Graham Collier Music - Songs For My Father **UK 1970 Fontana 6309 006** EX+/MINT

	£		90
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Graham Collier Music - Songs For My Father

 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.

Fontana - 6309 006 - UK 1970

Matrix Numbers:  6309006 1Y//420 1 1 5  /   6309006 2Y//1 420 1 1 4

  Condition

 Cover: EX+ (just a few small areas of general age related wear / light creasing) 

Vinyl: MINT- (just one or two very faint hairlines - near immaculate copy with glistening shine)

Labels: EX+

Play Grade: EX+/MINT- (superb, clear and precise audio - you will not find a better sounding copy than this!)

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