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Editorial Reviews
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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