Charles River Fragments is an album by Graham Collier, composed of two pieces, which are "The Hackney Five" (9:51), a suite recorded in 1995 and dedicated to Cleo and Ian Palmer and to Zoe, Lucy and Rupert, and the proper "Charles River Fragments" (totalling 55:56), a suite composed by 10 sections, commissioned by BBC Radio Three for the London Jazz Festival and recorded in May 1994.

[1] The album was firstly published by the English label Boathouse Records in 1996 (code BHR 004), and successively in 2003 by the JazzPrint label, which is the current release.

[2] AllAboutJazz reports an excerpt of the book "Mosaic" by Duncan Heining: "...There are the inevitable cadenzas, changes of tempo and mood, fluctuations in volume and abrupt endings.

Ballads contrast with a fast waltz or with driving jazz-rock or swinging big band jazz, at times with a strong Latin feel.

And, perhaps more successfully here than on any of Collier's previous compositions, we hear the deployment of discrete improvising units".