Other Hours: Connick on Piano, Volume 1

Other Hours: Connick On Piano Volume 1 is a Jazz instrumental album, by American artist Harry Connick Jr., 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 is also his first instrumental album in 13 years.

Contents

• Tribute to gene tierney the other hours by harry connick jr
• Harry connick jr the other hours 10 12 2004 newport jazz festival official
• Track listing
• Musicians
• Songs
• References

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 label, a new company led by longtime friend Branford Marsalis. "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The twelve Connick compositions on Other Hours was originally made for the musical Thou Shalt Not (2001), which was the recipient of a Tony nomination for Best Original Musical Score (music & lyrics by Harry Connick Jr).

A special feature is the unique artwork on the cover. 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 explains, ‘so I thought it would be fitting to have a piece of her vision next to mine.’