"I thought it would be a good idea to do two albums at the same time," Harry Connick, Jr. asserts of his simultaneously-released new recordings, the orchestral vocal album entitled We Are In Love; and Lofty’s Roach Soufflé, recorded with his trio. "I'm a singer and I'm also a piano player, and the way I sing and play are two completely different styles. So, I wanted to go back and document both of those different styles." The trio album, which is instrumental, is all original music," Harry says. "The other album, which is orchestral, that's all singing. It's going to have twelve songs, with ten originals on it. So they are both pretty much all-original albums. I've always been a composer; I just didn't put the songs on my last two albums." The orchestrations on We Are In Love range from big band arrangements and numbers with strings, to one song with Harry singing, accompanied by bassist Ben Wolfe and saxophonist Branford Marsalis. On the other hand, Lofty’s Roach Soufflé, the trio album, finds Harry stretching his jazz chops with sidemen Shannon Powell on drums and Wolfe on bass. Coinciding with the release of Harry's two new albums is his video debut, entitled "Singin' & Swingin'" (on CMV.) Compiled are Harry's very first video clip, "Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans" (with Dr. John,) two videos from When Harry Met Sally...: "It Had To Be You" and "Don't Get Around Much Anymore;" three live concert numbers from London's Dominion Theatre: "Stompin' At the Savoy," "Where Or When," and "I Could Write a Book;" and clips for the two new albums - "One Last Pitch" from Lofty’s Roach Soufflé and "Recipe For Love" from We Are In Love. Also included is new exclusive interview footage with Harry. Harry Connick, Jr.'s work as a singer, pianist and performer has recently been lavishly recognized. But he is hardly an overnight success. Although he is just 22 years old, this veteran player has been a performing professional for nearly fourteen years. "There are a lot of great young musicians on record," Harry observes. "Charnett Moffett was sixteen when he played on his first record. Branford was very young. Donald Harrison and Terence Blanchard. There are a lot of them. Louis Armstrong was very young when he did his first recordings." While Harry Connick, Jr. is now intent on playing the songs of Harry Connick, Jr., expect the same quality performance. In both the orchestral genre and with his piano trio, he serves up the same intensity and the same stylistic stroll through the history of jazz that his previous recordings have so excellently rendered. Musicians Harry Connick Jr. - Piano Benjamin Jonah Wolfe - Bass Shannon Powell - Drums Production Credits Producer - Tracey Freeman Assistant Producer - Ann Marie Wilkins Executive Producer - Dr. George T. Butler Recorded at RCA Studio B, New York City, April 4, 5 and 22, 1990 Mixed and edited by Tracey Freeman and Gregg Rubin at RCA Studios, New York City Recording and mixing Engineer - Gregg Rubin Second Engineers - Vince Caro and Sandy Palmer Mastered by Bernie Grundman