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Mike Garson, Monk Fell On Me, Volume One, June 2013 -- Chicago, Illinois

Recorded on the 5th and 6th of June 2013, this solo piano performance (the first of two tapes) features Mike Garson, one of the finest jazz pianists alive today. Referred to as the greatest rock and roll pianist of all time by David Bowie (with whom he toured) Mike interprets Thelonious Monk tunes in an intensely deep and modernistic approach. This is not cocktail jazz, but deeply advanced and probing music. Not for the faint of heart. The result is stunning both musically and sonically. The session was recorded directly to two-track tape recorder using two vintage Neuman U67 microphones and a modified Studer 810 recorder.  The sound on this release is close in and up front, so detail is clearly heard, yet it remains musical because of the quality of microphones and tape deck used, but more importantly because of the playing.