By Richard Scheinin September 19th, 2010 blogs.mercurynews.com "How daya like my band?" Harry Connick, Jr. shouted to his sold-out Arena audience a few minutes ago. For his Monterey debut, Connick has brought along a mini-big band. It’s crackerjack tight, silky with strings, and tenor saxophone soloist Jerry Weldon is adding lots of oozy obbligato to Connick’s vocals. Starting out, Harry sang, among other things, “The Way You Look Tonight” and “Smile” and “And I Love Her” — “my favorite Beatles song,” he said. There was a point in this opening set when he shouted, “Baby I LOV ya,” inflecting the words just so, sounding like Sinatra talking to Adelaide. It’s 1960 and Monterey is being transformed. We’re at the Copa. He sat at the piano — he’s really a good player — and everything got real quiet as he hit a quiet chord. “We love you Harry!” shouted a choir of women. He looked up for an instant, waved and winked. The guy behind me, in a thick New York accent, said, “Everybody loves Harry.”