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. 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...