Charles Tolliver

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Connect, the first release from trumpeter Charles Tolliver in over a decade, is a monster. From the Saturday-night goodtime opener Blue Soul through to the intense, Spanish tinged, serpentine closer Suspicion, the album finds Tolliver still at the top of his game in a recording career which began in the mid 1960s. He fronts a US quintet which brings with it the grit and groove of a mid-1960s Blue Note hard-bop band while sounding totally 2020. The lineup is augmented on two of the four tracks by tenor saxophonist Binker Golding, one of the young lions of the new London jazz. It is a killer combination.

PERSONNEL:

• Charles Tolliver - trumpet
• Jesse Davis - alto saxophone
• Binker Golding - tenor saxophone (2 & 4)
• Keith Brown - piano
• Buster Williams - double bass
• Lenny White - drums

TRACKS:

• 01. Blue Soul
• 02. Emperor March
• 03. Copasetic
• 04. Suspicion