Hoarded Dreams

Hoarded Dreams
Live album by
Graham Collier
Released16 January 2007
RecordedJuly 1983
VenueBracknell Jazz Festival, England
GenreJazz
Length70:16
LabelCuneiform
RUNE 252
ProducerGraham Collier
Graham Collier chronology
The Day of the Dead
(1977) 		Hoarded Dreams
(2007) 		Something British Made in Hong Kong
(1985)

Hoarded Dreams is a live album by bassist/composer Graham Collier featuring a composition commissioned for the Bracknell Jazz Festival by the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1983 and released on the Cuneiform label in 2007.[1][2][3]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[4]
Penguin Guide to Jazz[5]
Jazzwise[6]
All About Jazz[7]

Allmusic said "It features the cream of '80s U.K. jazz talent ... in a seamless combination of part-written, part-improvised big-band performance".[4] The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected this album as part of its suggested Core Collection.[5][8] In Jazzwise contributor Duncan Heining enthused: "What a monumental piece of music. George Russell, Mike Westbrook, Charles Mingus and Graham Collier – how many other jazz composers could produce something of such epic proportions where both composition and improvisation combine to such powerful effect? ... the composition continues to develop in the performance and becomes part of the improvisation and the improvisers create the writing anew every time they play. Expect raucously abstract playing, lyrical and melodic tune-led sections, driving rhythms, mighty cadenzas and brooding moments of transcendence. You won’t be disappointed".[6] On All About Jazz Roger Farbey called it "an extraordinary masterpiece" and noted "The whole of Hoarded Dreams works so well because it doesn't manage to get bogged down by any one particular style or genre. It bounces from free or collective improvisation to carefully scored ensemble sections, creating a surprisingly satisfying effect because it exploits a classic characteristic of jazz: creating a mood of tension followed by release"[7] while Nic Jones said "Hoarded Dreams just might be a touchstone for Graham Collier's music, more specifically the inventions for large ensembles that he's been fashioning for the last thirty-odd years".[9] Exclaim! reviewer Nate Dorward commented "it’s an enormous pleasure to hear this music at last. Hoarded Dreams’ stylistic individuality and give-it-your-all energy make most recent big band albums sound prim and obsessively tidy by comparison".[10]

Track listing[edit]

All compositions by Graham Collier.

  1. "Part 1" – 2:53
  2. "Part 2" – 14:30
  3. "Part 3" – 11:21
  4. "Part 4" – 10:30
  5. "Part 5" – 14:35
  6. "Part 6" – 13:54
  7. "Part 7" – 2:30

Personnel[edit]

Documentary[edit]

In Britain, Channel 4 broadcast a television documentary on the performance (also called Hoarded Dreams) which was recorded in 1983 at the Bracknell Jazz Festival and broadcast on March 6, 1985. It featured an interview with Collier conducted by jazz critic Charles Fox, as well as parts of the concert.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Graham Collier Discography, accessed December 28, 2016
  2. ^ Cuneiform Records Discography, accessed December 28, 2016
  3. ^ Graham Collier: A Tribute, accessed December 28, 2016
  4. ^ a b Music, All. Hoarded Dreams – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Graham Collier". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 281. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.
  6. ^ a b Heining, D., Jazzwise Review, January 17, 2007
  7. ^ a b Farbey, R., All About Jazz Review, February 27, 2007
  8. ^ Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List, accessed December 28, 2016
  9. ^ Jones, N. All About jazz Review 2, March 7, 2007
  10. ^ Dorward, N., Exclaim! Review, June 20, 2007
  11. ^ Hoarded Dreams (1985) IMDB.com

External links[edit]

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