Friday, March 7, 1997 | 11:59 a.m.
SUN STAFF REPORTS
As Blondie, Deborah Harry came in on the ground floor of the new-wave movement of the late '70. A generation later, she has ditched the dye bottle and repackaged herself as a jazz singer.
The singer, whose oldie hits include "Rapture," "Heart of Glass," "Call Me" and "The Tide Is High," is fronting the Jazz Passengers, a New York-based quintet co-led by Curtis Fowlkes and Roy Nathanson. The two met while playing with the Big Apple Circus and later joined the Lounge Lizards, a band that experimented with conventional jazz forms in the late '70s.
They'll play two shows at Texas hotel-casino on March 12. Show times are 7 and 9 p.m.
The Jazz Passengers, which includes drummer E.J. Rodriguez, bassist Bradley Jones and vibist Bill Ware, have released several albums. The most recent, "In Love," is their first attempt at adding vocals to their music.
Harry has toured and recorded intermittently since her Blondie halcyon days, and begun a film career. She has appeared in "Videodrome," John Waters' "Hairspray" and "Heavy," co-starring Shelly Winters and Liv Tyler.
Together, Harry and the Jazz Passengers combine music and comedy in what has been described as a vaudevillian-like stage show.
Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 the day of the show. They can be purchased at the Texas Station Winners Center, 631-8370, or through TicketMaster, 474-4000.
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