Emeli Sandé teamed up with The Bryan Ferry Orchestra for this big band take on Beyoncé’s smash “Crazy In Love” for Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY.
Singer Emeli Sande was awarded the best British Album award by Bryan Ferry during the BRIT Awards, celebrating British pop music, at the O2 Arena in London on Feb 20, 2013
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Following the critically acclaimed release of ‘The Jazz Age’ album late last year, Bryan Ferry and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra have provided the jazz recordings for the soundtrack to the highly-anticipated release of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’.
After hearing ‘The Jazz Age’ album whilst the movie was still in production, Luhrmann asked Ferry to record some music for the film, which captured the same spirit of the 1920s.
Ferry says, “Baz felt the music we had recorded on our album worked well with his film, so he commissioned us to both rearrange elements of the score and also record in a period style the contemporary songs that he and Jay-Z had selected. We used the same orchestra that features on ‘The Jazz Age’ and recording commenced in January 2013.”
“Baz came to my studio during the sessions and he had a very clear idea of what music he wanted for each scene. We recorded to picture including a new version of ‘Love Is The Drug’. Baz is a strong creative force and the soundtrack is always going to be important in any movie he makes, especially a film like The Great Gatsby, where the music of the period is key to the film’s identity. Baz has a great understanding of the music from the 1920s, and it’s going to be very interesting to see how his musical collage works, combining contemporary songs with our period music.”
Luhrmann explains, “I heard the Jazz Age and said to Bryan “what about if you took our themes and record them with your band?” Then I said “what about if you do ‘Love Is The Drug’?…. and it just kept growing, and next he’s covering Jay Z, Amy Winehouse and Beyonce. And so he becomes the ‘Jazz Voice’ of the movie. We couldn’t have been luckier. Total serendipity.”
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The Bryan Ferry Orchestra have recorded a wide range of songs for the film, including ‘Crazy In Love’ (with Emeli Sande), which features on the Original Soundtrack Album together with Ferry’s own ‘Love Is The Drug’, and Jazz Age versions of ‘Bang Bang’ (Will.i.am), ‘Will You Still Love Me’ (Lana Del Rey) and ‘Back To Black’ (Amy Winehouse), ‘$100 Bills’ (Jay Z) all of which will be released together with the Bryan Ferry Orchestra score recordings on a companion Gatsby jazz soundtrack album.
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6th JULY 2013
As part of their set, Bryan Ferry & The Bryan Ferry Orchestra will treat the lucky Love Supreme audience to the UK premiere of their recently released ‘The Jazz Age’ album, a collection that features swinging re-works of songs made famous by Bryan in Roxy Music and throughout his glittering solo career. ‘Virginia Plain’, ‘Love Is The Drug’ and more get the 1920s big band treatment on this revelatory record. Ferry will follow this with a full band set of classic hits. So whether you’re a fan of Ferry’s music or a cotton club aficionado this is one set you don’t want to miss.
Less than half an hour out of Brighton and just over an hour from London, the green, gorgeous Glynde Place in Sussex is the perfect backdrop for three days of the very best in Jazz, Funk, Soul, Blues and Fusion. Experience Bryan Ferry and much more in the picturesque surroundings of this summer.
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Saturday 7 September, 2013
5.15pm – c. 10.30pm
Hyde Park, London
Join in the Last Night of the Proms celebrations in Hyde Park, as British pop legend Bryan Ferry heads a spectacular line-up including world-famous tenor Joseph Calleja with Proms in the Park favourites the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Richard Balcombe. Violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy also makes a special appearance on the Hyde Park stage before hot-footing it to appear at the Last Night in the Royal Albert Hall – on the same night! Sir Terry Wogan presents the festivities and special guest Dame Edna Everage will be leading the traditional sing-a-long.
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BF IN CANNES
Last week Bryan Ferry and the Bryan Ferry Orchestra were in Cannes helping to kick off this year’s film festival with two instrumental performances to celebrate the release of Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby. Not only were the band to play at the Warner Brother’s party to celebrate the premiere of the film, but also at an intimate after party, which was to be hosted by Bryan aboard the Johnnie Walker Voyager- an incredible yacht, which was very in keeping with the 1920s themed evening.
After their first sound check of the day, on Quai Laubeuf at the Warner Brother’s party venue, the musicians headed across the bay to the Johnnie Walker Voyager for their second. The orchestra diligently and skilfully battled against the elements to set up their instruments, as torrential rain poured down aboard the boat.
Despite the rain no spirits were dampened, and everything seemed to be on course for the evening’s proceedings. By eight o’clock a glamorous hoard of guests, including a breath-taking Cara Delevingne, were on board the yacht, sipping on cocktails before heading off to the Warner Brothers party to watch the BFO in action. A very persuasive Baz Luhrmann had some hours before the scheduled (instrumental!) performance, asked Bryan to sing his Gatsbyesque renditions of Love Is The Drug, Back To Black and Reason or Rhyme. Despite the late hour, Bryan accepted and gave a show stopping live performance. While the film’s stars, Leonardo DiCaprio, Toby Maguire and Carey Mulligan watched on, Baz led the way on the dance-floor, doing an impressive variation on the foxtrot with wife Catherine Martin to Love Is The Drug. Though impromptu Bryan’s surprise performance proved a wild success, and was roundly praised as having “made the party”.
Afterwards, it was back to boat for more cocktails and dancing as the orchestra were let loose, improvising and playing some fantastic and obscure 1920s jazz numbers.