The Season | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jane Monheit
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Format: Dualdisc
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 827969489727
EAN: 8279694897278
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | This Christmas - Jane Monheit, Hathaway, Donny | | • | Merry Christmas Darling - Jane Monheit, Carpenter, R. | | • | The Man with the Bag - Jane Monheit, Brooks, D.A. | | • | Moonlight in Vermont - Jane Monheit, Blackburn, J. | | • | Sleighride - Jane Monheit, Parish, M. | | • | Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Jane Monheit, Martin, H. | | • | Medley: I Love the Winter Weather/I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm - Jane Monheit, Jaffe, H. | | • | The Christmas Waltz - Jane Monheit, Cahn, Sammy | | • | I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day - Jane Monheit, Marks, J. | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Jane Monheit, Coots, J. Fred | | • | My Grown Up Christmas List - Jane Monheit, Foster, D. |
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 terrific addition to one's christmas collection November 3, 2006
C. STRAUB (Ohio USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
i'm not sure what all the fuss is about. the album is a fine seasonal production- nothing off the charts but very very listenable. i only bought the cd for about 7 bucks from BMG and its a steal at that price. i am somewhat biased having seen Monheit in concert on a trip to NYC and really enjoyed her style and delivery. buy it and you will find that you will play it every yule time season!
 love the music, dislike the dual disc December 23, 2005
C. M. Geary (Kalamazoo, MI United States)
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the music, once I resigned myself to playing it on my DVD player when the CD would not play for me. I was disappointed the CD would not play. If I had known there would be a problem, I would have just ordered the regular CD.
Jane Monheit has some classic Christmas tunes, as well as some lesser-known ones, such as "The Man With the Bag" which I thoroughly enjoy. I don't find the melisma as bothersome as some other reviewers do. It doesn't seem distracting and allows her to make the songs her own.
Just for fun, I checked out the "live" performances and was unimpressed. With so many music videos that have high production value, her videos feel gimmicky at best and simply cannot compete. In addition, her lip-syncing seems amateurish. I cannot recommend this feature at all, thus my two star rating on this item. My advice: by the regular CD.
I plan to send this dual disc back, if Amazon will accept it, and get the regular CD. That way I can listen to it in my car and have the ability to put in on shuffle with some of my other favorite holiday tunes, which is why I bought it in the first place. I'm sure her CD will become one of my family's holiday staples.
 Get The Season Now--but on CD! December 22, 2005
Dr. Christopher Coleman (HONG KONG)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
I dunno, I think if you're overly concerned about the cover photography and the other paraphenalia, you might just be missing what's most important about the recording, the music. And criticizing jazz singers for ornamenting the melody by adding melismas is quite simply ridiculous. I'm in full sympathy with those consumers frustrated by their inability to play the disc--get the regular CD, you don't need the extras. The music is enough!
Jane Monheit's The Season is quite simply the best Christmas CD I've heard in a long, long time. I have to admit that i'm not overly fond of the opening song, This Christmas--it's just a generic jazz arrangement with nothing special. But with the opening notes of Merry Christmas Darling the CD really picks up. Monheit has amazing timbral control of her voice, you can hear the smile in her voice, and the longing. The Man With the Bag gets a terrific arrangement and Monheit shows her rhythmic flexibility. Moonlight in Vermont follows--I suppose this is why the CD is called "The Season" instead of "The Christmas Season"--it's one of Monheit's quiet ballads, with some wonderfully subtle guitar work by Miles Okazaki. Next, Leroy Anderson's Sleighride gets one of its best interpretations ever, uptempo and jazzy and smart--a real gift for this overplayed warhorse. Another standard, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas gets another extraordinary performance--Monheit sings the introduction without any accompaniment, and the whole is incredibly touching. It's done at a quite slow tempo which lets Monheit use her timbral control to great effect--she really means the words she's singing. A medley of I Love the Winter Weather and I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm follows, making a great contrast with the previous song. The Christmas Waltz has some nice guitar and vibes work--again the contrasts between the arrangements and songs shows real musicianship. Speaking of contrasts, the highlight of the disc is I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day in a simple duet between Monheit and guitarist Okazaki--it's timely and touching, and nothing on Diana Krall's Christmas CD comes close to the emotional power of this performance. It's worth the purchase price of the CD for this 3 minute song alone. Santa Claus is Coming to Town gets a somewhat uptempo jazzy arrangement, with some very fun scat singing and melodic elaborations by Monheit. The CD closes with a song I'm not familiar with, My Grown Up Christmas List--again, it's so touching and emotionally gripping. This is a wonderful CD, a must-have for your collection. I'd recommend it even if you never celebrate Christmas--it's simply great music.
Adieu meaning, hello stylistic frou frou. December 3, 2005
J. J. Smith (Illinois)
6 out of 17 found this review helpful
Jane Monheit's debut album was beguiling, and this outing has a few moments that shine, but for the most part she has grown increasingly absorbed in making hip sounds and doodling around the scale Sarah Vaughn-like: sound without meaning.
On this album, for the most part, she could be an alien replicating human language as an experiment in intergalactic communication. Where's the emotion? Where's the feeling? Ah, youth! She may have entered the great wilderness of artistic development which in the old days of show business went unrecorded. One day, perhaps, she will start concentrating on the meaning of the words she's singing again, and stop sounding like an ultra hip midi file.
 DualDisc won't play December 1, 2005
juliemargaret (sacramento, ca United States)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love Jane, but I'm going to have to return this CD because the DualDisc will not play in either my car or on my computer. Worthless to me, I have no idea if the music's good or not, since I can't get it to play.
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