The Jazz Age (The Bryan Ferry Orchestra album)

The Jazz Age
Studio album by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
Released	November 26, 2012
Recorded	2012
Studio	Studio One, Olympia, London
Genre	Orchestral jazz, retro swing, trad jazz
Length	37:46
Label	BMG Rights Management
Producer	Bryan Ferry, Rhett Davies
Bryan Ferry chronology
Olympia (2010) The Jazz Age (2012) Avonmore (2014)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Impact	[2]

The Jazz Age, is the fourteenth studio album, is a rerecording of some of Bryan Ferry's compositions, as played in jazz style of the 1920s, by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra. The 13 songs have been chosen from 11 albums, from his very first release Roxy Music (1972) to his at that time recent solo record Olympia (2010). The album was co-produced by Ferry and Rhett Davies, with arrangements by Colin Good, and released on 26 November 2012 as a 10in vinyl folio edition and on 12in vinyl, CD and digital download, on BMG Rights Management.^[3][4]

The artwork for The Jazz Age album consists of illustrations by the renowned French poster artist Paul Colin (1892–1985).^[5]

Ferry himself does not perform on the album, which consists entirely of instrumental performances. Talking about the inspiration behind the reinterpretations, Ferry told Clash, "I've sort of gone back to the music that I liked listening to when I was a young lad, nine or ten years old - I was really fairly precocious for that time."^[6]

The album is Ferry's lowest charting of his career, peaking at #50 on the UK Albums Chart.

Track listing

All songs written by Bryan Ferry except where noted.

1. "Do The Strand" – 2:10
2. "Love Is the Drug" – 3:14 (Ferry, Andy Mackay)
3. "Don’t Stop The Dance" – 2:51 (Ferry, Rhett Davies)
4. "Just Like You" – 3:24
5. "Avalon" – 2:23
6. "The Bogus Man" – 2:07
7. "Slave to Love" – 2:38
8. "This Is Tomorrow" – 2:27
9. "The Only Face" – 2:57
10. "I Thought" – 2:36 (Ferry, Brian Eno)
11. "Reason Or Rhyme" – 4:15
12. "Virginia Plain" – 2:14
13. "This Island Earth" – 4:24

Personnel

• Bryan Ferry - bandleader, composer, producer
• Martin Wheatley - guitar, banjo
• Chris Laurence - double bass
• Colin Good - piano, arrangements
• John Sutton - drums
• Frank Ricotti - percussion
• Robert Fowler - tenor saxophone, clarinet
• Alan Barnes - baritone saxophone, clarinet
• Richard White - bass saxophone, bass clarinet
• Katy Cox - cello
• Enrico Tomasso - trumpet, cornet
• Malcolm Earle Smith - trombone
• Emma Parker, Victoria Sutherland - violin
• Emma Owens, Sarah Chapman - viola

References

External links

• Bryan Ferry's site