Bryan Ferry Confirms Dates For Autumn 2013 UK Tour & Tickets
Monday, 26 November 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
To mark the release of his new album 'The Jazz Age', musical icon Bryan Ferry has today announced a new UK tour for autumn 2013.
To celebrate and mark the 40th year anniversary of his incredible career both as a solo artist and as the creator of Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry has re-recorded some of his own compositions, performed by The Bryan Ferry Orchestra in the style of the 1920s.
Driven by his fascination for that time between the wars known as ‘The Jazz Age’, Ferry has recorded the songs as instrumentals. “I started my musical journey listening to a fair bit of jazz, mainly instrumental, and from diverse and contrasting periods” explains Ferry. “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 Colman. 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. I would like to thank Colin Good and the other outstanding musicians featured on this record (most of who played on his earlier tribute to the 1930s, the album ‘As Time Goes By’) for bringing a new and different life to these songs – a life without words”.
Released today, 'The Jazz Age' tracklisting is as follows:
1. Do The Strand.
2. Love Is The Drug.
3. Don’t Stop The Dance.
4. Just Like You.
5. Avalon.
6. The Bogus Man.
7. Slave To Love.
8. This Is Tomorrow.
9. The Only Face.
10. I Thought.
11. Reason Or Rhyme
12. Virginia Plain.
13. This Island Earth.
Oct 26th - Salford The Lowry
Oct 28th - Nottingham Royal Concert Hall
Oct 29th - Ipswich Regent Theatre
Oct 31st - Cambridge Corn Exchange
Nov 1st - Leicester De Montford Hall
Nov 3rd - Oxford New Theatre
Nov 4th - London Royal Albert Hall
Nov 6th - Liverpool Philharmonic Hall
Nov 7th - Sheffield City Hall
Nov 9th - Gateshead Sage
Nov 12th - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Nov 13th - Edinburgh Usher Hall
Nov 14th - York Barbican Centre
Nov 16th - Bristol Colston Hall
Nov 17th - Southend Cliffs Pavilion
Nov 19th - Birmingham Symphony Hall
Nov 20th - Cardiff St Davids Hall
Nov 22nd - Brighton Dome
Nov 23rd - Plymouth Pavilions
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