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Marc Scholten, Olof Groesz, Burt Costello, Elvis Bacharach, Dave Bartholomew, Elvis Costello, Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vince Mendoza, Christopher Laurence - My Flame Burns Blue

Marc Scholten, Olof Groesz, Burt Costello, Elvis Bacharach, Dave Bartholomew, Elvis Costello, Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vince Mendoza, Christopher Laurence - My Flame Burns Blue

Band: Marc Scholten, Olof Groesz, Burt Costello, Elvis Bacharach, Dave Bartholomew, Elvis Costello, Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vince Mendoza, Christopher Laurence Title: My Flame Burns Blue Rating: Release Date: 28 February, 2006 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Hora Decubitus 2: Favourite Hour 3: That's how you got killed before 4: Upon a Veil of Midnight Blue 5: Clubland 6: Almost Blue 7: Speak Darkly My Angel 8: Almost ideal eyes 9: Can You Be True? 10: Put away forbidden playthings 11: Episode Of Blonde 12: My flame burns blue (Blood Count) 13: Watching the Detectives 14: God give me strength 15: Prelude 16: Overture 17: Puck One 18: The Court 19: Workers' Playtime 20: Oberon and Titania 21: The Conspiracy of Oberon and Puck 22: Puck Two 23: The Identity Parade 24: The Face of Bottom 25: The Spark of Love 26: Tormentress 27: Oberon Humbeld 28: Twisted - Entangled - Transform and Exchange 29: The Fairy and the Ass 30: Sleep 31: The Play 32: The Wedding

Editoral Review The widow of Charles Mingus commissioned Costello to pen lyrics for the rousing revamp of the jazz legend's "Hora Decubitus" that anchors the album, a task he also performs for the bluesy title track, a reworking of Billy Strayhorn's final composition "Blood Count. Elvis Costello takes the occasion of his first official live release (recorded with the 52-piece Metropole Orkest at The Hague's North Sea Jazz Festival in 2004) to not only recap the various non-rock/pop genres the restless veteran singer-songwriter has explored in recent years, but recast a few of his songbook favorites in striking new musical arrangements as well. " Elvis wends through such oblique compositional corners as "Favourit! e Hour" and "Upon A Veil of Midnight Blue," a moody song originally written for blues great Charles Brown, but ultimately thoroughly reworked as "I Wonder How She Knows. " "Clubland" is charged with savory Latin rhythms, "Almost Blue" recast as autumnal orchestral lament and "Watching the Detectives" re-imagined as jazzy, Bernard Herrmann-esque ‘50s TV theme. Other standouts include a swinging big band cover of Dave Bartholomew's "That's How You Got Killed Before" and a gorgeous rendition of his first Burt Bacharach collaboration, "God Give Me Strength. " The set's bonus disc explores yet another intriguing corner of Costello's contemporary non-pop career via the 45-minute orchestral Il Sogno Suite, music culled from his '04 score for the Aterbaletto dance troupe's Italian production of A Midsummer's Night Dream. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all Marc Scholten, Olof Groesz, Burt Costello, Elvis Bacharach, Dave Bartholomew, Elvis Costello, Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vince Mendoza, Christopher Laurence discography, or go back to the Marc Scholten, Olof Groesz, Burt Costello, Elvis Bacharach, Dave Bartholomew, Elvis Costello, Charles Mingus, Billy Strayhorn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Vince Mendoza, Christopher Laurence tabs