Label: Repertoire Records (UK), Repuk 1396
Style: Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock
Country: England
Time: 74:14, 73:34
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 522, 464 Mb
“The first thing that strikes you about this new 2CD live album from Colosseum, professionally recorded across several shows in early 1971, is how sensational it sounds. Vibrant, clear, sparkling, dynamic and alive. Mixing/mastering engineer Eroc (one Joachim Ehrig, a pro recording artist in bands and solo, as Eroc, from the 70s to the 90s, now a mastering maestro) has done an astounding job!”
It’s a blistering performance, too. For those who don’t know much about Colosseum, their sound is - to my mind - part of a peculiarly British sort of jazz/rock blend, involving the likes of brass, Hammond and vibraphones, that thrived briefly for roughly a year either side of 1970. It’s a sound world that had its origins in the Graham Bond Organisation of the middle 60s - in which Colosseum mainstays Jon Hiseman (drums) and Dick Heckstall-Smith (saxes) both played - was influenced by the absurdist songwriting of Pete Brown with Jack Bruce in Cream, and that was developed by Jack Bruce’s ‘Songs for a Tailor’ (1969) album arrangements (again, featuring both Hiseman and DHS) and his 1971 touring band (which reunited him with Bond), by the Keef Hartley Band (a briefly flourishing drummer-led band with horn section), by Neil Ardley’s New Jazz Orchestra (which collaborated with Colosseum on some live shows), by the first two albums by jazz/rock arranger Michael Gibbs (1970-71) and his live band, and by one or two other acts of that brief period. It wasn’t ‘jazz-rock’ as represented by the likes of Nucleus in Britain or the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the US; rather, it was a kind of progressive rock music with jazz players and influences involved and, in Hartley and Colosseum’s cases, based more around songs than instrumentals.
(classicrockreview.wordpress.com/2021/12/05/colloseum-live-1971/)
01. Tanglewood '63 (13:08)
02. Rope Ladder To The Moon (08:39)
03. Walking In The Park (08:13)
04. Skellington (13:21)
05. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice (14:59)
06. Lost Angeles (15:52)
01. Rope Ladder To The Moon (11:14)
02. Skellington (14:17)
03. I Can't Live Without You-The Time Machine-The Machine Demands A Sacrifice (21:37)
04. The Valentyne Suite (21:13)
05. Stormy Monday Blues (05:11)
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