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The Costello Jazz Show, Part 1
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Jazz is one of the most recurrent motifs in the multi-layered quilt that
Elvis Costello
vocalsb.1954
The son of a jazz trumpeter/singer with a passion for 40s American jazz and a record seller with ears wide open, it's perhaps not surprising that Elvis recorded a rendition of "My Funny Valentine" as early as the late '70s, while he was in the middle of his punk rock phase.
This week we celebrate the British singer songwriter's birthday with an exploration of his jazz roots, branches and leaves.
At the top of the hour a remembrance of another genre-defying artist with a deep appreciation for jazz, the late
Charlie Watts
drums1941 - 2021
Playlist
" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00Ben Allison
bass, acoustic
b.1966- " data-original-title="" title="">Charlie Watts "(Satis) Faction" Charlie Watts Meets the Danish Radio Big Band (Impulse!) 0:16
Charlie Watts
drums
1941 - 2021 - Host talks 6:11
- " data-original-title="" title="">Elvis Costello, Metropole Orkest "Hora Decubitus" My Flame Burns Blue (Deutsche Grammophon (DG) 8:15
Elvis Costello
vocals
b.1954 
" data-original-title="" title="">Diana Krall "Abandoned Masquerade" The Girl in the Other Room (Verve) 13:44Diana Krall
piano and vocals
b.1964- Host talks 18:53
" data-original-title="" title="">Charles Lloyd "God Give Me Strength" Voice in the Night (ECM) 20:20Charles Lloyd
saxophone
b.1938- Elvis Costello,
" data-original-title="" title="">Burt Bacharach,Burt Bacharach
composer / conductor
1928 - 2023
" data-original-title="" title="">Bill Frisell "Such Unlikely Lovers" The Sweetest Punch -The New Songs of Elvis Costello & Burt Bacharach (Decca) 24:58Bill Frisell
guitar, electric
b.1951 - Host talks 30:38
- Elvis Costello, Bill Frisell "Baby Plays Around" Deep Dead Blue (Nonesuch) 32:26
" data-original-title="" title="">Zeno De Rossi Trio "Deep Dead Blue" Kepos (El Gallo Rojo) 35:11Zeno De Rossi
drums
b.1970- The Charles Mingus Orchestra "Invisible Lady" Tonight at Noon... Three or Four Shades of Love (Dreyfus) 40:22
- Host talks 47:27
- Elvis Costello "Weird Nightmare" Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare -Meditations on Mingus (Columbia) 49:01
- Elvis Costello "Lost in the Stars" Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill (A&M) 52:05
" data-original-title="" title="">Barb Jungr "New Amsterdam" Chanson: The Space in Between (Linn) 55:54Barb Jungr
vocals
b.1954- Host talks 59:17
" data-original-title="" title="">Tony Bennett "Are You Havin' Any Fun?" Duets -An American Classic (RPM) 1:00:47Tony Bennett
vocals
1926 - 2023
" data-original-title="" title="">Chet Baker with Elvis Costello "You Don't Know What Love Is" Live at Ronnie Scott's (Rhino) 1:03:59Chet Baker
trumpet and vocals
1929 - 1988- Chet Baker "Almost Blue" Chet on Poetry (Novus) 1:09:15
- Host talks 1:12:36
- Elvis Costello & The Attractions "Shipbuilding" Punch the Clock (F-Beat) 1:13:14
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Charlie Watts
Ben Allison
Metropole Orkest
Diana Krall
charles lloyd
Burt Bacharach
Bill Frisell
Zeno De Rossi
Charles Mingus
Barb Jungr
Tony Bennett
Chet Baker
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