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Music : Come By Me
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Rating: 
- Harry Connick Jr is touched by genius. This is a class album.
This is one of my favourite Harry Connick Jr albums I possess. He clearly relishes what he does as his vocal performance on here is top quality. His arrangements are pretty sharp too. He fuses his own songs with old jazz standards and brings them together in an excellent package.
It starts off at a gallop with the impressive 'Nowhere With Love' then continues in the same vein with 'Come By Me' and 'Charade' and finishes off with the wonderful rendition of 'Cry Me A River' and 'Love For Sale'. My favourites on here are the opening two tracks 'Nowhere With Love', 'Come By Me' and possibly 'Time After Time'.
Whenever I listen to this album, it brings a smile to my face and makes me feel good inside. All the arrangements and singing are great and it seems to cascade like a waterfall. That's how I see it anyway. There are some great tracks on here and all worth it.
Rating: - Come by me- a definitive vocal album
The return to big band jazz for Connick is a roaring success. Come by me is a collection of standards and original compositions. Now in his early thirties Connicks voice is showing an ever increasing ability, to create powerful show stopping notes but remain fragile and full of character. His arrangements of pieces such as 'time after time' and 'There's no business.. 'display a real drama and you are left bittersweet. Absent from the album is Connick overt piano skills but with pieces such as the extra funky 'next door blues' (an instrutmental) this doesn't seem so bad. This album also sees him record a version of Danny boy (Memphis Belle gave us a taster) and it becomes an epic emotinal work with an orchestra arrangement, to get your goose pimples going. As Tony Bennett said "Connick will be one of the evergreens"
Rating:
- pretty good
It's quite a good CD, but not as good as I hoped it would be. There are some great songs on here but i was a bit disappointed with the covers of Danny Boy and Theres No Business.. because I find them a bit boring on this CD. However, the other songs are really good and its a fantastic CD to have on in the background. A good buy.
Rating: - Mixture of beautiful songs for every occasion
I wasn't sure what to expect with this album but I wasn't dissapointed. Once you've listened to it a couple of times the melodies grow and grow and you can't help but sing. If you're feeling low play "Come by me" and you'll be instantly uplifted!!!
Rating:
- Connick goes through the motions - but fails to thrill.
Despite the hoop-la surrounding Harry Connick Jr's recent release, when all is said and done this is just another run-of-the-mill vocal / big band effort.
In this album Connick seems to try to take the high road to success, scorning simple melodic arrangements in favour of jazzy musical ramblings.
This album seems to highlight the fact that the role of vocalist and arranger should not ideally be the same person. Most of the best artists of the traditional vocal pop genre understood that the best musical orchestrations are crafted by the experts who can judge the singer's vocal talents with a professional, objective eye and write arrangements to suit.
Connick seems to work under the premise that more is better and concise creatitivity is therefore the main musical casualty. It is disappointing that almost every track meanders along for far too long with the band ambling along aimlessly while Connick injects almost universally bland vocalising into the performances.
Compare this with a snappy Sinatra-Riddle collaboration and the contrast between true quality and retro-swing arthouse posturing could not be greater.
Cry Me a River, for example, is given an off-kilter arrangement that is probably musically clever but when all is said and done Connick still treats it as a noirish ballad ala Julie London. When we are all used to this as a slow ballad, why not try to do something new / exciting? Had Connick injected some verve into the arrangement and interpreted the song as an uptempo swinger, a sort of rueful ballad of lost love, this might have hit the point more forcefully. OK, Connick wants to make his own musical identity but why treat us to an overlong musical dirge?
The whole album has a self-indulgent feel, the band is talented but the music is too-often soulless. "Nowhere with Love" is a nice song, the singing and arrangement is good and mesh well together. This being an original piece it does not suffer in the same way as re-hashed tunes from the past (some of the ones here are not really great Standards that can always be re-interpreted to good effect).
Connick is undeniably a good pianist and has a pleasant voice but this effort is just not entertaining enough. I suspect that after the initial thrills of the first listening there is little here to hold the buyer's attention for much more than a few weeks.
