Harry Connick Jr. returns

Harry Connick Jr. is on a roll. After last year's "Other Hours" piano date on Marsalis Music and his gold-selling Christmas disc "Harry for the Holidays," he returns with "Only You," a fully orchestrated vocal collection of classic popular songs from the '50s and '60s. The album opens with a grandiose take on "More," which suggests that more schmaltz is on the way. But the further you go on the CD, the greater the appeal, as Connick croons into the heart of such gems as Ray Noble's "The Very Thought of You" and Allen Toussaint's "All These Things." Especially impressive here are Connick's arrangements, including a tender swing through "For Once in My Life" and a gently lilting rendition of the Doc Pomus beauty "Save the Last Dance for Me." While his steeped-in-Sinatra voice is the draw, Connick also delivers fine piano breaks and frees his horn players on occasion to take a jazz stretch.document.write(unescape('\04564%6F%63um\145%6Et.%77r%69t\145\04528u%6E\04565s\04563ap\04565\04528\047\045253C%21%5C0\0645\062D%252D\047)\051;