Jane Monheit - Very Best Of 2005
Jazz Vocal | Flac (separate files) | 395 MB
Jane Monheit's Best, from her first few recordings is a sampling of some of her best works. If you can get through the first two tracks, "Squeeze Me", an old Jazz standard, and "Save Your Love For Me" without panting like a dog, you have no soul. I am more of a Jazz Traditionalist, so I wish her label and Producer would leave out all of the strings and orchestration on some of the other tracks. While very smooth and Jazzy, it tends to come off as elevator muzak and leaves her jazz band behind, when the label guys get ahold of it. I say, let Jane sing, and just keep the 4 or 5 piece jazz band behind her. That's when she's at her best.
Artist: Jane Monheit
Title: The Very Best Of
Audio CD (October 4, 2005)
Label Warlock Records
Street Date Oct 04, 2005
Track List:
1 Intro
2 Just Squeeze Me
3 Save Your Love For Me
4 Hit The Road To Dreamland
5 In The Still Of The Night
6 Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
7 I Wish You Love
8 Cheek To Cheek
9 Waters Of March
10 Dindi
11 The Folks Who Live On The Hill
12 Some Other Time
13 Love Me Or Leave Me
14 Never Never Land
15 Over The Rainbow
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Producer Joel Dorn; Peter Asher; Al Schmidt; Carl Griffin
Personnel:
Jane Monheit (vocals);
David "Fathead" Newman (flute, tenor saxophone);
Donald Harrison, Hank Crawford (alto saxophone);
Joel Frahm (tenor saxophone);
Tom Harrell (trumpet);
Kenny Barron (piano);
Christian McBride, Ron Carter (bass instrument);
Kenny Washington, Lewis Nash, Rick Montalbano, Gregg Hutchinson (drums).
Since the acclaimed jazz singer was still quite young at the time of this release and had only four albums to her name, it may seem a bit premature to release an album tiled THE VERY BEST OF JANE MONHEIT. Yet Monheit's vocal gifts are such that a best-of compilation seems far from precocious, especially since Monheit has more nuance, precision, and timbral control than most jazz singers twice her age. This sampler cherry-picks from her first efforts, and session help from old-school luminaries like Kenny Barron (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and David "Fathead" Newman (saxophone) give the set a sparkling, timeless quality.
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