Live at Slugs'

Live at Slugs'
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Live album by Charles Tolliver's Music Inc.
Released	1972
Recorded	May 1, 1970
Venue	Slugs' (New York)
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:45
Label	Strata-East
Producer	Charles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver chronology
Impact (1972) Live at Slugs' (1972) Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival (1973)
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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
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[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

• Charles Tolliver - trumpet
• Stanley Cowell - piano
• Cecil McBee - bass
• Jimmy Hopps - drums

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.