The leader of Roxy Music has done well with keeping his name in the press. That nice little H&M fashion layout was the last time I wrote about him but here we go with something new.
The Bryan Ferry Orchestra is now taking on the Jazz era. Apparently, Ferry is quite a fan of the music between created World War 1 and World War 2. So that being said he assembled his own jazz band. Rather than remake the masters, Ferry will take his own catalog ranging from 1972s Roxy days to current material and give it the jazz spin.
Ferry said 'I started my musical journey listening to a fair bit of jazz, mainly instrumental, and from diverse and contrasting periods.
'I loved the way the great soloists would pick up a tune and shake it up ' go somewhere completely different ' and then return gracefully back to the melody, as if nothing had happened. This seemed to me to reach a sublime peak with the music of Charlie Parker, and later Ornette Coleman. More recently, I have been drawn back to the roots, to the weird and wonderful music of the 1920s ' the decade that became known as The Jazz Age.
'After forty years of making records, both in and out of Roxy Music, I thought now might be an interesting moment to revisit some of these songs, and approach them as instrumentals in the style of that magical period ' bringing a new and different life to these songs ' a life without words.'
That guy has swag.