Jazz vocalists sing Cole Porter
Cole Porter
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AllMusic
2019
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Matt Collar
2019
"This is a lush, languorously paced album, but it never drags; even the slower songs benefit from bluesy instrumental solos and Connick's richly attenuated arrangements. True to Porter's urbane image, Connick offers an album as romantic as it is sophisticated".
Jazz weekly
d. 21. okt. 2019
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George W. Harris
d. 21. okt. 2019
"Decades ago, Harry Connick Jr was touted as "The Next Frank Sinatra." Well, instead he just became who he was; a regular guy from New Orleans who swung, sang and acted. This album on Verve Records, however, does harken to Sinatra's sessions with Billy May, as the tunes from the Cole Porter Songbook have a punch like a heavyweight. Big and bright brass give a Dizzy Atmosphere as Connick swaggers on a percussive "You Do Something To Me" and is confident on the bold "You're Sensational." He sways with the sax section during "True Love" and is peppy with the clarinets during "I Love Paris." When the strings come in, he gets smoky for "I Concentrate On You" and sounds as if his voice was aged in a barrel for a textured "In The Still Of The Night" while he builds drama like Pagliacci for "Why Can't You Behave." Every song sounds like he means it".
DownBeat
2020 January
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John McDonough
2020 January
"On True Love: A Celebration Of Cole Porter, Connick makes his Verve debut with a brightly flavored songbook. It just might be a coincidence that Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Song Book originally launched Verve into the big time. But Connick's charts wrap Porter in a bigband punch, à la Billy May and Don Costa in Sinatra's prime or Buddy Bregman in Ella's songbooks; there's appealing ingenuity in his work".