''Other Hours: Connick On Piano Volume 1'' is a jazz instrumental album, by

Harry Connick Jr. Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. (born September 11, 1967) is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and television host. He has sold over 28million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top60 best-selling male artists in the Uni ...

, released in 2003. The album features Connick on piano in the context of a small jazz group. ''Other Hours'' is his first quartet album, and it was also his first instrumental album in 13 years. The album is the first of his career not released on Columbia, the label that signed him to a contract when he was 19. Columbia has allowed Connick to release his less commercial (i.e., nonvocal) recordings on the

Marsalis Music Marsalis Music is a jazz record label founded by Branford Marsalis in 2002. After 20 years with Columbia, saxophonist Branford Marsalis left to start his own label. Early musicians to the label included Miguel Zenón, a Puerto Rican saxophonist ...

label, a new company led by longtime friend

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. "The ''Connick on Piano'' series will be purely instrumental, with all kinds of configurations: solo, big band, quartet, trio", Connick explains. The twelve Connick compositions on ''Other Hours'' was originally made for the 2001 musical '' Thou Shalt Not'', which was the recipient of a

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nomination for ''Best Original Musical Score'' (music & lyrics by Harry Connick Jr). A special feature is the cover artwork. Created by his mother, Anita, who died when Connick was only 13 years old. A treasured drawing which holds great significance for the artist. "My mother loved when I played piano for her", Connick explained, "so I thought it would be fitting to have a piece of her vision next to mine."

Track listing

All songs written by

# "What a Waste" – 6:59 # "Such Love" – 5:59 # "Take Advantage" – 5:16 # "How About Tonight" – 6:50 # "Sovereign Lover" – 4:42 # "My Little World" – 5:07 # "Oh, My Dear (Something's Gone Wrong)" – 7:47 # "Can't We Tell" – 2:17 # "Dumb Luck" – 6:31 # "Oh, Ain't That Sweet" – 4:40 # "The Other Hours" – 6:11 # "Your Own Private Love" – 3:52 Track #11, "The Other Hours" is also recorded with

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by Connick, on his

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album " Only You" from (2004). Track #2 "Such Love", #3 "Take Advantage", #6 "My Little World", #7 "Oh, My Dear (Something's Gone Wrong)", #8 "Can't We Tell", #10 "Oh, Ain't That Sweet", and again #11 "The Other Hours" are also recorded with vocal by Connick (featuring

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), on CD2 of his double album "

Harry on Broadway, Act I ''Harry on Broadway, Act I'', is a two-disc set recorded in 2006. The first disc contains the cast recording from ''The Pajama Game'' (2006), and disc two is a selection of new recordings from '' Thou Shalt Not'' (2001), now with Harry Connick Jr. ...

" from (2006).

Musicians

*Harry Connick Jr. –

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

*Ned Goold –

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*Neal Caine –

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*Arthur Latin –

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External links

''Other Hours'', media samples at jr.comAudio samples, information, at Rounder Records
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