The liner notes for this double-CD set mention the “healing power of music.” Corny, but true. I didn’t attend the Concert for New York, but shortly after their 9/11 terrorist attacks I saw the Buffalo Philharmonic perform Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. …
Mike Garson was Bowie’s most enduring collaborator. Garson began playing piano for Bowie in the early 1970s, and continued through the 2000s (though he doesn’t appear on Bowie’s last two albums). Today, Garson leads a group of musicians, some of…
This is as good a candidate as any for being the great lost Bowie album, though for the past quarter century it has been hiding in plain sight. Ostensibly a soundtrack, this instrumental-heavy collection is more inspired by a British…
What songs does a casual Bowie fan associate with Bowie? I saw a show a few years ago featuring performers dressed as, and singing in the style of deceased rocks stars. The Bowie impersonator got two songs: “Let’s Dance” and…