Taking a Chance on Love (2004 Jane Monheit album)

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Taking a Chance on Love

Studio album by Jane Monheit

Released

September 7, 2004

Recorded

Mar 13, 2004-May 10, 2004

Genre

Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop Standards

Label

Sony Classical

Producer

Peter Asher
Al Schmitt

Professional reviews

USA Today ^[1]
People Magazine ^[2]
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^[3]
Down Beat p.65(Oct 2004) ^[4]
All About Jazz Italy ^[5]

Jane Monheit chronology

Live at the Rainbow Room
(2003)

Taking a Chance on Love
(2004)

The Season
(2005)

Taking a Chance on Love is a jazz album of standards 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 in the 2001 & 2003 Sony-labeled albums Let's Get Lost: The Songs of Jimmy McHugh by Terence Blanchard and Hot Swing Trio: In Full Swing by Mark O'Connor, 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 Grammy Award nomination for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals.

The bonus track "Over The Rainbow" was featured on the soundtrack for the blockbuster film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Bonus tracks "I Should Care" and "I Wish I Were in Love Again" are on her album's October 2004 Asian edition version. "I Should Care" was also featured 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.