Graham Collier

Graham Collier
Born: Feb 21, 1937 in Tynemouth, England
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Styles: Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative, Modern Big Band, Experimental Big Band, Big Band
Biography: 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 ...Read full biography
The Day of the Dead
Released: 1978
Label: Mosaic UK
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For those enamored with the detailed and often brilliant writing of British bassist Graham Collier, the rare and sumptuous two-CD Day of the Dead set issued on the Spanish Disconforme label is a wonderful ...Read full review
Songs for My Father
Released: 1970
Label: Disconforme Spain
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Bassist, composer, and bandleader Graham Collier may have gotten the short shrift early in his career for not taking the same iconoclastic position Evan Parker and Derek Bailey did: "Forget American jazz, ...Read full review
More Graham Collier albums: Main Albums (17), Compilations (2)
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