Colosseum

• 6-CD BOX SET

• First fully authorised release comprising Colosseum recorded live at the BBC 1969-1971

• Over 60 tracks, many recordings new to CD - over 6 hours playing time

• Painstakingly researched by Colin Harper, Nigel Lees and Ashley Wood

• Restored and remastered by Eroc for optimum sound quality throughout

• In-depth liner notes by Chris Welch with a foreword by Pete Brown

• Includes 44-page booklet, photographs and contributions from former band members

Pioneering Progressive Jazz rockers Colosseum are to have a new, fully authorised six-disc collection of their BBC Sessions from 1969-1971 released through Repertoire Records later this month.

“Transmissions Live At The BBC” features Colosseum sessions for BBC radio shows such as John Peel’s Top Gear, Sounds Of The 70s, Jazz Workshop and more and comprises some 60 tracks recorded between 1969 and 1971. It featurtes the earliest version of Colosseum with founder members Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Dave Greenslade and Tony Reeves joined by guitarist/vocalist James Litherland. Later classic line-ups include Dave Clempson on guitar with Chris Farlowe (vocals) and Mark Clarke (bass) with guest appearances by Barbara Thompson (sax/flute) and the New Jazz Orchestra.

Much of the material has been rescued from the BBC and Colosseum archives, along with rare recordings by fans and enthusiasts. It has been painstaking collected, collated, restored and digitalised by the combined forces of historian and archivist Colin Harper and Jon’s daughter Ana Gracey.

TRACKS:

• CD ONE (71.32 min)
• Top Gear, 19 January 1969
• 01. The Road She Walked Before
• 02. Backwater Blues
• 03. A Whiter Shade Of Powell Symonds On Sunday, 16 March 1969
• 04. Walking In The Park
• 05. Interview with Jon Hiseman
• 06. Beware The Ides Of March
• 07. Plenty Hard Luck Johnnie Walker, 24 May 1969
• 08. Elegy
• 09. Walking In The Park
• 10. Butty’s Blues
• 11. I Can’t Live Without You
• Top Gear, 6 July 1969
• 12. Elegy
• 13. The Grass Is Greener
• 14. Hiseman’s Condensed History Of Mankind
• 15. February’s Valentyne Symonds On Sunday, 20 July 1969
• 16. Elegy
• 17. The Road She Walked Before
• 18. Walking In The Park
• 19. Butty’s Blues

• CD TWO (69.04 min.)
• Radio 1 Jazz Workshop, 17 July 1969
• 01. Elegy (take 1)
• 02. I Can’t Live Without You
• 03. Walking In The Park
• 04. Those About To Die (take 1)
• 05. Butty’s Blues (Take 1)
• 06. Mandarin
• 07. The Grass Is Greener
• Top Gear, 22 November 1969
• 08. Interview with Dick Heckstall-Smith
• 09. Lost Angeles
• 10. Arthur’s Moustache
• Unknown session late 1969/early 1970
• 11. Jumping Off The Sun
• 12. Theme For An Imaginary Western
• 13. Take Me Back To Doomsday
• 14. Lost Angeles (partial)
• 15. Angle
• 16. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice

• CD THREE (65.22 min.)
• John Peel’s Sunday Concert, 8 March 1970
• 01. Lost Angeles
• 02. Downhill And Shadows
• 03. Theme For An Imaginary Western
• 04. Introduction: John Peel
• 05. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice
• Sounds Of The 70s, 7 April 1970
• 06. Bring Out Your Dead
• 07. Time Lament
• 08. Daughter Of Time

• CD FOUR (59.34 MIN.)
• John Peel’s Sunday Concert, 8 November 1970
• 01. Introduction: John Peel
• 02. Rope Ladder To The Moon
• 03. Introduction: John Peel
• 04. Downhill And Shadows
• 05. Introduction: John Peel
• 06. Tanglewood ’63
• 07. Introduction: John Peel
• 08. Time Lament
• 09. Introduction: John Peel
• 10. Lost Angeles

• CD FIVE (65.47 min)
• Sounds Of The 70s, 21 July 1970
• 01. Butty’s Blues
• 02. Shades Of Blue
• 03. Rope Ladder To The Moon
• 04. Tanglewood ’63
• Sounds Of The 70s, 19 February 1971
• 05. Take Me Back To Doomsday
• 06. Skelington
• 07. The Pirate’s Dream
• 08. Tanglewood ’63

• CD SIX (55.17 min.)
• Sounds Of The 70s, 10 September 1971
• 01. Jumping Off The Sun
• 02. Sleepwalker
• 03. The Pirate’s Dream
• 04. Upon A Tomorrow
• Bonus tracks
• Symonds On Sunday, 16 March 1969
• 05. Walking In The Park (off-air)
• Jazz Workshop 1969: extra takes
• 06. Those About To Die (take 2)
• 07. Butty’s Blues (take 2)
• 08. Elegy (take 2)