Elvis `Piano Jazz ` radio show airs Sept.30th

[johnfoyle]

see
http://www.shorefire.com/artists/ecoste ... 28_03.html
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COSTELLO'S "PIANO JAZZ" AIRS IN SEPTEMBER

Elvis Costello performs jazz standards and his own
material with pianist Marian McPartland for an
upcoming installment of her National Public Radio
series, "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz." The episode
will begin airing on NPR stations across the country
on September 30, 2003 , a week after the Deutsche
Grammophon release of Costello's album 'North.' Visit
http://www.pianojazz.org for local airtime information.

"I got the call to do it, and I was delighted to speak
with Marian," Costello says. "We did it completely off
the cuff during the day... it was really good fun."

Costello sings with McPartland's piano accompaniment
on songs including the standards "At Last," "My Funny
Valentine," "You Don't Know What Love Is," and his own
"Almost Blue," among others. He plays guitar and sings
on "Gloomy Sunday," made famous by Billie Holiday.

Costello's September 23, Deutsche Grammophon release,
'North,' presents eleven new compositions written at
the piano by Costello between Autumn 2002 and New
Year's Day 2003.

The album, which features Steve Nieve on piano, Peter
Erskine on drums and Mike Formanek on double bass,
displays a tender and intimate vocal side never before
showcased on record as the eleven ballads are sung
predominately in his baritone register.
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see also

http://www.npr.org/programs/pianojazz/about/index.html

[A rope leash]

If you've never listened to the Piano Jazz show, you might want to tune in even before Elvis is on it. I think It's usually on Saturday or Sunday night.

[bobster]

I always knew it was inevitable.

I suspect this is as close as Marian has ever come to fraternizing with a punk rocker!

Should be very fun.

[Goody2Shoes]

I *love* Piano Jazz. It's on Sunday nights in these parts.

I never thought I would listen to Elvis Costello on Piano Jazz, though. I don't really know what to think about that.

But I'll be listening....

[A rope leash]

Elvis does seem a bit odd for this show. Marian usually has someone even older than herself for a guest!

It also seems odd that Elvis can just all of a sudden "qualify" for this show. Bob Dylan wouldn't be right, but somehow we all know Elvis will do fine.

The next Elvis CD will be Jazz.

Krall and the Dirty Dozen.

[lipstickvogue]

ooooooooooooooooooh another reason to loooooooooooove NPR!!!

but I am a little confused: there are people older than Marian?

[Poppet]

damn. no one near boston carries it. great barrington does. worcester does. but not boston.

sometimes, boston sucks. (don't get me started on how much i miss thistle and shamrock)

[Veronica]

Poppet,
The Worcester staion is found at 90.5 FM. You should be able to pick it up.

[lipstickvogue]

You might be able to pick it up via the internet - a lot of NPR shows are available that way...

[martinfoyle]

Three years on this broadcast is still making an impression

http://shannaswendson.blogspot.com/2006 ... heart.html

On Sunday afternoons as I drive home from church, the local jazz station runs a syndicated program called "Piano Jazz," in which various musicians sit at the piano with an interviewer and do an interview interspersed with music (they'll talk about a song, then play it). The guest Sunday was Elvis Costello, and after he'd performed a few of the songs he'd written that were inspired by jazz standards, the interviewer mentioned how dark and broody these songs were. They joked a bit about writing songs designed to make people miserable, and then he talked about finding the balance between something that's deeply personal and something that strikes universal emotions. You may start with something that really does come from your own soul and that's from a particular point of pain in your life, but then you have to get over your selfishness as an artist and broaden it to something more universal that everyone can relate to.

I think I actually shouted, "That's it!" in the car. Your story may come from a very personal place, but something that intimately personal may not appeal to anyone but you. The trick is to get beyond that and find what's universal in the feeling, or find a more universal experience to convey that same feeling. And that brings me back to writing the story you most want to read at that moment. Chances are, no matter how specific a reading mood you're in at any given moment, you're not looking for something that exactly mirrors whatever you're going through. Rather, you're looking for something that will make you feel a particular way -- something you can identify with and relate to that's still different enough from your life to make it worthwhile reading a book instead of just living your life. So maybe the way to make your "book of the heart" work is to find the feelings that you're trying to express and convey them in the way that you'd want to find in the book you'd most like to read for yourself as you're in that kind of mood.