New York Times on North / Town Hall
From the Jazz report: "ELVIS COSTELLO Recording mostly with piano, upright bass and brushed drums — as well as the jazz soloists Lee Konitz and Lew Soloff, and the Brodsky String Quartet here and there — Mr. Costello is doing slow songs with cabaret dynamics on "North." It's a set of songs about a breakup, and finally about finding love again; in related news, he has become engaged to the jazz singer Diana Krall. Sept. 23. Deutsche Grammophon. (Mr. Costello will perform at Town Hall on Sept. 22 and 24.)"