The title track is fresh and energetic. "Come by Me" plays almost a rag-piano stomp for the first phrase then jumps full into big band swing. "Love for Sale" is fun and catchy, what Big Band should be. "Cry me a River" is real New Orleans gritty soul. "Danny Boy" gives a new flavor and outstanding voice to an old classic.

This album is not "Big Bad Voodie Daddy" nor "Cherry Poppin' Daddies" nor the like, nor is it supposed to be. Gershwin, Porter, and Gillespie weren't either. This is true swing and big band (with a touch of symphonic) jazz. Can Harry go wrong, it surely doesn't appear so!!! 5 and a half stars, all the way.

Absolute Class
I got into Harry after listening to the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack. This was the second album I bought by him and I was instantly hooked. The music sounds more complex and intricate than Harry Met Sally and Harry's voice sounds more mature and confident. It is fast becoming one of my favourite CDs of all time. The Big Band sound is amazing and Harry's self-penned songs like 'Nowhere with Love' and 'Come By Me' are fantastic. If you even remotely liked the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack or simply like beautiful well-written Sinatra-esque songs, you will enjoy this CD. I reckon after a couple of listens you'll be hooked singing along with Harry like a trooper! Always puts a smile on my face.

Harry Connick Jr.'s Back Again!
After few not very good albums (Whisper Your Name, She and Star Turtle) here it is swingin' Harry Connick!
Harry Connick Jr. is probably the first man who brought Swing back on top. Before Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Indigo Swing... He's great!
On this album, there are only five originals (Nowhere With Love, Come by Me, Easy for You to Say, Next Door Blues [instrumental] and A Moment With Me. Big Band is backing him and arrangements are great!

Cheesy
It's so sad when artists as talented as Connick take the cheesy, poppy (and yes, lucrative) route. I used to love this guy's piano playing and singing, but he has just gone and made such a cornball of himself that the only people that could like him are ones that consider what he does "jazz." Folks, this ain't jazz. Coltrane, Miles, Monk, Mingus---that's jazz!

One of his most mature efforts, jazzwise...
These arrangements by Harry Connick are ring in 1950's Nelson Riddle or Billy May tradition. Frank Sinatra would be peroud that there is someone carrying on the ratpack tradition. This cd swings, I mean like mad!!! Connick's vocals are smooth and smokey and he sounds like he's just come out of 1945 after WWII. A great cd by a real swinger!!! And harry has not sung thsi many standards sicne the Harry Met Sally soundtrack! Great!!! in fact the Greatest, huh Phillip? Yeah!!!
People first smitten with Harry Connick Jr. due to his easy, timeless charm and swoon-worthy croon on the 1989 soundtrack When Harry Met Sally are in for a big treat. Come by Me, a delightful sequence of treasures both old and new, is Connick's first big-band record since 1991's Blue Light, Red Light. What's not to like? With equal precision and confidence, Connick and his 16-piece band (and at times a full symphony orchestra) move seamlessly between the boisterous self-penned title cut, the Mancini standard "Charade," and the Cole Porter gem "Love for Sale." He gives a straight and moving voice and piano take on "Danny Boy," a stepped-up freshness to "There's No Business Like Show Business," and "Cry Me a River," following his unique vision, becomes an emotionally broken Bourbon Street funereal march. Strings swell, horns wail and skronk, high hats tap time, and those magic fingers dance across the keys. All told, Come by Me is a welcome invitation. --Paige La Grone