Get Ready to ROCK! » soul jazz https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog News - Reviews - Interviews - Radio Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:03:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2023/04/album-review-ramsey-lewis-hang-on-ramsey-wade-in-the-water-dont-it-feel-good-salongo-remasters/feed/ 0 Album review: ORGAN FAIRCHILD – Brewed In Buffalo https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/10/album-review-organ-fairchild-brewed-in-buffalo/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/10/album-review-organ-fairchild-brewed-in-buffalo/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:51:15 +0000 GRTR! HQ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=76363 ORGAN FAIRCHILD - Brewed In BuffaloOrgan Fairchild Records [Release date 15.09.21] Here at GRTR! Towers we are privileged to receive any number of albums from aspiring or jobbing musicians, some obviously hitting the mark more than others.  Occasionally a real gem emerges and in Organ … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2021/10/album-review-organ-fairchild-brewed-in-buffalo/feed/ 0 Album review: RAMSEY LEWIS – Funky Serenity, Solar Wind, Sun Goddess (reissue) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-ramsey-lewis-funky-serenity-reissues/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-ramsey-lewis-funky-serenity-reissues/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2018 13:46:06 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=53427 RAMSEY LEWIS - Funky Serenity (reissues)BGO Records www.bgo-records.com [Release date 18.05.18] I immediately recognised three of the albums on this 2-disc four album compilation.  In fact that’s the great thing about BGO releases.  They tend to bring together a series of albums spanning a couple … Continue reading →

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]]> https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-ramsey-lewis-funky-serenity-reissues/feed/ 0 Album review: NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN – Looking At You…, The Nature Of Things, Divine Emotion (reissue) https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-narada-michael-walden-looking-at-you-looking-at-me-reissues/ https://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/2018/06/album-review-narada-michael-walden-looking-at-you-looking-at-me-reissues/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2018 12:10:27 +0000 GRTR! HQ http://getreadytorock.me.uk/blog/?p=53424 NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN - Looking At You, Looking At Me (reissues)BGO [Release date 18.05.18] Back in the late 1970s/early 1980s it wasn’t unusual for fusion funk bands to be drummer-led.  We might recall Maurice White in Earth, Wind & Fire but then of course, there was Lenny White and Harvey … Continue reading →

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