Never Never Land (Jane Monheit album)

2000 studio album by Jane Monheit

Never Never Land

Studio album by

Jane Monheit

Released| May 9, 2000 (2000-5-9)
Recorded| January 13–14, 2000
Genre| Jazz, vocal jazz
Length| 46:15
Label| N-Coded
Producer| Joel Dorn, Carl Griffin
Jane Monheit chronology
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Never Never Land is the debut album by jazz singer Jane Monheit, recorded when she was 22 years old. At AllMusic, critic David Adler wrote that her voice on this album was "as close to flawless as a human can get". She was accompanied by jazz musicians Bucky Pizzarelli, Ron Carter, Hank Crawford, and Kenny Barron. The album includes cover versions of the standards "More Than You Know", "My Foolish Heart", and "Twisted".[1]

## Track listing

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No.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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1.| "Please Be Kind"| Saul Chaplin, Sammy Cahn| 3:43
2.| "Detour Ahead"| Herb Ellis, Johnny Frigo, Lou Carter| 6:30
3.| "More Than You Know"| Vincent Youmans, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu| 3:04
4.| "Dindi"| Antônio Carlos Jobim, Aloísio de Oliveira, Ray Gilbert| 4:52
5.| "Save Your Love for Me"| Buddy Johnson| 5:21
6.| "Never Let Me Go"| Ray Evans, Jay Livingston| 4:00
7.| "My Foolish Heart"| Victor Young, Ned Washington| 4:32
8.| "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)"| Duke Ellington, Paul Francis Webster| 6:15
9.| "Twisted"| Wardell Gray, Annie Ross| 4:01
10.| "Never Never Land"| Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne| 3:57

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## Personnel

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* Jane Monheit – vocals, vocal arrangement
* Kenny Barron – piano
* Bucky Pizzarelli – guitar
* Ron Carter – bass guitar
* Lewis Nash – drums
* David "Fathead" Newman – flute, tenor saxophone
* Hank Crawford – alto saxophone

Production

* Joel Dorn – producer
* Carl Griffin – executive producer
* Tom Shick – engineer, mixing
* Todd Parker – assistant engineer
* Gene Paul – mastering, mixing
* David Berkman – arranger
* Peter Eldridge – arranger[2]

## References

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1. ^ a b Adler, David R. "Never Never Land - Jane Monheit". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 February 2017.
2. ^ "Never Never Land". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 February 2017.

* v
* t
* e

Kenny Barron

Years given are for the recording(s), not first release,
unless stated otherwise.

Albums

leader

co-leader|

* You Had Better Listen (with Jimmy Owens, 1967)
* Sunset to Dawn (1973)
* Peruvian Blue (1974)
* In Tandem (and Ted Dunbar, 1975)
* Lucifer (1975)
* Innocence (1978)
* Together (and Tommy Flanagan, 1978)
* Golden Lotus (1980)
* Kenny Barron at the Piano (1981)
* Imo Live (1982)
* Spiral (1982)
* Green Chimneys (1983–87)
* 1+1+1 (1984)
* Autumn in New York (1984)
* Landscape (1984)
* Scratch (1985)
* The Red Barron Duo (and Red Mitchell, 1986)
* Two as One (and Buster Williams, 1986)
* What If? (1986)
* Live at Fat Tuesdays (1988)
* Rhythm-a-Ning (and John Hicks, 1989)
* Invitation (1990)
* Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Volume Ten (1990)
* The Only One (1990)
* Confirmation (and Barry Harris, 1991)
* Lemuria-Seascape (1991)
* The Moment (1991)
* Quickstep (1991)
* Sambao (1992)
* Other Places (1993)
* Wanton Spirit (1994)
* Swamp Sally (and Mino Cinelu, 1995)
* Things Unseen (1995)
* Live at Bradley's (1996)
* Live at Bradley's II (1996)
* Night and the City (and Charlie Haden, 1996)
* Spirit Song (1999)
* Canta Brasil (2000)
* Freefall (and Regina Carter, 2000)
* Images (2003)
* Super Standard (2004)
* The Traveler (2007)
* Minor Blues (2009)
* Kenny Barron & the Brazilian Knights (2012)
* The Art of Conversation (and Dave Holland, 2014)
* Book of Intuition (2015)
* Concentric Circles (2018)
* Without Deception (and Dave Holland, 2020)
* The Source (2023)
* Beyond This Place (2024)

Member of
Sphere|

* Four in One (1982)
* Flight Path (1983)
* Sphere On Tour (1985)
* Pumpkin's Delight (1986)
* Four for All (1987)
* Bird Songs (1988)

With
Bill
Barron|

* Modern Windows (1961)
* The Tenor Stylings of Bill Barron (1961)
* Hot Line (1962)
* West Side Story Bossa Nova (1963)
* Jazz Caper (1978)
* Variations in Blue (1983)
* Live at Cobi's 2 (1985)
* The Next Plateau (1987)

