Bowie originally released “Sue (Or In a Season of Crime)” as his lead single from the 2014 comp Nothing Has Changed and re-recorded both that track and “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” for 2016′s Blackstar. “Sue” is a mournfully orchestrated jazz number with a wall of horns that won the 2016 Grammy for the Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals category, awarded to the song’s arranger and conductor, Maria Schneider. “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” has been described as “a raucous five-minute mesh of melody and discord, an art-rock anti-war romance, gasping under the pack-ice of no-wave sax-squawk.“ (Bowie plays the sax part on this recording; on Blackstar the sax is performed by Donny McCaslin. It’s no 80′s-style sax, very avant-gaurde and boisterous.

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