COLOSSEUM

Jazz - prog - rock

TRACKLIST

CD1:

In The Studio : 1968-1969
1. Walking In The Park
2. Mandarin
3. Beware The Ideas Of March
4. Debut
5. The Road She Walked Before
6. Backwater Blues
7. I Can't Live Without You - Studio Outtake
8. In The Heat Of The Night
9. Those About To Die - Demo [aka 'Top Roadie']
10. Tell Me Now
11. The Kettle
12. Elegy
13. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice
14. The Valentyne Suite - January's Search / February's Valentyne / The Grass Is Always Greener

CD2:

In The Studio : 1970-1971
1. Jumping Off The Sun
2. Rope Ladder To The Moon
3. Bolero
4. The Grass Is Greener
5. Three Score And Ten, Amen
6. Time Lament
7. Take Me Back To Doomsday
8. The Daughter Of Time
9. Theme For An Imaginary Western
10. Bring Out Your Dead - Demo Version
11. Downhill And Shadows
12. Jumping Off The Sun
13. The Pirates Dream

CD3:

Rope Ladder To The Moon
1. Rope Ladder To The Moon - Live In Brighton
2. Skelington - Live In Brighton
3. I Can't Live Without You - Live at Manchester University, March 1971
4. Stormy Monday Blues - Live In Bristol
5. The Valentyne Suite - January's Search / February's Valentyne / The Grass Is Always Greener - Live at Manchester University, March 1971

CD4:

Walking In The Park
1. Butty's Blues - Live In Boston
2. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice - Live In Boston
3. Beware The Ides Of March - BBC Radio Session "Top Of The Pops" Feb 1969
4. Walking In The Park - BBC Radio Session "Top Of The Pops" Feb. 1969
5. Plenty Hard Luck - BBC Radio session "Top Of The Pops" Feb. 1969
6. Arthur's Moustache - BBC Radio Session "Top Gear" Nov. 1969
7. Lost Angeles - BBC Radio Session "Top Gear" Nov. 1969
8. Same Old Thing
9. Dark Side Of The Moog
10. Tomorrow's Blues
11. Those About To Die

Musicians

Alto Saxophone – Barbara Thompson (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8)

Baritone Saxophone – Barbara Thompson (tracks: 2-5, 2-6, 2-8, 2-9, 2-11)

Bass Guitar – Louis Cennamo (tracks: 2-6 to 2-8), Mark Clarke (2) (tracks: 2-5, 2-9 to 3-5, 4-8, 4-10, 4-11), Tony Reeves (tracks: 1-1 to 1-14, 4-1 to 4-7)

Drums – Jon Hiseman (tracks: 1-1- to 4-7, 4-9)

Flute – Barbara Thompson (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8)

Guitar – Dave 'Clem' Clempson (tracks: 1-8 to 1-14, 2-7, 2-10 to 3-5, 4-6, 4,7, 4-10), James Litherland (tracks: 1-1 to 1-14, 4-1 to 4-5)

Organ – Dave Greenslade (tracks: 1-1- to 4-7)

Percussion – Jon Hiseman (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 2-1 to 2-9, 2-11, 3-1 to 4-7, 4-9)

Piano – Dave Greenslade (tracks: 1-8 to 2-9, 2-11)

Saxophone – Dick Heckstall-Smith (tracks: 1-1 to 1-14)

Soprano Saxophone – Barbara Thompson (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8), Dick Heckstall-Smith (tracks: 2-1 to 4-7, 4-10, 4-11)

Tenor Saxophone – Barbara Thompson (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8), Dick Heckstall-Smith (tracks: 2-1 to 4-8, 4-10, 4-11)

Vibraphone [Vibes] – Dave Greenslade (tracks: 1-1 to 3-5)

Vocals – Barbara Thompson (tracks: 2-5 to 2-8), Chris Farlowe (tracks: 2-5, 2-6, 2-8 to 3-5, 4-10), Dave 'Clem' Clempson* (tracks: 2-7, 2-10 to 3-5, 4-6, 4,7, 4-11), Dave Greenslade (tracks: 2-1 to 2-9, 2-11), James Litherland (tracks: 1-1 to 1-7, 4-1 to 4-5), Mark Clarke (2) (tracks: 3-1 to 3-5, 4-11)

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© 2009 the copyright in this compilation is owned by Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
The copyright in these sound recordings is owned by Sanctuary Records Group Ltd. with the exception of tracks 4-1 & 4-2 license from Temple Music and tracks 4-3 to 4-7 issued under license from BBC Worldwide Ltd. to Sanctuary Records Group Ltd. a Universal Music Group Company.issued under
A Universal Music Group release. Marketed and distributed in the UK by Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.

