Elvis Costello - Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast
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Artist: Elvis CostelloEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2005-07-12
Music Label: Jazz Alliance
Soundtracks:
- Conversation
- At Last
- Conversation
- My Funny Valentine
- Conversation
- Almost Blue
- Conversation
- The Very Thought Of You
- Conversation
- Gloomy Sunday
- Conversation
- You Don't Know What Love Is
- Conversation
- They Didn't Believe Me
- Conversation
- I'm In The Mood Again
- Conversation
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Music Review: Costello sings jazz standards beautifully
Rating: 5 Stars
It is always a pleasure to hear intelligent conversation and nice music... And this CD has both!
It starts with a rendition of a rare old song, "At Last", which was originally recorded by Elvis Costello's father with the Joe Loss Orchestra. Then comes a chilling version of "Almost Blue", which he wrote for jazz trumpeter Chet Baker. There's also a series of blue ballads like "Gloomy Sunday" and "You Don't Know What Love Is" which express Elvis' dark side and one can relate to the sadness in the composer's own work (I started to notice that songs like "So Like Candy", which appears in his album Mighty Like A Rose, might derive from his familiarity with this repertoire). The album ends with the original "I'm in the Mood Again", which was a premiere at the time this conversation was recorded (2003).
Fans of Elvis Costello will be delighted by these curious tracks, since it is not common for Costello to devote a complete recital to jazz standards. His voice was soft and he was very melody-conscious at the time. As for Marian McPartland, she's simply charming! Oh, I wish she was my grandmother! Not only her piano playing is delicate, but her conversation is so warm that she brings out Costello's boyhood memories which I had never heard in any previous interview.
Description of Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast
Japanese pressing. Victor. 2006.This 2003 installment of the NPR show Piano Jazz pairs the affable, octogenarian pianist-host Marian McPartland with fellow Brit Elvis Costello; the once angry punk rocker, who worked with a wide range of artists, from the Mingus Big Band to the Brodsky String Quartet. Costello and McPartland, along with guest bassist Gary Mazzaroppi, discuss and play some American standard "blue ballads" and Costello?s own tunes. McPartland?s pillow-soft accompaniment smoothes out Costello?s rough vocals and guitar on "At Last," and "The Very Thought of You." Costello?s solo rendition of the Billie Holiday favorite "Gloomy Sunday" is matched by "Almost Blue," the song he wrote for jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, that was covered by his wife Diana Krall on The Girl in the Other Room. Costello closes with a vocal/piano take of one of his new songs, "I?m in the Mood Again," from his orchestrated CD, North, illuminating the mellow interior underneath his grizzled exterior. --Eugene Holley, Jr.
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