Product Details
- Artist: Harry Connick Jr.
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0874946000628
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- Label: Marsalis Music
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- Manufacturer: Marsalis Music
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Marsalis Music
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- Release Date: 2007-01-30
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- Studio: Marsalis Music
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- Title: Chanson du Vieux Carre
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- UPC: 874946000628
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Product Description: As a Sinatra-molded swinger, Harry Connick, Jr. may have had some of his thunder stolen by young star Michael Buble. But with his raved-about performance on Broadway in Pajama Game and his continuing development as a jazz pianist, he's doing quite nicely, thank you. Chanson du Vieux Carre is one of two new simultaneously released big band tributes to his hometown of New Orleans by him. Released on Marsalis Music, it is a largely instrumental big band session divided between originals and classics that shows off his writing and arranging skills while featuring his longtime trumpeter Leroy Jones and trombonist Lucien Barbarin on incidental vocals. (Connick is in full vocal mode on Oh, My Nola, released by his longtime "A" label, Columbia.) Though his surprisingly few turns at the piano are mostly Basie-like in their edgy economy, his coloristic, sectional approach on tunes such as his own "Luscious" and Hoagy Carmichael's "New Orleans" evokes Duke Ellington. Named for the storied old section of the French Quarter, the album takes a few songs to get going, but once it does, it has plenty of spark and swagger--and heart. The ghostlike background voicings on Sidney Bechet's "Petite Fleur" seem to embody spirits of New Orleans past while it's always great to hear Connick honor his onetime mentor, Professor Longhair, on Longhair's bumptious "Mardis Gras in New Orleans." --Lloyd Sachs
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Customer Reviews
A very nice album, a bit of a departure from previous releases...
I am pleased that I bought this album. I think that the arrangements are fresh and interesting. And the tracks with vocals (by band members, not Harry) are really fun. I enjoy being introduced to new songs, and this album delivers.
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Sweet Sessions
This album presents a fantastic blend of big-band and funky New Orleans jazz. A great tribute to the city of that gave birth to it all. Not all of the arrangments shine, but there isn't a bad recording on the disc---all in all, a joy.
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big band sounds of new orleans
a collection of standard and non-standard arrangements that remind HCJ of New Orleans. The journey of the album seems to bring about an eclectic view of a city built beneath the sea. Nice in the background while working.
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I love it
Harry Connick jr. is comming to Copenhagen later this month. I hope he will play some tunes from this CD.
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love it
Harry does a great job with this intrumental CD. A true taste of New Orleans and a great pair with "Oh My NOLA".
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