Come Dream With Me

Jane Monheit | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 22, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Encoded Music
• ASIN: B00005AWDF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (131 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,147 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Over the Rainbow

2. Hit the Road to Dreamland

3. Spring Can Really Hand You Up the Most

4. Waters of March

5. I'm Through With Love

6. I'll Be Seeing You

7. Something to Live For

8. So Many Stars

9. If

10. Blame It on My Youth

11. A Case of You

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com's Best of 2001

Retro darling of the jazz vocal, Jane Monheit appears with her sophomore effort, Come Dream with Me, following the splash of Never Never Land with a long-reaching ripple. At 23, Monheit is remarkably gifted not only of voice, but with lyrical interpretation and genuine feel for a song, singing, for example, the oft-recorded "Somewhere over the Rainbow" from inside the song, making it a thing of understated beauty, rich purity, and charming hopefulness. Pianist Kenny Barron reprises his role as swing-daddy pianist, while the remainder of the instrumental ensemble is made up of younger though no less able jazzbos. Largely thus far an interpreter of standards, with strong emphasis on the ballad (stunningly lovely renditions of "Blame It on My Youth," "Something to Live For," and "I'm Through with Love"), Monheit also takes on the syrupy "If" from Bread's catalog, turning it to spun caramel. And then there's the closer: from the highly favored Blue, a scrumptious and sensual rendition of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You." --Paige La Grone

Product Description

Come Dream With Me debuted at #1 on the Jazz Chart, holding this position for nearly three months. Jane's development as a singer connected with fans and the press on her sophmore release.

A DualDisc is a two-sided disc made up of a CD on one side and a DVD on the other, DualDisc’s breakthrough technology allows one disc to have it all. A full album on the CD side. All sorts of special material on the DVD side, including the full album in a 5.1 Surround Sound, exclusive video content and lyrics. DualDisc work wherever you play CD’s and DVD’s, including car stereos, PC’s DVD Players, game consoles and CD players. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

44 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars delightful - best female jazz vocal of year !, October 21, 2001

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rash67 (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Come Dream With Me (Audio CD)

This year there have been two major female jazz vocalist releases, Jane Monheit's "Come Dream with Me" and the much hyped CD by Diana Krall's "Look of Love" on Verve. This one is as delightfully good, well sung, full of energy and finesse as Diana Krall's latest is static, lackluster, boring, especially disappointing as compared with her earlier CD's (see my reviews). Also, this is much better than Ms Monheit's previous CD, this one is clearly the best female Jazz vocal of the year.

Romantic, this one will warm the room this winter! Ms Monheit "sells" the songs, acts sexy, kittenish, then convincingly sad as each song calls for. Background, lead by Kenny Barron, Stan Getz longtime favorite pianist, is sympathethic and coy without being obtrusive. She includes the introduction to "Over the Rainbow" and "Hit the Road to Dreamland" that I had never heard. My only complaint, is song selection, she could have let out Jobim's pesty "Waters of March", but that's a very minor criticism.

You'll listen over and and over.
Good technical recording.

Should be a bestseller, if it isn't already. A CD worthy of 5 stars under my tough grading system. Highest recommendation.

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Girl Who Sings Like A Woman, June 13, 2001

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This review is from: Come Dream With Me (Audio CD)

Twenty-three-year-old Jane Monheit is a wonder. I first read about her in The New York Times Magazine, and while I thought the article was condescending, I bought her first CD. I loved the lovely, unforced elegance of her singing. This is a naturally rangey voice, its surface without a blemish, the vibrato natural-sounding, her musicianship impeccable (she received excellent training). Yes she reminded me of a young Ella, but with a smokier, more womanly sound. The singer I most thought of was Doris Day (who also credits Ella as an influence). But this new CD reveals a singer who is growing up very fast. She's got jazz chops, no doubt about it. "Blame it on my Youth" and "Hit the Road to Dreamland," are first-rate jazz vocals. But she also sings a deeply felt "A Case of You," a Joni Michell tune I'd never heard. So her folk chops are equal to her jazz. And she can torch eloquently as listeners will hear from her freshly minted performance of that hackneyed tune, "I'll Be Seeing You." There's also a splendidly realized Antonio Carlos Jobim tongue and breath twister, "Waters of March." Monheit's handlers have surrounded the young singer with a great musical group. Best cut on the CD "Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most." Like so many young singers who learned music through their parent's record collections, Jane Monheit's versatility should not limit her to jazz alone. Watch out--this kid's singing is pushing her into "classic" status. Warmly recommended.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Base your reviews on whether or not she can sing., June 11, 2001

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"chasmusic" (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Come Dream With Me (Audio CD)

I fail to see why beauty and age should be factors in a review of any singer. Billie Holiday and Carmen Mcrae were not too hard on the eyes either, and they are legends of vocal jazz. Jane has a beautiful and very emotive voice. She has great phrasing and a stellar group of musicians accompanying her. Personally, I like my singers to be a little more bluesy and rough around the edges. Give me Cassandra Wilson (another beautiful woman), the late great Terri Thornton, or even the sweet and sassy relaxed vocals of Shirley Horn anyday. But I have no problem giving my kudos to Jane Monheit. A Case of You is one of my favourite Joni Mitchell songs, and I doff my hat to Jane's rendition. Diana Krall faced the same criticism that she was too young and good looking to be talented. Listen to the cd, if that voice of liquid honey backed by the great Kenny Barron, among others, does not move you , check for a pulse.