Get Ready to ROCK! » jazz fusion https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Sat, 02 May 2026 00:21:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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: PROG COLLECTIVE – Dark Encounters https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/03/album-review-prog-collective-dark-encounters/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/03/album-review-prog-collective-dark-encounters/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:56:11 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=94427 PROG COLLECTIVE - Dark EncountersPurple Pyramid/Cleopatra Records [Release date 29.03.24] If this is “dark prog” then dark prog sounds to me like jazz/rock fusion. Once you are past the descriptors, a look at the cast list suggests this might be a rather tasty fusion … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/03/album-review-prog-collective-dark-encounters/feed/ 0 Album review: BENJAMIN CROFT – We Are Here To Help https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/02/album-review-benjamin-croft-we-are-here-to-help/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/02/album-review-benjamin-croft-we-are-here-to-help/#comments Thu, 15 Feb 2024 21:40:33 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=93971 BENJAMIN CROFT - We Are Here To HelpGalactic Receiver [Release date 03.05.24] www.benjamincroftmusic.com You could be forgiven thinking that Benjamin Croft is the latest U.S. fusion export. But Benjamin is British and this is his third solo album. He has worked in the States but relocated to … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/02/album-review-benjamin-croft-we-are-here-to-help/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 – 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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