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)
Wow, that's a fine compilation, thank you for posting!
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ResponderExcluir@silentway, my old and dear friend
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I have been a fan of Colosseum since 1969. Thank you for this. GREAT music by a great band.
ResponderExcluirEstimados amigos: gracias por dejarnos con la fuerza y originalidad de Colosseum.
ResponderExcluirLos fanáticos estábamos a la espera de algo así. Ahora mismo comienzo a disfrutarlo y luego colgaré un comentario más.
Es todo y saludos desde Perú – América.