Graham Collier with Graham Collier Music - Jazz Illustrations

Tracklist

A1	Improvising From A Basic Motif (Over A Tapped Pulse)
A2	More Complex Improvising From A Basic Motif Over Pedal Note And Pattern)
A3	Several Musicians Using A Pre-arranged Form To Illustrate Simple Arrangements And Motif Improvising
A4	Improvising From A Basic Motif Over A Basic Blues Progression
A5	Chordal Improvising (Including Passing Notes) Over A Basic Blues Progression
A6	Several Musicians Playing Short Pre-arranged Riffs And Answering Solo Fills On A Basic Blues Sequence
A7	Chordal Improvising (With Passing Notes) Over A Common Bass Pattern
A8	Chordal Improvising On A Common Popular Song Sequence With Backings And Riffs Made Up By The Other Musicians
A9	Illustration Of Imaginative Small Group Arranging. Opening To 'Portraits I'
B1	Improvising Using Three Scales Commonly Used Over A G7 Chord
B2	Improvising Using The Dorian Mode
B3	Improvising On Blues With A Complex Time Structure - 'Song III'
B4	Improvising On Contemporary Harmonies - 'Mosaics II'
B5	Improvising On 5/4 Blues
B6	Group Mood Improvisation On 'Ghosts'
B7	Group Freely Improvising With No Pre-conceived Structure
B8	Soloist Indicating In His Cadenza Which Option He Wishes To Take

Credits

• Bass, Composed By, Arranged By – Graham Collier
• Drums – John Webb
• Electric Guitar – Ed Speight
• Piano, Electric Piano – Geoff Castle
• Tenor Saxophone – Art Themen
• Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone – Alan Wakeman
• Trombone – Derek Wadsworth
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Harold Beckett*

Notes

This record provides the musical illustrations to accompany the second half of Graham Collier's book 'Jazz: A Student's and Teacher's Guide'.

A9: Fuller recorded versions available on 'Portraits' LP
B3: Fuller recorded versions available on 'Songs For My Father' LP
B4: Fuller recorded versions available on 'Mosaics' LP

Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press