Colosseum II-"Wardance" (1977)

In 1975 the drummer Jon Hiseman re-floated his band Colosseum, with which he had recorded five albums in the period from 1969 to 1971, renaming it Colosseum II, but this time diverting the sound towards much more jazz rock to the detriment of rock progressive of the first stage of the group.
For this new project Hiseman recruits Gary Moore, Don Airey, Neil Murray, Mike Sarrs and John Mole with whom he recorded and published "Strange New Flesh" in mid-1976, a very intense, energetic and somewhat complex album that are still within the parameters of the progressive.
This will be followed a year later by "Electric Savage" with a similar line to the previous one and at the end of that same year "Wardance", the last work of the group and the one considered best in this second stage, and where the band shows a fully exercised jazz-progressive, with an evolution in the line of the previous work but with the developments and the more accentuated elaboration.
The epic "Wardance" kicks off this record in an energetic way, while "The Inquisition" is an example of Colosseum's jazz rock might, the ambitious "Star Maiden / Mysterioso / Quasar" becomes the theme song compositionally speaking, "Major Keys" is a very addictive funk song for its melody and Gary Moore's guitar play and the blues label "Fighting Talk" with that lilting rhythm defines the enormous eclecticism of this formidable band.