{"id":4909,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/jane-monheit-george-weins-jazz-fest\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"jane-monheit-george-weins-jazz-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Jane Monheit – @ George Weins Jazz Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Jane Monheit <\/strong><\/font>
@ George Weins Jazz Fest<\/strong><\/font>
Newport, RI – August 8, 2009
Matt Robinson<\/p>\n

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“Pretty much everything I do is a great standard, isn’t it?”<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/font>With a confident self-summary like that, Jane Monheit left little for we reviewers to say. By staying silent, however, we were able to better appreciate the building subtelties of her set. <\/p>\n

Though the vocal angles of the starting songs like a vibratoed “Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and a horn-helped meander through Jobim’s “So Tinha de Ser Com Voce” were a bit sharp at times, causing Monheit’s early attempts at scat to fall into the cracks, by the time she mixed tempos for “Myself Alone,” not even the off-tempo backup “beep” of a backstage diesel truck could distract the enraptured audience too much. <\/p>\n

With a band that included her husband and father-in-law and her infant son clapping and “singing” along just offstage, Monheit grew more and more comfortable as the set went on. Whether she was racing through “Taking a Chance on Love” or drifting through a take on Jimmy Dorsey’s “I’m Glad There is You” that was filled with recently- pregnant pauses, Monheit kept most of the crowd involved, keeping them either in their seats or dancing even when the act on the other festival stage was changing over. <\/p>\n

Closing with a crisp and refreshing “Waters of March” that drew applause even before it was done and a multi-colored medley of “Rainbow Connection” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” Monheit blended into the gorgeous Newport day and showed once again what diverse beauty can come from nature.<\/p>\n


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