Elvis Costello-North (2003)
Artist: Elvis Costello
Title: North
Year of Release: 2003
Country and Year of Edition: US 2003 promo
Sell Price: $3.27
Sell Date: 12/21/24
Condition: VG+/VG+
Discogs Last Sold: 8/28/24 VG+/NM $0.58
Low: $0.58
Median: $2.00
Average: $2.22
High: $6.00
Current low price: $1.99
Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15
Have/Want: 239/8
Where Sold: San Francisco, CA
Time It Took To Sell: 13 years
Where and When Bought: promo
Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B
Sad To See It Go: No
Around the time this album came out I was still working at Tee Pee and Dale was working at the desk behind me. Dale somehow got a promo of North and asked me if I liked Elvis Costello and gave it to me. I don't know if this orchestrated album on the old classical stalwart label Deutsche Grammophon ever got played until the other day when this copy sold.
This particular promo edition had a DVD included with several songs. Oddly enough, the title track left off North is here. "Still" and "Fallen" fill out the video portion of Elvis at the leaf strewn piano.
As for the album itself, it has maintained a presence albeit sparingly, in Costello's sets long past 2003. The big one is "Still" and "I'm In The Mood Again" is the next biggest. "Someone Took The Words Away" got brought out at this year's Newport Jazz Fest. "You Turned To Me" became the one that stood out for me, sparse in it's piano and vocal melody.
Like the Dylan trilogy of Sinatra standards almost a decade later, North is a turn toward traditional Jazz Pop Vocal if not fully orchestrated than with a piano led Jazz accompaniment. However, in this case it was Costello who wrote the whole record as well as produced it. Yes, it stretches out Costello's catalog much like his album with Bacharach roughly 5 years before. "Adult" in presentation and technique to the point I want to run away from it and listen to something else. It grows a bit after a few listens like many things do.
The quality is there.
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