The Day of the Dead (album)

The Day of the Dead
Studio album by Graham Collier
Released 1978
Recorded March/April 1978
Nettlebed, Oxfordshire, England
Genre Jazz
Length 83:23
Label Mosaic
GCMD 783/4
Producer Graham Collier
Graham Collier chronology
Symphony of Scorpions
(1977)Symphony of Scorpions1977		 The Day of the Dead
(1978)		 Hoarded Dreams
(1983)Hoarded Dreams1983

The Day of the Dead is an album by composer Graham Collier featuring his composition to accompany the writings of Malcolm Lowry which was originally released on his own Mosaic label in 1978 as a double LP.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]
All About Jazz[4]

Allmusic said "Collier's love of Malcolm Lowry's texts from his time in Mexico became an obsession, and this work is the biggest payoff for it, whether or not it was understood in its own time ... Collier's vision here is focused, intense, and spiritually charged by Lowry's work. This is not some jazz with text, where a written text becomes the thematic cause of a group of instrumentalists, but more a series of passages that offered great textural and spiritual depth and dimension by this obviously on fire group of musicians. This is vanguard music, but it is far from "free jazz." The gorgeous chromatic range is almost overwhelming as these players entwine around one another, and the text, further extending the entire notion of collaboration between literature and jazz".[3] On All About Jazz Nic Jones noted "Collier could call upon a roster of players every bit as committed to the task of taking his music off the page as Duke Ellington did and, over the course of this work, proven by likes of guitarist Ed Speight and saxophonists Alan Wakeman and Art Themen. All three turn in potent solos, highlighting the symbiotic qualities that were always a mark of Collier's writing".[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Graham Collier with text by Malcolm Lowrey.

  1. "Parts 1 & 2" – 21:02
  2. "Part 3" – 8:18
  3. "Part 4" – 13:08
  4. "Part 5" – 4:48
  5. "Part 6" – 5:06
  6. "Parts 7 & 8" – 7:44
  7. "October Ferry" – 23:15

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Graham Collier Discography, accessed December 28, 2016
  2. ↑ Graham Collier: A Tribute, accessed December 28, 2016
  3. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. The Day of the Dead – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Jones, N. All About Jazz Review, January 4, 2012
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