Get Ready to ROCK! » Mike Stern https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:41:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Album review: MANDOKI SOULMATES – A Memory Of Our Future https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/05/album-review-mandoki-soulmates-a-memory-of-our-future/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/05/album-review-mandoki-soulmates-a-memory-of-our-future/#comments Thu, 16 May 2024 17:08:55 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=95460 MANDOKI SOULMATES - A Memory Of Our FutureRed Rock Music/Inside Out Music [Release date 10.05.24] I think it fair to say that Leslie Mandoki doesn’t do things half-arsed. Several years ago a couple of reissues were accompanied by an expansive press kit, a real thick tome that … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2024/05/album-review-mandoki-soulmates-a-memory-of-our-future/feed/ 0 Album review: MANDOKI SOULMATES – Living In The Gap/Hungarian Pictures https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/06/album-review-mandoki-soulmates-living-in-the-gap-hungarian-pictures/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/06/album-review-mandoki-soulmates-living-in-the-gap-hungarian-pictures/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 01:43:06 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=67001 MANDOKI SOULMATES - Living In The Gap/Hungarian PicturesRed Rock Production/Cleopatra Records [Release date 06.20] 2-CD Reviewing in the millennium means that we miss out on previous decades’ lavish PR packages.  If we are lucky these days we get a 320kbps download.  The arrival of the re-promoted Mandoki … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2020/06/album-review-mandoki-soulmates-living-in-the-gap-hungarian-pictures/feed/ 0 Album review: MIKE STERN – JEFF LORBER FUSION – Eleven https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/09/album-review-mike-stern-jeff-lorber-fusion-eleven/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/09/album-review-mike-stern-jeff-lorber-fusion-eleven/#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2019 15:06:23 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=62102 MIKE STERN - JEFF LORBER FUSION - ElevenConcord [Release date 27.09.19] Back in the 1990s there was a trend – epitomised by the chameleon-like Jazz FM radio station in the UK – for smooth jazz, a more accessible form of fusion that developed out of US FM … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2019/09/album-review-mike-stern-jeff-lorber-fusion-eleven/feed/ 0 Album review: RAMIN PARTOVI – 27 Faces Of A Broken Heart (Simon Phillips, Mike Stern & c.) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-ramin-partovi-27-faces-of-a-broken-heart/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-ramin-partovi-27-faces-of-a-broken-heart/#comments Sat, 30 Jun 2018 13:37:37 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=53767 RAMIN PARTOVI - 27 Faces Of A Broken Heart[Release date 18.02.18] This album is an interesting concept.  Take a song and invite a couple of dozen musicians to add their extemporisation.  Yes, that’s 27 versions of the same tune!  Surely the tune can’t be that good?  Well, the … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-ramin-partovi-27-faces-of-a-broken-heart/feed/ 0 Album review: JIMMY McINTOSH – Jimmy McIntosh And… https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2015/04/album-review-jimmy-mcintosh-and/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2015/04/album-review-jimmy-mcintosh-and/#comments Sat, 18 Apr 2015 11:48:05 +0000 petefeenstra http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=29219 JIMMY McINTOSH – Jimmy McIntosh And...Arizona Club Music [Release date 23.09.14] ‘Jimmy McIntosh And…’ is a thoughtful and well played album that combines blues, fusion, funk, rock and even moments of free form playing, on a dozen tracks with variety, a coherently flow and Jimmy’s … Continue reading →

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