Jon Hiseman

Born in June 1944 in London, Jon Hiseman studied violin and piano from an early age, but only applied himself to drums when he was 13 years old. The skiffle craze resulted in Hiseman playing all kinds of blues, jazz, and hokum in the early '60s. In 1964 he was a founder member of the New Jazz Orchestra. Between 1966 and 1967 he drummed for the Graham Bond Organisation and then left to join Georgie Fame in the Blue Flames. After six months with John Mayall, he formed Colosseum in 1968, a celebrated jazz-rock band that included saxophonist Dick Heckstall-Smith and Dave Greenslad...