The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age

It is sometimes said that a really good song will survive, even thrive, with a radical rearrangement. It's a flawed argument, but one to which albums such as The Jazz Age add seductive heft. Here are 13 classic tunes from the Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry back catalogues – from Virginia Plain to Don't Stop the Dance - reimagined as big band soiree music from the tootling 1920s, to mark 40 years of Ferry's career. Most arresting of all, Ferry has chosen not to sing. Although the odd track - Slave to Love, say - is laugh-out-loud funny, this is emphatically not a novelty record. Every note is perfectly placed, the sense of bygone breeziness lovingly accurate.

Do The Strand - The Jazz Age (2012 Promo Video)

The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age

Genres: Jazz, Music, Rock

Released: 26 November 2012

Track list:

1. Do The Strand

2. Love Is The Drug

3. Don't Stop The Dance

4. Just Like You

5. Avalon

6. The Bogus Man

7. Slave To Love

8. This Is Tomorrow

9. The Only Face

10. I Thought

11. Reason Or Rhyme

12. Virginia Plain

13. This Island Earth

“The Bryan Ferry Orchestra - The Jazz Age” is available on iTunes (BUY)