Jane Monheit News

Scott Ambush has been playing bass guitar for the internationally-renowned jazz fusion band Spyro Gyra for the past 17 years.

Jazz singer Jane Monheit says she's glad the "cover girl" days of her career gave way to fans and writers who instead concentrate on her music.

The Acting Company will honor Abigail Disney and Dana Gioia at the Shakespearean Masquerade at The Pierre Hotel Nov.

The Best of San Francisco Stage, Film, Fashion, Dining, Travel, Business, Philanthropy, and Governance - Challah Is Taken Friday 06th of November 2009

It'll be a homecoming of sorts for star jazz singer Jane Monheit when she performs at 8 p.m. Friday at the Palace Theater in Hamilton, N.Y. Her husband Rick Montalbano Jr.

All About Jazz is celebrating Jane Monheit's birthday today! Jane Monheit 'I\'m one of those people who go just a little too crazy over Christmas," Jane Monheit cheerfully admits.

After a three-year absence, the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition returned to Washington on Sunday night and gave local fans plenty to cheer about. For the world of jazz, the glittering gala and competition are Oscar night and 'American Idol' finals rolled into one -- though with a much higher level of talent.

Since its founding in 1987, the annual contest, sponsored by the Washington-based Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, has become the most prestigious competition in the world for aspiring jazz musicians. Focusing on a different instrument each year, it has become the equivalent of the Van Cliburn and Tchaikovsky competitions in classical music. Past winners and finalists, such as Joshua Redman, Jane Monheit and Eric Alexander, have become the new stars of jazz.

At the tender age of 20, New York vocalist Jane Monheit was the first runner-up in the 1998 Theolonius Monk Institute vocal competition, winning a $10,000 scholarship to further her musical education.

The Jane Monheit Quartet performed as part of this weekend's Jazz 'N Caz festival hosted by Cazenovia College.

When Jane Monheit released her first album in 2000, it was an auspicious start to the 21st century and the role of the new female jazz singer.

Anzic Records to Release "Project A" from Saxophonist Joel Frahm + Hammond B3 Player/Pianist Bruce Katz "Katz is a killer on the B3" --Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes "Joel Frahm, one of the young band leaders often heard in New York's small jazz clubs, sounds supremely comfortable playing the tenor saxophone." --Ben Ratliff, The New York Times Available ...

The Corning-Painted Post Civic Music Association will welcome jazz vocalist Jane Monheit to the Corning Museum of Glass Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept.

The following area resident was among more than 750 students to graduate from Morrisville State College in May.

" At Cazenovia College's 8th Annual Jazz `N Caz, from Sept. 24 - " 26, the host of WCNY's "Sounds of Jazz," Leo Rayhill, of Fayetteville, N.Y., will be honored by the College and the community for his dedication to sharing his love of jazz with the Central New York Community for more than 40 years.

Decca Music Group In his book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide , music writer Scott Yanow presents a list of the 30 most important jazz singers.

First performance of Penn Presents 09/10 Jazz Series Described by USA Today as simply sumptuous, Grammy- nominated jazz vocalist Jane Monheit returns to the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts to perform highlights from her most recent album The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 8:00 PM.

Fulton Opera, Lancaster will present Gabrielle Stravelli. TheatreScene.net has declared her show one of the Top Ten Cabarets of 2008 and calls Stravelli "One of today's most promising vocalists...Gabrielle Stravelli is a pop/jazz cross between Norah Jones and Jane Monheit-only better." And the Village Voice says "If you're looking for the next ...

More than five decades after the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong held forth at this annual East Coast gathering of the jazz tribes, youth and the music's modern edges were served.

More than five decades after the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong held forth at this annual East Coast gathering of the jazz tribes, youth and the music's modern edges were served.

More than five decades after the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong held forth at this annual East Coast gathering of the jazz tribes, youth and the music's modern edges were served.