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What Hi-Fi? Publishes a RAVE review of The Bowie Variations
Andrew Everard published a simply outstanding review of our latest release “The Bowie Variations” on WhatHiFi.com yesterday. The review is incredibly thorough and paints a wonderful picture of Mike Garson’s history with David Bowie (including some insight into how he got the gig). We’ll give you some quotes from it here, but we can not encourage you enough to read this fantastically entertaining review on WhatHifi.com. Excerpts from “Spiders, the Disklavier and Aladdin Sane –…
Mike Garson News
Independent Ethos is at it again with an incredibly thorough Mike Garson interview. Here Mike Garson talks about working with David Bowie. Click here for “From the Archives: Mike Garson on working with David Bowie (Part 1)” from Indie Ethos. If you missed the interview on The Bowie Variations between Mike Garson and Indie Ethos click here. Amazon Review of The Bowie Variations John C. Bowerman “pop culture fan” has posted the first Amazon review…
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.…
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…
An Evening With Mike Garson
We are getting very excited for the upcoming Mike Garson release on Reference Recordings. We came across this wonderful video today that we hope will get you as excited as we are!
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:
Valentine’s Day is Approaching
Valentine’s Day is less than a week away. Do you have a gift for the special someone? Or perhaps you’re looking for a little background music for a romantic dinner? We have the perfect album suggestion for your celebration — Mike Garson and Jim Walker’s album “Pied Piper.” Music is always a perfect gift, but even if you’ve already got your gift, Pied Piper makes for a fantastic Valentine’s Day album. With track names like…
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…
Pied Piper – Video
We just put this up on YouTube, but thought you might enjoy it here as well!
Proof from the Mike Garson Trivia Question
A couple of weeks ago we hosted a Reference Recordings Trivia Contest. One of the questions was “Which RR artist has played with Nine Inch Nails, Alicia Keys, Nnenna Freelon, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Smashing Pumpkins?” The answer, of course, is pianist Mike Garson. Mike Garson as you know is the featured pianist on our recent release “Pied Piper” along with flautist Jim Walker. Make sure to check out the Audiophile Audition review of that…
Pied Piper Review – Audiophile Audition
Here is a fantastic review of our new release “Pied Piper” from Audiophile Audition! Jim Walker, flute/Mike Garson, piano – Pied Piper – Reference Recordings (HDCD) RR-121 ***** Reference Recordings has been busy reissuing a few things from their catalog plus items on their new sub-label Fresh! This one is most unusual in that it originally was issued back in 1985 as a 45 rpm audiophile LP – with a different title…I have the 45…
New Release Day! – Pillow Book and Pied Piper
Two New Releases Pied PiperMike Garson/Jim WalkerRR-121 HDCD Crystalline-pure recording of soothing, meditative jazz! Jim Walker, flute and Mike Garson, piano perform 12 original Mike Garson compositions. Jim Walker is a dynamic jazz soloist, legendary orchestral and studio musician, and an inspiration to countless students worldwide. Mike Garson is best known as long-time music director for David Bowie and is perhaps the most versatile pianist working today. PIED PIPER is a new high resolution HDCD…