Get Ready to ROCK! » jazz funk https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:59:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Album review: LETTUCE – Cook https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/album-review-lettuce-cook/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/album-review-lettuce-cook/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:14:51 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=105902 LETTUCE - Cook(Lettuce Records) [Release date 03.12.25] As we mentioned in earlier reviews U.S. jazz-funksters Lettuce are firmly rooted in the late-sixties/seventies when artists such as James Brown/Maceo Parker and Tower of Power held sway. With the popularity of disco in the … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/11/album-review-lettuce-cook/feed/ 0 Feature: Albums that time forgot…PIERRE MOERLEN’S GONG – Time Is The Key (1979) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/07/feature-albums-that-time-forgot-pierre-moerlens-gong-time-is-the-key-1979/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/07/feature-albums-that-time-forgot-pierre-moerlens-gong-time-is-the-key-1979/#comments Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:32:29 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=103285 PIERRE MOERLEN'S GONG - Time Is The Key (1979)Arista SPARTY 1105 (1979) When most people think of Gong they think of “Flying Teapot”, a quirky, idiosyncratic approach by long-time leader Daevid Allen and maybe Steve Hillage’s passage to wider attention. What sometimes gets overlooked are the later years … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2025/07/feature-albums-that-time-forgot-pierre-moerlens-gong-time-is-the-key-1979/feed/ 0 Album review: BOB HOLZ – Holz-Stathis Collaborative https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/08/album-review-bob-holz-holz-stathis-collaborative/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/08/album-review-bob-holz-holz-stathis-collaborative/#comments Wed, 09 Aug 2023 20:32:13 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=90273 BOB HOLZ - Holz-Stathis CollaborativeMVD Audio [Release date 08.09.23] This album, by veteran drummer Bob Holz, takes me back to the mid-late 1970s when there was a profusion of fusion. In the form of Return To Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra and less prominent bands like … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/08/album-review-bob-holz-holz-stathis-collaborative/feed/ 0 Album review: RAMSEY LEWIS – Legacy/ Ramsey/ Live At The Savoy/Chance Encounter (Remasters) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/05/album-review-ramsey-lewis-legacy-ramsey-live-at-the-savoy-chance-encounter/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/05/album-review-ramsey-lewis-legacy-ramsey-live-at-the-savoy-chance-encounter/#comments Fri, 05 May 2023 20:55:29 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=88243 RAMSEY LEWIS - Legacy/ Ramsey/ Live At The Savoy/Chance Encounter (Remasters)BGO Records www.bgo-records.com [Release date 30.03.18] In the fourth of our series of reviews summarising the Ramsey Lewis reissues (see links below) here are four late-1970s/early 1980s Ramsey Lewis albums on two CDs.  Once again reproducing the original credits and … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/05/album-review-ramsey-lewis-legacy-ramsey-live-at-the-savoy-chance-encounter/feed/ 0 Album review: RAMSEY LEWIS – Hang On Ramsey!/Wade In The Water/Don’t It Feel Good/Salongo/Tequila Mockingbird/Love Notes (Remasters) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/04/album-review-ramsey-lewis-hang-on-ramsey-wade-in-the-water-dont-it-feel-good-salongo-remasters/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/04/album-review-ramsey-lewis-hang-on-ramsey-wade-in-the-water-dont-it-feel-good-salongo-remasters/#comments Wed, 26 Apr 2023 12:35:47 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=87969 RAMSEY LEWIS - Don't It Feel Good/Salongo/Tequila Mockingbird/Love NotesBGO Records www.bgo-records.com [Release date: various] Many readers’ first experience of Ramsey Lewis would have been the 1965 hit ‘The In Crowd’.  This evokes happy times, stretched out with a transistor radio in the summer sunshine tuned in to a … Continue reading →

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