Jon Hiseman

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Philip "Jon" Hiseman (21 June 1944 – 12 June 2018) was an English drummer, recording engineer, and music publisher.

Early life

Hiseman was born in Woolwich, south-east London, to Lily (née Spratt) and Philip Hiseman. His mother taught printing at the Bank of England, and his father taught music at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts. His family included musicians, and his mother played piano and flute.

Hiseman attended Addey and Stanhope School. He started studying violin and piano but soon concentrated on the drums. He performed in a trio with classmates Dave Greenslade on piano and Tony Reeves on double bass in school.

Personal life and death

He was married to saxophonist Barbara Thompson, 1967. Hiseman's family announced that he was fighting with a brain tumor in May 2018. He died in Sutton, England, at the age of 73, after undergoing surgery to remove the tumor. He was nine days shy of his 74th birthday.

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Career

Hiseman appeared in sessions such as "Devil's Grip," early Arthur Brown's. He was in a band humourously named the "Wes Minster Five" and, with Neil Ardley, helped found the New Jazz Orchestra. In 1966, he replaced Ginger Baker in the Graham Bond Organisation and was also playing for a brief time with Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames. Melody Maker magazine first published his name as "Jon," and he determined to use that term. He was a member of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers in 1968, when they were playing on Bare Wires. He left in April 1968 to form Colosseum, the "seminal" jazz rock/progressive rock band. Colosseum disbanded in November 1971, but Hiseman later formed Colosseum II with Don Airey and Gary Moore in 1975.

Hiseman formed the band Tempest with Allan Holdsworth, Paul Williams, and Colosseum bandmate Mark Clarke. Ollie Halsall formed the band temporarily, but Holdsworth and Williams followed the group, leaving Halsall to handle all guitar and vocal duties. When he toured the Cactus Choir in the mid 1970s, Hiseman performed with Dave Greenslade. Hiseman continued to perform in jazz bands, most with his wife, saxophonist Barbara Thompson, with whom he recorded and released more than 15 albums. Andrew Lloyd Webber, who was looking for a "sound" for an album to feature his brother Julian on cello, discovered Colosseum II by chance and brought the whole band into his "Variations" project. This was the start of a ten-year friendship with Hiseman, whose drumming appears on albums, TV specials, and musicals.

Hiseman designed what was then a state-of-the-art recording studio next to his house, and Barbara Thompson, as well as Barbara Thompson's compositional skills, made several films and television soundtracks. Heeman was a founding member of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, a German-based "Band of Band Leaders," as well as Barbara Thompson.

Colosseum reunited in June 1994 with the same line-up of musicians that existed 23 years ago. They appeared at the Freiburg Zelt Musik Festival in October and followed it up with a German TV Special (WDR Cologne), which was released as a CD and a VHS video; a DVD version followed in 2003. Several new studios, as well as four extended editions of Valentyne Suite and Colosseum Live, as well as several compilation boxed sets, were also included. Barbara Thompson performed with the band on several occasions before Dick Heckstall-Smith's death in 2004 and has since been a permanent member of the band. Colosseum's farewell concert was held on February 28, 2015.

Playing the Band, a Hiseman biography, was published in October 2010. Martyn Hanson wrote it and edited by Colin Richardson, the original Colosseum's manager.

With guitarist/vocalist Clem Clempson and bass player/vocalist Mark Clarke, Heeman formed JCM in 2017; a new trio band called JCM was formed. Heroes of the band was released in April 2018, but it wasn't until 2017 that it was released in April 2018. On April 7, JCM began touring.

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