jazzcontinuum is a three-part interconnected site about jazz, from veteran British jazz composer Graham Collier. His unshakeable belief is that jazz happens in real time, once, and that this is the music’s blessing and its curse. This belief is at the core of his important new book the jazz composer, moving music off the paper.

jazzcontinuum is also a record label dedicated to keeping Graham Collier’s catalogue permanently available.

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The jazzcontinuum site includes
a blog covering aspects of jazz, of jazz composition, of life;
Selected Blog postings
28/1/09 World Exclusive - Obama on Jazz
17/3/09 Free Potatoes Today!
15/4/09 & 14/5/09 The Jazztastic Aberdeen Angus - with a free full length download
9/6/09 How Long, oh Lord? (How long can America keep claiming jazz superiority?)

a collection of Graham Collier’s writings including his report on Jazz Education in America and his transcription of a panel at the 20000 IAJE conference on the teaching of avant-garde jazz. Entitled The Shape of Jazz to Come? It was hailed as the first time that that organisation had addressed the issue; an issue which should have been of vital importance to jazz educators, forty or more years after Kind of Blue changed jazz forever.
For more articles click on Writings in the sidebar on the right.

a recommendations list: books, records, art. Anything and everything that should be better known, including Harry Beckett, the trumpeter shown below with Graham in rehearsal.

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Graham Collier’s previous jazzcontinuum site has been split into two new sites:
grahamcolliermusic.com which deals with his life, his current news, and the 19 recordings made during his 40 year career as a leading jazz composer. His music is illustrated by a 13 minute montage, as well as MP3 and MSS samples from the individual recordings;
And
thejazzcomposer.com a site concentrating on his important new book, the jazz composer, moving music off the paper, recently published by Northway Books. the jazz composer is a philosophical study of jazz composing, and of jazz itself. It asks serious questions about how a music which is meant to be creative, so rarely is.
Some early reviews:
[A] mindstorm of a book. Chris Searle, The Morning Star
 This is an important book. Doug Ramsey, Rifftides
 On any short list of the most polemical writers in jazz today, he is fighting for the top spot. Ted Gioia, jazz.com