With
Ron
Carter|

* Pastels (1976)
* Yellow & Green (1976)
* Peg Leg (1977)
* Piccolo (1977)
* A Song for You (1978)
* Pick 'Em (1978)
* New York Slick (1979)
* Patrão (1980)
* Super Strings (1981)
* So What? (1998)

With
Stan
Getz|

* Voyage (1986)
* Anniversary! (1987)
* Serenity (1987)
* Bossas & Ballads – The Lost Sessions (1989)
* People Time: The Complete Recordings (1991)

With
Dizzy
Gillespie|

* Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963)
* Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1963)
* Something Old, Something New (1963)
* I/We Had a Ball (multiple leaders, 1964)
* Jambo Caribe (1964)
* The Cool World (1964)
* Charlie Parker 10th Memorial Concert (multiple leaders, 1965)
* The Melody Lingers On (1966)

With
Freddie
Hubbard|

* High Blues Pressure (1967)
* A Soul Experiment (1968–69)
* The Black Angel (1969)
* Sing Me a Song of Songmy (İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1970)
* Super Blue (1978)
* Outpost (1981)
* The Rose Tattoo (1983)

With
Yusef
Lateef|

* The Centaur and the Phoenix (arranger, 1960)
* The Gentle Giant (1970–71)
* Part of the Search (1971–73)
* Hush 'N' Thunder (1972)
* 10 Years Hence (1974)
* The Doctor Is In... and Out (1976)

With
James
Moody|

* Another Bag (1962)
* Comin' On Strong (1963)
* Moody and the Brass Figures (1966)
* The Blues and Other Colors (1968–69)
* Feelin' It Together (1973)

With
Buddy
Rich|

* The Last Blues Album Volume 1 (1974)
* Transition (and Lionel Hampton, 1974)
* Very Live at Buddy's Place (1974)
* Speak No Evil (released 1976)

With
others|

* Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein (Karrin Allyson, 2015)
* Live at the Blue Note (Franco Ambrosetti, 1992)
* Mustang (Curtis Amy, 1967)
* Old Bottles - New Wine (Ray Anderson, 1985)
* The Best Thing for You (Chet Baker, 1977)
* You Can't Go Home Again (Chet Baker, 1977)
* Studio Trieste (Chet Baker and Hubert Laws, 1982)
* Bad Benson (George Benson, 1974)
* Code Red (Cindy Blackman, 1990)
* The Oracle (Cindy Blackman, 1995)
* Shining Hour (Larry Coryell, 1989)
* Quicksand (Ted Curson, 1974)
* Continuum (Ray Drummond, 1994)
* Booker 'n' Brass (Booker Ervin, 1967)
* Tex Book Tenor (Booker Ervin, 1968)
* All That Jazz (Ella Fitzgerald, 1989)
* Awakening (Sonny Fortune, 1975)
* Two for the Blues (Frank Foster and Frank Wess, 1983)
* Frankly Speaking (Frank Foster and Frank Wess, 1984)
* Tiger in the Rain (Michael Franks, 1978)
* Man & Woman (George Freeman, 1974)
* Panorama: Live at the Village Vanguard (Jim Hall, 1996)
* Light and Lively (Louis Hayes, 1989)
* Una Max (Louis Hayes, 1989)
* The Gap Sealer (Albert Heath, 1972)
* Kwanza (The First) (Jimmy Heath, 1973)
* Now! (Bobby Hutcherson, 1969)
* In the Vanguard (Bobby Hutcherson, 1986)
* New Agenda (Elvin Jones, 1975)
* Time Capsule (Elvin Jones, 1977)
* The Bassist! (Sam Jones, 1979)
* We're Goin' Up (Eric Kloss, 1967)
* Jazz Nocturne (Lee Konitz, 1992)
* Number Two Express (Christian McBride, 1995)
* Brownie: Homage to Clifford Brown (Helen Merrill, 1995)
* Never Never Land (Jane Monheit, 2000)
* Peace and Rhythm (Idris Muhammad, 1971)
* A Time for Love (Arturo Sandoval, 2010)
* This Bud's for You... (Bud Shank, 1984)
* Solid (Woody Shaw, 1986)
* Kamau (Charles Sullivan, 1995)
* Pure Dynamite (Buddy Terry, 1972)
* A Bluish Bag (Stanley Turrentine, 1967)
* Jazz French Horn (Tom Varner, 1985)
* Listen Here (Roseanna Vitro, 1982)
* Natural Essence (Tyrone Washington, 1967)
* Two at the Top (Frank Wess and Johnny Coles, 1983)
* New York, New Sound (Gerald Wilson, 2003)

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