CONNICK,HARRY Vinyl Records and CDs

... much Connick's singing, songwriting and piano playing have matured over the years. A gifted musical mimic, his single greatest development may be in the unheralded field of arrangements; his imaginative band charts on albums such as Come By Me and Songs I Heard show an originality and spark that would earn him acclaim in the jazz world if he weren't a pop star. While neither original nor cutting edge, his music is often very good, and well before the reemergence of Tony Bennett and the coming of Diana Krall, Connick brought mainstream acoustic jazz back to a public that didn't realize how much they'd missed it.