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–winning vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored
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, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music. There have been two editions of the Manhattan Transfer, with
Tim Hauser Timothy DuPron Hauser (December 12, 1941 – October 16, 2014) was a singer and founding member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer. He won 10 Grammy Awards as a member of The Manhattan Transfer. Early life Hauser was born in Troy, New Y ...
the only person to be part of both. The first group consisted of Hauser, Erin Dickins, Marty Nelson, Pat Rosalia, and Gene Pistilli. The second version of the group, formed in 1972, consisted of Hauser,
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,
Janis Siegel Janis Siegel (born July 23, 1952) is an American jazz singer, best known as a member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer. Musical career In 1965, Siegel made her recording debut with a group called Young Generation on Red Bird Records. A ...
, and
Laurel Massé Laurel Massé (born December 29, 1951) is an American jazz singer and former member of The Manhattan Transfer. Career Massé was born in Holland, Michigan, grew up in Westchester County, New York, and lived in Europe during her teens. Early in ...
. In 1979, Massé left the group after being badly injured in a car accident and was replaced by Cheryl Bentyne. The group's long-time pianist, Yaron Gershovsky, accompanied the group on tour and served as music director. Trist Curless from the Los Angeles a cappella group
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became a permanent member in October 2014 following Hauser's death.


Early years

In 1969, Tim Hauser formed a vocal group in New York City called The Manhattan Transfer after
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. The group consisted of Erin Dickins, Marty Nelson, Pat Rosalia, and Gene Pistilli. This group made one album, ''
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'' (
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, 1971), which looked at the jazz music of the past as well as rock and country genres unlike the later incarnations of the group. They were not picked up by Capitol Records for a second album, and the group broke up in 1973. Shortly thereafter, Hauser met
Laurel Massé Laurel Massé (born December 29, 1951) is an American jazz singer and former member of The Manhattan Transfer. Career Massé was born in Holland, Michigan, grew up in Westchester County, New York, and lived in Europe during her teens. Early in ...
while he was a cab driver and she was his passenger. Soon after, he met
Janis Siegel Janis Siegel (born July 23, 1952) is an American jazz singer, best known as a member of the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer. Musical career In 1965, Siegel made her recording debut with a group called Young Generation on Red Bird Records. A ...
. During this time, session drummer Roy Markowitz, who had played with Janis Joplin, and recorded with
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, attended a performance of the group and convinced Tim to change the group's direction. Roy was in the Broadway band of '' Grease'' and introduced one of its cast members,
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(who played the
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of bandleader Johnny Casino and the Teen Angel), to Tim. Thus began another version of The Manhattan Transfer. After performing in clubs in New York City, the quartet asked Roy to produce a demo to present to Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records. The demo was a success and Atlantic released its debut album with guest appearances by bona fide jazz musicians
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, Jon Faddis, and
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. '' The Manhattan Transfer'' (
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, 1975) lacked the condescension of the previous album, presenting instead serious
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renditions of "
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" and scoring a Hot 100 top 25 hit with the gospel-tinged "Operator." During the month of August 1975, the group hosted a four-week variety series on CBS-TV. The hour-long show was simply called ''The Manhattan Transfer'', aired on Sunday evenings, and for the most part concentrated on showcasing the talents of the group. Their next album, ''
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'' (1976), produced "
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," which was a number one hit in The U.K. and Ireland.


Bentyne and "Birdland"

In 1978, Laurel Massé was in a car accident and dropped out of the group. She was replaced by Cheryl Bentyne. The group's next album, ''
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'' (Atlantic, 1979), produced the hit "Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone", a song based on the TV series ''
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'' (including an impersonation of Rod Serling's narration from Alan Paul). ''Extensions'' featured a cover version of " Birdland", an instrumental by the jazz fusion group
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, with lyrics by
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of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross. One of the most popular jazz recordings of 1980, "Birdland" won the
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, while Janis Siegel won the Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement. In 1981, the Manhattan Transfer made music history by becoming the first group to win Grammy awards for both popular and jazz categories in the same year. " The Boy from New York City", a cover of the 1965 success by
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, reached the Top 10 on the Hot 100 and won them the award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)" earned them a
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. Both of these songs appeared on the group's fifth album, ''
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'' (Atlantic, 1981). In 1982, the group won another Grammy, for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group, for its rendition of " Route 66". The song was featured on the soundtrack to the
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''.


