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Workpoints
Graham Collier
Workpoints
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Pop
 
  •  Track Listings (6) - Disc #1
  •  Track Listings (8) - Disc #2


     
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All Artists: Graham Collier
Title: Workpoints
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Cuneiform
Release Date: 5/10/2005
Genres: Jazz, Special Interest, Pop
Style: Avant Garde & Free Jazz
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 045775021324

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An interesting rediscovery...
N. Dorward | Toronto, ON Canada | 06/04/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is, as the cover proclaims, a pair of rediscovered live sessions from "a golden age of British jazz": a 1968 12-piece band including John Surman, Kenny Wheeler, Mike Gibbs, Henry Lowther, Harry Beckett, &c, performing Collier's ambitious early score "Workpoints" (not previously available on a recording) plus "Deep Dark Blue Centre" & "The Barley Mow"; and a 1975 sextet (Beckett, Art Themen, Ed Speight, Roger Dean, Collier & John Webb) playing a number of other pieces, most of them again previously unavailable (though the longest & most impressive is "Darius", the title-suite from a 1974 album). Frankly, some of this is a bit dated--the freaky rock guitar solo on "Little Ben" in particular strikes me as very much of its time--but for the most part the music holds up well: these were great players in their prime, after all. Why 3 stars then? The godawful sound: it's poor but bearable on the 1968 date, but the 1975 concert is even worse, as it's afflicted with a range of problems that include distortion, some balance problems & a bad dropout. For dedicated fans of British jazz only--but if you can handle the crummy sound it's certainly worth hearing."