Apart from that, I'm now back from my five week birthday tour of northern Europe, with this accolade from The Guardian review of the Derby Jazz Festival commission concluding a highly successful period: “Hearing Collier rehearsing his swelling brass chords behind long-time associate Harry Beckett's skipping trumpet lines was a reminder of what a special place the two of them occupy in UK jazz evolution."
Also noteable is this comment from a review of a half-hour talk on my career in Ray's Jazz Shop in Foyles, London: “At 70, this guy is still the hip dude who [recorded] Aberdeen Angus in 1969."
Reviews of Hoarded Dreams, the previously unissued all star big band recording from 1983, continue to arrive. Here are some brief extracts: “brash and extroverted musicality;" “consistently exciting, at times downright exhilarating;" “a touchstone for Graham Collier's music."
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