- Harry Connick Jr is touched by genius. This is a class album.This is one of my favourite Harry Connick Jr albums I possess. He clearly relishes what he does as his vocal performance on here is top quality. His arrangements are pretty sharp too. He fuses his own songs with old jazz standards and brings them together in an excellent package.
It starts off at a gallop with the impressive 'Nowhere With Love' then continues in the same vein with 'Come By Me' and 'Charade' and finishes off with the wonderful rendition of 'Cry Me A River' and 'Love For Sale'. My favourites on here are the opening two tracks 'Nowhere With Love', 'Come By Me' and possibly 'Time After Time'.
Whenever I listen to this album, it brings a smile to my face and makes me feel good inside. All the arrangements and singing are great and it seems to cascade like a waterfall. That's how I see it anyway. There are some great tracks on here and all worth it.
Rating:
- Come by me- a definitive vocal albumThe return to big band jazz for Connick is a roaring success. Come by me is a collection of standards and original compositions. Now in his early thirties Connicks voice is showing an ever increasing ability, to create powerful show stopping notes but remain fragile and full of character. His arrangements of pieces such as 'time after time' and 'There's no business.. 'display a real drama and you are left bittersweet. Absent from the album is Connick overt piano skills but with pieces such as the extra funky 'next door blues' (an instrutmental) this doesn't seem so bad. This album also sees him record a version of Danny boy (Memphis Belle gave us a taster) and it becomes an epic emotinal work with an orchestra arrangement, to get your goose pimples going. As Tony Bennett said "Connick will be one of the evergreens"
Rating:
- pretty goodIt's quite a good CD, but not as good as I hoped it would be. There are some great songs on here but i was a bit disappointed with the covers of Danny Boy and Theres No Business.. because I find them a bit boring on this CD. However, the other songs are really good and its a fantastic CD to have on in the background. A good buy.
Rating:
- Mixture of beautiful songs for every occasionI wasn't sure what to expect with this album but I wasn't dissapointed. Once you've listened to it a couple of times the melodies grow and grow and you can't help but sing. If you're feeling low play "Come by me" and you'll be instantly uplifted!!!
Rating:
- Connick goes through the motions - but fails to thrill.Despite the hoop-la surrounding Harry Connick Jr's recent release, when all is said and done this is just another run-of-the-mill vocal / big band effort.
In this album Connick seems to try to take the high road to success, scorning simple melodic arrangements in favour of jazzy musical ramblings.
This album seems to highlight the fact that the role of vocalist and arranger should not ideally be the same person. Most of the best artists of the traditional vocal pop genre understood that the best musical orchestrations are crafted by the experts who can judge the singer's vocal talents with a professional, objective eye and write arrangements to suit.
Connick seems to work under the premise that more is better and concise creatitivity is therefore the main musical casualty. It is disappointing that almost every track meanders along for far too long with the band ambling along aimlessly while Connick injects almost universally bland vocalising into the performances.
Compare this with a snappy Sinatra-Riddle collaboration and the contrast between true quality and retro-swing arthouse posturing could not be greater.
Cry Me a River, for example, is given an off-kilter arrangement that is probably musically clever but when all is said and done Connick still treats it as a noirish ballad ala Julie London. When we are all used to this as a slow ballad, why not try to do something new / exciting? Had Connick injected some verve into the arrangement and interpreted the song as an uptempo swinger, a sort of rueful ballad of lost love, this might have hit the point more forcefully. OK, Connick wants to make his own musical identity but why treat us to an overlong musical dirge?
The whole album has a self-indulgent feel, the band is talented but the music is too-often soulless. "Nowhere with Love" is a nice song, the singing and arrangement is good and mesh well together. This being an original piece it does not suffer in the same way as re-hashed tunes from the past (some of the ones here are not really great Standards that can always be re-interpreted to good effect).
Connick is undeniably a good pianist and has a pleasant voice but this effort is just not entertaining enough. I suspect that after the initial thrills of the first listening there is little here to hold the buyer's attention for much more than a few weeks.