Live at Slugs'

Live at Slugs'
Live album by Charles Tolliver's Music Inc.
Released	1972 and 1973
Recorded	May 1, 1970 at Slugs', NYC
Genre	Jazz
Length	59:45
Label	Strata-East SES 1972 and SES 19720
Producer	Charles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver chronology
The Ringer (1969) Live at Slugs' (1970) Music Inc. (1971)
Volume II Cover

Live at Slugs' is a live album by Music Inc. led by American jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver recorded in 1970 and first released as two separate volumes on the Strata-East label, later released as a single CD, and compiled on a 3-CD box set released by the Mosaic label ^[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. Charles Tolliver leader discography accessed October 28, 2014
2. Yanow, S., Allmusic Review accessed October 28, 2014
3. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 192. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.