Posted on 07/12/2019 4:25:21 PM PDT by BEJ
This is part of a fantasy series. This time it is David Bowie and Harry Lounge Jr. singing a medley of Bill Nelson (BBD) and Bowie songs. All part of gig that didn't take place, in a jazz lounge (the Satyrs Lounge) that doesn't exist. Stranger things have happened... If you like the video please subscribe to the channel.
It took a little while to hear anything on the tape, with all the screams and shrieks from girls in the audience.
That said, Harry Lounge (who I’d never heard of) has a good crooner’s voice. I found it difficult to listen to their first duet “Rebel- Rebel” w/o comparing it to the high octane version on Diamond Dogs, which I still own.
Harry provides the champagne, piano lounge Don Ho version of that song. Interesting indeed, even brave. But I still prefer David’s rock and roll take on it. It’s like using a gased up Maserati to slowly coast two blocks to the 711 and straight back home. You keep waiting for the driver to floor it.
I would love to hear someone confident on jazz piano do a take on “Aladdin Sane”. Mike Garson, the American, is who played it so well on that same album.
A SPECTACULAR improvised performance of avant-garde jazz as often heard in the 1960’s.
Thank you for your kind words. This is a bit of a send up where Bowie is directed by Harry — a take off on Harry Connick Jr — and the duet re lives glam songs from the 70s. The songs are from David Bowie and Bill Nelson, Bill was the lead singer/guitar player in the British band Be Bop Deluxe. This is suppose to be jazz evening... where the older rock musicians now fashion themselves as jazz artists, playing an obscure jazz lounge (the Satrys Lounge), located in the Bhagavad Gita A-Go-Go Hotel in the heart of New York City.
It’s suppose to be light and spoofy for the most part.
Yes, Mike Garson is great and did some live stuff with Bowie before Bowie’s death. He is very distinctive on piano and I would love to hear a modern take of Aladdin Sane.
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