Colosseum - Transmission Live At The BBC (6 cds)

Colosseum - Transmission Live At The BBC - 2020

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.

CD 1

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 2

Radio 1 Jazz Workshop, 17 July 1969

20. Elegy (take 1)

21. I Can't Live Without You

22. Walking In The Park

23. Those About To Die (take 1)

24. Butty's Blues (take 1)

25. Mandarin

26. The Grass Is Greener

Top Gear, 22 November 1969

27. Interview with Dick Heckstall-Smith

28. Lost Angeles

29. Arthur's Moustache

Unknown Session late 1969 / early 1970

30. Jumping Off The Sun

31. Theme For An Imaginary Western

32. Take Me Back To Doomsday

33. Lost Angeles (partial)

34. Angle

35. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice

CD 3

John Peel's Sunday Concert, 8 March 1970

36. Lost Angeles

37. Downhill And Shadows

38. Theme For An Imaginary Western

39. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice

40. Walking In The Park

Sounds Of The 70s, 7 April 1970

41. Bring Out Your Dead

42. Time Lament

43. Daughter Of Time

CD 4

John Peel's Sunday Concert, 8 November 1970

44. Rope Ladder To The Moon

45. Downhill And Shadows

46. Tanglewood '63

47. Time Lament

48. Lost Angeles

CD 5 

Sounds Of The 70s, 21 July 1970

49. Butty's Blues

50. Shades Of Blue

51. Rope Ladder To The Moon

52. Tanglewood '63

Sounds Of The 70s, 19 February 1971

53. Take Me Back To Doomsday

54. Skellington

55. The Pirate's Dream

56. Tanglewood '63

CD 6

Sounds Of The 70s, 10 September 1971

57. Jumping Off The Sun

58. Sleepwalker

59. The Pirate's Dream

60. Upon Tomorrow

Bonus Tracks Symonds On Sunday, 16 March 1969

61. Walking In The Park (off-air)

Radio 1 Jazz Workshop, 17 July 1969: Extra Tracks

62. Those About To Die (take 2)

63. Butty's Blues (take 2)

64. Elegy (take 2)

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