Taking a Chance on Love (2004 Jane Monheit album)
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Taking a Chance on Love is a jazz
album of standards
and musicals by American
jazz singer Jane Monheit
. It was released in the United States
on September 7, 2004.
This was Monheit's fifth album and fourth studio album
, her debut studio album
with major music label
Sony
, and also was her third Sony
-labeled release after serving as guest singer on the 2001 & 2003 Sony
-labeled albums Let's Get Lost: The Songs of Jimmy McHugh
by Terence Blanchard
and In Full Swing
by Mark O'Connor
's Hot Swing Trio, respectively.
Taking a Chance on Love was also Monheit's first collaboration with multi-Grammy Awards winning producers Peter Asher
and Al Schmitt
. Monheit was previously featured on Al Schmitt
's co-produced 2001 album entitled Session 55 by the late Les Brown
.
During its first week of release, the album reached number one on Billboard
s Traditional Jazz chart and the top 100 on Billboard's pop chart.
The song "Dancing in the Dark
" received a 47th Grammy Award
nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals
.
Monheit had previously recorded "Honeysuckle Rose
" as a guest singer with Wynton Marsalis
on Mark O'Connor
's Hot Swing Trio album In Full Swing
. The bonus track "Over The Rainbow
" is a newly recorded version from Monheit's 2001 album Come Dream with Me and was featured on the soundtrack
for the blockbuster
film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
. Monheit also performed "Over the Rainbow" on her 2003 concert DVD/CD Live at the Rainbow Room. The bonus track "I Should Care
" was performed on the 2006 DVD/CD set Legends Of Jazz With Ramsey Lewis: Season One, Vol.2.
Monheit later followed this album by releasing a 2005 concert DVD of the same name.
and a two-track EP release of Monheit's album Taking a Chance on Love were released as limited editions in 2004.
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
album of standards
Traditional pop music
Traditional pop or classic pop or standards music denotes, in general, Western popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the appearance of rock and roll,...
and musicals by American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
jazz singer Jane Monheit
Jane Monheit
Jane Monheit is a jazz and adult contemporary vocalist for Concord Records. She has collaborated with artists such as Michael Bublé, Ivan Lins, Terence Blanchard and Tom Harrell, and has received Grammy nominations for two of her recordings.-Early life:Jane Monheit was raised in Oakdale, New York...
. It was released in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
on September 7, 2004.
This was Monheit's fifth album and fourth studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
, her debut studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
with major music label
Record label
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Sony
Sony BMG Masterworks
Sony Masterworks is a record label. It is the result of a restructuring of Sony Music Entertainment's classical music division. Before the acquisition of Bertelsmann's shares in the former Sony BMG, the label was known as Sony BMG Masterworks....
, and also was her third Sony
Sony BMG Masterworks
Sony Masterworks is a record label. It is the result of a restructuring of Sony Music Entertainment's classical music division. Before the acquisition of Bertelsmann's shares in the former Sony BMG, the label was known as Sony BMG Masterworks....
-labeled release after serving as guest singer on the 2001 & 2003 Sony
Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Sony BMG Music Entertainment was a recorded music company, which was a 50–50 joint venture between the Sony Corporation of America and Bertelsmann AG...
-labeled albums Let's Get Lost: The Songs of Jimmy McHugh
Jimmy McHugh
James Francis McHugh was a U.S. composer. One of the most prolific songwriters from the 1920s to the 1950s, he composed over 270 songs...
by Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
Terence Oliver Blanchard is an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, arranger, and film score composer. Since he emerged on the scene in 1980 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra and then shortly thereafter with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blanchard has been a leading artist in jazz...
and In Full Swing
Hot Swing Trio: In Full Swing
In Full Swing is the sequel to Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio's album Hot Swing!.-Track listing:All songs except "One Beautiful Evening" were either written by or arranged by Mark O'Connor.#"In Full Swing" – 3:55...
by Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz, country and classical violinist fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition...
's Hot Swing Trio, respectively.
