15% off all in-stock titles Doug MacLeod’s Break The Chain has won a 2018 Blues Music Award for best Acoustic Album of the Year! Doug MacLeod was also nominated for Best Acoustic Artist, and Break the Chain drummer Jimi Bott earned his 19th nomination! Jazz pianists Mike Garson and Dick Hyman are busy out on the road. Mike is touring with former Bowie bandmates with music of David Bowie while NEA Jazz Master Dick Hyman…
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…
We’ve been hinting at it for awhile, but today we’re telling you straight out, we’ve got a new Jazz release coming out next month (9/14) featuring Mike Garson on piano and Jim Walker on the flute in a crystalline-pure recording of soothing, meditative jazz called PIED PIPER (RR-121)! The album will feature 12 original Mike Garson compositions, new high resolution digital remastering, and an eco-friendly digipak! For those that aren’t familiar with Jim Walker, he’s…
We came across a New Zealand ebay-esque site that was trying to sell our Mike Garson Jazz Hat album, and we were a little surprised to see that they were selling it for more than what you would pay buying directly from ReferenceRecordings.com. So, we thought we would bring that up with you to remind you to buy directly from us as much as possible! 🙂 Plus we’re still pretty proud of this album, and…
As you should know by now, we have recently released the compilation Jazz Kaleidoscope. On this release, the very first track features the Red Norvo Quintet performing Rhee Waahnee. So today we thought we would tell you a little about the album this track comes from, and share a great video we came across on YouTube! THE FORWARD LOOK The Forward Look was one of our early releases (1981), and is a live performance captured…
JAZZ KALEIDOSCOPE RR-910 HDCD – Now Available Top tracks by Dick Hyman, Clark Terry, Red Norvo, Mike Garson, The Hot Club of San Franciso, Jim Brock and The Blazing Redheads. Jazz covers a lot of musical territory, and many of its varied styles are represented here. Stride piano from the 1920s rubs shoulders with swing from the 1940s, classic combo sounds from the 1950s, salsa-flavored dance music, and recently-created pieces that stretch the very boundaries…
Continuing in our excitement about our upcoming Jazz Sampler, today we’re posting a video of Jazz pianist Mike Garson! Make sure you have Mike Garson’s fantastic album, Jazz Hat!
We’re getting excited for the upcoming release of our new Jazz sampler (info coming very soon), so today we wanted to share a fun video of The Hot Club Of San Francisco doing a free street performance! The sampler will feature tracks from our album with The Hot Club Of San Francisco, Yerba Buena Bounce
We had a good response yesterday when we posted the Dick Hyman video, so today we thought we would direct you to some good information about Bix and the “Thinking About Bix” album. From our friends at Audiophile Audition: Dick Hyman, piano solo – Thinking About Bix – Reference Recordings RR-116 (HDCD), 66:26 ***** – John Henry: Bix Beiderbecke of Davenport, Iowa was the first white jazz musician of note. He had minimal instruction on…
As we let on in our 100th posting, we will be releasing a Jazz compilation entitled “Jazz Kaleidoscope” soon. So, to get you in the mood, we wanted to share a video of our artist Dick Hyman performing “Thinking About BIx” which is track 1 on his latest Reference Recordings release “Thinking About Bix.”