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| 1. | Midnight Blue
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| 2. | Adam
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| 3. | Cathedra
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Jazz
Recorded on 1975
Graham Collier - Bass, Liner Notes
Derek Wadsworth - Trombone
Ed Speight - Guitar
Harry Beckett - Flugelhorn, Trumpet
Roger Dean - Piano
* Barry McRae - Author
* Bob Auger - Engineer
* Jordi Soley - Producer
* Mike Jarvis - Original Sleeve Design
* Pere Soley - Supervisor
"Graham Collier composed "Midnight Blue," "Adam," and "Cathedral" as meditative responses to - and accompaniments for - like-named paintings by American abstract expressionist Barnett Newman. Collier, who had grown used to working conceptually after his previous effort, the monumental, stunning work Darius, recorded on his immediately preceding album of the same name, was firmly in his element with these deeply focused works. There was only one major change in Collier's band on this outing, which was the replacement of pianist Geoff Castle with Roger Dean. Castle's work had grown increasingly toward pro-rock and jazz fusion, and Collier, with his stablemates Ed Speight, Derek Wadsworth, and John Webb, were moving back into a knottily structured jazz modalism. Perhaps because of their inspiration sources, these pieces on Midnight Blue all feel very ponderous, open, and yet unyielding. This is uncharacteristic of most of Collier's work, and it feels as if even he didn't know what he was going for when he wrote these works. The lilting swing that is at the heart of his best work is absent here, and this feels more like an ECM recording than anything else."
--- Thom Jurek (All Music Guide)
Graham Collier
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Feb 21, 1937 in Tynemouth, England
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Big Band, Modern Creative, Modern Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band
Composer. English composer Graham Collier was the first British student to graduate from Berklee College of Music. Collier won a scholarship in 1961, after playing more than seven years in an army band. He toured briefly in 1963 with the Jimmy Dorsey orchestra playing bass, then returned to England where he formed the Graham Collier Ensemble. This group through the '60s,'70s and '80s has contained many of Britain's finest musicians, gathered to play Collier's original compositions. It's varied in size and personnel; some alumni include Harry Beckett, Kenny Wheeler and John Surman. Collier established a big band, Hoarded Dreams, in 1983. It debuted at the Bracknell Jazz Festival with a lineup bolstered by such special guests as Ted Curson and Manfred Schoof. Then the next year he began a rehearsal ensemble that late became the nucleus of the group Loose Tubes. Collier became a professor and eventually director of jazz studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire by the Queen in 1987 for contributions to jazz, and has also written music for several plays, films and television, plus authored a number of books. Since 1974, Collier has owned and managed Britain's now defunct Mosaic label, not to be confused with America's premier reissue operation. Collier was also a founder member and member of the board of the International Association of Schools of Jazz and ran its magazine, Jazz Changes, for seven years until it publication ended in 2000. Collier now lives in southern Spain and continues to compose and tour internationally. Recent projects have included work with the Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra and the NDR Big Band, and concerts throughout Europe and in the USA and Australia.
---Ron Wynn, All Music Guide |
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