180g High Quality Pressing!
Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering!
Owning both this disc and Live at Slugs', Volume 1 is essential for hardcore Jazz fans. Part two of the Slugs' date is just as impressive and again feature three originals all penned by the group. Here we get a better example of Tolliver's compositional work with the touching Coltrane tribute "Our Second Father". Again Tolliver's trumpet is simply stunning. The rhythm section of Cecil McBee and Jimmy Hopps also deserve mention as these two really drive the quartet along in a similar fashion to Garrison and Jones did with Coltrane. The McBee original "Wilpan's" also highlights the strength of McBee's writing and is probably the pick of the tunes here. - RYM
Features
- 50th Anniversary of Strata-East
- 180g Vinyl
- Re-mastering by Ray Staff at Air Mastering, Lyndhurst Hall, London
- Recorded May 1, 1970
- Gatefold sleeve
- Made in the UK
Musicians
Charles Tolliver | trumpet |
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Stanley Cowell | piano |
Cecil McBee | bass |
Jimmy Hopps | drums |
Selections
Side A:
- Spanning
- Wilpan's
Side B:
- Our Second Father (Dedicated to the Memory of John Coltrane)