Jane Scheckter
Sustained Cabaret Artistry

A 1996 Bistro Award winner and a five-time MAC award nominee, Jane Scheckter was praised by Stephen Holden of The New York Times for her “bright clear voice with a brassy edge and a luscious, rounded vibrato, meticulous phrasing, a sultry lower register…and she swings!” 

She has played at major New York venues, including Birdland, the Metropolitan Room, and the Iridium, and with Jazz at Lincoln Center in Rose Hall. She sings regularly in jazz clubs in Paris and on the Cote d’Azur.

Of her five CDs, two were recorded with Mike Renzi, her accompanist of 12 years, along with Jay Leonhart and Grady Tate. Her first CD, I’ve Got My Standards, had critics cheering her “Ella-styled artistry” (DownBeat) and welcoming “A brilliant star” (Daily News). Her fourth CD, Easy to Remember, with jazz all-stars Leonhart, Bucky Pizzarelli, Harry Allen, and Warren Vaché, was hailed as “easily the finest songbook album of the year” by the website Jazzwax. Tedd Firth, Scheckter’s accompanist for the past 25 years, arranged and plays piano on her latest CD, I’ll Take Romance, which also features Leonhart, Vaché, and Peter Grant. Nicolas King duets with Jane for this album, on the Gershwins’ “Isn’t It a Pity?” 

Scheckter is a native of Springfield, MA, and a graduate of Pratt Institute. Before launching a career in singing, she appeared in the comedy group The Proposition with Jane Curtin and, for a year, in a Los Angeles–based improv group with Robin Williams. She sang backup on Barry Manilow’s first album and recorded innumerable national jingles. singjanesing.com.