With The Jazz Composer, Moving Music Off The Paper, veteran British jazz composer Graham Collier takes a philosophical look at the subject of jazz and jazz composition--published by Northway Books.

In 1969, when the composer and bassist Graham Collier took his sextet to Stockholm Jazz Days to give a live performance of their album Down Another Road (Fontana, 1969), the presence of a British band ...

He had graduated from Berklee in 1963 and went on, in 1987, to found the first jazz course at The Royal Academy of Music. He died in 2011. While his path can be seen as a series of bullet points – his ...

Graham Collier served with Bomber Command, R.A.F., during World War II. He was Professor of the Philosophy of the Arts at the University of Georgia and is now Professor Emeritus there; he is also an ...