Jon Hiseman

Jon Hiseman
Background information
Birth name	Philip John Hiseman
Born	21 June 1944 (1944-06-21) (age 65)
Genres	Rock
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Drums
Associated acts	Colosseum
Website	temple-music.com

Jon Hiseman (born Philip John Hiseman, 21 June 1944, Woolwich, London) is an English drummer, recording engineer, record producer and music publisher.

Career

In the mid-1960s Hiseman played in sessions such as the early Arthur Brown single, "Devil's Grip". In 1966 he replaced Ginger Baker in the Graham Bond Organization and joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers the following year to record the album Bare Wires with that band. In 1968 he formed the "seminal" ^[1][2] jazz rock/progressive rock band Colosseum. Colosseum split in 1971, and he later formed Colosseum II with Don Airey and Gary Moore in 1975.

In between the two versions of Colosseum, Hiseman formed the band Tempest with Allan Holdsworth, Paul Williams and Colosseum bandmate Mark Clarke. Ollie Halsall joined the band temporarily making the band a quintet but Holdsworth left the group along with Williams, leaving Halsall to handle all guitar and vocal duties.

Hiseman has subsequently played in jazz groups, notably with his wife, saxophonist Barbara Thompson, with whom he has recorded and produced fifteen currently available albums. Andrew Lloyd Webber, searching for a "sound" for an album to feature his brother Julian on cello, stumbled upon Colosseum II by accident and imported the whole band into his "Variations" project, beginning a ten year relationship with Hiseman, whose drumming features on recordings, TV specials and musicals. In 1982 Hiseman built a state-of-the-art recording studio next to his home, and together with the compositional skills of Barbara Thompson produced many recordings for film and television soundtracks. Hiseman is a founding member of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, a German-based "Band of Band Leaders".

In 1994, Hiseman reformed Colosseum after 23 years in the same lineup when it had split. From that time, the band has been touring and it has released one live DVD and a few CDs.

Partial discography

With Jack Bruce

• Songs for a Tailor – (1969)
• Things We Like – (recorded 1968, released 1970)

With Colosseum

• Those Who Are About To Die Salute You – (1969)
• Valentyne Suite – (1969)
• The Grass Is Greener – (1970)
• Daughter of Time – (1970)
• Colosseum Live – (1971)
• Bread & Circuses – (1997)
• Tomorrow's Blues – (2003)
• Live05 – (2007)

With Tempest

• Tempest – (1973)
• Living in Fear – (1974)
• Under The Blossom: The Anthology – (2005) [includes both albums + BBC session recordings]

With Colosseum II

• Strange New Flesh – (1976)
• Electric Savage – (1977)
• War Dance – (1977)

With United Jazz + Rock Ensemble

• Live Im Schutzenhaus (1977)
• Teamwork (1978)
• The Break Even Point (1979)
• Live in Berlin (1981)
• United Live Opus Sechs (1984)
• Highlights (1984)
• Round Seven (1987)
• Na Endlich! (1992)
• Highlights II (1994)
• Die Neunte Von United (1996)
• The UJRE plays Albert Mangelsdorff (1998)
• X (1999)
• The UJRE plays Wolfgang Dauner (2002)
• The UJRE plays Volker Kriegel (2002)

Solo

• A Night In The Sun – (1982)
• About Time Too! – (1991)

References

External links

• Interview, November 2004
• "United Jazz + Rock Ensemble". www.ujre.net. http://www.ujre.net/. Retrieved 2009-09-11.