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Group Sounds Four & Five: Black & White Raga

By CHRIS MAY

So seismic were the eruptions of British pop and rock in the mid 1960s, along with the effusive chronicling which accompanied them, that the parallel fecundity of the country's jazz scene was widely overlooked then and has been largely forgotten since. Contemporary media coverage was practically non-existent except on those occasions when a musician got busted. ...

Pete Brown: White Rooms & Imaginary Westerns, Part 2

By DUNCAN HEINING

Part 1 | Part 2 1966 was an important year in British popular music. Bob Dylan, performing with the Hawks, was booed for “going electric" at Manchester Free Trade Hall. The Rolling Stones topped the charts for the first time with “Paint It Black." The Beatles, fresh from the John Lennon “Bigger than Jesus" ...

Yazz Ahmed & The Guildhall Jazz Orchestra

By CHRIS MAY

Yazz Ahmed / The Guildhall Jazz Orchestra / Scott Stroman Milton Court Concert Hall Yazz Ahmed & The Guildhall Jazz Orchestra London November 27, 2019 Performances by student orchestras rarely qualify as must-see events. Audiences tend to be composed of fellow students and friends and ...

The Vintage Years 1970 - 1991

By JOHN KELMAN

There are bands that manage to carve out a place for themselves in the music world that lasts for decades; there are others who, while having created a name for themselves during their peak years and, while they continue to tour and, even, make the occasional studio album, are invariably best remembered for their seminal early ...

Colosseum: Colosseum Live

By MAURIZIO COMANDINI

I Colosseum guidati dal batterista Jon Hiseman furono una delle più belle sorprese spuntate dal blues e dal jazz inglese nella magica stagione di fine anni sessanta. Hiseman era stato protagonista alla corte di John Mayall, in particolare per l'ottimo album Blues Wires del 1968 e aveva poi deciso di mettersi in proprio portandosi dietro due ...

Colosseum Live

By COLOSSEUM

Label: Esoteric Recordings
Released: 2016
Track listing:
CD 1:
Rope Ladder to the Moon; Walking in the Park; Skellington; I Can’t Live without You; Tanglewood ’63; Encore...Stormy Monday Blues; Lost Angeles.
CD 2 (Bonus Tracks):
Rope Ladder to the Moon; Skellington; I Can’t Live without You; Time Machine; The Machine Demands a Sacrifice; Stormy Monday Blues; The Valentyne Suite: January’s Search, Theme Two - February’s Valentyne, Theme Three – The Grass Is Greener.

Colosseum: Colosseum Live

By ROGER FARBEY

A remarkable feature of Colosseum Live was the inclusion of one of the more unusual numbers in the band's repertoire, namely Michael Gibbs's outstanding composition “Tanglewood '63." This was a brave piece for a six piece jazz rock band to tackle since the original version (aside from a version recorded by Gary Burton's quartet in 1982) ...

Maciej Lewenstein: Quantum Mechanics of Polish Jazz

By CEZARY L. LERSKI

Maciej Lewenstein was born in 1955 in Warsaw. He is a theoretical physicist and currently an ICREA professor at Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO) in Castelldefels near jny: Barcelona, Spain. He has written more than 500 scientific papers and is the recipient of many international and national prizes. Next to theoretical physics his other passion is ...

New Jazz Orchestra: Camden '70

By DUNCAN HEINING

Colosseum toured with theNew Jazz Orchestra in 1970 but this is the first time that any records of that tour have surfaced. Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Tony Reeves featured in both bands. The New Jazz Orchestra recorded so little, that anything new is welcome. That it should be this good is an embarrassment of riches. ...