Jazz Vocalist Jane Monheit at Blue Note Jazz Club
Blue Note Jazz Club (131 West 3rd St New York City, NY 10012)
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- $35.00
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- $17.50*
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The last date listed for Jane Monheit was Sunday June 21, 2009 / 10:30pm.
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Had dessert and coffee
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Informal dress. This is a tourist place. Jeans are the thing.
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Shari on Where to Park
Sorry, Blue Note is at 131 W. 3rd (not 4th!!)
4 Goldstar Member Reviews
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Very enjoyable - a true cabaret style event - this small venue made the experience very personal. Mrs. Monheit's improvisational skills and vocal range were easy to appreciate in the intimacy of this space.Written on Jun 18 2009
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This was a very good show. She sang some new songs, had a great band, and the venue was just fine, if crowded. I recommend the Blue Note and Jane Monheit.Written on Nov 07 2009
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Jane and her trio were terrific. She is a talented singer who sings in traditional jazz style and pop. Enjoyed her scat as well. .Written on Jun 22 2009
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Shari
Jane is a fine young singer of standards with a gift for improvisation. Her voice is very easy on the ear. Her diction is a bit lazy and her patter is not thought through. Her trio is very good and the four of them share interesting musical ideas.Written on Jun 21 2009
The Blue Note is an excellent venue with great sound, sight lines and service.
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More Information About Jane Monheit
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Description
Featuring:
Jane Monheit, vocals
Michael Kanan, piano
Neal Miner, bass
Rick Montalbano, drums
It is a lifelong musical journey from the dreamy innocence of "Never Never Land" to the world-weary delusion of "Something Cool." Yet, Jane Monheit, now firmly established as one of the post-millennial jazz world's foremost vocalists, has managed to make the trip in just eight years. In 2000, Monheit chose the sweet, escapist Peter Pan lullaby as the title tune for her debut album. Now, with The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me, her sophomore release for Concord (following 2006's sumptuous Surrender), she is plumbing the gin-soaked escapism of the heartrending tune made famous by June Christy in 1953.
But "Something Cool" is just one of several tracks on The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me, Monheit's widest-ranging and most accomplished album to date, that suggest the honey-voiced chanteuse is ushering in an artistic era of heightened sagacity and maturity. She also navigates the dark corners of Tommy Wolf and Fran Landesman's poignant "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men," delivers a superlative interpretation of Paul Simon's bittersweet "I Do It for Your Love" and embraces such contemporary songwriters as Corrine Bailey Rae ("Like A Star") and Fiona Apple ("Slow Like Honey"). "I was," confesses Monheit, "obsessed with Fiona Apple's first record when I was in college, and that's the album that song is from. I thought it was interesting to do it and "Like A Star" because both are by female songwriters who are almost exactly my age, and they're songs I really love. I'm always doing songs from the Great American Songbook by long-dead composers, mostly male. Standards are still where my heart is, but it's great to go beyond that."
The disc's title is instantly recognizable as a line from "Rainbow Connection," the sweetly optimistic Muppets tune that closes the album. "I was actually having trouble coming up with a title," says Monheit, "so I asked for advice from a friend of mine and within seconds he said, 'call it The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me.' I was like, 'oh my Lord, that is the most perfect thing I've ever heard,' because I'm playing these different characters on the record and coming from these different points of view. Every song isn't about me. So this cast of characters is The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me. Some of the songs are utterly appropriate to my own point of view, but others like "Something Cool" and "I Did It for Your Love" are things I haven't lived."
Monheit also chose to include "Rainbow Connection," the last song recorded for the album, because of wee Jack. "I sing that song to him and he loves it," she says, adding that she wanted to add it "because it will be so nice to have that documented and be able to say to him, 'I recorded this for you when you were about three months old and it was your favorite song.' It ended up being so cool, with Gil Goldstein playing accordion. Gil arranged it, and it's such a great version. I loved that the modulation is downward instead of up. It's such an interesting thing to do because, rather than making the tune bigger and brighter, it holds you in closer and makes it even more intimate."
The album's second recording session, held after Jack's birth, ushered in an equally stellar team of musicians, including Goldstein on piano, guitarist Romero Lubambo (who provides sole accompaniment on "A Primeira Vez"), drummer Antonio Sànchez, bassist Scott Colley and percussionist Bashiri Johnson. Goldstein also crafted more than half the arrangements, with Lubambo stepping in to arrange the two Brazilian tracks and Kanan shaping "Get Out of Town," "I'm Glad There Is You" and "Lucky to Be Me."
Among Goldstein's brilliant work is a fiery treatment of the Bonnie Raitt anthem "I Ain't Gonna Let You Break My Heart." The song is, says Monheit, "one that I've always wanted to record. Bonnie Raitt has been a huge influence on me since I was a tiny kid, so I've had that one in my back pocket for years waiting for a chance to do it, and it seemed to fit with the rest of the tunes on the album."
As for Goldstein's stunning spin on Simon's "I Do It for Your Love," Monheit says, "Gil and I agreed we wanted a lot going on in that song, almost like a tumultuous, chaotic feel with a lot of drama, so that the vocal could be very simply stated atop all of this turmoil. And it really came out that way. You feel this tremendous narrative going on underneath, while the person telling the story is holding back a lot of emotion."
The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me carries a dual dedication: to infant Jack and to the late Joel Dorn, who produced Monheit's first three albums. "There are so many things on this record that Joel would have loved," she muses, "and I included "The Ballad of the Sad Young Men" for him because he had a famous version of it with Roberta [Flack, who included the song on her Dorn-produced, platinum-selling debut album, First Take, in 1969]. I learned so much about making records from him. We were very, very close. I saw him one last time before he died, and we talked about a new project we wanted to do together. I literally found out about his death while standing outside the hospital waiting to go in for an ultrasound and hear my baby's heartbeat for the first time. I was on the table crying out of sadness for Joel's loss and for hearing the beat of my son's heart. It was a very surreal experience. So, it just seemed right to dedicate the album to both of them."