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The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age

If there was ever a musical icon and a decade destined to come together it is Bryan Ferry and the Roaring Twenties. The artist as creative powerhouse with a dazzling career of endless surprise, delight and innovation, and the decade - a time of modernity, decadence and bright young things - all driven on by the thrill of it all.

So what better way to celebrate and mark the 40th year anniversary of Ferry's incredible career as a singer and songwriter, than by rearranging his own compositions and have them performed in a 1920's style by his very own Jazz Orchestra? 

It began as an idea, fuelled by Ferry's fascination of that time between the wars known as "The Jazz Age". He decided the songs were to be all completely instrumental reinterpretations.

‘A lot of the music I listen to nowadays is instrumental," he explains "and I wanted to let my songs have a different life, a life without words’.

He put together his very own jazz orchestra comprised of many of the great British jazz players from his past tribute to the 1930’s’, the album ‘As Time Goes By - including his long-term musical director Colin Good, with whom Ferry worked closely on these new arrangements.

The 13 songs have been chosen from 11 albums, from his very first release ‘Roxy Music’ (1972) to his recent solo record ‘Olympia’ (2010)
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   1. (00:01:59) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Do the Strand
   2. (00:03:03) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Love Is the Drug
   3. (00:02:40) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Don't Stop the Dance
   4. (00:03:13) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Just Like You
   5. (00:02:12) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Avalon
   6. (00:01:56) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Bogus Man
   7. (00:02:27) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Slave to Love
   8. (00:02:16) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - This Is Tomorrow
   9. (00:02:46) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Only Face
  10. (00:02:25) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - I Thought
  11. (00:04:04) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Reason or Rhyme
  12. (00:02:03) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - Virginia Plain
  13. (00:04:15) The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - This Island Earth

Playing Time.........: 00:35:20
Total Size...........: 92,22 MB