Digitally Remastered - Release 2016 - 2CD Set
Without Jazzrock inovator GRAHAM BOND (& his Organisation) this music field where not the same.
Hiseman and Heckstall-Smith split from Bond around 1967 or 68 to join John Mayall recording the
BARE WIRES album in 1968 (which was very much in the same vain), after that they left together
with Tony Reeves adding D.Greenslade (ex-Chris Farlowe, Geno) to form UKs premier progressive
jazzrock band COLOSSEUM.
End of 1971 the band split and was reformed twice and active in the new millenium.
The album Valentyne Suite was the first LP released on Prog-Rock label VERTIGO - Swirl
Style-Genre: Progressive Jazzrock ; Rock ;
see:
GRAHAM BOND; ALEXIS KORNER ; DEVIANTS ; SWEET PAIN ; JOHN MAYALL;
CHRIS FARLOWE ; MOGUL TRASH ; TEMPEST ; DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH ;
HAMBURG BLUES BAND ; BAKERLOO ; HUMBLE PIE; MONKEES ; Pete Brown;
GREENSLADE; BARBARA THOMPSON ; UNITED JAZZ & ROCK ENSEMBLE ;
ARTWOODS ; Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band ;
Musicians:
Jon Hiseman - drums; Dave Greenslade - keyboards, Dick Heckstall-Smith - sax;
Tony Reeves - bass; James Litherland - guitar, voc.;
(1st lineup with Jim Roche - guitar; Malcolm Pool - bass)
End of 1969-1971:
Dave Clempson - lead guitar; Mark Clarke - bass, voc.; Chris Farlowe - lead vocals;
CD ONE
COLOSSEUM LIVE (1971) :
Rope Ladder to the Moon (Bruce-P.Brown)
Walking in the Park (G.Bond)
Skellington (Clempson-Hiseman)
I can't live without you (Litherland)
Tanglewood '63 (M.Gibbs)
Encore - Stormy Monday Blues (Aron T.Walker)
Lost Angeles (Greenslade/Heckstall-Smith/Farlowe)
CD TWO
Bonus-Tracks:
Rope Ladder to the Moon (Bruce-P.Brown)
Skellington (Clempson-Hiseman)
I can't live without you (Litherland)
Time Machine
The Machine demands a Sacrifice
Stormy Monday Blues
The Valentyne Suite :
a) Januarys Search
b) Theme Two - Februarys Valentyne
c) Theme Three - The Grass is Greener