Hugh O'Connor: For the First Time - COMPACT DISCS

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Management number 205697293 Release Date 2025/10/22 List Price $57.15 Model Number 205697293
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Title: For the First Time
Artist: Hugh O'Connor
Label: True North
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 620638053225
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2010-09-28
Number of Discs: 1

Over the last decade, Hugh O'Connor has been playing a lot of great jazz saxophone for people who aren't particularly listening to him. This CD should remedy that. For the past four years O'Connor has played every Sunday at a nice restaurant-bar in Ottawa's Byward Market called Chez Lucien. The drinkers and diners applaud respectfully and some of them listen intently, but mostly it's a drinking-dining place and the music is background to the chatter. Before this, O'Connor worked for five years at another Ottawa restaurant in the same kind of environment. There were others before that. And yet, when you walk into the restaurant and hear Hugh singing his way through a standard or a jazz classic with an old friend on piano like Mark Ferguson or J.P. Allain, you know that this music needs undivided attention. Given the quality of music on display whenever O'Connor performs, it is astonishing that this is his first recording as leader in a 60-year career. In a way, it recreates, without the tinkling of glasses, the atmosphere at Chez Lucien. For this CD, O'Connor chose his sidemen from among Ottawa's A-list. The fact that they were also old friends didn't hurt. 'It helps to make better music together when you're friends,' he says. Pianist Mark Ferguson, bassist John Geggie and Drummer Don Johnston round out the line up. True North Records. 2010.

Tracks:
1.1 A Portrait of Jenny (J. Russel Robinson-Gordon Burdge). 6:12
1.2 The Night We Called It a Day (Thomas Adair-Matt Dennis). 4:31
1.3 Triste (Antonio Carlos Jobim). 4:46
1.4 Never Let Me Go (Jay Livingston-Raymond B. Evans). 6:09
1.5 In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (David a. Mann) 5:09
1.6 I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face 4:59
1.7 Alone Together (Arthur Schwartz-Howard Dietz). 5:31
1.8 Ignunt Oil (Milt Jackson). 4:10
1.9 The More I See You (Harry Warren-Mack Gordon). 6:10
1.10 My One and Only Love (Guy Wood-Robert Mellin). 6:47
1.11 About You (Burton Lane-Ralph Freed). 3:48
1.12 My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers-Lorenz Hart). 4:32

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