GRAHAM COLLIER MUSIC PORTRAITS UK JAZZ ESSENTIAL LP MODAL FREE ???????FUNK BREAK

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STUNNING LP . UK LABEL SAYDIS RECORDS , SDL 244 STEREO . ORIGINAL AND ONLY UK 1973 PRESS . VG++ RECORD AND SLEEVE ( LAMINATED !! )  . 12MN + SOUND SAMPLE . 
"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." THANKS TO  Thom Jurek .  
PERSONNEL IS 

Alto Saxophone – Peter Hurt
Bass – Graham Collier
Drums – John Webb (2)
Flugelhorn – Dick Pearce
Guitar – Ed Speight
Piano – Geoff Castle
Producer – Terry Brown

TRACKLIST IS
 
A1 And Now For Something Completely Different Part One 16:55
B2 And Now For Something Completely Different Part Two 8:55
B3 Portraits 1 12:00










 

RECORD GRADING IS  M/NM/VG++/VG+/VG/G/P.
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SOUND SAMPLES ARE ALWAYS FROM THE RECORD ON AUCTION. 
RECORDS WILL BE CAREFULLY SHIPPED IN PROTECTED CARDBOARD.

RECORD GRADING IS  M= A perfect, unplayed record . NM= Record appears new, At most, perhaps a barely visible sleeve mark appears on the record. It should play without any noise or skips of any kind whatsoever. VG++= Record has some extremely light surface marks. These marks do not affect play. Very nice copy VG+= Record has noticeable marks, Light surface scratches and may play with some very light noise, but doesn't overpower the music, Still very enjoyable. VG= Record has noticeable marks and scratches, plays with noise

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