Graham Collier

James Graham Collier (21 February 1937 – 9 September 2011) was an English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer.
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, on leaving school Collier joined the British Army as a musician, spending three years in Hong Kong. He subsequently won a Down Beat magazine scholarship to the Berklee School of Music, Boston, studying with Herb Pomeroy and was its first British graduate in 1963. On his return to Britain he founded the first... more