If there was ever a musical icon and a decade destined to come together it is Bryan Ferry and the Roaring Twenties. The artist as creative powerhouse with a dazzling career of endless surprise, delight and innovation, and the decade - a time of modernity, decadence and bright young things - all driven on by the thrill of it all. So what better way to celebrate and mark the 40th year anniversary of Ferry's incredible career as a singer and songwriter, than by rearranging his own compositions and have them performed in a 1920's style by his very own Jazz Orchestra?
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)
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