. Thank you!

[@brassyjazzful]

Freaking awesome!!

[@ferhernandez2760]

Thanx f this

[@RogerMFox-vw5cm]

...Thanks for this post...Peace, Fox

[@federicor9956]

Is there a non stabilized version ? KZbin's auto stabilization ruins the video, even with such great music.

[@rodneygolden2796]

Alvin Queen resembles The great Elvin Jones' persona. Happy Halloween 🎃 kids. Divinely ethereal.

[@markusfredscholl]

gosh!

[@spiritual_music7396]

very nice, thanks for sharing

[@serjbondjazz]

Enjoy!

[@marvinhagler4721]

ONE O THE BEST EVER

[@samferguson9171]

that bass solo!!!

[@hookalakah]

Good drummer. Who is he?

[@Erschophone]

Alvin Queen

[@FunkyLoopzTv]

Infinito

[@nk-salinger]

увидел на канале mezzo, ШИКАРНО

[@numbernine2207]

Very Cool

[@christinecook5521]

Anyone know what keyboard Stanley Cowell is playing there?

[@goldenmantis]

christine Cook hohner electra

[@supmet2]

Wayne Dockery on bass!!!

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

In the same beautifully singing vein - for ME: Clifford Brown, Booker Little, Woody Shaw, Freddie Hubbard and, of course, Charles Tolliver. Pastoral and melancholic warmth and spiritual haunting!😠 Now, Dominick Farinacci is in the House!😠

[@brianhammer5107]

You should also give people like Ted Curson a try - "Tears for Dolphy" and his playing with Charles Mingus are fantastic (for starters.). You also left off Lee Morgan - try "Live at the Lighthouse" - last recordings before he was shot and killed by a crazy/whackjob ex-gf in a club.

[@DPOWER222]

My good brother you left out one trumpet giant, Lee Morgan🎺I forgive you😎

[@wyndhl8309]

@@DPOWER222 Yes, that's the one; he struck as hard as Freddie Hubbard, didn't he?

[@jampoles]

Conn 20A is that a trumpet or cornet? Is that keyboard an opened Fender Rhodes?

[@michaelmorphites6733]

Hohner Electra

[@scottchurch3675]

Flugelhorn

[@damanyfisher3021]

How can I get a copy of this?

[@Bati_]

You should look at discogs.

[@paxwallacejazz]

Stanley Cowell

[@Spr95Que]

Black Classical Music.

[@curtisbowland4900]

Many thanks. A great group in full flight. Peace and Sounds. Cj