{"id":9790,"date":"2013-05-08T10:10:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:11:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:11:04","slug":"the-bryan-ferry-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/the-bryan-ferry-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9791\" alt=\"The-bryan-ferry-orchestra-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-bryan-ferry-orchestra-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-bryan-ferry-orchestra-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/The-bryan-ferry-orchestra-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>The Jazz Age<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[BMG]<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Ferry is no stranger to albums filled with cover songs. But <i>The Jazz Age<\/i>, credited to the Bryan Ferry Orchestra, is something different: 13 songs, spanning Roxy Music\u2019s first single to Ferry\u2019s most recent solo album, done in the style of 1920s jazz. It\u2019s so lovingly and faithfully recreated that you\u2019re half expecting the clicks and pops of vintage 78s on these lo-fi mono recordings. <i>The Jazz Age<\/i> also differs from, say, <i>Let\u2019s Stick Together<\/i> or <i>Dylanesque<\/i> because Ferry\u2019s deep, familiar croon is absent on these instrumentals. Trumpet and sax soloists take lead on tightly arranged, flawlessly played versions of Roxy Music\u2019s \u201cLove Is the Drug\u201d and \u201cVirginia Plain,\u201d and \u201cReason or Rhyme\u201d from Ferry\u2019s 2010 album <i>Olympia<\/i>. But where\u2019s the heart? It amounts to an authentic, intriguing, occasionally passionless recreation of a long-gone period. \u2013Michael Gallucci<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE BRYAN FERRY ORCHESTRA The Jazz Age [BMG] Bryan Ferry is no stranger to albums filled with cover songs. But The Jazz Age, credited to the Bryan Ferry Orchestra, is something different: 13 songs, spanning Roxy Music\u2019s first single to Ferry\u2019s most recent solo album, done in the style of 1920s jazz. It\u2019s so lovingly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,4071,6467,6516,6517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9793,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions\/9793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}