Photo by Rodney Gitzel, from Drop-D Magazine.
"Debbie Does the Commodore: Review" by Stuart Derdeyn
First published in Drop-D Magazine on July 12, 1996
Photo by Rodney Gitzel, from Drop-D
Magazine.
Photo by Rodney Gitzel, from Drop-D
Magazine.
The Jazz Passengers with Deborah Harry
Vancouver International Jazz Festival
The Commodore Ballroom
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
June 23, 1996
I love the Jazz Passengers, and my Blondie vinyl is as dear to me as my KISS Originals set, so I was ready for this meeting of the minds at the Commodore....
Dame Debbie was in excellent form, sporting high camp fashion and singing her self silly on all the material from the last J.P's release. Obviously, she is supremely comfortable with the format, leaving off mid-phrase to let the improvising go, stepping in to rap/scat her way into the noise, doing a dippy doodly dance step that all the adoring fans stage front kept trying to copy, but missed. That's why the lady is a vamp....