CONNICK FLOATS INTO A STEADY MOVIE CAREER.

Harry Connick Harry Connick is the name of:

Harry Connick, Sr., New Orleans district attorney and part time singer
Harry Connick, Jr., his son, New Orleans musician, singer, and actor

Jr. is taking his film career the way he takes his music - slowly.

Connick's latest film, in which he plays a carpenter in the drama ``Hope Floats,'' directed by Forest Whitaker and co-starring Sandra Bullock, is due this spring. The movie was shot near Austin, Texas.

``It was great,'' Connick said. ``I really enjoyed working with Forest. I just thought about the character, what I was going to be doing. I tried to get inside this guy's head.''

Connick is currently on the road in support of his new orchestral ballad album, ``To See You'' (Columbia). He has been appearing with 30-piece orchestras in each city along with full-time band members Leroy Jones

For the poet born Everett LeRoi Jones, see Amiri Baraka.

For the football player of the same name see Leroy Jones (football player).

Leroy Jones is a jazz trumpeter from New Orleans, Louisiana. (trumpet), Ned Goold (tenor sax), Dave Schumacher (baritone sax), Lucien Barbarin Lucien Barbarin is an American trombone player, born July 17, 1956, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Barbarin tours internationally with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and with Harry Connick, Jr. (trombone trombone [Ital.,=large trumpet], brass wind musical instrument of cylindrical bore, twice bent on itself, having a sliding section that lengthens or shortens it and thus regulates the pitch. The descendant of the sackbut, it was developed in the 15th cent. ), Charnett Moffett Charnett Moffett (b. 10 June 1967) is an American jazz musician who plays piccolo bass, double bass and bass guitar.

Moffett's given name was created as a combination of that of his father (Charles Moffett, the jazz drummer) and that of Ornette Coleman (the jazz saxophonist). (bass) and Arthur Latin (drums).

On Wednesday the show comes to Los Angeles' Wiltern Theatre, where it's sold out.

Connick said he's in no hurry to make a another film.

``I'm just reading scripts,'' he said. ``I'm not really in a rush to do anything. I'm waiting for a quality project to come along.''

Connick, 30, described his new album as ``a romance record. I use an orchestra, and it surrounds a jazz quartet.''

``When it's time to do a record, I think about what I want to do,'' Connick said. ``This time, I wanted to combine my jazz quartet with an orchestra.''

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Date:	Nov 29, 1997
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