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| 1. | And Now For Something Completely Different, Pt. 1
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| 2. | And Now For Something Completely Different, Pt. 2
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| 3. | Portraits 1
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Jazz
Recorded 1961
Graham Collier - Bass
Dick Pearce - Flugelhorn
Ed Speight - Guitar
Geoff Castle - Piano
John Webb - Drums
Pete Hurt - Sax (Alto)
* David Voyde - Engineer
* Gerry Greaves - Design
* Rick Davis - Photography
* Terry Brace - Design
* Terry Brown - Producer
* Tom Leader - Digital Remastering
"Issued in 1973 after a pair of recording dates in late 1972, Portraits sees Collier revisiting his notion explored on Mosaics - the working out of longer forms. Three selections make up the album, the two-part "And Now For Something Completely Different," and the nearly 11-minute title track. The ensemble on Collier's Portraits contains only drummer John Webb, and pianist Geoff Castle from Collier's previous few outings, and includes only one saxophonist, Pete Hurt. Dick Pearce is in the brass chair, and Ed Speight is added on guitar. Musically, the exotica present on Mosaics has gone by the wayside in place of a more solidly modal attack that gives play to rock thematics in terms not only of texture, but of architecture. Collier paid close attention to Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, and took from it its sense of propulsive dynamics, and its repetition, while opening up the modes to a more swinging jazz vocabulary. On the suite, riffs take the place of front line melodies, and the modes that come from them are spun out of a clipped series of notes that wind around the rhythm section in a nearly hypnotic way. "Portraits I" is also Milesian, but more in the sense of the quintet's longer reaching palette of modal interstition and elocution. A restrained palette is employed as a way of exploiting all of its chromatic elements, and then inverting them in on themselves. Language between the soloists is overlapping and entwined, rather than oppositional. Time signatures do not vary, but the series of tension placed on one note over another seems to vary, according to arbitrary tonal considerations. This is a more laid-back, yet more challenging listen than any previous Collier outing, but it also dates as one of the best."
--- 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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