ARTIST: Jane Monheit
TITLE: The Season
LABEL: Epic
GENRE: Jazz
BITRATE: 178kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 41min total
RELEASE DATE: 2005-10-18
RIP DATE: 2005-10-15
Track List
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01. This Christmas 3:50
02. Merry Christmas Darling 4:35
03. The Man With The Bag 2:02
04. Moonlight In Vermont 5:01
05. Sleighride 2:47
06. Have Yourself A Merry Little 5:58
Christmas
07. Medley: I Love The Winter 3:39
Weather/I've Got My Love To
Keep Me Warm
08. The Christmas Waltz 2:51
09. I Heard The Bells On Christmas 2:43
Day
10. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 2:51
11. My Grown-Up Christmas List 5:02
Release Notes:
Epic Records is pleased to announce the release of celebrated jazz singer
Jane Monheit's first holiday-themed collection, The Season, on October
18th. Called "the real thing" by The New York Times and "jazz's next
sultry sweetie" by People Magazine, Monheit is one of jazz's hottest
young stars. This is her debut on Epic Records and the fifth studio album
of her already established and successful career. It is also the first of
her records that Monheit has co-produced.
The Season, was also co-produced and recorded by eleven-time Grammy Award
winner Al Schmitt (Natalie Cole, Diana Krall, Jefferson Airplane), at New
York's Avatar Studios in July 2005. It was mixed by Schmitt at Capitol
Studios in Los Angeles. Jane previously worked with Schmitt on her Sony
Classical release, Taking A Chance on Love (2004), which featured her hit
duet with jazz crooner Michael BublΘ, "I Won't Dance." This is the first
record Monheit has helped co-produce.
Inspired by her favorite holiday album, Ella Fitzgerald's 1960 Ella
Wishes You A Swinging Christmas (Verve), Monheit creates inventive
renditions of an eclectic repertoire of songs. The album spans eleven
tracks that range from the Carpenters' "Merry Christmas Darling" and the
19th century carol "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" to perennial
favorites likes "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Santa Claus
is Coming To Town." See below for full track listing.
The album is the creation of Jane's regular working quartet: drummer Rick
Montalbano, bassist Orlando Le Fleming, guitarist Miles Okazaki, and
Michael Kanan on piano and keyboards. They are accompanied on four of the
tracks by a top-shelf horn section, arranged and conducted by Rob
Mounsey, which includes trumpeter Lew Soloff and tenor saxophonist Andy
Snitzer. Mounsey also arranged and conducted the string section heard on
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Grown-Up Christmas List," and
"Merry Christmas Darling." Vibraphonist Dave Samuels adds his special
touch to "The Christmas Waltz."