"Sorrow" by David Bowie-who played the alto solo?

[JSAXL]

CD credits show Bowie on alto/tenor sax and Ken Fordham on bari. Can anyone
confirm that David played the solo on this 1973 UK hit?

Thanks
John L

[mwitthoft]

By the strangled-duck tone quality you may be sure it is Bowie
himself.

[JSAXL]

Thanks m7

John L

[So'n'so]

And I believe he plays it on the first live album, too.

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[Richard Kyllo]

"So'n'so" <nos...@nyc.rr.com> wrote in
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> And I believe he plays it on the first live album, too.

FWIW, he also plays it on the 'All the Young Dudes' album that he produced
for Mott the Hoople.

[Joe Castleman]

m7wit...@austin8.rr9.com wrote:

> By the strangled-duck tone quality you may be sure it is Bowie
> himself.

I guess I missed the start of this thread, but let me chime in here and
say that I never disliked Bowie's sax playing. I don't know if y'all
have ever heard the instrumental "Neukoln," from the album "Heroes," but
that sax always impressed me. It was probably the first time I'd heard
anyone play a sax "out there" like that (now, this was several years
before I listened to much jazz). Not as "out there," but still
enjoyable, was Bowie's sax on "Subterraneans," the last song on the
album "Low." Really not much of a sax part, pretty simple. In
hindsight the whole song (maybe just the mood) reminds me of "Sanctuary"
from "Bitches Brew."

That said, I was disappointed with Bowie's sax playing on "Black Tie
White Noise." I thought the sound processing was distracting. Maybe
he'd let his chops go that much since the late-70s? It was nice to hear
a sax paired with that style of music and I just wish he had done it
better. (He duets with Lester Bowie on that album)

My $0.02,

--Joe C.

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