Graham Collier, 1937-2011
Please visit Graham’s main website,
jazzcontinuum,
for tributes, obituaries and recent news
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 45 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 with his radical
approach.
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Concert
News
‘The
rich fulness of Collier's harmonies, the imagination and
inventiveness of his orchestral colour, and the
marvellous
fluency of the improvisations...’
(From
a
review of a concert
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, February 2011.)
CD
News
Hoarded Dreams
- one of the 1001 best albums in
the latest Penguin Jazz Guide.
Publishing
News
memories arrested in space
-
six saxophone quartets inspired by Jackson Pollock
paintings, now published by Advance.
Website
News
See
Free Stuff
a new section on this site.
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The montage
includes music from:
Portraits (1973)
Deep Dark Blue Centre (1967)
New Conditions (1976)
Bread and Circuses (2003)
Adams Marble (1995)
Symphony of Scorpions (1977)
Darius (1974)
Something British Made in Hong Kong (1987)
Midnight Blue (1975)
Hoarded Dreams (recorded 1983, released 2007)
See also
www.jazzcontinuum.com
for
Graham Collier’s writings on jazz and other things
www.thejazzcomposer.com,
an interactive site about Graham Collier’s latest
book