Stretching out

In September 1983, the group released the album '' Bodies and Souls,'' with an urban-contemporary style which resulted in two R&B chart singles. The first was the No. 2 hit "Spice of Life", which was co-written by former
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member
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who had penned several hits for
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. The single also reached No. 40 on the US pop chart and No. 19 in the UK. The other single, the ballad "Mystery" (#80 R&B, No. 102 Pop), was later covered by
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on her 1986 album ''Rapture''. In 1985, the group released two albums; the first was '' Bop Doo-Wopp'', which included both live and studio recordings, and the second was ''
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'', which received twelve Grammy nominations—at the time making it second only to
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's '' Thriller'' as the most nominated single album ever. The group won in two categories: Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group, and Best Arrangement for Voices. This was followed by a live recording of many of these songs titled '' Live''. This concert, recorded in Japan, was also released on VHS and DVD, later titled ''Vocalese Live''. For their next album, ''
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'' (1987), the group headed south to work with
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ian songwriters and musicians
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,
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, Djavan and
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. ''Brasil'' won a Grammy for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. The group did not release any studio albums again until 1991, when they signed with the
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label and released '' The Offbeat of Avenues'', featuring original material written or co-written by members of the quartet. Their efforts brought them their 10th Grammy award, for the song "Sassy". This was followed by the release of their first holiday album entitled '' The Christmas Album'' in 1992. Switching back to
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as their distributor, they released ''
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'' (a collection of R&B and popular successes from the 1960s), ''
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'' (a children's album), and their 1997 album '' Swing'' which covered 1930s-era swing music. Their final album for Atlantic was ''
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'' in 2000, dedicated to the music of
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. The group was inducted into the
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in 1998.


Since 2000

The group signed to the
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label in 2003 to release '' Couldn't Be Hotter'', a live performance capturing many of the songs from ''
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''. In 2004, the group released ''
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'', another one of their "pastiche" albums, blending original tunes with older ones, pop, jazz and funk. ''Vibrate'' featured notable musicians such as bassist
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and Steve Hass on drums. They also released, first in Japan, their second holiday album, '' An Acapella Christmas'', in 2005. The album was released in the U.S. in 2006. During 2006, the group released '' The Symphony Sessions'', a collection of some of their best known songs re-recorded with an orchestra, and also ''The Definitive Pop Collection'', a two-disc collection of the group's material from their time with Atlantic Records. They also recorded their first original title song for a movie, "Trail of the Screaming Forehead"; and, in late 2006, the group released a new concert DVD, ''The Christmas Concert'', and was broadcast by PBS. ''
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'', a tribute to the works of American jazz musician Chick Corea, was released in September 2009. The album features an appearance by Corea himself on the track "Free Samba". Other prominent musicians on this recording are Airto Moreira,
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, Steve Hass,
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, and
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. In 2011, The Manhattan Transfer worked on an album of previously recorded, but never finished, songs to honor their 40th anniversary. "We are working on a project now that is called ''The Vaults''. Over the years, there are a lot of different songs that we recorded but never finished. We pull out from the archives a lot of these songs and are finishing them," said
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in an interview for Jazz FM radio in Bulgaria. One of the highlights of the album was a vocalese version of George and Ira Gershwin's " The Man I Love," based on an
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and his orchestra performance of the composition, which had been slated for the '' Swing'' album.


Substitutes and fourth line-up

In 2011, while receiving treatment for
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, Cheryl Bentyne was replaced on stage for eight months by the soprano Margaret Dorn; Dorn replaced her again December 2013 (followed by Katie Campbell in early 2014) while Bentyne underwent further treatment. Tim Hauser was absent from the stage in 2013 and early 2014 as he recovered from spinal surgery; he was replaced on stage by bass/baritone Trist Curless of the a cappella group
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. In September 2013, one of the original members of the group, Erin Dickins, started a Kickstarter campaign to re-record "Java Jive" with the surviving original members. It featured Tim Hauser's scat musings, as well as a vocal arrangement by Marty Nelson, sung by Dickins, Nelson, Hauser and Gene Pistilli. The project was successfully funded on October 9, 2013 and released on the CD ''Java Jive'' on Dot Time Records. Original member Pat Rosalia died from cancer in July 2011. Tim Hauser died of cardiac arrest on October 16, 2014. Following Hauser's death, the group announced Curless would replace him. Gene Pistilli died on December 26, 2017.


Awards and honors

* 1980 "Birdland",
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, Janis Siegel * 1980 "Birdland",
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* 1981 "Boy from New York City",
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* 1981 "
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", Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices,
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* 1981 "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)",
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* 1982 " Route 66", Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group * 1983 "Why Not! (Manhattan Carnival)", Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group * 1986 ''
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'', Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group * 1986 "Another Night in Tunisia", Grammy Award for Best Vocal Arrangement for Two or More Voices,
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and Cheryl Bentyne, performed by The Manhattan Transfer * 1989 ''
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* 1992 "Sassy", Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Performance, Instrumental * 1998
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Discography


Albums


Singles


Guest/soundtrack appearances

* '' Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo'' OST (1979): "Johnny," "Jealous Eyes," "I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" Conducted by Frank Barber/ Produced by Tim Hauser * ''
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'' OST (1992): "
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" and "
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" * ''
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'' (1992): Sing "
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" and "
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" as part of a ''Tool Time'' Christmas special ("I'm Scheming Of A White Christmas", Season 2). * '' Swing Kids'' OST 1993 " Bei Mir Bist du Schön" was sung by Janis Siegel * '' Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King'' (1995) (Tribute Album) they sing "
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" * " White Christmas",''
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'' (2016) they sing with Pentatonix '


In other media

"Chanson d'Amour" was featured in ''
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'', performed by all the staff of Grace Brothers department store in the final episode of the long running sitcom.


References


External links


Official site


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