THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA
Genres: Pop, Art Song, Folk, Jazz Related Soundtracks, Classic (1920s) Jazz • United Kingdom

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) BRYAN FERRY: “I started my musical journey listening to a fair bit of jazz, mainly instrumental, and from diverse and contrasting periods” explains Ferry. “I loved read more...