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"Baz Luhrmann has spoken about the second soundtrack to his latest movie The Great Gatsby. Yellow Cocktail Music: The Great Gatsby Jazz Recordings is to be released on CD and vinyl next month, while it is already available on iTunes.   Bryan Ferry&amp;#039;s orchestra group have recorded jazz versions of tracks from the original release, alongside classics by Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Irving Aaronson. &amp;quot;I know my traditional jazz, because I grew up around a stepfather who had 14,000 jazz 78s,&amp;quot; Lurhmann told The Hollywood Reporter. The new collection includes Ferry recording jazz versions of his band Roxy Music&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Love Is The Drug&amp;#039; and Amy Winehouse&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Back To Black&amp;#039;, which was covered by Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9 and Andre 3000 on the first LP. &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Back To Black&amp;#039; is a big favorite of mine,&amp;quot; Ferry said. &amp;quot;We did a version that took it back into period. In the film, Baz weaves our recording with Beyonc\u00C3\u00A9 and Andre 3000&amp;#039;s modern take.&amp;quot; Talking about the album&amp;#039;s title, Luhrmann said: &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s from [Fitzgerald&amp;#039;s Great Gatsby] book: &amp;#039;The light grows brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun, and now the orchestra is playing yellow cocktail music&amp;#039;.      &amp;quot;To me, it&amp;#039;s a great cocktail-hour album. You put it on to drink to, and the party has begun. Also, Fitzgerald uses color relentlessly throughout the book - lurid color. In the twenties, color was an explosion; color was a new invention.&amp;quot; On working with the Bryan Ferry Orchestra, he said: &amp;quot;It was unbelievably serendipitous. In a million years, I would never have thought Bryan Ferry would have had this jazz orchestra. &amp;quot;We thought we&amp;#039;d get our band in New Orleans or something. Jay and I did the first album with Anton Monsted, but the whole idea was to weave that with traditional jazz. &amp;quot;So I just sent him a note, saying: &amp;#039;Bryan: Baz. How about it?&amp;#039; He doesn&amp;#039;t sing on [the Bryan Ferry Orchestra album, The Jazz Age], but as we progressed on the film, I said, &amp;#039;Bryan, you&amp;#039;ve got to sing&amp;#039;. He was like, &amp;#039;Oh, I don&amp;#039;t know...&amp;#039; Next thing, he did vocals for &amp;#039;Back To Black&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Love Is The Drug&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Watch a trailer for The Great Gatsby below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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