Come By Me

Performer: Harry Connick Jr.
Engineer: Gregg Rubin
Producer: Tracey Freeman
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel includes: Harry Connick, Jr. (vocals, arranger, piano); Mike Smith, Jon Gordon (alto saxophone); Gerry Weldon, Charles Goold (tenor saxophone); Dave Schumacher (baritone saxophone); Roger Ingram, Dan Miller, Leroy Jones, Jeremy Davenport (trumpet); Mark Mullins, Craig Klein, Lucien Barbarin (trombone); Joe Barati (bass trombone); Jonathan Dubose (guitar); Charnett Moffett (bass); Arthur Latin (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion). Recorded at Capitol Studios, Los Angeles, California on July 17, 18, 20-27, 1998. Includes liner notes by Harry Connick, Jr. COME BY ME was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance. COME BY ME is a great place to start for those not yet familiar with the wonderfully talented Harry Connick, Jr. For COME BY ME, Connick reunited his 16-piece Big Band, teamed up with longtime producer Tracey Freeman, and brought in a full symphony orchestra. The result is a stellar collection of standards and originals. The album kicks off with two original numbers--"Nowhere With Love" and "Come By Me," the latter a rollicking New Orleans stomper that features some extraordinary key tingling by Connick. With his Big Band,and a string section, Connick gives the Henry Mancini classic "Charade" a double time rendition. Irving Berlin's "Change Partners" features equally lush orchestration, while the original "Easy For You To Say" shows these masters' influence on Connick's writing. To close the record, the Big Band and orchestra join forces on a swingin' version of Cole Porter's "Love For Sale. Connick excells, whether delivering jazz, standards, New Orleans funk, or Big Band. Pick up COME BY ME and get hooked.

JazzTimes (9/99, pp.77-8) - "...good clean fun, lined with easy-going musicality, sprinklings of camp and agreeably swank production....[Connick] is finding his way back to the jazz neighborhood...with wits mostly intact and warm spirit flowing."

Harry Connick, Jr. is an accomplished singer, pianist, and actor who emerged in the late 1980s as a Sinatra-style crooner for a new generation. As a musician, his influences include bebop, New Orleans jazz, and big-band swing. His score for the film WHEN HARRY MET SALLY brought him national acclaim and an Oscar. He subsequently appeared in a number of films, and made forays into pop music.

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