Tune in on Thursday, November 12th as Harry appears on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and on Friday, November 13th as he appears on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Show times may vary, so please check your local listings. We hope you'll be watching!

Harry Connick, Jr.'s 'Your Songs' Blends Pop, Jazz

General Review - Turkish Weekly - 10/29/2009

Singer, pianist and actor Harry Connick, Jr., is one of today's top interpreters of the Great American Songbook. Harry blends jazz classics with modern pop hits on his new album, Your Songs.

Harry Connick, Jr., has been known to veer off from his usual Songbook fare from time-to-time, but with Your Songs, he's right at home with a comfortable set of familiar pop and jazz tunes.

The album marks the first time Harry has ever worked with famed music producer Clive Davis, or with any collaborator for that matter. According to Harry, Davis was mostly in control from the start. He says Davis wanted to feature Harry as a singer, and worry less about the solos and arrangements. Looking back, Harry says, "I found myself going to places I wouldn't have chosen to go." But, he admitted that being pushed in one direction or another was musically the best thing that's ever happened to him.

Another first is Harry Connick, Jr., singing The Carpenters' classic "(They Long To Be) Close To You."

Two songs on Harry's new album feature noted trumpeters from his native New Orleans, Louisiana: Leroy Jones on "(They Long To Be) Close To You," and Wynton Marsalis on the Elvis Presley ballad "Can't Help Falling In Love." Wynton's older brother Branford plays saxophone on the track "All The Way."

Harry also updates signature songs by Billy Joel, Elton John, Don McLean, Roberta Flack and Tony Bennett, as well pop standards by Jerome Kern, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Jay Livingston, and actor Charlie Chaplin, who composed the music to "Smile" for his 1936 movie Modern Times.

Harry is planning to tour in support of his tenth Number One jazz album, Your Songs, in early 2010.

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Harry Connick, Jr. will be appearing on the Rachael Ray Show next Wednesday, October 28th. Please check your local listings, as show times may vary. We hope you''ll tune in!

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Check out Harry's recent Clear Channel Stripped performance by clicking HERE or following the link below.

There are a number of ways to become an international ambassador. You can take those crazy exams and slug your way up the ladder at the State Department, or get really politically active and win a nomination by a candidate you help become president. Harry Connick, Jr. took his own route to ambassadordom: he got really famous and went on a crazy Aussie game show.

There is a 1996 MadTV clip of a spoof featuring a black baptist minister named Rev. LaMonte Nixon Fatback and a white southern evangelical preacher with a pompadour named Dr. Michael Kassick.  Some people seem to be confused about which actor is playing which character.  For the record the actor playing Rev. LaMonte Nixon Fatback is Orlando Jones and the actor playing Dr. Michael Kassick is Harry Connick Jr.