49 years ago when I was hitch-hiking from Vienna, Austria to Paris ... in Germany a VW beetle stopped with 2 long haired guys in it and when I entered there was the whole Valentyne suite playing ... goosebumps! We were flying!
@@mixaliskokkinos1496 I just love music. Got 23-thousand albums on HDD and 700 on vinyl. Saw Colosseum live a few times. And hundreds of gigs more. Kalinichta! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iQHJy_NrHwc.html
this is without any doubts an immortal master-peace of modern music. It sounds like it was recorded yesterday and not back in 1969!!! One of my favourite albums of all time...
It is masterpiece without a doubt, but it sounds exactly like it was recorded in 1969. Development of the music, arrangements, sounds in the last 50 years have gotten so major, that many records from that long ago (even masterpieces) are just dated in these cases. There are not a lot of records that "sounds like if it was recorded yesterday". From my memory I can recall Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, Coltrane's A Love Supreme, or even Dylan's Freewheelin'. They're just more ascetic in arragements so, even today they could've been recorded and sound fresh.
You can hear how this band impacted not just the jazz-prog sound of the Canterbury bands but how it influenced the styles of Van Der Graaf Generator and ELP - profoundly. Masterful.
Used to sit, listening to this, on a warm summer night overlooking the med smoking Moroccan. Such music and memories almost fifty years ago. That Dick Heckstall-Smith was something special! Fantastic band.
Seems like pot was much different in the early 1970s. I tried it a couple of years ago when it became legal for my migraines. I didn’t at all like the toxic “stoned” “euphoria” I felt, not to mention that I thought I was going to die of a stroke or a heart attack, feeling like my heart was going to explode out of my chest at 300 beats per minute!
Questa suite, credo la prima fra tutte quelle composte negli anni d'oro della musica, davvero è qualcosa che lascia il segno, e che ad ogni ascolto stupisce e appassiona, ci porta a scoprire qualcosa di nuovo. E' una qualità trascendente della musica che solo pochi grandi artisti sono riusciti a raggiungere.
Acquistai questo disco su ristampa Bronze (copertina singola😢😢) nel 1976.....oggi lo ascolto ancora in CD, ed a ogni ascolto scopro nuovi dettagli nelle maestose parti soliste e nei grandi disegni corali che si alternano in questo capolavoro assoluto, non a caso la prima uscita della leggendaria etichetta Vertigo. Quindi siamo perfettamente d'accordo😉😉🎸🎸
E mio malgrado, da "fan", razziata dai Santana. Mettiamola così. Un tributo da ammirazione... ps razziata in più punti eh... Vero che c'è del free jazz e dell'afrobeat in questo pezzo. Ma magari un po' di ritegno non avrebbe guastato. Ad ogni modo. Album eccellente. Pezzo in pratica irripetibile. Compendio di competenza, passione e sperimentazione. Con una gigantesca visione. La causa della quale, taciuta, è poco interessante. O forse no. Anzi, magari, potrebbe essere, ehm...usata...ehm...per....si Amore!
Commento impeccabile. In realtà qualche Jam Rock, magari non troppo organizzata già era comparsa. Soprattutto con pubblicazioni al limite dell'illegale per le Road Band americane. Ovviamente nulla a che vedere rispetto a questo gioiello che andrebbe insegnato a scuola.
Having this album in those times was the matter of self respect. Having Vslentxne Suite and Ummagumma in 69/70/71 meant " I'm educated and literate young person"
No one is better!They are in the same highest top Positions,have different Stylings,and young folowers with an opinion to thees "old" guys,----to give the best in playing what they can.So who's the best?!?!?!?Me I think every decade got it's best,in past and Future!😎🎶🎶 tätarätarätääääää
I bought this in the seventies and have just listened on stereo headphones for the first time in years and realised just how good it is. Always loved it, but fantastic!
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I haven’t played this in years, so great hear it again. Last time I saw Colosseum was around 1970 at an amazing all nighter in Buxton Winter Gardens. The stage was about a foot high and me and my best pal were in the front row middle sat on the floor. John Hiseman’s solo was, as usual, amazing! What a night, The high points were The Strawbs including Rick Wakeman, plus the incredible Taste! Memories!
