Archive for David Bowie
Mike Garson Keeps the Bowie Celebrations Alive
L.A. Weekly interviewed pianist Mike Garson about his current “Celebrating Bowie” tour and his future plans to pay homage to the music of David Bowie: “Basically I just made this commitment to myself that 50 percent of my musical output moving forward would be his music,” Garson tells me by phone. He’s currently traveling with Celebrating Bowie, the 27-city tour with the departed icon’s former bandmates playing his works (at the Wiltern on Feb. 28).…
Mike Garson Featured In Upcoming David Bowie Tribute
January 8, 2017 will feature a series of performances around the world in honour of what would have been David Bowie’s 70th Birthday. The “Celebrating David Bowie” event in London will be led by Gary Oldman and former David Bowie band members, including RR artist Mike Garson!More information is available on TheGuardian.com Mike Garson in the notes for his RR recording The Bowie Variations: “When I met David, I sensed that he was an immense…
Bowie at The GRAMMYs
Rolling Stone Magazine published the news that Lady Gaga will pay tribute to the late David Bowie by performing of a medley of his songs at The Grammys on Monday. But this isn’t the only Bowie tribute featured in Rolling Stone recently, RR artist and longtime David Bowie pianist Mike Garson also talked about working with David Bowie and his music in a Rolling Stone fantastic interview. Shortly after the interview was published, Mike Garson…
Mike Garson Offers A New Tribute To David
Mike Garson released a Tribute to David on his RR recording The Bowie Variations in 2012. This weekend, on Periscope, he offered a new tribute to David Bowie along with memories and a rendition of the David Bowie song Space Oddity:
Remembering David Bowie
Longtime David Bowie pianist, and RR artist, Mike Garson offers his thoughts, remembrances and a photo after the news of David Bowie’s passing: My deepest condolences are with David's family – Iman, Lexi and Duncan. The music we shared through the years is eternal and so is David and another beautiful spiritual phase awaits David. My love to you all. Posted by Mike Garson – Official on Monday, January 11, 2016 The Bowie Variations Mike Garson…
Audiophile Audition reviews The Bowie Variations
John Henry of Audiophile Audition published a thorough review of Mike Garson’s RR release, The Bowie Variations this past weekend. The review gets into the heart of the works, and the influences that surrounded the pieces. It’s a highly informative read, so we encourage you to find the full review on AudAud.com. From Audiophile Audition: Mike Garson, piano – The Bowie Variations; 4/5 stars “Garson doesn’t just do straight jazz treatments of these tunes; he…
Independent Ethos’ 5 Part Interview With Mike Garson
The blog Independent Ethos posted a new interview with Mike Garson about his latest RR release “The Bowie Variations” last month. Now, the author has published a previously-archived thoroughly entertaining, five-part interview from 2004. So today we are happy to share all five parts with you! From Independent Ethos: “It all began at the start of this month with an exclusive interview with Mike Garson talking about his new solo album, the David Bowie Variations…
The Bowie Variations – The Originals Part Two
Just for fun, we started sharing some of the original David Bowie music videos for the tracks featured on Mike Garson’s “The Bowie Variations” on Twitter. They’ve been a real hit, and so we thought it would be fun to share them here on the blog as well. We posted the originals from the first five songs featured on “The Bowie Variations” on Wednesday, and for your weekend, we’ll feature videos from four more tracks.…
The Bowie Variations – The Originals
Just for fun, we started sharing some of the original David Bowie music videos for the tracks featured on Mike Garson’s “The Bowie Variations” on Twitter. They’ve been a real hit, and so we thought it would be fun to share them here on the blog as well. We’ll put the originals from the first five songs featured on “The Bowie Variations” today, and four more on Friday. Enjoy! Space Oddity John, I’m Only Dancing…
Independent Ethos Interviews Mike Garson
Independent Ethos has an exclusive interview with Mike Garson and they are talking about none other than his newest Reference Recordings release “The Bowie Variations.” From Independent Ethos: “Now comes Garson to step forward with a tribute album to Bowie, entitled The Bowie Variations For Piano. There is probably no other side musician more qualified to interpret Bowie’s music than the classically trained jazz musician who happens to be, as Bowie once put it, ‘the…
BowieZone Interviews Mike Garson
BowieZone.com has done a fantastic interview with Mike Garson all about his new Reference Recordings release “The Bowie Variations.” We’ll give you some of the great quotes here, and give you the link to the full interview! From BowieZone.com: BowieZone: Your new album has been a long time coming Mike, as far as the content goes I mean. I personally have been waiting for many years for a Mike Garson album of Bowie songs. What…
New Release – Mike Garson and “The Bowie Variations”
MIKE GARSON The Bowie Variations RR-123 “Whatever Mike lends his hands to invariably becomes something magical.”–David Bowie. Beginning in 1972, super-versatile pianist Mike Garson performed, toured internationally and recorded with one of the most creative figures in popular music, David Bowie. Garson writes, “When I met David, I sensed that he was an immense artist and a songwriter with a flair for great melodies and unique harmonies. The Ziggy Stardust tour changed the course of…
Mike Garson Featured on BowieNet
Mike Garson’s newest release on Reference Recordings, “The Bowie Variations” will be coming out this month, and THE David Bowie website and fan forum is just as excited about it as we are. BowieNet not only did a great feature on the album, but also gave some ways to pre-order autographed copies and hinted that they will be running a giveaway contest very soon. Here’s a great bit from the BowieNet post: “I asked Mike…
A look at what’s coming
For your Friday, we’ll leave you with a tease about something coming very soon. This summer Reference Recordings will release “Garson: The Bowie Variations”, so today we’ll give you a look at how Mike Garson thinks of David Bowie and his music:
A hint of things to come
Here at RR we’ve got some recording projects up our sleeves, so we thought we would drop a hint at one of those today: That’s the only hint you’ll get today…