The Jazz Age (CD)


Bryan Ferry

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Amoeba Review

02/11/2013

Bryan Ferry is always up there at the country house cooking up some new way of delivering you the lush life, and this time he literally blows the roof off! Here are thirteen songs from the breadth of his career, from Roxy Music to recent solo albums, arranged and interpreted by a hard-swingin' 1920s style jazz orchestra, and presented in gloriously crackly mono. At first hearing tunes like "Do the Strand" come at you as a vigorous Dixieland stomp practically makes you laugh out loud -- then you realize the guy is serious. From "Love Is the Drug" to "Avalon," these tunes get sent back in the way-back machine, only to return with plenty of trombone charts, clarinet solos, muted trumpets and even coconut percussion fills. Members of the Pasadena Roof Orchestra execute this vintage fantasia, with some arranging help from UK TV composer Colin Good. Each reinterpretation is imaginatively and slyly suited to the original, whether bringing out a latent samba shuffle or hinting at the original darkness of tone behind a zany rhythm. Of course, Bryan Ferry has always been besotted with the Jazz Age, going back to his first solo album, These Foolish Things, in which he crooned classic 1930s ballads in his proto-new wave style. Even then he had a true knack for classic sounds (a knack not shared by just anybody, as one notices whenever Rod Stewart barfs up "It Had to be You"). So jump on this magic carpet with the Bryan Ferry Orchestra and soar back in time to the Roaring Twenties!

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Track Listing



Disc 1 Titles
Artist
Length
1.
Do the Strand 		Bryan Ferry 02:10
2.
Love is the Drug 		Bryan Ferry 03:14
3.
Don't Stop the Dance 		Bryan Ferry 02:51
4.
Just Like You 		Bryan Ferry 03:24
5.
Avalon 		Bryan Ferry 02:23
6.
The Bogus Man 		Bryan Ferry 02:07
7.
Slave to Love 		Bryan Ferry 02:38
8.
This is Tomorrow 		Bryan Ferry 02:27
9.
The Only Face 		Bryan Ferry 02:57
10.
I Thought 		Bryan Ferry 02:35
11.
Reason or Rhyme 		Bryan Ferry 04:15
12.
Virginia Plain 		Bryan Ferry 02:14
13.
This Island Earth 		Bryan Ferry 04:26

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