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The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: The Jazz Age

Ned Raggett, Pitchfork, 7 February 2013

Reworking his past material as jazz instrumentals, Bryan Ferry's The Jazz Age is a self-consciously 1920s collection, openly meant to evoke Louis Armstrong, early Count Basie, and the initial mass popularization of the form.

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