The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra is a retro-jazz ensemble founded and led by Bryan Ferry. They exclusively play his work in a 1920s jazz style. Ferry formed the orchestra out of a desire to focus on the melodies of his songs, and "see how they would stand up without singing". Their album, The Jazz Age, was released on 26 November 2012 as a 10-inch vinyl folio edition and on 12-inch vinyl, CD and digital download, on BMG Rights Management. Ferry neither plays nor sings with the orchestra; BBC reviewer Chris Roberts called it a "peculiar concept then, with Ferry now, almost Warhol-like, sagely mute to one side while collaborators silkscreen his own icons. As fascinating as it is perplexing, anything but obvious, and therefore to be applauded."
Personnel
Performance
- Colin Good – piano and arrangements
- Enrico Tomasso – cornet and trumpet
- Malcolm Earle-Smith – trombone
- Richard White – alto and bass saxophones, saxinet, bass clarinet
- Robert Fowler – tenor saxophone and clarinet
- Alan Barnes – alto and baritone saxophones, clarinet, saxinet
- Martin Wheatley – banjo and guitar
- John Sutton – drums
Discography
- The Jazz Age
- The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film
- *"Love Is the Drug"
- *"Crazy in Love"
- A Selection of Yellow Cocktail Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby
- Babylon Berlin
- *"Dance Away"
- *"Reason or Rhyme"
- *"Bitters End"
- *"Alphaville"
- *"Chance Meeting"
- ''Bitter-Sweet''