Those Who Are About to Die Salute You

by Colosseum

Those Who Are About to Die Salute You cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1969
  • Label: Fontana
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.56/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: James Litherland, Tony Reeves, Gerry Bron, Dave Greenslade, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Formed by highly technical musicians exiting the Graham Bond Organisation, this ensemble utilized complex jazz structures pushed forcefully through the amplified aesthetics of rock and blues. Their impressive debut integrates frantic brass interjections with fiery Hammond organ and virtuosic drumming, laying essential groundwork for British jazz-rock.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, complex, rhythmic, improvisation, technical, jamming, history

Tracklist

  1. Walking In The Park
  2. Plenty Hard Luck
  3. Mandarin
  4. Debut
  5. Beware The Ides Of March
  6. The Road She Walked Before
  7. Backwater Blues
  8. Those About To Die

Credits

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