title: Music Inc.
text: # Music Inc.
  
  Music Inc. is an album by American jazz trumpeter Charles Tolliver's Music Inc. with a Big Band recorded in 1970 and first released on the Strata-East label.
  
  ## Reception
  
  Professional ratings :
  
  | Review scores ||
  | - | - |
  | Source | Rating |
  | Allmusic | |
  | The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | |
  
  The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 4½ stars stating "The remarkable Music, Inc. Big Band remains the apotheosis of trumpeter Charles Tolliver's singular creative vision. Rarely if ever has a big band exhibited so much freedom or finesse, while at the same time never overwhelming the virtuoso soloists on whom the performances pivots".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Charles Tolliver except as indicated
  
  * "Ruthie's Heart" - 6:19
  * "Brilliant Circles" (Stanley Cowell) - 4:53
  * "Abscretions" (Cowell) - 7:03
  * "Household of Saud" - 6:42
  * "On the Nile" - 9:51
  * "Departure" (Cowell) - 5:04
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Charles Tolliver - trumpet
  * Stanley Cowell - piano
  * Cecil McBee - bass
  * Jimmy Hopps - drums
  * Bobby Brown - flute
  * Wilbur Brown, Jimmy Heath, Clifford Jordan - flute, tenor saxophone
  * Howard Johnson - baritone saxophone, tuba
  * Lorenzo Greenwich, Virgil Jones, Danny Moore, Richard Williams - trumpet
  * Garnett Brown, Curtis Fuller, John Gordon, Dick Griffin - trombone
  