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

  1. On The Nile
  2. Plight
  3. Blue Soul
  4. Earl's World
  5. Mother Wit
  6. Impact
  7. The Ringer
  8. Household of Saud
  9. Truth
  10. Spur
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  1. Peace With Myself
  2. Ruthie's Heart
  3. Brilliant Circles
  4. Copasetic
  5. Right Now
  6. 'Round Midnight
  7. Abscretions
  8. Drought
  9. Lil's Paradise
  10. Paper Man
  11. Emperor March
  12. Our Second Father
  13. Departure
  14. Suspicion
  15. Grand Max
  16. Prayer For Peace
  17. Orientale
  18. Stretch
  19. Felicite
  20. Spanning
  21. Wilpan's
  22. Felicite - Live
  23. Drought - Live
  24. Effi 〜 Round About Midnight
  25. Mournin' Variations
  26. Repetition
  27. Effi
  28. Brilliant Corners
  29. Compassion
  30. Dave's Chant - Bonus Track
  31. Lynnsome
  32. Rejoicin'
  33. Black Vibrations - Live
  34. Spanning - Live
  35. With Love
  36. Repetition (Take 2)
  37. Copasetic (feat. Lenny White & Buster Williams)
  38. Orientale - Live
  39. Truth - Live
  40. Impact - Live
  41. I Want To Talk About You
  42. Repetition - Live
  43. Hit the Spot
  44. Wilpan's - Live
  45. Earl's World - Live
  46. Our Second Father - Live
  47. Ruthie's Heart (Live)
  48. In The Trenches
  49. Compassion - Live
  50. Episode 23
  51. Toughin'
  52. Chedlike
  53. Black Vibrations
  54. Stretch - Live
  55. Drought (Live)
  56. Emperor March (feat. Binker Golding, Lenny White & Buster Williams)
  57. Impact (Live)
  58. Flight
  59. Black Vibrations (Live)
  60. Repetition (Live)
  61. Round Midnight
  62. Repetition (Take 1)
  63. For Love of What (Live)
  64. Truth (Live)
  65. On the Nile (Live) - Bonus Track
  66. For Love of What
  67. Ruthie's Heart - Live
  68. Ruthie's Heart (Live) - Bonus Track
  69. On the Nile (Live)
  70. For Love of What - Live
  71. Repetition (Live) - Bonus Track
  72. Earl's World (Live)
  73. Blue Soul (feat. Lenny White & Buster Williams)
  74. Felicite (Live)
  75. Plight (Tolliver)
  76. Stretch (Live)
  77. Blue Soul (Edit)
  78. Repetition (Take 1) - Bonus Track
  79. Suspicion (feat. Binker Golding, Lenny White & Buster Williams)
  80. Effi - Live
  81. Compassion (Live)
  82. Repetition (Take 1) (Bonus Track)
  83. Spanning (Live)
  84. Ah, I See
  85. Absecretions
  86. Paper Man (Remixed 2026)
  87. Spannng
  88. Repitition
  89. On the Nile - Live - Bonus Track
  90. Earl's World (Remixed 2026)

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