Conversations with My Family

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Conversations with My Family
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Studio album by Mike Garson
Released April 8th, 2008
Genre Jazz
Length82:00
Label Resonance
Producer George Klabin
Mike Garson chronology
Homage to My Heroes
(2003)
Conversations with My Family
(2008)
Lost in Conversation
(2008)

Conversations with My Family is the eleventh solo album by jazz pianist Mike Garson and was released in 2008 by Resonance Records. "Conversations with my family" is the first solo album released commercially by Garson in over 15 years, after having spent the previous decade working with artists such as David Bowie, playing on the albums Outside and Earthling and working with artists such as Nine Inch Nails and Smashing Pumpkins.

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

Resonance Records is an independent jazz record label established in 2008 as the centerpiece of the Rising Jazz Stars Foundation, a non–profit organization dedicated to preserving the art and legacy of jazz. The label is based in Los Angeles, California and is devoted to preserving jazz and discovering the rising stars of tomorrow. The label's roster includes John Beasley, Bill Cunliffe, Tamir Hendelman, Christian Howes, Kathy Kosins, Andreas Öberg, Marian Petrescu, Claudio Roditi, Donald Vega and others. Resonance Records has also released recordings by John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Gene Harris, Scott LaFaro, Charles Lloyd and Wes Montgomery.

Contents

Garson is supported by bassist Bob Magnusson and drummer Gary Novak, flutist Lori Bell, violinist Chris Howes, guitarist Andreas Oberg, and trumpeter Claudio Roditi, with arrangements by Kuno Schmid.

Track listing

  1. The Child Within 8:01
  2. Interlude 0:42
  3. Lullaby for our daughters 5:06
  4. Interlude 0:29
  5. The mystery and the awe 4:35
  6. Blues for the terrible twos 5:41
  7. Interlude 0:22
  8. Longings 6:43
  9. Interlude 0:40
  10. Trials and revelations 3:57
  11. Interlude 0:45
  12. Yearnings 4:40
  13. Interaction 3:27
  14. Interlude 0:37
  15. Song for Susan 4:25
  16. Interlude 0:28
  17. Searching 7:49
  18. Interlude 0:27
  19. Miracle of love 5:19
  20. Interlude 0:19
  21. Jenny's waltz 4:03
  22. Conversations with my family 4:02

Bonus DVD

  1. Autumn leaves/ stella by starlight (medley)
  2. In your own sweet way
  3. Besame mucho
  4. Hello young lovers

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