The Delivery Man Is Here

Elvis Costello & The Imposters just released their new album, The Delivery Man on 9/21 and we have some audio to celebrate its release. Check out the single “Monkey To Man” in Windows Media and Real Aduio. If you’re into Classical music, Elvis is also released his first full-length orchestral work, Il Sogno yesterday as well. Don’t forget to catch Elvis on Late Night with David Letterman tonight (Wed. 9/22).

The late 2003 Deutsche Grammophon release,"North", an album of piano ballads composed, orchestrated and conducted by Costello, retained the number one position on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Chart for five weeks. In 2004 Costello was nominated for an Oscar for Best S - "The Scarlet Tide" from the film "Cold Mountain" written with T Bone Burnett.

2004 will see Costello presenting a series of concerts as part of the Lincoln Center Festival in New York City. The legendary Netherlands Metropole Orkest makes its North American debut in an exclusive collaboration that will only be presented at The Lincoln Center and at this summer's North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague. Costello joins a long list of musical luminaries who have collaborated with the orchestra since it was founded, including Tony Bennett, Bill Evans, Ella Fitzgerald, Herbie Hancock, Mel Torme and Sarah Vaughan.

In addition to a short tour of Italy and Portugal in the spring with Steve Nieve, there are also plans to return to the recording studio with Costello's band,'The Imposters', which also features Nieve, bassist, Davey Farragher and drummer, Pete Thomas. An album of new Costello compositions will be released in the Fall of 2004 by the Nashville-based "Lost Highway" imprint.

The Lincoln Center Festival will also feature the North American Premiere of Il Sogno', Costello's first full length, orchestral work. The music was originally commissioned in 2000 by the Italian Dance Company, Aterbaletto, for their adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Following a premiere performance in Bologna with the Orchestra del Teatro Communale, the ballet was staged throughout Italy, Germany, France and Russia. Il Sogno' was subsequently recorded by The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Tilson-Thomas. The recording will be released in the Fall of 2004 by Deutsche Grammophon.