We Are in Love

Infobox Album | Name = We Are in Love
Type = Album
Artist = Harry Connick, Jr.


Released = July 3 1990
Recorded = RCA Studio B, NYC: April 4, 5, and 22, 1990
Genre = Big Band w/orchestra
Length = 52:51
Label = Sony/Columbia
Producer = Harry Connick Jr., Marc Shaiman, George Butler, Bobby Colomby
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:8ea9qj3bojja link]
*"Entertainment Weekly" B- [http://www.ew.com/ew/allabout/0,9930,59657_11_0_,00.html 7/13/90] | Last album = "When Harry Met Sally..."
(1989)
This album = "We Are In Love"
(1990)
Next album = "Lofty's Roach Souffle"
(1990)

"We Are in Love" is an album by American artist Harry Connick, Jr., released in 1990. The multi-platinum album features Connick on piano & vocal, Russell Malone on guitar, Shannon Powell on drums, Benjamin Jonah Wolfe on bass, and Branford Marsalis on saxophone. Joining the quartet, is Connick's Big Band. Most of the tracks include an orchestral background.

Released in 1990, it topped the jazz charts in the same year, and crossed over to the pop charts as well, selling over 2 million copies worldwide. The album gave Connick a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Male, and he performed the title track live on the Grammy telecast in 1991.

The album was released at the same day as his trio instrumental album "Lofty's Roach Souffle", and his home video debut entitled "Singin' & Swingin'".

Track listing

#"We Are in Love" (Harry Connick Jr) – 2:40
#"Only 'Cause I Don't Have You" (Connick, Ramsey McLean) – 4:22
#"Recipe for Love" (Connick) – 2:34
#"Drifting" (Marc Shaiman) – 5:14
#"Forever, for Now" (Connick, McLean) – 4:20
#"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" (Eric Maschwitz, Manning Sherwin) – 5:09
#"Heavenly" (Connick, McLean) – 1:59
#"Just a Boy" (Connick, McLean) – 6:05
#"I've Got a Great Idea" (Connick) – 4:21
#"I'll Dream of You Again" (Connick) – 3:33
#"It's All Right with Me" (Cole Porter) – 4:53
#"Buried in Blue" (Connick, McLean) – 6:55

Recorded at Evergreen Radford Studio, North Hollywood, California on March 7-9 & 12-15, 1990 and RCA Studio B, New York, New York on April 19 & 23 and May 1, 1990.

Musicians

*Harry Connick Jr. - Piano, vocals
*Branford Marsalis - Tenor Sax, Soprano Sax
*Russell Malone - Guitar
*Benjamin Jonah Wolfe - Bass
*Shannon Powell - drums

Cheers episode

Connick guest starred as Russell Boyd, in the season 10 episode of "Cheers", "A Diminished Rebecca with a Suspended Cliff". Smitten by Rebecca (Kirstie Alley), Russell begins composing special songs for her. Sitting at the piano, he sings "I'll Dream of You Again", from this album.

External links

* [http://www.singingfool.com/musicvideo.asp?publishedId=145722 "We Are in Love" music video, at singingfool.com]