Your Songs is his latest album features Harry singing with a full jazz
big band and string orchestra. Tracks include ‘All The Way’, ‘Just The
Way You Are’, ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love With You’, ‘And I Love Her’,
‘Close To You’, ‘Besame Mucho’, ‘Some Enchanted Evening’ and many more
Harry Connick Jnr has released 24 albums under his own name, which have
sold 25 million copies around the world. Although he has recorded various
genres of music, from traditional pop to instrumental jazz to funk and blues,
he has shown a deep and abiding affection for The Great American Songbook
(and his own songs written in that classic style).
Tracks:
1. All The Way
2. Just The Way You Are
3. Can't Help Falling In Love With You
4. And I Love Her
5. (They Long To Be) Close To You
6. Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
7. The Way You Look Tonight
8. First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
9. Your Song
10. Some Enchanted Evening
11. And I Love You So
12. Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
13. Smile
14. Mona Lisa
Performer Notes
Personnel: Harry Connick, Jr. (vocals, piano); George Doering, Bryan Sutton (guitar); Geoff Burke, Ned Goold, Bill Liston (alto saxophone); Ernie Watts, Jerry Weldon, Branford Marsalis, Mike Karn (tenor saxophone); Greg Huckins (baritone saxophone); Dave Smith , Joe Magnarelli, John Eckert, Warren Luening, Wayne Bergeron, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Kadleck, John Fumo, Roger Ingram (trumpet); Jeff Bush, Andy Martin, Bill Reichenbach Jr. , Dion Tucker, Stephen Holtman (trombone); Joe Barati (bass trombone); Dan Higgins (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixer: Vincent Caro .
Recording information: Capitol Studios, Hollywood, CA; The Music Shed, New Orleans, LA.
Photographer: Palma Kolansky.
Arranger: Harry Connick, Jr.
Much like 2001's SONGS I HEARD and 2004's ONLY YOU, 2009's YOUR SONGS finds vocalist/pianist Harry Connick, Jr. coming up with an urbane, passionate set of American popular standards and contemporary pop classics that he both performs and orchestrates. While his previous recordings leaned toward the classicist side--ONLY YOU featured songs of the '50s and '60s--YOUR SONGS features a more eclectic mix of standards and pop songs, with Connick's own lush orchestration lending an overall aesthetic of languid romanticism. To this end, Connick turns Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are" into a kind of Herb Alpert-inspired '60s pop nugget and, conversely, the Beatles' 1964 classic "And I Love Her" gets a kind of '70s Latin lounge feel with classical guitar flourishes. However, Connick isn't only concerned with reworking tunes in unexpected ways; on the contrary, longtime fans of Connick's swinging neo-crooner vocals will be pleasantly surprised by his straightforward takes on "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Some Enchanted Evening." Similarly engaging are his renditions of such rock-oriented tunes as Elton John's "Your Song," his low-key version of Don McLean's "And I Love You So," and the Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You." Ultimately, YOUR SONG is a classy and feel-good stroll of an album.
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly (p.59) - "The best moments are the ones in which Connick smuggles something unexpected into the utterly familiar..." -- Grade: B-
JazzTimes (p.53) - "YOUR SONGS is, stylistically and atmospherically, reminiscent of the now-classic albums that defined the Sinatra and Cole sounds throughout the late '50s and early '60s."
Billboard (p.52) - "Connick accommodates with his lush and graceful big band and strings charts, staying close to the melodic intent."
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Your songs by Harry Connick JR, is another feel good album. He has moved towards covering more classic well known pop hits by some famous artists like the carpenters, billy joel, the beatles and elton john but he has transformed these songs into his own by adding his own personal touch and twist to these songs. All the songs are brilliantly orchestrated to his own style as usual and it's amazing how he can turn the already romantic classic pop songs to even more romantic modern vibe songs!
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