Hoarded Dreams

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.

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?

Expect raucously abstract playing, lyrical and melodic tune-led sections, driving rhythms, mighty cadenzas and brooding moments of transcendence.

[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.

Hoarded Dreams’ stylistic individuality and give-it-your-all energy make most recent big band albums sound prim and obsessively tidy by comparison".