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

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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
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