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Ron Collier fonds
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Ron Collier fonds

  • OTUFM 35
  • Fonds
  • 1929-2004

Fonds consists of records created during Ron Collier's career as a performer, composer, arranger, teacher, and band leader. The fonds includes manuscripts of Collier's arrangements and original compositions; correspondence with musicians; photographs; lecture notes from his career at Humber College in Toronto, Ontario; and records from his collaborations with Duke Ellington. Fonds also contains audio and video recordings of performances and lectures.

Collier, Ron

Audio and video recordings

Series consists of audio and video recordings of performances by Ron Collier and of compositions and arrangements by Collier. The series includes audio cassettes from the Duke Ellington Society that were issued to its members; audio recordings of Collier's lectures on Ellington at Humber College (1980s); performances by the Ron Collier Quintet and the Ron Collier Tentet; and records from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio transcription service of performances by Collier, his groups, and his compositions and arrangements.

Ron Collier Quintet

File includes a recording of the Ron Collier Quintet with M. Kaye on piano instead of Ed Bickert on guitar.

Big Band Show

File consists of a recording.

Tracks:

  • Speculation
  • Vancouver lights
  • Night in Bohemia
  • Ballad
  • Freddie Freeloader.

Ron Collier Tentet : CBC

Tracks:

  • Strate ahead / Jack Feyer
  • Blues of one theme ; The myth of Marsyas / Collier
  • Home / Adderly, arr. Kaye
  • Lee's lament / Collier.

Ron Collier Septet

File consists of a recording of the Ron Collier Septet.

Tracks:

  • Barbadoe's / Parker, arr. Collier
  • Two shades of blue / Collier
  • Come Sunday / Ellington, arr. Collier
  • Autumn haze ; Wack'n out / Collier.
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