An
extraordinary jazz composer... whose works should be better
known in the U.S.
Howard
Mandel, author of Miles, Ornette, Cecil, Jazz
beyond Jazz
On
the evidence of this performance, the services of Graham
Collier should be secured by just about every big band on
the planet.
John
Shand, The
Sydney Morning Herald
One
of the most genuinely modern big band compositions to come
out of Britain for twenty years.
Duncan
Heining, Jazzwise
Among
the most exhilarating, sensual, beautiful and disturbing
performances in this era’s jazz.
Ray
Comiskey, The Irish
Times
On
any short list of the most polemical writers in jazz today,
he is fighting for the top spot.
Ted Gioia,
jazz.com
Some press comments from
Graham Collier’s 40 year career as a composer, one
who is regularly compared to Gil
Evans, Charles
Mingus, and
Duke
Ellington, is listened to by pop
groups such as Babyshambles,
who continues to influence young jazz musicians around the
world, and who knows jazz has a past but needs a future.
A future he is helping to shape by his radical
approach.
Listen to a 13 minute
montage
drawn from Graham Collier’s recordings while you
continue to browse this site which
'should
win awards for design, thoroughness and easy
navigation.’ Doug Ramsey
Rifftides