First blog; Mike Garson.
I've had the honor to be working together on a rendition of 'Je Vais Sans' with none other than pianist Mike Garson. He has captured the true core emotion of the song and hopefully it will resonate with a lot of people. To me, he truly is an amazing pianist, glad he is going strong leading the Bowie celebration tours amongst many other projects. His exact word about the final mastered version of 'Je Vais Sans' was "exquisite". Thank you Mike!
Mike Garson, who’d studied classical piano at Juilliard and honed his jazz chops with Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock and Lennie Tristano, first met Bowie in 1971, and would go on to be his longest and most frequent bandmember, appearing on ’70s albums like Aladdin Sane, Pin Ups, Diamond Dogs and Young Americans and later working with him through the ’90s and early 2000s. Bowie passed away in 2016.
Now, Garson is heading up A Bowie Celebration, a tour with Bowie alumni that includes guitarist Earl Slick and bassist Carmine Rojas. Singers Bernard Fowler, a longtime Rolling Stones backup vocalist; Living Colour frontman Corey Glover; and Charlie Sexton, who occasionally opened for Bowie and performed with him on the Glass Spider tour, are also on the road and will play the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday, February 19. Garson says he has about 100 Bowie songs ready to go at any given moment, but they can only play around 22 of them during the two-hour-plus show.
“I’m changing continuously based on how it feels that day, when we hit a city, what the climate feels like to me musically," Garson explains. "So it prevents the band from getting too much in a comfort zone. I’m following David’s lead that way, because he was always keeping you on your toes.”
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