Live at Slugs'
{{Infobox album
| name = Live at Slugs'
| type = Live album
| artist = Charles Tolliver's Music Inc.
| cover = Live at Slugs.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Volume I cover
| released = 1972
| recorded = May 1, 1970
| venue = Slugs' (New York)
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 59:45
| label = Strata-East
| producer = Charles Tolliver
| chronology = Charles Tolliver
| prev_title = Impact
| prev_year = 1972
| next_title = Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
| next_year = 1973
| misc = {{Extra album cover
| header = Volume II cover
| type = Live album
| cover = Live at Slugs' II.jpg
| border =
| alt =
| caption =
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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.{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|page=848|year=1999|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz|publisher=Virgin|isbn=9781852277543}}
Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}
| rev2 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev2Score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| author-link =
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = 192
}}
}}
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".Yanow, S., [http://www.allmusic.com/album/live-at-slugs-vol-1-mw0000857815 Allmusic Review] accessed October 28, 2014
Track listing
All compositions by Charles Tolliver except as indicated
Volume I
- "Drought" - 9:04
- "Felicite" (Cecil McBee) - 8:05
- "Orientale" (Stanley Cowell) - 17:32
Volume II
- "Spanning" - 8:30
- "Wilpan's" (McBee) -10:37
- "Our Second Father (Dedicated to the Memory of John Coltrane)" - 13:26
Personnel
References
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Category:Charles Tolliver live albums
Category:Strata-East Records live albums
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