- Audio CD (Sep 30 2003)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import, Enhanced
- Label: Encoded Music
- ASIN: B00004SVKL
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (114 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. Please Be Kind |
| 2. Detour Ahead |
| 3. More Than You Know |
| 4. Dindi |
| 5. Save Your Love For Me |
| 6. Never Let Me Go |
| 7. My Foolish Heart |
| 8. I Got It Bad (And That Ain't Good) |
| 9. Twisted |
| 10. Never Never Land |
Product Description
From Amazon.co.uk
Long Island native Jane Monheit has taken Ella Fitzgerald's Duke Ellington Songbook as her inspiration for Never Never Land. While she does not sound much like Ella, she follows a similarly mainstream format, singing pleasantly along with an all-star line up of Kenny Barron, Ron Carter, Lewis Nash, Hank Crawford, David "Fathead" Newman and Bucky Pizzarelli on such fare as "Please Be Kind", "Detour Ahead" and "My Foolish Heart". Her international debut on N-Coded seems an auspicious affair, and a good deal has obviously been invested in her, including a liner note puff which inadvertently points up her ordinariness. Michael Bourne makes a big fuss about the sharp eleventh with which Monheit ends "Detour Ahead", describing it as "a note that only this jazz singer would sing". Unfortunately, not only is such an ending not exclusive to Jane Monheit, it's one of the oldest clichés in post-bop jazz.--Mark Gilbert
Chronique amazon.fr
Sous ses atours pour le moins sexy, Jane Monheit s'avère être une délicieuse chanteuse de jazz, au phrasé sensuel et au timbre suave. Sur un répertoire de standards, elle aborde tous les registres, de la bossa-nova au blues en passant par la soul, sans évidemment lésiner sur la note bleue. À 23 ans, cette ancienne lauréate du prestigieux prix Thelonious Monk montre combien elle sait ce qu'elle veut. Secondée par des jazzmen hors pair (deux saxophonistes sensationnels en les personnes de David "Fathead" Newman et Hank Crawford, l'élégant guitariste Bucky Pizzarelli et une superlative section rythmique Kenny Barron, Ron Carter et Lewis Nash), elle distille une émotion qui, certes, joue de la nostalgie, mais annonce aussi des lendemains plus que prometteurs. --Hervé Comte
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Monheit is an incredible talent and her beauty breathtaking,
By A Customer
This review is from: Never Never Land (Audio CD)
I recently saw Jane Monheit live in concert, and was awestruck.She is incredibly gorgeous, and has the vocal chops of Ella Fitzgerald. I could not believe a girl so young, could have such a range. It is so refreshing to here real talent now days,with all the trash, that is out in mainstream music industry.
5.0 out of 5 stars
I like Jane Monheit,
This review is from: Never Never Land (Audio CD)
After talking with some friends of mine I decided to take a chance and buy the album. My jazz director doesn't like her, but I think she is a wonderful musician. I think she has a beautiful voice, and she's not to hard on the eyes either. Her singing on this album is superb, "Detour Ahead" gave me chills the first time I ever heard it (and once in a while now). Her intonation is near perfect, and she has a genuine warmth to her voice. I find this album is definately in my top 40 albums I own. (Proud to say I recently added the 500th album yesterday) My reccomendation? Buy this album, you won't be dissapointed.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Maybe not for jazz die-hards but definitely for me,
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Never Never Land (Audio CD)
Jane has an outstanding voice that she uses to sing some of the finest songs from the Great American Songbook as well as some of more recent origin but of a similar quality, backed by some of the best American jazz musicians. Yet this, it seems, is not enough for some jazz die-hards who complain that Jane isn't really a jazz singer and can't compare with singers of yesteryear. Now, where have I heard this sort of thing before? Yes, in every other genre of music - country, pop, rock, folk, classical, you name it - there are people who only like what got them into the music in the first place so anybody who comes later must be worse or (if their sound is different) selling out to the masses. Well, every genre needs its crossover artists with mass appeal to get new people interested. I only really took jazz seriously when I discovered Diana Krall. Since then, I have discovered some of the more traditional artists, which I would never have known about otherwise. Jane is yet another crossover artist that will attract more new fans to jazz music, much as Diana and (more recently) Norah Jones have done.As a debut album, this is outstanding. Jane sings classic songs such as Please be kind (a number one hit in 1938 for Red Norvo), Detour ahead (previously recorded by Bill Evans, Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald among others), More than you know (a top ten hit in 1930 for Ruth Etting), Dindi (from the songbook of Antonio Carlos Jobim, previously covered by many singers including Blossom Dearie and Carmen McRae), Save your love for me (a song recorded by Nancy Wilson among others, though I first heard it on an album by Claire Martin, one of Britain's finest jazz singers), Never let me go (previously recorded by Bill Evans, Dinah Washington, Nat King Cole and many others), My foolish heart (a top ten hit for three different singers in 1950, when three others also made the top twenty), I got it bad and that ain't good (the Duke Ellington classic - Jane was inspired by Ell's cover of it), Twisted (an interesting Wendell Gray / Annie Ross composition) and Never never land (previously recorded by Johnny Mathis). So Jane chose to record songs that she grew up listening to (not always the versions I mentioned) but as far as I'm concerned, her renditions of these songs are brilliant - not necessarily the best versions of these songs ever recorded, but worthy of comparison with the best. I love the greats of yesteryear including Billie and Ella but although their music lives on, they aren't around any more to bring in new fans. Jazz has a bright future as long as it can produce quality singers like Jane Monheit.
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