Taking a Chance on Love (2004 Jane Monheit album)

Infobox Album | Name = Taking a Chance on Love
Type = Album
Artist = Jane Monheit


Released = flagicon|USA September 7, 2004
Recorded = Mar 13, 2004-May 10, 2004
Genre = Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Pop Standards
Length =
Label = Sony Classical
Producer = Peter Asher
Al Schmitt
RIAA =
Chart =
Reviews =
*USA Today Rating|3|5 ^{[http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/reviews/2004-09-06-listen-up_x.htm]}
*People Magazine Rating|4|5 ^{[http://www.janemonheitmusic.com/]}
*Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Rating|2.5|5 ^{[http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/living/music/jazz/s_251933.html]}
*Down Beat p.65(Oct 2004) Rating|4|5 ^{[http://www.janemonheitmusic.com/]}
* All About Jazz Italy Rating|3|5 ^{[http://www.allaboutjazz.com/italy/reviews/r0205_002_it.htm]} |Last album = "Live at the Rainbow Room"
(2003)
This album = "Taking a Chance on Love"
(2004)
Next album = "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 "" 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.

Track listing

#"Honeysuckle Rose"
#"In the Still of the Night"
#"Taking a Chance on Love"
#"Bill"
#"I Won't Dance" (duet with Michael Bublé)
#"Too Late Now"
#"Why Can't You Behave?"
#"Do I Love You?"
#"I Should Care"
#"Love Me Or Leave Me"
#"Embraceable You"
#"Dancing in the Dark"
#"I Wish I Were in Love Again"
#"Over the Rainbow"

*Tracks 9, 13, bonus tracks on Asian edition.
*Track 14, bonus track

Chart positions

"Billboard" (North America)