Graham Collier Sextet

[jazzy_dave]

When Phil dropped me back home i rested for awhile listening to some Tubby Hayes jazz music. I just want to explore some of the great jazz that came out of this country back in the late sixties,sixties and early seventies.

Mike is getting me a lovely three CD set of Graham Collier's music for my birthday. I gave him a couple of books.



Graham Collier's Sextet made some extraordinary jazz albums between 1968 - 1972.

Collier's compositions on the LP "Songs For My Father" range from the modal to free in a comprehensive and capable outing of British Jazz. The track 'Song One' Is a 9 min + mid tempo assault.

In a similar vein to Ian Carr's Nucleus , combining jazz with beat driven groves, this LP "Down Another Road" works very well. The track included here is the title cut with John Marshall on drums.

Here is some rare live footage of them from 1969

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Festival France. Harry Beckett - tpt; Stan Sulzmann - sax; Nick Evans - trombone; Stanley Cowell - piano; Graham Collier - bass; John Marshall - drums


He produced 19 albums and CDs of his music and also worked in a wide range of other media: on stage plays and musicals, on documentary and fiction film, and on a variety of radio drama productions.

In 2007 he worked with Derby Jazz.


Graham Collier and Harry Beckett with the East Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra - 'From Acorns' (2007)

Music commissioned by Derby Jazz from Graham Collier to celebrate their 25th anniversary. Graham, who featured in the first ever Derby Jazz concert, wrote this piece 'From Acorns' for the East Midlands Youth Jazz Orchestra and it features the late Harry Beckett on trumpet and John Bailey on piano. It was recorded on 24th March 2007 in The Great Hall, Derby.

Graham passed away in 2011.His music though still ivies on.