Jazz Articles about Jane Monheit

Jane Monheit at The American Theatre

by Mark Robbins
December 15, 2019

Vocalist Jane Monheit surprised both the audience and the management at The American Theatre in Hampton, Virginia with her first holiday show of the season on November 30. Though her interpretations of the Great American Songbook and torch songs were missed, Monheit and her trio— pianist Michael Kanan, bassist Neal Miner, and drummer Joe Strasser—still moved the room. Monheit is known for pulling the audience into sad songs of unrequited love. That evening, she threw her head back in joy ...

Jane Monheit & Clint Holmes At Jazz For All Ages

by Martin McFie
November 5, 2019

Jane Monheit & Clint Holmes with the Christian Tamburr Quartet Sonesta Oceanfront Resort Jazz for all ages Hilton Head Island, SC October 30-31, 2019 In this centennial Nat “King" Cole year, The Junior Jazz Foundation invited Christian Tamburr to arrange and direct the first night of music. In addition to his quartet, Tamburr asked Jane Monheit and Clint Holmes to join him in performing fourteen of the more than one hundred Cole recordings that ...

Jane Monheit and her Muses...

by C. Michael Bailey
July 14, 2016

When vocalist Jane Monheit blew the music community's hair back with her debut recording Never Never Land (N-Coded Music) in 2000, she was 22-years old, beautiful, sensual, soon-to-be-married and talented with chops to spare. By 2016, Monheit had released nine additional studio recordings, including the well-received Come Dream With Me (N-Coded Music, 2001) and Surrender (Concord, 2007). Her most recent recording Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald (Emerald City Records, 2016) elevates her to a class by herself. All About ...

Jane Monheit: The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald

by Edward Blanco
May 21, 2016

Long Island native and vocalist Jane Monheit pays tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most enduring jazz singers in history and a very influential figure in Monheit's own musical career. The singer had long thought about recording a homage project to Fitzgerald and on The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald, Monheit finally accomplishes this releasing the album on her own Emerald City Records label. Produced and arranged by Nicholas Payton--who did not originally intend on playing in the recording, but ...

Jane Monheit: Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald

by C. Michael Bailey
March 26, 2016

Jazz, like any art, is a rich loam of inspiration and direction. A given contemporary artist has many options for smartly programmed recordings centered on paying tribute. It may be homage to a repertoire, a selected composer, or a particular peer within their own musical neighborhood. Cassandra Wilson's recent Coming Forth By Day (Sony Legacy, 2015) is only one of the most recent such recording addressing the music of Billie Holiday. Holiday has been the focus of many homage recordings. ...

Jane Monheit: Finding the Way Back Home

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
January 4, 2011

Jane Monheit's voice is not a reflection of somebody else's talent: it is all on her. Home (Emarcy, 2010) is her new ticket to the legacy of the Great American Songbook, and her journey has been quite spectacular.Singing the words or simply scatting, Monheit lays down the pattern for the true vocal jazz tradition with tunes like “This is Always" and “Isn't It a Lovely Day" for those who might have forgotten what romanticism sounded like, back in ...

Jane Monheit: Surrender

by Michael P. Gladstone
October 15, 2007

All the press about vocalist Jane Monheit's, Surrender, now on Concord Records, is glowing with praise, and after a few spins I'm inclined to agree...to an extent. It's a bit like listening to a Barbra Streisand album. Most would interpret that as a supreme compliment to Jane Monheit but it is not meant that way.

In the same way that Streisand would be expected to provide a polished, beautifully sung product that features carefully orchestrated songs, photographs, etc., ...