Britain's most original jazz talent
- Financial Times
Some of the most vividly creative music ever performed in the British Isles under the umbrella of "jazz"
- Penguin Book of Jazz on CD
A pioneer ... a true British jazz original
- The Times, London
Some press comments from Graham Collier’s 40 year career as a composer who is regularly compared with Gil Evans and Charles Mingus, is listened to by Babyshambles, continues to influence young jazz musicians around the world, and knows jazz has a past but needs a future. A future he is helping to shape by his radical approach.
Examples of Graham Collier's music can be found below and in Recordings.
All his music can be downloaded from iTunes, eMusic and other on line stores.
Listen to his music in Recordings, which also offers the music which the players started with.
Read more about him in Life.
Read about his methods in Projects.
Read more about his ideas in Writings.
See what he is up to now in News and in the sidebars of this and every page.
Graham Collier takes the view that the only healthy way to look at jazz is as a continuum in a constant state of interaction between its past and its future, between the traditions of the music and the creativity of its artists.
His methods and ideas are now recognised in the international jazz community as revolutionary and radical, yet still within the real traditions of the music.
Recent projects include work with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra, the NDR Big Band, Manhattan School of Music, the Dorset Youth Jazz Orchestra, his own Jazz Ensemble and the Sydney Conservatorium Big Band, when the Sydney Morning Herald commented:
‘On the evidence of this performance, the services of Graham Collier should be secured by just about every jazz big band on the planet.’
Some samples of Graham Collier’s Music
An extract from The Third Colour featuring Karlheinz Miklin.
The opening to Hoarded Dreams
More samples - and two complete tracks - can be found by going to Recordings and clicking on the album titles, or by going to the page on MySpace dedicated to Graham Collier Music.
'Good jazz appears truly timeless - for example go to Graham Collier's MySpace page and play Down Another Road or Song 3 from Songs for my Father. Now that's what I call timeless and although I bought the albums at the time (30 years ago) they don't sound like they were recorded then. Could have been last week were it not for their originality.’
From a comment on the All About Jazz website.
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