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Marian McPartland asked her friend Elvis Costello to sit in as guest host for this episode of Piano Jazz. The session features New Orleans legend Allen Toussaint, who sings and plays his hit tune "Southern Nights" and performs a duet with Costello on the pair's recent collaboration "Ascension Day."
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Over the past 25 years, Costello has experimented with edgy rock, new wave punk and tender love ballads. More recently, he's found himself collaborating with such artists like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Costello joins McPartland and bassist Gary Mazzaroppi to perform "At Last" and more.
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From the funky New Orleans soul of Allen Toussaint to the harrowing acoustic rock of My Morning Jacket's Jim James, a wide variety of exciting sounds emanated from WXPN's annual All About the Music Festival July 21-23. The event spawned many memorable performances, several of which will be highlighted in this special edition of World Cafe.
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Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint have come together to write and record a warm, hopeful new album. The two chose to make The River in Reverse in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans as a gesture of hope. Most of the album's 13 tracks were recorded as free-flowing jam sessions.
()British rocker Elvis Costello made his debut with the album My Aim is True 30 years ago. He's since performed, recorded or collaborated with artists as diverse as The Brodsky Quartet and Burt Bacharach. An anniversary edition of My Aim is True was released this week.
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What began as Elvis Costello's tribute to Allen Toussaint's music became a dedication to the rebuilding and return of New Orleans. The two musicians talk about their new album A River in Reverse.
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For a time, legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint was missing during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Since his recovery, the songwriter has been on a mission to play and record music honoring his city — and helping it rebuild.
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With Il Sogno, a new full-length symphony and The Delivery Man, a country-rock CD, Elvis Costello is still pushing musical boundaries. The pop icon talks about creating his latest music with NPR's Michele Norris.
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Stephen Colbert packed his recent television special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, with many bits of monumental silliness. But then, he and Elvis Costello pulled the rug out from under his audience, tucking in an unexpected moment of deep sincerity right at the very end.
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The deluge of songs immortalizing the wrath of Hurricane Katrina continues with the release of a collaboration between Elvis Costello and legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. The delivery is mostly coy and cool, the groove a classic example of Toussaint understatement.
()Bob Boilen speaks with All Things Considered music reviewers Will Hermes, Tom Moon and Meredith Ochs about the most anticipated releases for fall 2004. Hear sneak previews from R.E.M., Brian Wilson's long-awaited album Smile, plus new music from Tom Waits, Elliott Smith and more.
()Gentle jazz from Elvis Costello; Jamaican Reggae producer Augustus Pablo; German electronic rap with Pole; San Francisco electronica duo Matmos; and a Kurt Vonnegut tribute from The Dandy Warhols. Featured Artist: Edie Brickell.
()Putting this list together and hearing this music again was great fun. This year on All Songs Considered we featured more than 120 artists and listened to thousands of others. In the end, these are the ones that stuck with us. They're the songs that you listened to the most or that drew the most e-mail. Hearing them all together is a wonderful way to look back at the year.
()On this episode, we dig through our archives to bring you some of our favorite artists and albums featured on All Songs Considered during the past two years.
()A new collection of songs from Artie Shaw; the Hasidic New Wave's Afro-Semitic Diaspora; Buena Vista Social Club's bassist, Orlando Cachaito López; Mexico's answer to the Beatles — Café Tacuba; and Declan McManus — a.k.a. Elvis Costello.
()Jeff Lunden reports on a collaboration between rock legend Elvis Costello and mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter. Their new CD is called For the Stars and it features interpretations of songs by Costello, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson and other music that turned pop and rock into art. (For the Stars is released by Uni/Deutsche Grammophon.)
()Stephen Colbert packed his recent television special, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All, with many bits of monumental silliness. But then, he and Elvis Costello pulled the rug out from under his audience, tucking in an unexpected moment of deep sincerity right at the very end.
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Andy Langer, music critic for Esquire magazine, discusses the week's album releases, including new records from music heavyweights Elvis Costello and Neil Diamond, as well as Tim Fite and Firewater.
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Washington Post pop music critic Josh Freedom du Lac discusses the week's album releases, including albums from rapper Lyrics Born, Billy Bragg, Elvis Costello, and Jessica Simpson's sister Ashlee.
()Fresh Air's music critic reviews three new deluxe reissues on the Universal Music label: Elvis Costello's This Year's Model, Beck's Odelay and Lynyrd Skynyrd's Street Survivors.
()The deluge of songs immortalizing the wrath of Hurricane Katrina continues with the release of a collaboration between Elvis Costello and legendary New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. The delivery is mostly coy and cool, the groove a classic example of Toussaint understatement.
()Elvis Costello and New Orleans piano legend Allen Toussaint have recorded a new album in New Orleans. The session is in part a symbolic effort to show the city's music industry is not dead.
()Torch is a new collection of "torch ballads" from contemporary artists such as Elvis Costello and Cassandra Wilson. The CD combines the sultry pathos of a torch song with electronic rhythms and sympathetic arrangements. Jim Fusilli offers a review.
()David Greenberger reviews When I Was Cruel by Elvis Costello. He says the album bristles with sonic energy that harkens back to the early days of Costello's career, when he was branded an angry young rocker. But these songs are informed by middle age, mature self-awareness and bitter experience. (4:30) The CD is from Island Records. See http://www.islandrecords.com/elviscostello/home.las.
()reviews When I Was Cruel the new release by Elvis Costello. It reunites him with two members of his first rock combo, The Attractions.
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Gen-Xers love "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, while their parents prefer "At Last" as sung by Etta James. Those are two of the most popular tunes NPR listeners selected in a recent NPR.org online poll on Valentine's Day music. Hear the songs and read the stories behind them.
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