Quintessential Collier music: thoughtful, abidingly
rhythmic, and all thoughtfully composed.
Ken
Rattenbury, Crescendo
& Jazz
Music
Bright as Silver (for Don & John) featuring Harold Rubin,.
Featuring
Harold Rubin (clarinet)
Graham
Collier (conductor) with
musicians from The Royal Academy of Music in London,
England, or the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music
in Ramat HaSharon, near Tel-Aviv, Israel.
Patrick White (trumpet & flugelhorn)
Stephen Main (alto & soprano saxophone)
Daniel Frenkel (soprano saxophone)
Mitchell Rosen (tenor saxophone)
Matt Colman, Rafi Malkiel (trombones)
Eldad Tsabari (flute)
Yiftach Kadan (guitar)
Roy Ben-Sira (electric piano)
Boris Malkovsky (synthesizer)
Peter James (acoustic piano)
Mihaly Biggs (acoustic bass)
Uri Shamir (bass guitar)
Shahar Haziza (drums)
Russell Morgan (drums & percussion).
Recording History
Recorded in Israel,
1995
First issued by Jazzis Records (Israel), 1995
The
Tracks
Bright as Silver
(for Don & John), written as a dedication to two
close friends whose long illnesses accompanied the writing
and who passed away the day after the piece was finished,
is not meant to be morbid. Its title, a phrase about the
sun, is meant to link my friends, who both lived in the
Mediterranean, with this project in Israel. The phrase sums
up the spirit of both men and that of the musicians
involved here.
Aberdeen
Angus was
originally written in 1967 and recorded on
Down Another
Road LP.
Its revival for this project has acted as a welcome
reminder that there was an inherent openness in such
pieces, a precursor of the style that now dominates my
writing.
Adam's
Marble,
named for Adam Baruch
of the Jazzis record label, was composed for a tour of
Israel in 1986 by my own small group. It has been expanded
for this project to feature a larger group of 15 musicians.
The composition was a difficult one to develop and its
title grew out of a statement by Michelangelo: ‘There
is nothing in the mind of the artist which is not already
contained in the piece of stone before him. All that he has
to do is to get rid of the superfluous.’
Some
Reviews
The
music rises to the occasion and the quality of execution
displayed by the big band is excellent.
Philippe Renaud,
Improjazz
Bears
the mark of the distinctive contemporary
composer.i
Chris Yates,
Jazz Rag
His
prime motifs are first stated with emphasis and then
developed … into living and breathing statements of
great power and authority.
.Ken
Rattenbury, Crescendo
& Jazz Music
Collier’s
music and personal charisma brings something out in the
musicians which might not be there every day, just as
Mingus and Duke could.
Erling
Kroner, Jazz Special
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