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Bryan Ferry records instrumental jazz LP
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 16 October 2012
Marking his 40th year as a studio musician, Bryan Ferry has re-recorded thirteen of his greatest hits – that’s solo and as part of Roxy Music – as ‘roaring 1920s’-style jazz instrumentals. The collection bears the title ‘The Jazz Age’, and is set for release on 26 Nov.
Says Ferry, who co-composed the new arrangements with erstwhile collaborator Colin Good: “After 40 years of making records, both in and out of Roxy Music, I thought now might be an interesting moment to revisit some of these songs, and approach them as instrumentals in the style of that magical period”.
He adds: “Most of the music I listen to nowadays is instrumental and I wanted to let my songs have a different life, a life without words”.
If you’d care to see a ‘making of’ trailer, a preview of ‘Don’t Stop The Dance’ in a jazz instrumental stylee, and a complete tracklisting as regards ‘The Jazz Age’, look no further than the end of this page:
Tracklisting:
Do The Strand
Love Is The Drug
Don’t Stop The Dance
Just Like You
Avalon
The Bogus Man
Slave To Love
This Is Tomorrow
The Only Face
I Thought
Reason Or Rhyme
Virginia Plain
This Island Earth