Graham Collier

Graham Collier was a British composer, bassist, arranger, educator, author, and bandleader. He was an eloquent jazz practitioner, able to write complex, abundantly harmonized lyrical scores wedding everything from the big-band tradition to the vanguard and post-bop with shifting time signatures and canny modalities. His 1967 debut, Deep Dark Blue Centre, revealed the influence of Gil Evans but with a more adventurous rhythmic palette. 1971's Mosaics forged distinctive frameworks for group improvisation and 1978's The Day of the Dead was inspired by Malcolm Lowry's writings, pa...