I asked Matt about it and his response was it was strictly a "rib". A full blown swing chart ala Count Basie with a "salute" to the last person you would expect. He wrote it back around 1980 as "new wave" rock was coming in after disco faded out. It really has nothing to do with Costello and that was the joke. Matt liked to do tongue in cheek titles of his jazz charts.
What a great orchestra and arranger is this man Mat
title makes no sense considering the "tributee" - who made an awful, unlistenable racket back in his time
I asked Matt about it and his response was it was strictly a "rib". A full blown swing chart ala Count Basie with a "salute" to the last person you would expect. He wrote it back around 1980 as "new wave" rock was coming in after disco faded out. It really has nothing to do with Costello and that was the joke. Matt liked to do tongue in cheek titles of his jazz charts.