There is very little around that competes with Graham
Collier at his best, and this album is among his
finest.
Steven Loewy, All Music
Guide
Clapping, from Bread & Circuses featuring Graeme Blevins.
Open Blues, from Oxford Palms, featuring Graeme Blevins.
Featuring
Graham Collier & The Collective
Adrian Kelly
(trumpet/leader)
Lucy Fisher, Stephanie Dean (violins)
Martin Payne (viola)
Jenny Tingley (cello)
Lindsay Vickery, Graeme Blevins, Lee Buddle (saxophones)
Jeremy Greig, Kieran Hurley (trombones)
Matthew Savage (euphonium, trombone)
Phil Waldron (bass)
Grant Windsor, Tom O'Halloran (pianos)
Steve Richter (percussion/marimba)
Hans Drieberg (drums/percussion)
Recording
History
Recorded live in
Perth, Australia, 2001
First issued on CD by Jazzprint, 2002
Remastered
by Tom Leader of LCL Digital
Reassigned
to jazzcontinuum, 2009
The
Tracks
Bread &
Circuses was
written for a proposed educational documentary dealing with
my methods of composition and was first workshopped at the
Royal Academy of Music, London, before being taken to
Australia for this recording.
Oxford
Palms was
commissioned by Meltdown for first
performance in Oxford, England. The composition was loosely
inspired by the form of Wild Palms, a novel with two
interlocking ideas written by William Faulkner, whose home
town was Oxford, Missouri.
Some
Reviews
It
is my highest compliment if I say it is "very Graham
Collier".
George Haslam, composer/bandleader,
Meltdown
Very
impressive ... a journey through different landscapes and
weather conditions rich in contrasts where grand formations
of mountains and hefty eruptions transform into oases where
you can breathe in vegetative calmness.
Boris Rabinowitsch, Politiken,
Denmark
Anyone
who knows Graham Collier, be it from his remarkable
recordings, his live performances or workshops will
understand, that this musician does not swim in the same
stream as other jazz composers but is one who always
invents new ideas and tries to find new methods.
Ulfert
Goeman, Jazz
Podium
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