Artist Profiles

Colosseum

// Jon Hiseman, drummer

COLOSSEUM are a progressive jazz-rock band from London, England. “Those Who Are About To Die Salute You” (1969) was available from Dunhill Records, “Valentyne Suite” (1969) was available from Vertigo Records, “The Grass Is Greener” (1970), and “Daughter Of Time” (1970) were both available from Dunhill Records, “Colosseum Live” (1971) was available from Bronze/Castle Records, “The Collectors Colosseum” (1993) is available from Sequel Records, “Bread And Circuses” (1997) is available from Intuition Records, “Tomorrow’s Blues” (2003) is available from Sanctuary Records, “Colosseum LiveS: The Reunion Concerts [2CD Live]” (2004) is available from Intuition Records, “Colosseum: The Complete Reunion Concert Cologne 1994 [DVD Live]” (2005) is available from Msi Music, “Live05 [2CD]” (2007) is available from WHD Entertainment, “Anthology [2CD]” (2008) is available from Sanctuary Records, and “Theme For A Reunion [2CD Live]” (2008) is available from Music Avenue. Jon Hiseman is a drummer, music publisher, recording engineer, and record producer who has made music with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Jack Bruce, Tempest, Colosseum II, and has released two solo albums “A Night In The Sun” (1982), and “About Time Too!” (1991) both available online. From 1979 to the present Jon played on and produced more than twenty albums for his wife’s band, Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia.

Website: www.temple-music.com
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Interview:

It seems to me that people are always searching for some moment beyond themselves and their daily experiences. Between 1966 and 2004, I performed an average of one-hundred concerts a year all over Europe and North America and recently played Russia and Japan. Whilst the lifestyle of all these peoples are so different, the reaction to the music is not; they are as one, and from the comments they make it’s clear theirs is a shared spiritual experience. Each takes from it what they need to survive another day, is uplifted and transformed even if only for a few precious moments. In return we, the performers, get a spiritual gift from our audiences that is without compare. Together, we spend just a few of the finer moments this troubled world has to offer.

“We, the performers, get a spiritual gift from our audiences that is without compare.”
– Jon Hiseman, drummer in Colosseum

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