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| 1. | One Last Pitch
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| 2. | Hudson Bommer
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| 3. | Lonely Side
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| 4. | Mr. Spill
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| 5. | Lofty's Roach Souffle
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| 6. | Mary Ruth
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| 7. | Harronymous
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| 8. | One Last Pitch [Take] (Take 2)
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| 9. | Colomby Day
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| 10. | Little Dancing Girl
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| 11. | Bayou Maharajah
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Jazz / Vocals; Swing
Recorded: April 4, 5 and 22, 1990, RCA Studio B, New York City
Harry Connick Jr. - Piano
Benjamin Jonah Wolfe - Bass
Shannon Powell - Drums
"I thought it would be a good idea to do two albums at the same time," Harry Connick, Jr. asserts of his simultaneously-released new recordings, the orchestral vocal album entitled WE ARE IN LOVE; and LOFTY'S ROACH SOUFFLE, recorded with his trio. "I'm a singer and I'm also a piano player, and the way I sing and play are two completely different styles. So, I wanted to go back and document both of those different styles."
"The trio album, which is instrumental, is all original music," Harry says. "The other album, which is orchestral, that's all singing. It's going to have twelve songs, with ten originals on it. So they are both pretty much all-original albums. I've always been a composer, I just didn't put the songs on my last two albums."
The orchestrations on WE ARE IN LOVE range from big band arrangements and numbers with strings, to one song with Harry singing, accompanied by bassist Ben Wolfe and saxophonist Branford Marsalis. On the other hand, LOFTY'S ROACH SOUFFLE, the trio album, finds Harry stretching his jazz chops with sidemen Shannon Powell on drums and Wolfe on bass.
Harry Connick, Jr. has jumped on the juggernaut of success. Thousands of words have appeared on him in periodicals ranging from Time, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and New York Times, to Rolling Stone, People, Go, In Fashion and every local newspaper in any area where his big band landed on his last tour. Reaching out to a new audience, Harry took his warm personality and repertoire of standards, and played one of the most lauded month long sets in the history of New York's venerable Algonquin Oak Room. Reaching millions more on national tv, he has appeared as musical guest on NBC's "Saturday Night Live," performed on the Pre-Super Bowl Special, and was featured on "The Tonight Show," "Good Morning America," "Nightline," and VH-1.
Coinciding with the release of Harry's two new albums is his home video debut, entitled "Singin' & Swingin'" (on CMV). Compiled are Harry's very first video clip, "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans" (with Dr. John); the two videos from WHEN HARRY MET SALLY, "It Had To Be You" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore"; three live concert numbers from London's Dominion Theatre, "Stompin' At the Savoy," "Where Or When," and "I Could Write a Book"; and clips for the two new albums - "One Last Pitch" from LOFTY'S ROACH SOUFFLE" and "Recipe For Love" from WE ARE IN LOVE. Also included is new exclusive interview footage with Harry.
And, always looking for new venues, Harry makes his film debut this fall in "Memphis Belle," portraying a tailgunner in the crew of a WWII bomber squadron based in England. The movie stars John Lithgow, D.B. Sweeney, Eric Stolz and Matthew Modine. It was produced by David Puttman and directed by Michael Caton-Jones ("Scandal").
As all this illustrates, Harry Connick, Jr.'s work as a singer, pianist and performer has been lavishly recognized recently. However, he is hardly an overnight success. He has been a performing professional for very nearly 14 years. Yet this veteran player and rising star is but 22 years old.
"There are a lot of great young musicians on record," Harry observes. "Charnett Moffett was 16 when he played on his first record. Branford was very young. Donald Harrison and Terence Blanchard. There are a lot of them. Louis Armstong was very young when he did his first recordings."
While Harry Connick, Jr. is now intent on playing songs of Harry Connick, Jr., expect the same quality performance. In both the orchestral genre and with his piano trio, he serves up the same intensity and the same stylistic stroll through the history of jazz that his previous recordings have so excellently rendered.
Harry Connick, Jr.
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Sep 11, 1967 in New Orleans, LA
Genre: Vocal
Styles: Jazz-Funk, Swing, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Traditional Pop
With very few exceptions, the career of Harry Connick, Jr., can be divided in half -- his first two albums encompassed straight-ahead New Orleans jazz and stride piano while his later career (which paralleled his rising celebrity status) alternated between more contemporary New Orleans music and pop vocals with a debt to Frank Sinatra. Born in New Orleans on September 11, 1967, Connick grew up the son of two lawyers who owned a record store. After beginning on keyboards at the age of three, he first performed publicly at six and recorded with a local jazz band at ten. Connick attended the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and studied with Ellis Marsalis and James Booker. A move to New York to study at Hunter College and the Manhattan School of Music gave him the opportunity to look up a Columbia Records executive who had asked to see him, and Connick's self-titled album debut -- a set of mostly unaccompanied standards -- appeared in 1987. Jazz critics praised Connick's maturity and engaging style as well as his extended stays at New York hot spots during the year. His second album, named for his age in 1988, was the first to feature him on vocals.
Already well known within jazz circles, Connick entered the American consciousness with the soundtrack to 1989's popular film When Harry Met Sally. Director Rob Reiner had asked Connick to compose a soundtrack, and he recorded several warm standards ("It Had to Be You," "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," "Don't Get Around Much Anymore") with a big-band backing. A world tour followed, and When Harry Met Sally eventually reached double-platinum status. With Connick a major celebrity, he diverged into an acting career, playing a tail gunner in 1990's Memphis Belle. That same year, he released two albums simultaneously: one, We Are in Love, was another vocal outing with similar standards as had appeared on When Harry Met Sally, while Lofty's Roach Souffle was all-instrumental. (Of course, the vocal album performed much better in the pop charts, hitting double platinum, while the instrumentals worked better with jazz audiences.) Connick toured again, this time with a big band, and recorded the group on 1991's Blue Light, Red Light. Though his celebrity decreased slightly during the mid-'90s, Connick's albums continued to reach platinum status, including 1992's 25, a 1993 Christmas album, and 1994's She. Connick continued his acting work with a starring role in 1995's Copycat (where he played a serial killer) and married actress Jill Goodacre. In 1996, he had a brief role in the year's biggest blockbuster, Independence Day, but his album Star Turtle failed to connect with pop audiences. Come by Me, a return to big-band sounds, followed in 1999. In the new millennium, Connick cycled between albums exploring his jazz roots and those with songbook standards.
Interestingly, post-2001 Connick moved between two labels with albums getting released on both Columbia Records and saxophonist Branford Marsalis' Marsalis Music label. Among these were the big-band album Only You, featuring popular music from the '50s and '60s, and the more intimate releases Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Vol. 1 (2003) and Occasion: Connick on Piano, Vol. 2 (2005), which focused on Connick's instrumental abilities. As well as releasing albums, Connick continued to act, appearing regularly on the television sitcom Will & Grace before it ended in 2006. Ever devoted to his hometown, Connick was also heavily involved in the support and rebuilding of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina. In early September 2005, he organized the benefit telethon A Concert for Hurricane Relief on NBC to raise money for and draw attention to the beleaguered residents of New Orleans. Afterward, he worked closely with Habitat for Humanity in helping victims of Katrina. In 2007, Connick once again expressed his deep love for his hometown with the release of his New Orleans tribute album, Oh, My Nola, on Columbia Records.
---John Bush, All Music Guide |
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