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Hot as a Pistol, Keen as a Blade (2006)
Starring: Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint Rating
4.3 out of 5 stars  (10 customer reviews)

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Product Details
  • Actors: Elvis Costello, Allen Toussaint
  • Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
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  • Studio: Hip-O Records
  • DVD Release Date: December 5, 2006
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000JJRY9M
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #64,657 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
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Elvis Costello has had numerous collaborators over the years, in genres ranging from classical (the Brodsky Quartet, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie Von Otter) to jazz (pianists Marian McPartland and Diana Krall, Costello's wife) to pop (Burt Bacharach), but his partnership with New Orleans pianist-arranger-producer-songwriter Allen Toussaint has to rank among the most fruitful. Having worked together in the past (on a track for a Yoko Ono tribute project, weirdly enough), the two joined forces again in 2005 for Hurricane Katrina relief concerts; a CD (The River in Reverse) followed, as well as an '06 tour, during which Hot as a Pistol, Keen as a Blade was recorded in Montreal. They certainly had a lot of resources to draw on. Costello's Imposters are the rhythm section, while Toussaint brought along the Crescent City Horns; and considering the amount of available m