Additional track notes on back cover:
Tracks 1-8, 1-10, 2-13: previously unreleased
Tracks 1-9, 2-10: previously unreleased demo
Tracks 3-1, 3-2: previously unreleased. Recorded live in Brighton, 1971
Tracks 3-3, 3-5: previously unreleased. Recorded live in Manchester, 1971
Track 3-4: previously unreleased. Recorded live in Bristol, 1971
Tracks 4-1, 4-2: Recorded live in Boston, 1969
Tracks 4-3 to 4-5: BBC radio broadcast recording from Top Of The Pops, February 1969
Tracks 4-6, 4-7: BBC radio broadcast recording from Top Gear, November 1969
Track 4-8: Dick Heckstall-Smith
Track 4-9: Colosseum II
Track 4-11: Colosseum (Reunion)

Additional track notes in the booklet:
Tracks 1-1 to 1-7 taken from Fontana STL 5510 Those About To Die Salute You recorded November 1968. Released March 1969.
Track 1-8 recorded 4th November 1968 at Pye Studios, London
Track 1-9 recorded 7th November 1968 at Pye Studios, London
Track 1-10 recorded 22nd April 1969 at Lansdowne Studio, London
Tracks 1-11 to 1-14 taken from Vertigo LP VO 1 The Valentyne Suite, recorded 16th-18th June 1969 at IBC Studios. Released November 1969.
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Tracks 2-1 to 2-4 taken from Vertigo LP VO 1 The Valentyne Suite.
Tracks 2-5 to 2-9 taken from Vertigo LP 6360 017 Daughter Of Time, recorded Summer 1970 at Lansdowne Studio, London. Produced for Hit Records Productions Ltd. Released November 1970.
Track 2-10 recorded 3rd May 1970 at Lansdowne Studio, London
Track 2-11 taken from Vertigo LP 6360 017 Daughter Of Time
Track 2-12 taken from Bronze LP ILPS 9173 Collector's Colosseum
Track 2-13 recorded 1st August 1971 at Lansdowne Studio, London
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Tracks 3-1 & 3-2 recorded live at the Big Apple, Brighton, 1971
Track 3-3 recorded live at Manchester University, March 1971
Track 3-4 recorded live in Bristol, 1971
Track 3-5 recorded live at Manchester University, 1971
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Track 4-1 recorded live in Boston, August 1969
Track 4-2 recorded live in Boston, 1969
Tracks 4-1 & 4-2 taken from the unlicensed bootleg release on Microphone Records LP MPH01 Live In Boston
Track 4-3 BBC radio session recording from Top Of The Pops with Jon Hiseman interviewed by Brian Matthew, first broadcast February 1969
Tracks 4-4 & 4-5 BBC radio session recording from Top Of The Pops with Brian Matthew voiceover, first broadcast February 1969
Track 4-6 BBC radio session recording from Top Gear recorded 18th November 1969, first broadcast 22nd November 1969. First issued on Sanctuary Midline SMEDD097 Valentyne Suite
Track 4-7 BBC radio session recording from Top Gear with intro/outro by John Peel & interview with Dick Heckstall-Smith and Dave Greenslade recorded 18th November 1969, first broadcast 22nd November 1969
Track 4-8 taken from Bronze LP ILPS 9196 A Story Ended recorded March/April 1972 at The Manor, Oxfordshire. Released June 1972.
Track 4-9 taken from Bronze LP ILPS 9356 Strange New Flesh. Released April 1976
Track 4-10 taken from Castle Music CMRCD 1399 Tomorrow's Blues recorded Spring 2003 at the Temple Music Studio, Sutton, Surrey.
Track 4-11 multitrack recording from the first reunion concert, Zelt-Music Festival, Freiburg, 24th June 1994 taken from Intuition CD 3160 Colosseum LiveS