GRAHAM COLLIER Songs For My Father Orig UK Jazz LP Alan Skidmore Harry Beckett
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Graham Collier Music
Songs For My Father
Very Rare original UK LP released on Fontana Records in 1970. 1st UK pressing on the Black and Silver label, the sleeve is fully laminated.
Matrix No's
Side One - 6309006 1Y//420
Side Two - 6309006 2Y//1 420
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, let's forge something uniquely British" (their pretensions were European though they weren't). His contributions to the jazz canon are finally being seen in light of what they actually are: very forward-looking works that extend the jazz boundary into new chromatic and harmonic regions and have an identity that is distinctly non-American. Collier's modalism is so far outside the norms as to speak an entirely different architectural language. Songs for My Father featured a Collier septet with Harry Beckett on trumpet, pianist John Taylor, saxophonists Alan Wakeman and Bob Sydor, and drummer John Webb. This unique look at shaping traditional jazz narratives in new modal and chromatic lights brings into consideration all of the developments of Coltrane's sonic inclusiveness (which Parker and Bailey did too, though they tried to minimize that aspect) and a dramatic range that leapt off from Gil Evans. The album's opener, "Song One," in elastic 7/4, is a case in point, where front lines collapse a hard bop figure into thirds and then extend the back of the line, where the horns become harmonic planks and Taylor moves around the time signature in counterpoint to the rhythm section. Wakeman's soprano solo is just breathtaking. The moving Spanish motif at the opening of "Song Two (Ballad)" is part of Collier's envisioning of a music he would later revisit with Day of the Dead. The shimmering angularity of "Song Five (Rubato)" is one of Collier's benchmarks as a jazz composer; his utilization of the interval as a way to stretch time in order to allow a melody to impose itself on the frame is remarkable. In sum, Songs for My Father is the first evidence listeners have of the maturing Collier, moving jazz aesthetics around in order to more fully articulate his sophisticated palette.
Tracks Are :-
Side One
1 Song One (Seven-Four)
2 Song Two (Ballad)
3 Song Three (Nine-Eight Blues)
Side Two
1 Song Four (Waltz In Four-Four)
2 Song Five (Rubato)
3 Song Six (Dirge)
4 Song Seven (Four-Four Figured)
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Released on Fontana Records in 1970
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Catalogue Number 6309 006
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Record is in Near Mint condition
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Sleeve is in Ex ++ condition
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