What a Night! A Christmas Album | ||||
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Released | November 4, 2008 | |||
Recorded | August 21–30, 2008 | |||
Genre | Jazz, Christmas | |||
Label | Sony/Columbia (U.S.) | |||
Producer | Tracey Freeman | |||
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Harry Connick Jr. Christmas albums chronology | ||||
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Singles from What a Night! A Christmas Album | ||||
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Allmusic | [1] |
Metromix | [2] |
Windsor Star | [3] |
Mercury News | (Favorable) [4] |
Eye Weekly | [5] |
What a Night! A Christmas Album,by American singer,pianist and bandleader Harry Connick Jr.,was released on November 4,2008., [6] being his third Christmas album,since 1993's When My Heart Finds Christmas and 2003's Harry for the Holidays . The album consists of new recordings of Christmas classics,and new songs written by Connick. [7]
The first public mentioning of recording the album,came in an interview in The Times-Picayune in June 2008. [8]
The album was first called Christmas Day,but the title was changed in September 2008,to What a Night! A Christmas Album.
The track "Song for the Hopeful",is a duet with Kim Burrell. The song was written by Connick for the 2008 television film Living Proof . [9] Burell is also featured on "Let There Be Peace On Earth".
Connick has three daughters with his wife Jill Goodacre,and their middle daughter Sarah Kate,sings a duet with him on the track "Winter Wonderland". [10]
When the track list was first announced,the songs "Christmas Time is Here" and "Trinity",was part of the album. In early October,those two tracks were replaced with two new tracks:"Christmas Day",and an instrumental version of Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy". [10]
^ [*] also found on the Harry for the Holidays DVD
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A Holiday Celebration Tour 2008, is a concert tour with his big band to support the album. The tour was confirmed by the official Harry Connick Jr. website in September 2008.
One of their stops included the annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree.
Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Jr. is an American singer, pianist, composer, actor, and television host. He has sold over 28 million albums worldwide. Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales. He has had seven top 20 US albums, and ten number-one US jazz albums, earning more number-one albums than any other artist in US jazz chart history.
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Harry for the Holidays is American artist Harry Connick Jr.'s second Christmas album, released in 2003. The album features Connick and his 16 piece Big Band and a full section of chordophones.
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The My New Orleans Tour was a 2007 concert tour by American singer, pianist, and actor Harry Connick Jr. backed by his big band. The tour promoted his albums Oh, My NOLA and Chanson du Vieux Carré. The first concert of the tour was on February 23, 2007 at the Mizner Park Amphitheatre in Boca Raton, Florida. The first part of the tour took place in the USA and Canada. The second part of the tour was in Europe, and in 2008 the tour came to Asia and Australia.
A Swingin' Christmas is a Christmas album by Tony Bennett, released in 2008, that features the Count Basie Big Band. Bennett's daughter Antonia duets with him on one track.
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12 Songs of Christmas is the twenty-second studio album and the first Christmas album by American blues singer Etta James. Private Music released the album in October 1998. Produced by John Snyder, the album includes standards arranged mostly by pianist Cedar Walton and solos by Walton, George Bohanon on trombone, and Red Holloway on tenor saxophone. Critical reception of the album was positive overall. Following its release, 12 Songs reached a peak position of number five on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart.
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