Jon Hiseman obituary

One of Britain’s leading drummers who founded the influential jazz-rock band ColosseumUnquestionably the musical genre of jazz-rock would have happened without Jon Hiseman, who has died aged 73 after suffering from a brain tumour, but he was among the first to successfully transfer jazz improvisation to rock, and to really explore its possibilities.His band Colosseum, often billed as Jon Hiseman’s Colosseum, had UK Top 20 albums with Those Who Are About to Die Salute You and Valentyn