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]

Live at Slugs'
Volume I cover
Live album by
Charles Tolliver's Music Inc.
Released1972
RecordedMay 1, 1970
VenueSlugs' (New York)
GenreJazz
Length59:45
LabelStrata-East
ProducerCharles Tolliver
Charles Tolliver chronology
Impact
(1972)
Live at Slugs'
(1972)
Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
(1973)
Volume II cover

Reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Larkin, Colin (1999). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Jazz. Virgin. p. 848. ISBN 9781852277543.
  2. ^ a b 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.