Charles Tolliver's Music-Inc Quartet - Live in Paris.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz.

African American Music.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

Local Subjects:

Jazz.

African American Music.

United States and Canada.

African Americans.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 1971.

Language Note:

In French.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

At the beginning of the 70s, in the midst of the post-bop wave, the Strata-East label was born in New York. At its head, two young musicians in their early thirties but already at the top of their art, trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell. The first album they produced was called "Music Inc." and reunited the two founders with Cecil McBee on double bass, Jimmy Hopps on drums and a big band. It is a record full of ardor and creativity that lays the foundations for the myth that Strata-East would become. But it’s in a reduced formation, with the Music Inc. Quartet, that Charles Tolliver and his alter-ego came to Paris in 1971 to promote this record in the "Jazz Session" TV emission. Here, we find Wayne Dockery on double bass, who joined the Jazz Messengers that same year, and Alvin Queen on drums who, despite his 21 years, was already playing with Horace Silver and George Benson! A powerful trumpet, a twirling piano, frenzied bass lines and percussive drums ... this quartet of young lions "plays in a contemporary way, respecting the forms, seeking to enrich them ( … ) and wanting to say something," as André Francis, the presenter of this delightful archive footage, puts it. Etienne Geremia

Notes:

Performed Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Paris

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