"Charles Tolliver on Strata East in the Early 1970s"

[ghost of miles]

In the early 1970s, as recording opportunities for more adventurous hard-bop musicians dried up, trumpeter Charles Tolliver and pianist Stanley Cowell started their own label, Strata East, partly in order to document the activities of their quartet Music Inc. The aesthetic results were in some ways an extension of the musicans with whom Tolliver had worked in the 1960s—Jackie McLean, Max Roach, and Andrew Hill. On this edition of Night Lights we’ll hear live performances from the quartet from Slug’s Saloon in New York City and from a concert in Tokyo, as well as recordings the quartet made augmented by a big band. “Charles Tolliver on Strata East in the Early 1970s” airs Saturday, January 21 at 11:05 p.m. (8:05 California time, 10:05 Chicago time) on WFIU. You can listen live, or wait until Monday afternoon, when the program will be posted in the Night Lights archives.

Next week: "Piano Noir: Ran Blake."

Edited November 5, 2007 by ghost of miles

[sidewinder]

Very cool !

[Hardbopjazz]

Nice photo. I can't wait to see Tolliver with Andrew Hill at Birdland.

[ghost of miles]

Up for rebroadcast this evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio tonight at 10 p.m. EST...or you can check it out in the archives, now posted for online listening.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Up for rebroadcast this evening on Michigan's Blue Lake Public Radio tonight at 10 p.m. EST...or you can check it out in the archives, now posted for online listening.

Cool! This looks great... I'll be checking it out.