The Season Jane Monheit

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The Season

1LISTENThis Christmas 3:50
2LISTENMerry Christmas Darling 4:35
3LISTENThe Man with the Bag 2:02
4LISTENMoonlight in Vermont 5:01
5LISTENSleighride 2:47
6LISTENHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 5:58
7LISTENMedley: I Love the Winter Weather/I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm 3:39
8LISTENThe Christmas Waltz 2:51
9LISTENI Heard the Bells on Christmas Day 2:43
10LISTENSanta Claus Is Coming to Town 2:50
11LISTENMy Grown Up Christmas List 5:01

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Jane Monheit followed her 2004 Sony debut, Taking a Chance on Love, with the Christmas album The Season. It's an inevitable release. Monheit's star has risen consistently -- she's one of the darlings (or saviors) of contemporary vocal jazz alongside artists like Madeleine Peyroux and Norah Jones -- so something as pretty and easily salable as The Season ensures even more name recognition. Which is just fine. Monheit's rich, if mannered delivery is perfect for the classics ("Sleighride," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"), and her interpretations of "I Love the Winter Weather/I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" (where Ella Fitzgerald's influence is strong) and the Carpenters ("Merry Christmas Darling") mix striking professionalism with a gentle, breathy swagger that's pretty endearing. Monheit worked with her usual quartet for The Season, though the arrangement for "Merry Christmas Darling" is filled out with a string section and the horns on "The Man with the Bag" combine with Monheit's winsome, scatting vocal to really take it out of time. Is this 2005 or a classic Perry Como special? The Season is a nice holdover for Monheit, a chance to have some fun with some standards while keeping her name and wonderful voice top of mind. Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide

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November 04, 2005: 'The Season' is a must have album for the coming holidays, and the holidays wouldn't be as special without this album. Jane has chosen some terrific songs for her first Christmas album. She has taken some of the traditional songs, and then jazzed them up. Some examples of this are "Sleighride", and "Santa Claus is Coming to Town". Another great tune on this album is "Man With The Bag". An especially moving song on this album is "Grown-up Christmas List". Make sure to listen to this one!! If I could give this album ten stars I would because this is an album you will keep and listen to for years to come. Enjoy!

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