Though not nearly the desperate days for jazz some would have you believe, the 1970s were nonetheless a foolhardy decade in which to launch a big band—a luxury even when times are flush. And to an indifferent public for whom "big band" still signified a bygone style and era rather than strength in numbers, a hard-bop big band must've seemed like an oxymoron. But Charles Tolliver wasn't going to let anything stop him, even if he had to start a musicians' cooperative... More >>>