The Connick Lexicon
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In his churlish April 13 review of Harry Connick Jr.’s phenomenal concert at the Catalina Bar and Grill, A. James Liska displays a philistinism I thought was the sole property of those letter writers who defend Barry Manilow or who don’t understand why Robert Hilburn touts Bruce Springsteen.
The first time I heard Harry Connick Jr.--on National Public Radio--I hadn’t known of him or his supposed hype, but I instantly recognized that here was someone who had absorbed so much of the jazz-blues-Dixieland lexicon that he could quote it liberally, even mock it, and then use it to make original musical statements.
Liska is right on one thing: Connick is not Michael Feinstein; he’s in another league altogether.
KEN LETNER
Los Angeles
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