Other Hours: Connick on Piano 1

Harry Connick Jr - Other Hours: Connick on Piano 1

Other Hours: Connick on Piano 1
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Artist: Harry Connick Jr
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-07-15
Music Label: Marsalis Music
Soundtracks:
  1. What A Waste
  2. Such Love
  3. Take Advantage
  4. How About Tonight
  5. Sovereign Lover
  6. My Little World
  7. Oh, My Dear (Something's Gone Wrong)
  8. Can't We Tell
  9. Dumb Luck
  10. Oh! Ain't That Sweet
  11. The Other Hours
  12. Your Own Private Love

Music reviews of Other Hours: Connick on Piano 1

Music Review: Snoooze
Rating: 2 Stars

I listened to the samples of Harry Connick's cd on Amazon.com and to be frank, the samples sounded pretty boring. Since this Harry Connick cd was one of the few cd's offered by Branford Marsalis' music company, Marsalis Music, I wrote to Marsalis Music and asked them why they would choose to release such tepid music. Branford Marsalis emailed me back, and noted that he felt strongly about Harry's cd. So I decided to buy it, and give it a chance.

Well, its tough for me to listen to this cd all they way through in one listen. The tunes sound more like composition excercises, and the improvisation is not exciting, or even interesting. When Harry Connick first started out, his piano playing sounded like it was influenced by Monk to me...now it sounds more like a Dave Brubeck influence. The sax player, Ned Goold, has a soft tone, and perhaps that is inviting a Brubeck/Desmond comparison in my mind.

I'm not a big fan of the Modern Jazz Quartet either. Harry's music on this cd reminds of the MJQ in this way: Harry has obviously put some time into crafting his compositions, but while listening to this cd, I feel the same kind of tension I do while listening to the MJQ, waiting for something to happen!

If you are looking for a cd of good instrumental jazz, I'd look elsewhere. If you are interested in Harry Connick, I'd suggest going with one of his big band albums where at least you get to hear him sing.

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With a career that's cast him as New Orleans jazz revivalist, crooner, Actor, and Broadway composer it's enough to make one ask: Who's the real Harry Connick, Jr.? Indeed, this warm foray into neo-bop, small ensemble instrumental jazz may only complicate the question. If nothing else, its genesis alone is compelling tribute to Connick's restless creativity and seeming resistance to pigeon-holing. All the songs here were written for (though not all used in) Thou Shalt Not, the musician's ambitious 2001 Broadway adaptation of Emile Zola's Therese Raquin that scored him a Tony nomination, if not stellar box office success. This low-key recasting only underscores the material's utilitarian strengths and gives Connick a chance to display chops as polished as they are playfully reverent to their inspirations. "Dumb Luck," "My Little World," and "What a Waste" recall the angular adventures of Monk, while the lyricism of Ned Goold's sax on "Can't We Tell" and "How About Tonight" points toward the best of Brubeck/Desmond. Melancholy and low-key as it may be, it's an album that gently underscores the jazz piano stylist corner of his resume. And if this is the fruit of Connick's Broadway failure, we can only hope he stumbles so gracefully in the future. --Jerry McCulley

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