Today's so-called stage musicians would not be able to play anything from this piece without writing about the fact that they would not be able to invent such a thing at all. A wonderful piece that built bridges between jazz, rock and classical music. Great music is always great no matter what genre it is. And although most musicians today do not have it, they have created a unique work. Timeless
This is the Verrazzano of our times in jazz. A bridge from the glory days of Coltrane to the future of (who?). Brilliant, compelling, inspired. Saw them in Croydon when I was 17, never lost the love after this.
@@jaset362 This is pure progressive rock aka prog rock. It obviously has elements of jazz and rock too but don’t be correcting people like you know everything buddy. You clearly don’t know what prog rock is.
@@donisaac5789 Please,don't try to lecture me in about prog rock because you know less about it than the little part I've forgot already as less important. You were not even born yet when jazz rock and prog rock began. I don't pretend to know everything at all but I've witnessed the beginning of both genres while your parents haven't met yet. You know about it from third hand. You're narcistic ignorant. Colosseum, the first band formed in early 1968 by drummer Jon Hiseman with tenor sax player Dick Heckstall-Smith were then an English jazz rock band, mixing blues, rock and jazz-based improvisation. "The commercial acceptance of jazz rock in the UK was mainly due to Colosseum " ( by Larkin Colin, Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music ). This band broke up in 1971. Jon Hiseman formed another group called Colosseum II in 1975, with a stronger orientation towards jazz-fusion rock and progressive rock. The band existed between 1975 and 1978 and released three albums before disbanding in 1978. Afterwards there were first reunion 1994 -2015 and second reunion 2019 - present. 👎
Great band, great musicians! John Hiseman, the grand father Dick Heckstall-Smith, the underrated Dave Greenslade and Chris Farlowe, only God knows how many times I've listened to them!
A part of me growing up, a part of me now at age 44, and undoubtedly in the future a part of me growing older....so many thanks for this incredible piece of music.
Sooooo good to hear it again after so many years.Used to have that PL in my Collection,but than came the war....left it all behind….wish I knew who´s got it now...
La prima suite progjazzrock con l'idea della corale ,prima ancora dei Pink Floyd in Atom Heart MOTHER !!!!!! La VALENTYNE SUITE è davvero un Capolavoro !!!!!! Grandissimi COLOSSEUM !!!!!!!!! Mi meraviglio che non abbia neancora visto su U TUBE qualche band che abbia riproposto o riletto questo straordinario brano !!!!! Un VERO peccato !!!!!!! Ma speriamo che ci sia qualcuno che lo faccia !!!!!
Sono fan anche di gruppi come yes e king crimson, ma credo proprio che quello che è stato fatto su questo disco sia un punto inarrivabile…la musicalità, la qualità di assoli e accompagnamento, la spontaneità dei musicisti…nessuna suite del rock ha anima come valentyne suite
From 13.37 to 15.01 the sound is simply awesome : so interconnected, so heavy, so majestic, chaotic yet so creative...... Is like making love with the woman you really love🎸🎸💞💞
In meiner Schule stand im Raucherraum ein Plattenspieler und jemand legte diese LP auf. Ich war begeistert und konnte fast nicht glauben, dass jemand so unfassbar schöne Musik machen konnte! Ich habe mir die Platte gekauft und dazu auch die Live doppel LP.Ich habe die Platten heute noch. 😊😊😊❤❤❤
I have discovered this in 1997, first time I have Heard vibes and felt in LOVE since that day. I became impressed with drumming and the feeling of the sax player. Masterpiece
Colosseum belong certainly to the absolutely best bands in Rock Music. Dick Heckstall Smith awesome sax player one of the very best. Valentyne Suite like a piece of classical music just so fantastic.
Just played this for the first time in decades - mesmerising. As a teenager I used to leap up on stage at the end of a show and grab drumsticks - got loads of Jon's (plus from The Who, Pink Floyd and Mott The Hoople etc).. as I thought then 'today the drumsticks, tomorrow the world'...
Magical... What else can you say - five men in perfect synch creating a modern masterpiece that stands up against everything released since ... All the members are at the peak of their respective powers and I have played this album to death since first acquiring a vinyl copy back in 1971/72 ... I now have it on c.d and although the compressed sound never matches the vinyl , I at least don't get the odd click and hiss... Wonderful.. Now I will carry on my search to find a copy of DUST IN THE AIR SUSPENDED MARKS THE PLACE WHERE A STORY ENDED by the late great sax legend DICK HECKSTALL-SMITH.... I cannot find it anywhere and my taped copy from when I taped the vinyl copy is now ratshit.
