Charles Tolliver
About the artist
Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter and composer. Self-taught, he was first influenced by Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard. After graduating from Howard University (in pharmacy) he came to prominence in 1964, playing and recording with Jackie McLean. He performed on many important hard bop records of the 1960s, recording with, among others, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Booker Ervin, Roy Haynes, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Horace Silver, John Hicks and McCoy Tyner. In 1969 he founded the group Music Inc.
Top songs
- On The Nile
- Plight
- Blue Soul
- Earl's World
- Mother Wit
- Impact
- The Ringer
- Household of Saud
- Truth
- Spur
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- Peace With Myself
- Ruthie's Heart
- Brilliant Circles
- Copasetic
- Right Now
- 'Round Midnight
- Abscretions
- Drought
- Lil's Paradise
- Paper Man
- Emperor March
- Our Second Father
- Departure
- Suspicion
- Grand Max
- Prayer For Peace
- Orientale
- Stretch
- Felicite
- Spanning
- Wilpan's
- Felicite - Live
- Drought - Live
- Effi 〜 Round About Midnight
- Mournin' Variations
- Repetition
- Effi
- Brilliant Corners
- Compassion
- Dave's Chant - Bonus Track
- Lynnsome
- Rejoicin'
- Black Vibrations - Live
- Spanning - Live
- With Love
- Repetition (Take 2)
- Copasetic (feat. Lenny White & Buster Williams)
- Orientale - Live
- Truth - Live
- Impact - Live
- I Want To Talk About You
- Repetition - Live
- Hit the Spot
- Wilpan's - Live
- Earl's World - Live
- Our Second Father - Live
- Ruthie's Heart (Live)
- In The Trenches
- Compassion - Live
- Episode 23
- Toughin'
- Chedlike
- Black Vibrations
- Stretch - Live
- Drought (Live)
- Emperor March (feat. Binker Golding, Lenny White & Buster Williams)
- Impact (Live)
- Flight
- Black Vibrations (Live)
- Repetition (Live)
- Round Midnight
- Repetition (Take 1)
- For Love of What (Live)
- Truth (Live)
- On the Nile (Live) - Bonus Track
- For Love of What
- Ruthie's Heart - Live
- Ruthie's Heart (Live) - Bonus Track
- On the Nile (Live)
- For Love of What - Live
- Repetition (Live) - Bonus Track
- Earl's World (Live)
- Blue Soul (feat. Lenny White & Buster Williams)
- Felicite (Live)
- Plight (Tolliver)
- Stretch (Live)
- Blue Soul (Edit)
- Repetition (Take 1) - Bonus Track
- Suspicion (feat. Binker Golding, Lenny White & Buster Williams)
- Effi - Live
- Compassion (Live)
- Repetition (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
- Spanning (Live)
- Ah, I See
- Absecretions
- Paper Man (Remixed 2026)
- Spannng
- Repitition
- On the Nile - Live - Bonus Track
- Earl's World (Remixed 2026)
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