- Graham Collier
James Graham Collier (born
February 21 ,1937 inTynemouth ) is a jazz bandleader and composer.He began playing trumpet in northern England and later worked in bands for the
British Army . In 1961 he received a scholarship to attend theBerklee College of Music and would be the first British student to graduate from the school. In 1963 he briefly toured withJimmy Dorsey 's Orchestra where he played bass.He is best known as a bandleader and has been one since 1964. His first band was the "Graham Collier Ensemble", which toured from the 1960s to the 1980s. In 1983 he started "Hoarded Dreams", which was more consistently a
big band . He also became a jazz educator at theRoyal Academy of Music and worked in film composition. In 1987 he was awarded theOrder of the British Empire .Works
Discography
*cite book| year =1967| title =Deep Dark Blue Centre| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9fuxqe0ldhe
*cite book| year =1970| title =Songs For My Father| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:abfixqqaldke
*cite book| year =1971| title =Mosaics| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fbfrxq9ald0e
*cite book| year =1975| title =Midnight Blue| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dbfpxqqald0e
*cite book| year =1976| title =Symphony of Scorpions| publisher =Mosaic UK| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzfyxqtgldfe
*cite book| year =1976| title =New Conditions| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0bfexqqaldae
*cite book| year =1978| title =The Day of the Dead| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:azfyxqtgldfe
*cite book| year =1988| title =Something British Made in Hong Kong| publisher =Mosaic UK| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gzfpxqe5ldte
*cite book| year =2000| title =Down Another Road| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9foxqq0ldke
*cite book| year =2000| title =This Third Color| publisher =Orchard| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dbfpxqrkldje
*cite book| year =2000| title =Darius| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3bfrxq9ald0e
*cite book| year =2000| title =Portraits| publisher =Disconforme| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:h9foxqq0ldke
*cite book| year =2003| title =Bread and Circuses| publisher =Jazzprint| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wzftxqtaldje
*cite book| year =2003| title =Winter Oranges| publisher =Jazzprint| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zfyxqtaldje
*cite book| year =2005| title =Charles River Fragments| publisher =Jazzprint| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hxfpxqealdhe
*cite book| year =2005| title =Workpoints| publisher =Cuneiform| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfixqesldhe
*cite book| year =2007| title =Hoarded Dreams| publisher =Cuneiform| url =http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wcfexqlrld6eBooks
* Jazz - A Students’ and Teachers’ Guide (Hardback and Paperback, Cambridge University Press 1977) Translated into German, Norwegian and Italian.
* Inside Jazz (Hardback and Paperback, Quartet Books 1973)
* Compositional Devices (Berklee Press Publications , Boston, Mass. 1975)
* Cleo and John (Quartet Books 1976)
* Jazz Workshop the Blues, (Universal Edition 1988) ISBN 0-900938-61-7
* Interaction – Opening Up the Jazz Ensemble (1998)External links
* [http://www.jazzcontinuum.com/ Collier's website]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-perl/music/muze/index.pl?site=radio2&action=biography&artist_id=482432&rand= BBC Radio 2]
* [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:rzadqj7bojja~T1 All Music]References
* Martin Kunzler, Jazz-Enzyklopädie Vol. 1. Rowohlt, Hamburg. ISBN 3-499-16512-0, p. 230f.
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