 charles tolliver (born march 6, 1942) is an american jazz trumpeter and composer. ==biography== tolliver was born in jacksonville, florida, where, as a child, he received his first trumpet as a gift from his grandmother. he attended howard university in the early 1960s as a pharmacy student, when he decided to pursue music as a career and moved to new york city. he came to prominence in 1964, playing and recording on jackie mclean's blue note albums. in 1971, tolliver and stanley cowell founded strata-east records, one of the pioneer artist-owned jazz record labels. tolliver himself released many albums and collaborations on strata.[ allmusic biography] following a long hiatus, he reemerged in the late 2000s, releasing two albums arranged for big band. with love was nominated in 2007 for a grammy award for best large jazz ensemble.[ with love review] he would later describe his experience: "there was so much going on with the music. like with bebop, we had a long period of just salivating on. there were all these different idioms within a genre, the avant-garde and free music, bebop still, and of course the music of john coltrane and miles. it was just a hell of a period. and then there was also the political scene going on...."interview, laurence donohue-greene, all about jazz online. ==discography== ===as leader=== *1968: paper man (freedom) aka charles tolliver and his all stars (black lion), with herbie hancock, ron carter, joe chambers, gary bartz *1969: the ringer (freedom), with stanley cowell, steve novosel, jimmy hopps *1970: live at slugs (strata-east), with cecil mcbee, jimmy hopps, stanley cowell *1971: music inc. (strata-east), with stanley cowell, ron mathewson, alvin queen *1972: live at the loosdrechdt jazz festival (strata-east), aka grand max (black lion), with john hicks, reggie workman, alvin queen *1972: impact (strata-east), with jon faddis, [[char
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