'My Flame' Due Feb. 28 '06
USA Today reports -
His time is due. Previously unreleased compositions, overhauls of classics and an orchestral suite comprise My Flame Burns Blue, a live album that Elvis Costello hopes will explain some of his absences of the past dozen years.
Due Feb. 28 on Deutsche Grammophon, the concert was recorded at The Hague with the Metropole Orkest, a 52-piece jazz orchestra from The Netherlands. Among the songs and arrangements Costello has been honing over the past decade are Can You Be True?; a reinvented Clubland; Upon a Veil of Midnight Blue (earlier recorded by Charles Brown as I Wonder How She Knows); and Watching the Detectives, refashioned in the vein of a 1950s TV theme. Costello penned lyrics for Hora Decubitas, a Charles Mingus composition (per his widow's request) and for Billy Strayhorn's last work, Blood Count.
A bonus disc captures 45 minutes of Il Sogno, Costello's first full-length orchestral composition. In January, the suite will be the centerpiece of a global tour by Costello and Steve Nieve performing with local orchestras.
Posted 11/17/2005 8:39 PM Updated 11/17/2005 9:05 PM
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Costello goes live for 'My Flame'
His time is due. Previously unreleased compositions, overhauls of classics and an orchestral suite comprise My Flame Burns Blue, a live album that Elvis Costello hopes will explain some of his absences of the past dozen years.
Due Feb. 28 on Deutsche Grammophon, the concert was recorded at The Hague with the Metropole Orkest, a 52-piece jazz orchestra from The Netherlands. Among the songs and arrangements Costello has been honing over the past decade are Can You Be True?; a reinvented Clubland; Upon a Veil of Midnight Blue (earlier recorded by Charles Brown as I Wonder How She Knows); and Watching the Detectives, refashioned in the vein of a 1950s TV theme. Costello penned lyrics for Hora Decubitas, a Charles Mingus composition (per his widow's request) and for Billy Strayhorn's last work, Blood Count.
A bonus disc captures 45 minutes of Il Sogno, Costello's first full-length orchestral composition. In January, the suite will be the centerpiece of a global tour by Costello and Steve Nieve performing with local orchestras.
- Edna Gundersen