🔘 The Jazz Age & Bitter-Sweet Albums: 2026

Bryan Ferry's Jazz Age Reissues

Bryan Ferry will reissue his two ‘jazz’ albums, The Jazz Age and Bitter-Sweet, on February 27, 2026 via BMG.

Issued under the moniker of ‘The Bryan Ferry Orchestra’ and ‘Bryan Ferry and his Orchestra’ respectively, both albums offer classics from Ferry and Roxy Music’s catalogue as elegant jazz instrumentals in authentic 1920s-style arrangements (The Jazz Age) and later Berlin-inspired ’30s arrangements (Bitter-Sweet), featuring instrumentation including banjo, clarinet, muted trumpet, baritone sax, horn and woodwind arrangements, and double bass.

The Jazz Age (originally 2012) was inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s use of “Love Is The Drug” in his 2013 film The Great Gatsby. It is reissued on limited edition ‘Forest Green’ coloured vinyl and CD.

Bitter-Sweet (originally 2018) followed Ferry’s participation in the German TV series Babylon Berlin. Six songs were released on that soundtrack, and around half the tracks feature Bryan as vocalist. It is reissued on red vinyl and CD.

The Jazz Age

Track Listing

Do The Strand

Love Is The Drug

Don’t Stop The Dance

Just Like You

Avalon

The Bogus Man

Slave To Love

This Is Tomorrow

The Only Face

I Thought

Reason Or Rhyme

Virginia Plain

This Island Earth

Bitter-Sweet

Track Listing

Alphaville

Reason Or Rhyme

Sign Of The Times

New Town

Limbo

Bitter-Sweet

Dance Away

Zamba

Sea Breezes

While My Heart Is Still Beating

Bitters End

Chance Meeting

Boys And Girls

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