COLOSSEUM Those Who Are About To Die Salute You Orig UK LP Prog Jazz Greenslade

	£		19
	$		26

COLOSSEUM

Those Who Are About To Die Salute You

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DESCRIPTION:

COLOSSEUM

"Those who are about to die salute you"

Original UK LP released on Fontana Records in 1969. Outer-laminated gatefold sleeve. Black & silver labels.

886765 1Y//1  420   /   886765 2Y//1  420

Colosseum's debut album is a powerful one, unleashing each member's instrumental prowess at one point while consolidating each talent to form an explosive outpouring of progressive jazz/rock the next. Those Who Are About to Die Salute You is coated with the volatile saxophone playing of Dick Heckstall-Smith, the thunderous keyboard assault of Dave Greenslade, and the bewildering guitar craft of James Litherland.

Together, Colosseum skitters and glides through brisk musical spectrums of freestyle jazz and British blues, sometimes held tightly in place by Greenslade's Hammond organ, while other times let loose by the brilliancy of the horn and string interplay. Each song sparks its own personality and its very own energy level, giving the band instant notoriety upon the album's release in 1969. Not only did Colosseum sound different from other jazz fusion bands of the era, but they could easily take the unconventional elements of their style and churn them into palatable and highly significant musical thoroughfares.

Some of the more compelling tracks include "Walking in the Park," led by its powerful trumpet segments, and "Pretty Hard Luck," which embarks on a stylish blues excursion with colourful keyboard sections on the periphery. "Beware the Ides of March" borrows a page out of J.S. Bach's notebook and turns his classical poignancy inside out, while "Mandarin" and "Backwater Blues" are created with the perfect jazz and blues friendship in mind, representing Colosseum's fused sound spotlessly.

Best of all, the album never strays from its intensity or its creativity, the very foundation that the band is built on.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Walking In The Park

Plenty Hard Luck

Mandarin

Debut

Side Two

Beware The Ides Of March

The Road She Walked Before

Backwater Blues

Those About To Die

Released on 'Fontana Records' in 1969

Catalogue No. STL 5510

Disc is in VG+ condition (some surface marks which do not affect playback, photo shows the most obvious scratch but looks worse than it actually is.. Audio playback and stereo separation is awesome!

Sleeve is in VG - Exc. condition creasing to bottom right and a little damage to spine (see pic)...  (track times & name written inside gatefold)

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