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Music Inc.

Music Inc

Recorded	Nov 11, 1970
Label	Strata-East
Released	1970
Personnel	17 credited players
Discogs	master 185301

The record

Charles Tolliver's working quartet swells into a brass-and-flute ensemble here, a rare expanded session for the trumpeter's Music Inc. imprint-turned-Strata-East cornerstone. Stanley Cowell's writing and piano frame Tolliver's punchy themes, a document of artist-run jazz taking its own arrangements seriously.

Session personnel

Cecil McBee — bass
Jimmy Hopps — drums
Bobby Brown — flute
Clifford Jordan — flute
Jimmy Heath — flute
Wilbur Brown — flute
Stanley Cowell — piano
Curtis Fuller — trombone
Dick Griffin — trombone
Garnett Brown — trombone
John Gordon — trombone
Charles Tolliver — trumpet
Danny Moore — trumpet
Larry Greenwich — trumpet
Richard Williams — trumpet
Virgil Jones — trumpet
Howard Johnson — tuba, saxophone [baritone]

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 21 pressings on file.

1971	Strata-East · SES-1971 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo earliest on file
1971	Strata-East · SES-1971 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
1971	Strata-East · SES-1971 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo
1972	Trio Records · PA-7009 — Vinyl, LP, Album
1972	Polydor · 2383 138 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1972	Strata-East · PA-7009 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo
1974	Strata-East · SES-1971 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
1991	Strata-East · SECD 9010 — CD, Album, Reissue
1991	Strata-East · SECD 9010 — CD, Album
1995	Bomba Records (4) · BOM524 — CD, Album, Reissue
1998	Charly Records · CDGR 227 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2003	Strata-East · BOM22182 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo
2007	Bomba Records (4) · BOM24121 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Paper Sleeve
2010	Bomba Records (4) · BOM1401 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo