Elvis/Allen Toussaint , NEW ORLEANS Fest., April 30 '06

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 6:53 pm

http://www.nojazzfest.com/schedule/index04.html

NEW ORLEANS - Jazz & Heritage Festival

2006 Heritage Fair Daily Lineup
First Weekend - April 28 - 30, 2006

Incl.

Allen Toussaint with special guest Elvis Costello

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Wed Feb 15, 2006 7:23 pm

I'm really hoping a full-fledged EC and Allen Toussaint with the Imposters tour is in the works!!

verbal gymnastics · Post by **verbal gymnastics** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:02 am

I hope for a lot of things. I'm still hoping to see Elvis with Emmylou Harris in the UK but I don't think it's gonna happen. Elvis told me the reason he wasn't coming over here with her was because no one had offered any money to do so. I can't see Elvis coming to the UK with Allen Toussaint on that basis. I doubt we could raise enough in a whip round.

I am still harbouring optimism about a one off orchestra date performing Il Sogno though.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:47 pm

Will Elvis be 'guesting' with Allen at this ?

http://www.festivalinternational.com/si ... &pageID=19

Festival International de Louisiane

Lafayette, Louisiana

Allen Toussaint

Date Time Stage
Thu, April 27 9:30 PM Popeyes Scène International

bambooneedle · Post by **bambooneedle** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 12:33 am

john foyle wrote:Will Elvis be 'guesting' with Allen at this ?

I'd say that yes, it's all part of their 'River In Reverse tour'.

From http://www.nojazzfest.com/schedule/index04.html :

Fats Domino, Bruce Springsteen & the Seeger Sessions Band, Jimmy Buffett, Dave Matthews Band, Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Lionel Richie, Keith Urban, Yolanda Adams, Herbie Hancock, La India, The Meters, Allen Toussaint w/ Elvis Costello, Etta James, Dr. John, The Ohio Players, Irma Thomas, Ani DiFranco, Keb’ Mo’, Hugh Masekela, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Koko Taylor, Pete Fountain, Doug Kershaw, Little Feat, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Sr., The Radiators, Dave Bartholomew, Doug E. Fresh & Slick Rick, Warren Haynes, Angelique Kidjo, Yerba Buena, Chris Owens,Irvin Mayfield, Buckwheat Zydeco, Galactic, Deacon John, Rebirth Brass Band, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Donald Harrison w/ Eddie Palmieri, Snooks Eaglin,Cowboy Mouth, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Kermit Ruffins, Roland Guerin w/ Marcus Roberts, Sonny Landreth, Walter “Wolfman” Washington, Terence Blanchard, the subdudes, Le Grand Ballet “Ngalam” du Senegal, Ellis Marsalis w/ Lew Tabackin, Nicholas Payton, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and many, many more.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:37 pm

http://www.nojazzfest.com/schedule/43006.html

Allen Toussaint , with special guest Elvis Costello
Acura Stage
New Orleans Fair Grounds
New Orleans

Sunday, April 30
3.35 - 4.50 PM

Location -

http://www.fairgroundsracecourse.com/vi ... index.html

Tickets-

http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1011139

N.O. Jazz Fest (1st Weekend) Apr 28, 29, or 30 2006
Family - Fairs and Festivals

sweetest punch · Post by **sweetest punch** » Sat Apr 15, 2006 1:57 am

Great news! (Is there someone who can 'grab' this?)

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060414/sff013.html?.v=50

MSN Video Bands Together With Music Legends for Video Webcast of the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

MSN Video to stream original performances from Jimmy Buffet, Dave Matthews Band, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello and others.

MSN is celebrating the return of the legendary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage musical event by bringing select performances into homes around the globe April 28-30 and May 5-7. MSN has entered into an agreement with the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival to be the exclusive webcast provider of the first Jazz Fest following the catastrophic events of Hurricane Katrina and will donate all the advertising proceeds to benefit New Orleans Katrina Relief efforts. The webcast is scheduled to include concert performances by globally popular artists such as Jimmy Buffett, Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and the Dave Matthews Band, as well New Orleans music legends including Dr. John, Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas and Buckwheat Zydeco. Viewers can tune in to the festival coverage at http://msnvideo.com/jazzfest .

To enable an even deeper connection with the bands, MSN is planning to provide listeners with interactive and dynamic links from the webcast page to artist photos, interviews, feature stories and other content.

"The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is a landmark music and cultural event, and MSN is honored to be a part of this year's festival and to give people everywhere a front-row seat to see their favorite artists and experience the rich culture of New Orleans," said Rob Bennett, general manager for Entertainment and Video Services at MSN.

The 37th annual Jazz Fest will be held at its traditional home at the New Orleans Fair Grounds Race Course (a Churchill Downs Company) and is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of fans to the event.

"We're inviting the world to come to Jazz Fest with the help of MSN," said festival producer and director Quint Davis. "MSN is enabling a global audience to embrace the music and soul of New Orleans, bringing amazing musicians, culture and the goodwill of our great city into the homes of millions who continue to support our community following Hurricane Katrina."

About Jazz Fest

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation Inc. is the nonprofit institution that oversees the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell. The Foundation uses proceeds from the Festival to develop and support special projects designed to preserve and perpetuate the area's rich music and cultural heritage. For information on the Foundation and its programs, visit nojhf.org or call 504-522-4786. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival presented by Shell is a co-production of Festival Productions L.L.C. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Festival Productions Inc.-New Orleans) and AEG Louisiana Production L.L.C. (a subsidiary of AEG LIVE).

About MSN Video

MSN Video is one of the largest video-only streaming services on the Web, watched by more than 11 million unique users per month. In addition to streaming news, entertainment and sports video clips from more than 45 content partners, MSN Video presents a broad array of live events to online audiences worldwide. More than 50 top advertisers support MSN Video, which is available to consumers at no charge. MSN Video is available on the Web at http://msnvideo.com to consumers in the U.S.

MSN Video is also live in Australia, Canada and Japan, and in Spanish in the U.S.; the service also is in beta testing in the U.K.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 12:51 am

http://www.theind.com/cover2.asp?CID=1140654931

The Independent Weekly, Lafayette

Queen in Exile
Festival International headliner Irma Thomas is singing her way back home to New Orleans.

By Scott Jordan | 4/26/2006

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Irma Thomas has traveled many miles since last September. Just weeks after Hurricane Katrina, Thomas delivered a chilling version of her timeless 1962 hit â€œItâ€™s Rainingâ€

pophead2k · Post by **pophead2k** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:30 pm

I'm watching the simulcast now. A great show, I can't believe I'm not there! River in Reverse was powerful, Near To You beautiful, and Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further? smoking. Thanks to MSN for broadcasting this!!

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 5:36 pm

http://www.calendarlive.com/music/cl-et ... c-features
April 30, 2006
Bob Dylan Opens New Orleans Jazz Fest

*Dave Matthews and other superstars join Louisiana musicians to celebrate the festival's post-Katrina return.

By Randy Lewis, Times Staff Writer

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A perfect example of Jazz Fest's catholic mix of genres and scale was the contrast between the Matthews Band's performance before 20,000 or 30,000 people on the festival's main stage and an informal Q&A session and performance across the grounds, before a couple of dozen onlookers, featuring Elvis Costello and New Orleans songwriter-producer-singer Allen Toussaint.

The pair discussed and played a few songs from their forthcoming collaborative album, "The River in Reverse," juxtaposing Costello's edgy rasp with Toussaint's honeysuckle sweetness. The session, anticipating their main-stage performance that was scheduled for Sunday, wrapped with a gorgeous treatment of Toussaint's soul gospel ballad "Nearer to You" that Costello's vocal infused with a passion and intensity that brought out the spiritual yearning over the lyric's earthly romantic bent.

It was the perfect end to a rich first two days of this event, which sent the unmistakable message that where there's life and music, there's hope.
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Bruce Springsteen, Bruce's wife Patti Scialfa and Elvis Costello
37th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Backstage - April 30'06

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:44 am

http://www.wireimage.com/FeaturedEvents ... ld=&nbc1=1

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 45d02.html

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The Boss had a killer warm-up act: New Orleans R&B legend Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello, who convened in the Big Easy last fall to record The River in Reverse, due out in June.

The high point of their set arrived during the title track, a sultry blues full of angry questions about what went wrong after the hurricane. Mr. Costello sounded equally at home singing older Toussaint gems like "Tears, Tears and More Tears."

But nobody sings an Allen Toussaint song like the man himself. After Elvis left the building, Mr. Toussaint closed the show with a stirring version of "Yes We Can Can" with a new post-Katrina chorus: "Everybody, come back home."

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http://www.nj.com/entertainment/ledger/ ... xml&coll=1

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Of the starrier attractions, Allen Toussaint -- the eminence gris of New Orleans R&B -- paired with Elvis Costello for songs that veered from swinging elegance to bluesy, biting political eloquence.

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http://homesicknola.blogspot.com/2006/0 ... -verb.html

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Just before Bruce, Elvis Costello and Allan Toussaint played. Awesome stuff. Toussaintâ€™s stuff sounds just like Elvisâ€™s stuff. So natural and perfect together. What impressed me most is that Toussaint called Elvis his â€œblood brother,â€

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon May 01, 2006 6:25 am

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... IIE1R1.DTL

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Elvis Costello made the live debut of his collaboration with New Orleans songwriter Allen Toussaint Sunday (after a two-song sneak preview the night before during a benefit concert downtown at Harrah's Hotel and Casino), an album called "The River in Reverse," to be released in June. The title song is Costello's eloquent, powerful plea for New Orleans.

Toussaint, New Orleans' greatest songwriter, is living in Manhattan until his home is repaired in the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans. But he and Costello recorded part of the album in the one remaining studio in the Big Easy last November, just after the first hotel reopened.

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http://www.harrahs.com/our_casinos/nor/ ... il_00.html

Big Easy Benefit Concert Series
April 28 - 29, 2006

Come feel the beat and enjoy the Big Easy Benefit Concert Series at The Theater at Harrahâ€™s New Orleans! These fabulous shows feature:

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Allen Toussaint

Saturday, April 29

The Theater at Harrah's

9 p.m.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon May 01, 2006 1:22 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/arts/ ... ei=5087%0A

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Mr. Costello was there because he had recorded an album with Allen Toussaint, the prolific New Orleans songwriter, in November. "The River in Reverse" is due for June release, and the songs from it that they performed together touched on mourning, anger and resolute optimism.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:48 pm

T.J. posts to listserv -

Elvis's contribution was minimal, but fun. He came on four songs into
the
set and sang (from memory):

On Your Way Down
Tears, Tears, and More Tears (great!)
Who's Gonna Help Brother Get Further (duet with AT)
The River in Reverse (even better! Afterwards Allen repeated the phrase
"True to form! several times in regards to EC's performance)
Nearer to You

He then left the stage, only to return a few songs later to sing:

Wonder Woman

The full band arrangement of "The River in Reverse" is spectacular,
with
mournful horns.

For the benfit of Rozy, I'll point out that he came out dressed in a
full,
very purple suit. A suit Prince may have passed over for being too
purple.

I was disappointed not to hear "Freedom for the Stallion" (a favorite
since
I heard Dylan sing it on a bootleg once), but the I can understand why
EC
would only come in as a guest during the set. New Orleans definately
needed
one of their brightest lights front and center at this event. Even
without
Elvis, Allen had the audience in the palm of his hand.

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http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117930 ... =1266&cs=1

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Just prior to Springsteen, local producer-singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint and Elvis Costello previewed three songs from their upcoming collaboration, "The River in Reverse" (Verve Forecast). As he did with 2004's "The Delivery Man," Costello shows New Orleans is a very good stylistic fit for him. "Tears, Tears and More Tears" (which included the lyrics "There must be something better than this because it can't get much worse," "You think the sun rises and set for you/but it rises and sets for poor people, too" and "I myself would like some higher ground") and "Nearer to You" found the sweet spot where Toussaint's rolling melodies and Costello's vocals meet. Costello also lent his vocals to a few of Toussaint's classics, including "On Your Way Down" and "Wonder Woman."

In their comments from the stage, both Costello and Toussaint echoed the prevailing spirit of Jazz Fest '06: a heartfelt appreciation for the crowds coming out. More than a few acts expressed a politicized anger. Charmaine Neville, who had told harrowing tales, sang an incendiary cover of Stevie Wonder's "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" that included references to "the Bush-man" and his promises "to take care of you," to which she responded, "Can you spell swim?"

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:10 pm

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ ... Nzc25hdg--

REUTERS/Lee Celano

And No Coffee Table · Post by **And No Coffee Table** » Tue May 02, 2006 2:55 pm

The Los Angeles Times amusingly misidentifies "The River in Reverse" as an older Toussaint song:

Preceding Springsteen, songwriter-producer-singer Allen Toussaint quietly asserted his authority as a patriarch of the New Orleans music scene during his set during which he was joined on several numbers by Elvis Costello.

The atypically easy smiles that Costello kept flashing, much like those Bob Dylan let loose here two days earlier, made it obvious this was no ordinary gig for him either. But then, what musician wouldn't feel like a kid in a candy story being surrounded on stage by Toussaint at the piano, a deeply funky New Orleans rhythm section and a posse of Crescent City horn players?

But the British firebrand, resplendent in a plum-colored sharkskin suit, didn't check his righteous indignation at the Jazz Fest gate. He unleashed his signature vituperation on Toussaint's "The River in Reverse," the decades-old title song from their collaborative album, due in June and yet another example of material written long ago yet seemingly made-to-order to address Katrina fallout.

How long does a promise last
How long can a lie be told? ...
There must be something better than this
'Cause I don't see how it can get much worse

Toussaint then did his own bit to contribute to the weekend's sense of healing when he led a vamped chant of "Home, home, everybody come home" that acknowledged what comes across strongly in this region as the feeling of a Katrina-driven Louisiana diaspora.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue May 02, 2006 3:02 pm

Hmm. Bruce declares EC "the sweetest man in the world." Oh, how far we've come from the "Armed Forces" tour....

But does this leave former official-sweetest-man-in-the-world leave Archbishop Demond Tutu?

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed May 03, 2006 12:58 am

http://altjirangamitjina.blogspot.com/2 ... tello.html

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Wed May 03, 2006 4:53 pm

http://www2.jsonline.com/multimedia/gra ... 06_big.jpg

Photo/AP

Elvis Costello performs during the 2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans last Sunday.

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu May 04, 2006 12:53 am

http://www.flickr.com/photos/trexharjo/140092698/

invisible Pole · Post by **invisible Pole** » Thu May 04, 2006 2:32 pm

http://tuwa.blogspot.com/2006/05/roots- ... t-wow.html

Allen Toussaint with Elvis Costello
This was my weekend's high point -- for about half an hour, until Springsteen blew me away. Allen Toussaint is a living New Orleans legend who teamed with Elvis for most of the set. They played half a dozen songs from their new album, The River in Reverse, which will be released in June. When the time comes, run right out and get it. It's that good.

After hearing lots of great New Orleans grooves all weekend, it was refreshing to hear someone use the music as a starting point for something more ambitious. This is serious music â€“ Elvis Costello songwriting backed by a great piano stylist and funky New Orleans rhythm section. The albumâ€™s title song is sure to get plenty of airplay, as the refrain of "Wake up! Wake up!" builds to a big finale. Toussaintâ€™s piano licks on Tears, Tears and More Tears (Iâ€™m only guessing at the title) were a great counterpoint to Elvisâ€™ lament.

After Elvis left the stage, Toussaint sang his contribution from Our New Orleans. (a link to mp3 of Allen Toussaint's Yes We Can Can is given at this point)

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Mon May 29, 2006 6:32 am

http://offbeat.com/artman/publish/article_1540.shtml

Back to the Fest

By offBeat Staff

This yearâ€™s New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival was probably the most anticipated in the eventâ€™s 36-year history. For months after Hurricane Katrina, worldwide fans of Jazz Fest wondered if it would happen, and if it did, what form it would take. How many stages? Would it be locals-only? Rumors of mega-stars U2, the Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney were all in the air. In the end, the festival looked a lot like festivals in the past minus two stages, and the rumors proved false, though Bruce Springsteen choosing to begin his Seeger Sessions tour in New Orleans was pretty big news.

Jazz Fest seemed particularly important this year because the period from Mardi Gras to Jazz Fest was the wounded cityâ€™s best chance to attract much-needed money and attention. With characteristic humility, Jazz Fest producer told The Miami Herald that the message he got from city leaders was, â€œNo pressure, but weâ€™d just like you to save New Orleans.â€