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Mosaics - The Life and Works of Graham Collier (Hardcover)
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Mosaics - The Life and Works of Graham Collier (Hardcover)
Series: Popular Music History
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Graham Collier's career in jazz lasted over five decades. He was a
bassist, a band-leader, a composer, an educator and an author, who
wrote extensively about the music. His working life was littered
with `firsts'. Amongst his many achievements, he was the first
British jazz musician to study at the Berklee School of music in
Boston and the first to receive an Arts Council grant. In 1985,
Collier began teaching at the Royal Academy of Music, where he
later established the first full-time jazz degree course in the UK
in 1987. Mosaics draws extensively on Collier's personal archive,
as well as on interviews with fellow musicians, ex-students and
colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music. It locates Collier and
his work within the social and cultural changes which occurred
during his life and, particularly, in relation to developments in
British and European jazz of the 1960s and 70s. Collier's work as a
composer-bandleader represented an attempt to resolve the paradoxes
inherent in jazz between composition and improvisation, familiarity
and spontaneity and change and tradition. In this regard, Mosaics
compares Collier's work with other composers such as Duke
Ellington, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Mike Westbrook, Stan Tracey,
Barry Guy and Butch Morris. Throughout, Collier emerges as a
contradictory figure falling between several different camps. He
was never an out-and-out musical, cultural or political radical but
rather an individualist continually forced to confront the
contradictions in his own position - a musical outsider working
within a marginalised area of cultural activity; a gay man
operating in a very male area of the music business and within
heterosexist culture in general; a man of working class origins
stepping outside traditionally prescribed class boundaries; and a
musician-composer seeking individual solutions to collective
problems of aesthetic and ethical value.
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