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Ron Collier, OC (July 3, 1930 – October 22, 2003) was a Canadian jazz trombonist, composer, and arranger. [1] [2] He performed in and led a number of jazz groups, and created orchestrations for and recorded with Duke Ellington.
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Collier received his early training from 1943–50 in Vancouver, where he played trombone in the Kitsilano Boys' Band. From 1951–54, he studied composition in Toronto with Gordon Delamont. With the help of the first Canada Council grant given to a jazzcomposer, he went to New York from 1961–62, where he studied orchestration with Hall Overton and the...
The versatile Collier played trombone in the 1950s with Toronto dance bands, such as Mart Kenney and His Western Gentlemen, as well as the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the National Ballet and Canadian Opera Companyorchestras, and for CBC Radio and Television programs. He also backed up Billie Holiday and played with Charles Mingus. While a member of...
During the late 1950s, Collier, like Symonds, was a central figure in the third-stream movement in Canada. In that idiom he composed such works as Sonata, which featured pianistNorm Amadio. In the 1960s, Collier also worked with the spoken word. His composition The City (1960), for orchestra and narrator-singer, was an evocation of city life featur...
In 1967, Louis Applebaum arranged for Duke Ellington to play as solo pianist on a CAPAC-sponsored recording with Collier conducting a big band and string orchestra. The recording included Collier’s “Aurora Borealis” and “Silent Night, Lonely Night,” as well as two works each by Symonds and Delamont. Collier subsequently collaborated with Ellington ...
Collier wrote scores for the play The Mechanic (1965), the ballet Aurora Borealis (1966; broadcast on CBC TV in 1967), for several industrial films (1967–71), for CBC Radio and TV shows and for the feature films Face Off (1971), A Fan's Notes (1972) and Paperback Hero (1973). His Waterfront, Night Thoughts (1965) was recorded by Robert Aitken.
In 1972, Collier became composer-in-residence at Humber College in Toronto. He taught composition and arranging there from 1974 to 1994. His pupils included Pete Coulman, Scott MacMillan, Jim McGrath, John Roby, Ilmars Sermulis and Doug Wilde. He directed the college's stage band to victory at the Canadian Stage Band Festival (now MusicFest Canada)...
Collier was a member of the Canadian League of Composers and an associate of the Canadian Music Centre. He died of cancer in October 2003, and was posthumously made an Officer of the Order of Canadalater that year.
Ron Collier Biography by Eugene Chadbourne This talented Canadian trombonist, composer, and arranger is best-known for his collaborations with Duke Ellington in the '70s, but was also part of a tiny Canadian third stream jazz scene in the late '50s, backed up visiting jazz dignitaries such as Billie Holiday , and worked with iconoclastic ...
May 6, 2011 · The bespoke B25 12-bore was ordered from the legendary Browning factory four years ago by an Aston aficionado called Ron Collier. He specified that one side of the breech be engraved with an image of his short-wheelbase Vantage Volante and the other with his V8 Vantage Volante from the twilight years of Newport Pagnell production.
In 1973, Collier started his first practice with Jerry Quick as the Quick-Collier Partnership. They designed several modernist houses at Carolina Trace in Southern Pines, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, Wrightsville Beach and Ocean Isle.
Ron (Ronald William) Collier was a composer, arranger, conductor, trombonist, and teacher. Born near Lethbridge, Alberta on July 3, 1930, he received his early musical training in the Kitsilano Boys' Band in Vancouver, British Columbia (1943-1950).
Nov 27, 2007 · Ron (Ronald William) Collier. Composer, arranger, conductor, trombonist, teacher, b Coleman, near Lethbridge, Alta, 3 Jul 1930, d Toronto 22 Oct 2003. Ron Collier received his early training 1943-50 in Vancouver, where he played trombone in the Kitsilano Boys' Band.
