The Sweetest Punch

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The Sweetest Punch: The New Songs of Costello and Bacharach
Studio album by Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell
Released	September 21, 1999
Genre	Rock/Jazz
Length	64:09
Label	Decca Records/Universal Classics
Producer(s)	Lee Townsend
Professional reviews
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Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell chronology
Painted from Memory (1998)	The Sweetest Punch (1999)	For the Stars (2001)

The Sweetest Punch is a 1999 album by Elvis Costello and Bill Frisell, released as a companion album to 1998's Painted from Memory. Many of the earlier albums songs are featured with new arrangements by Frisell, and mostly in instrumental versions. In addition to Frisell on electric and acoustic guitars, instrumentalists performing on The Sweetest Punch include:

• Brian Blade — drums, percussion
• Don Byron — clarinet, bass clarinet
• Billy Drewes — alto saxophone
• Curtis Fowlkes — trombone
• Viktor Krauss — bass
• Ron Miles — trumpet

Vocals for three of the tracks are also featured, with Costello on "Toledo", Cassandra Wilson on "Painted From Memory", and Costello and Wilson in a duet on "I Still Have That Other Girl".

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1999	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	5
2000	Billboard Top Jazz Albums	23

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