Charles Tolliver

Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter and composer, born in 1942 in Jacksonville, Florida, and raised in New York. He came to attention in 1964 on Jackie McLean's Blue Note sessions. In the early 1970s he led the quartet Music Inc. and, with pianist Stanley Cowell, co-founded the label Strata-East. Tolliver studied pharmacy at Howard University before turning to music. He played in Gerald Wilson's orchestra in Los Angeles and in Max Roach's group in the late 1960s, and recorded as a sideman with Andrew Hill, Horace Silver, Booker Ervin, McCoy Tyner and Roy Ayers.