Serendipity (Mike Garson album)

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Serendipity
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Released1986
RecordedApril 9, 1986, Civic Auditorium, Oxnard, California & April 27, 1986, Santa Ana HS Auditorium
Genre Classical Jazz
Length54:26
Label Reference Recordings
Producer Mike Garson, J. Tamblyn Henderson, Jr.
Mike Garson chronology
Jazzical
(1982)
Serendipity
(1986)
Remember Love
(1989)
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Serendipity is the third solo album by jazz pianist Mike Garson, and was released in 1986.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Michael Garson; except where indicated

  1. "Serendipity"
  2. "Lady" (Lionel Richie)
  3. "Autumn Leaves" (Johnny Mercer, Joseph Kosma)
  4. "I Should Care" (Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, S. Kahn)
  5. "Spirit of Play"
  6. "Trio Blues"
  7. "My Romance" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
  8. "The Promise"
  9. "Tam's Jam" (Billy Mintz, Gary Herbig, Jim Lacefield, Michael Garson, Peter Sprague)
  10. "Searching"
  11. "My One and Only Love" (Guy Wood, Robert Mellin)

Personnel


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