Biography

Trumpet player and composer Charles Tolliver was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1942. A self-taught musician, he began his professional career recording with saxophonist Jackie McLean on an album released by Blue Note in 1964. Since then, Tolliver has played and recorded with leading American jazz musicians: Roy Haynes, Hank Mobley, Willie Bobo, Horace Silver, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Rollins, Booker Ervin, Gary Bartz, Herbie Hancock, The Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Oliver Nelson, Andrew Hill, Louis Hayes, Roy Ayers, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers and Max Roach, just to name the most prominent. In 1969, he formed his own quartet, Music Inc., with which he toured across North and South America as well as Europe and Japan. As a soloist, he played his own pieces with different European radio and television jazz orchestras. In 1970, he co-founded Strata-East Records, with Stanley Cowell, a label for which he recorded his first two albums, Music Inc. & Big Band and Impact. In 2007, he returned to the big-band sound, releasing With Love (Blue Note). With the same format, he recorded the live album Emperor March at the New York’s Blue Note in 2009. In this edition of the Buenos Aires Jazz he will perform in a quartet with local musicians Ernesto Jodos (piano), Pepi Taveira (drums) and Jerónimo Carmona (double bass).