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 Harry Connick Jr. - The New York Big Band Concert Jan 21, 2010
HC Jr is a fabulous showman and this is,on a scale of 0 - 10, 15.
 Multi-Talented Connick On Disply In this Feel-Good Concert Feb 20, 2009
This concert turned out to be a very pleasant surprise. If you like an excellent singer and performer and like the brassy sound, you'll love this.
I can't say I'm a big fan of big band music.....but, even for me, this was an enjoyable hour of entertainment. The only disappointment was that the DVD wasn't much better quality than the VHS tape.
Connick is a modern-day Frank Sinatra, a guy with a great voice, a cock-sure attitude (but not arrogant), knows how to ad-lib between songs and has a way of making ordinary songs sound extraordinary. He may not be exactly in Sinatra's class as a singer but he's a more diverse entertainer (see below). My only complaint was that sometimes he clowns around too much, ruining part of a song here and there by getting silly.
When he sticks to his music he's amazing, whether he's singing, playing the piano, the drums or anything else. He's multi-talented as you will see watching this hour-long concert. The band isn't bad, either, and shows its stuff in the finale, "All Of me." There is excellent chemistry among all.
It's just a feel-good, fun concert.
The Crooner of our generation Jan 15, 2007
I just love this type of music, and Harry is great at it! Fun and hip even for those of us under 50.I recommend this highly!
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
The best Live Harry Connick Jr Feb 05, 2006
I've been a big fan of Harry Connick Jr for quite some time and even bought the cd's during his phase of going "funk" (Star Turtle). This disc is my favorite of every DVD and CD that I have of him. I've even been to one of his concerts and still say this disc is better.
The band is an arrangement of the best musicians around and there are plenty of solos where you can see them display their talent.
If your a Harry Connick Jr fan, make sure you dont pass this one up.
6 of 18 found the following review helpful:
 Don't let this bar you from enjoying it, but...... Jan 19, 2006
I got this DVD as a present from a friend, who was very impressed by it.
Regrettably I cannot share his enthousiasm for this kind of 'big mouth, big show, no content' type of entertainment. Mind you, I don't have a problem with 'pure entertainment' as such, but this one is simply too empty for me.
Main criticisms :
1. Music isn't even remotely original and selected _only_ to please the audience.
2. Arrangements are at times completely out of sync with the song itself (example : "Bear necessities", which is an up-tempo song, is performed as a sort of crooner-ballad. This does no work imo)
3. Connick acts and moves very animatedly, but this is very plainly only the show; he gives big-gestured cues to his orchestra members, but frequently cues too early or too late and the (very tight) bigband plays completely on its own and sort of ignores Connick's 'band leading'.
4. Connick's playing and singing is not much to write home about; Vocally he's a not-quite-so-gifted Sinatra clone. Adequate enough, but not really interesting. His piano playing is restricted to playing an occasional chord, preferrably the easy chords. I play some piano myself and even though I am currently completely underrehearsed and underpracticed, I could play that kind of stuff within 10 minutes.
5. All the above is stuff which bothers _me_, but which should not necessarily bother everyone. What I think is quite scandalous though, is that if you look at the DVD closely, it's visible that Connick is PLAYBACKING SHAMELESSLY. Lip movements are not synchrous with the sound (this is not due to asynchronicity of soundtrack and video...it's Connick playbacking !) and his lip movements are also occasionally out-of-sync with musicians coming forward to play a solo. But -even worse- he is kind of swinging with the microphone in his hand and while doing this the mic often moves all over the place and he extends it so far away that the it's improbable that the mic picks up his voice. However...all of this moving around is completely not audible on the soundtrack. While this by itself is not 100% proof that he's playbacking, it is highly improbable that one is able to move the microphone all over the place without hearing it back in the audio track.
Summarizing, while this DVD might be highly enjoyable if you're looking for some entertainment (and don't let my review put you off if you feel happy with this DVD), it's simply too fake and too artificial for my taste.
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