"Great solo album Manfred Mann"

Second solo album of South African Keyboard Legend of 2014 with the help of top-class musicians as jazz trumpeter "Till Brönner" Violinist "Billy Thompson," bassist "Mark King" (Level 42) and "Billy Sherwood" (Yes) and his old and current Earth bandmates "Mick Rogers" (guitar + bass), "Chris Thompson" (Vocal), "Noel McCalla" (Vocal), "Robert Hart" (Vocal) and "Jimmy Copley" (Drums). The album's title also reflects his concept. Man always understood itself as an arranger and not as a composer, who always took up the ideas of other musicians from Bob Dylan to Bruce Springsteen. Fantastic cover songs in the unmistakable, typical keyboard sound so impressed's entire career, he turned frequently in hits. So his strongest titles, always artistically to surpass the original with the peculiarity emerged. This playfulness is also at the jazz-tinged rock classics "All Right Now" (Free), "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" (Marvin Gaye) and the high flyer of the album "Bang a Gong" (T-Rex) felt, all of which again topped their originals. The sample of the chart hits "I came for you" of the Disco Boys he gets back artistically, while leveraging its inimitable Moog synth sound something extra. Other recommended songs to the great album will also missed the flair of jazz club atmosphere, the new editions of the eternal rock anthems "Rock You" (Queen) and "Light My Fire" (The Doors), which man, and thus breathes a new exciting life. The publication of the now 74-year-old keyboard virtuoso is an artistically ambitious and compelling masterpiece on the pulse of his time. However, if "Blinded by the Light", "Davy's on the road again" or has "Mighty Quinn" expect, here is wrong and should rather save his money for a concert ticket to the still playful Manfred Mann's Earth Band.