Hipster,
avalon_eyes’ appreciation is well founded and shared by Windswept.
‘The Jazz Age’ marked yet another sophisticated and truly creative step in ‘The Taste Tarantula’s ‘ career.
The arrangements and standard of musicianship are off the Richter scale and the whole thing is a testimony to the power of our hero’s partnership with Colin Good.
Windswept’s personal favourites are: ‘Just Like You’, ‘Reason Or Rhyme ‘ and ‘The Only Face ‘.
Of course, this album has been followed by the equally brilliant ‘Bitter - Sweet’. Which, whilst ploughing the same furrow has built on it by introducing scintillating vocal versions.
When Windswept listens to them and to ATGB, he can’t help but think about the late, great, Robert Palmer who said, at the time of his jazz influenced masterpiece - ‘Ridin’ High’ ; “ I don’t want to be the ageing rocker. I want to be the cool man in the suit, singing the blues.”
He said it. Ferry did it !
Salutations,
W2
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