Taking a Chance on Love was also Monheit's first collaboration with multi-Grammy Awards winning producers Peter Asher
Peter Asher
Peter Asher is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He first came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a record producer.-Early life:He was born at the Central Middlesex Hospital, a child actor and...
and Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt is a recording engineer and record producer.-Early career:Schmitt grew up in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy he began working at Apex Recording Studios at the age of 19. In the late 1950's Schmitt moved to Los Angeles and became a staff engineer at Radio Recorders on Santa...
. Monheit was previously featured on Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt
Al Schmitt is a recording engineer and record producer.-Early career:Schmitt grew up in New York City. After serving in the U.S. Navy he began working at Apex Recording Studios at the age of 19. In the late 1950's Schmitt moved to Los Angeles and became a staff engineer at Radio Recorders on Santa...
's co-produced 2001 album entitled Session 55 by the late Les Brown
Les Brown (bandleader)
Les Brown, Sr. and the Band of Renown are a big band that began in the late 1930s, initially as the group Les Brown and His Blue Devils that Brown led while a student at Duke University. He was the first president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences...
.
During its first week of release, the album reached number one on Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
s Traditional Jazz chart and the top 100 on Billboard's pop chart.
The song "Dancing in the Dark
Dancing in the Dark (Schwartz-Dietz song)
"Dancing in the Dark" is a popular song, with music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz, that was first introduced by John Barker in the 1931 revue The Band Wagon...
" received a 47th Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals
Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)
The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist has been awarded since 1963. The award is presented to the arranger of the music.There have been several minor changes to the name of the award:...
.
Monheit had previously recorded "Honeysuckle Rose
Honeysuckle Rose (song)
"Honeysuckle Rose" is a 1928 song composed by Fats Waller, whose lyrics were written by Andy Razaf. Fats Waller's 1934 recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999....
" as a guest singer with Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Learson Marsalis is a trumpeter, composer, bandleader, music educator, and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Marsalis has promoted the appreciation of classical and jazz music often to young audiences...
on Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor
Mark O'Connor is an American bluegrass, jazz, country and classical violinist fiddler, composer and music teacher. O'Connor's music is wide-ranging, critically acclaimed, and he has received numerous awards for both his playing and his composition...
's Hot Swing Trio album In Full Swing
Hot Swing Trio: In Full Swing
In Full Swing is the sequel to Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio's album Hot Swing!.-Track listing:All songs except "One Beautiful Evening" were either written by or arranged by Mark O'Connor.#"In Full Swing" – 3:55...
. The bonus track "Over The Rainbow
Over the Rainbow
"Over the Rainbow" is a classic Academy Award-winning ballad song with music by Harold Arlen and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. It was written for the movie The Wizard of Oz, and was sung by Judy Garland in the movie...
" is a newly recorded version from Monheit's 2001 album Come Dream with Me and was featured on the soundtrack
Soundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
for the blockbuster
Blockbuster (entertainment)
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film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a 2004 American pulp adventure science-fiction film written and directed by Kerry Conran in his directorial debut. The film is set in an alternative 1939 and follows the adventures of Polly Perkins , a newspaper reporter, and Harry Joseph "Joe" Sullivan ,...
. Monheit also performed "Over the Rainbow" on her 2003 concert DVD/CD Live at the Rainbow Room. The bonus track "I Should Care
I Should Care
"I Should Care" is a popular song by Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston and Sammy Cahn, published in 1944. The original recording by Ralph Flanagan and His Orchestra, with vocalists: Harry Prime and The Singing Winds was made at Manhattan Center, New York City, on July 18, 1952...
" was performed on the 2006 DVD/CD set Legends Of Jazz With Ramsey Lewis: Season One, Vol.2.
Monheit later followed this album by releasing a 2005 concert DVD of the same name.
Track listing
EP releases
A four-track EPExtended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
and a two-track EP release of Monheit's album Taking a Chance on Love were released as limited editions in 2004.
Chart positions
| Year | Chart | Position |
|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Billboard Top Jazz Albums | 1 |
| 2004 | The Billboard 200 | 94 |
| 2004 | Billboard Top Internet Albums | 94 |
| 2004 | Portuguese Charts | 13 |