Hello everyone!
I LOVE 'The Jazz Age'! I'm listening to it on a hot afternoon in Belfast in my garden as I write. I know others such as (gone but never forgotten) Windswept also enjoyed it.
I also wouldn't write it off as a critical success but a commercial failure...It led to the soundtrack of 'The Great Gatsby'. Also, I thought people might be interested in this article from 'Variety' about BMG:
http://variety.com/2013/music/news/bmg- ... 200001782/Particularly:
'Masuch points to the new album by former Roxy Music lead vocalist Ferry — “The Jazz Age,” an album of hot-jazz arrangements of the musician’s repertoire, issued in the U.S. on Feb. 12 — as an ideal example of the type of project BMG sees as worthy of sponsorship — one that helps artists access their market, without the company overexposing itself financially.
Masuch sees Ferry as an iconic talent who wants a bigger output level. “Very quietly in Europe, we’ve sold around 70,000 digital bundles and albums of ‘The Jazz Age,’ ” he notes. “(There’s) nothing wrong with an artist selling 20,000 or 30,000 units of a record. Nobody has proved that only artists or records where $500,000 (is) invested have the right to be properly marketed.”
Finally CBW2!