The Jazz Age (The Bryan Ferry Orchestra album)

The Jazz Age
Studio album by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra
Released	26 November 2012
Recorded	2012
Studio	Studio One, Olympia, London
Genre	Orchestral jazz, retro swing, trad jazz
Length	37:46
Label	BMG Rights Management
Producer	Bryan Ferry, Rhett Davies
Bryan Ferry chronology
Olympia (2010) The Jazz Age (2012) Avonmore (2014)

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The Jazz Age is the fourteenth studio album by English singer Bryan Ferry released in 2012.^[1][4] It was co-produced by Ferry and Rhett Davies, with arrangements by Colin Good. The album is a re-recording of some of Ferry's compositions played in the jazz style of the 1920s by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra. The 13 songs have been chosen from 11 albums, from his very first release Roxy Music (1972) to his then most recent solo record, Olympia (2010). It was Ferry's lowest charting album of his career, peaking at #50 on the UK Albums Chart.

Ferry himself does not perform on the album, which consists entirely of instrumental performances. Talking about the inspiration behind the reinterpretations, Ferry told Clash, "I've sort of gone back to the music that I liked listening to when I was a young lad, nine or ten years old - I was really fairly precocious for that time."^[5] Interviewed for The Telegraph, he added, "It came out of the desire to make an instrumental album of my songs. I was fascinated to see how they would stand up without singing."^[6]