| Jane Monheit | |
| Background: | solo_singer |
| Birth Date: | 3 November 1977 |
| Birth Place: | Oakdale, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Singer |
| Years Active: | 2000–present |
Jane Monheit (born November 3, 1977[1]) is an American jazz and pop singer.
Monheit was born and raised in Oakdale, New York, on Long Island.[1] Her father played banjo and guitar. Her mother sang and played music for her by singers who could also be her teachers, beginning with Ella Fitzgerald. At an early age Monheit was drawn to jazz and Broadway musicals.[2]
She began singing professionally while attending Connetquot High School in Bohemia, New York.[1] She attended the Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts.[3] At the Manhattan School of Music she studied voice under Peter Eldridge; she graduated in 1999.[1]
She was runner-up to Teri Thornton in the 1998 vocal competition at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, in Washington, DC.[1]
When she was 22, she released her first album, Never Never Land (N-Coded, 2000). Like Fitzgerald, she recorded many songs from the Great American Songbook. After recording for five labels, she started her own, Emerald City Records. Its first release was The Songbook Sessions (2016), an homage to Fitzgerald.[4]
Monheit's vocals were featured in the 2010 film Never Let Me Go for the titular song, written by Luther Dixon, and credited to the fictional Judy Bridgewater.[5] (On her debut album, she had performed a different song by the same name, written by Livingston and Evans.)
| Details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [6] | US Jazz [7] | US Trad. Jazz [8] | US [9] | US Indie [10] | POR [11] | |||
| Never Never Land |
| — | 3 | 2 | — | 28 | — | |
| Come Dream with Me |
| 153 | 1 | 1 | — | 5 | — | |
| In the Sun |
| 173 | 5 | 2 | — | 10 | — | |
| Taking a Chance on Love |
| 94 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 13 | |
| The Season |
| — | 11 | 8 | 12 | — | — | |
| Surrender |
| — | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | |
| The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me |
| — | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | |
| Home |
| — | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | |
| The Heart of the Matter |
| — | 5 | 4 | — | — | — | |
| 2 in Love |
| — | 6 | 5 | — | — | — | |
| Believe |
| — | 23 | 15 | — | — | — | |
| The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald |
| — | 6 | 4 | — | — | — | |
| Come What May |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | ||||||||
| Details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Jazz | US Trad. Jazz | |||
| Live at the Rainbow Room |
| 40 | 18 | |
| Year | Other artist(s) | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|
| "I Can't Give You Anything but Love" | 2001 | Terence Blanchard | Let's Get Lost |
| "Secret Love" | Les Brown & His Band of Renown | Session #55 (1936–2001) | |
| "Sentimental Journey" | |||
| "Snow" | 2003 | Tom Harrell | Wise Children |
| "Honeysuckle Rose" | Mark O'Connor | In Full Swing | |
| "Misty" | |||
| "Fascinating Rhythm" | |||
| "Manhattan"[12] | 2005 | Frank Vignola and Joe Ascione | 66 |
| "I'll Take Romance" | 2015 | Harold Mabern | Afro Blue |
| "My One and Only Love" |