Charles Tolliver

Connect - Sortie le 31.07.2020
Single : “Blue Soul” feat Binker Golding - 23.06.2020

CONNECT.

Release - Summer 2020

Charles Tolliver is a master of all trades. The New York-based trumpeter, active since the 1960s, is a leading player, educator, big band leader, composer, and founder of the one of the greatest jazz labels of all time, Strata East.

In Summer 2020, he will be releasing his first studio album in 13 years via Gearbox Records, entitled Connect. Recorded to tape at RAK Studios last November and engineered by Tony Platt (Bob Marley, Jazz Jamaica All Stars, Abdullah Ibrahim), the line-up features top musicians from the New York jazz scene who have collectively played with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Nancy Wilson, and Chick Corea. Forming as the Charles Tolliver All Stars, the band includes Jesse Davis on alto saxophone, Keith Brown on piano, Buster Williams on doublebass, and Lenny White on drums. The album also bridges together New York and London by featuring leading British saxophonist Binker Golding on two tracks, (Binker & Moses, Moses Boyd
Exodus, Zara McFarlane.)