''Vibrate'' is the nineteenth studio album by

The Manhattan Transfer The Manhattan Transfer is a Grammy award–winning vocal group founded in 1969 that has explored a cappella, vocalese, swing, standards, Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and pop music. There have been two editions of the Manhattan Transfer, ...

. It was released on September 28, 2004 on Telarc International Corporation. The album is available in three formats: Super Audio CD, CD, and MP3 download.

Track listingCD packaging

# "Walkin' in N.Y." (

Brenda Russell Brenda Russell (née Gordon; born April 8, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, producer, and keyboardist. Russell has a diverse musical range which encompasses R&B, pop, soul, dance, and jazz. She has received five Grammy nominations. Li ...

) - 3:55 # "Greek Song" ( Rufus Wainwright) - 4:43 # "Vibrate" (Rufus Wainwright) - 4:30 # "The New JuJu Man (Tutu)" (

Marcus Miller William Henry Marcus Miller Jr. (born June 14, 1959) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for his work as a bassist. He has worked with trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Herbie Hancock, singer Luther Vandros ...

, Jon Hendricks) - 5:43 # " Doodlin'" ( Horace Silver) - 5:26 # "The Twelfth" (John Yano) - 4:13 # "First Ascent" (Billy Hulting,

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, Alan Paul) - 5:31 # "Core of Sound" (Modinha) ( Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Alan Paul) - 4:58 # "Feel Flows" ( Jack Rieley,

Carl Wilson Carl Dean Wilson (December 21, 1946 – February 6, 1998) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter who co-founded the Beach Boys. He was their lead guitarist, the youngest sibling of bandmates Brian and Dennis, and the group's ''de ...

) - 5:09 # "

Embraceable You "Embraceable You" is a jazz standard song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named ''East Is West''. It was published in 1930 and included in that year's Broadway m ...

" ( George Gershwin,

Ira Gershwin Ira Gershwin (born Israel Gershovitz; December 6, 1896 – August 17, 1983) was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs in the English language of the 2 ...

) - 4:11 # " Come Softly to Me / I Met Him on a Sunday" (Gretchen Christopher, Barbara Ellis, Gary Troxel /

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, Addie "Micki" Harris, Beverly Lee, Gary Troxel) - 4:39

Personnel

The Manhattan Transfer *

Cheryl Bentyne Cheryl Bentyne (born January 17, 1954) is a jazz singer who spent much of her career with The Manhattan Transfer. Early years Bentyne started singing at age 13 with her father's Dixieland and swing band. Following graduation from Mount Vernon Hi ...

– vocals * Tim Hauser – vocals * Alan Paul – vocals * Janis Siegel – vocals Musicians * Yaron Gershovsky – acoustic piano (1, 2, 5, 10, 11), keyboards (1, 2, 5), additional keyboards (4) *

Héctor del Curto Héctor del Curto is an Argentine tango bandoneon player. Born in Buenos Aires, he began to study tango music at a young age, winning the Best Bandoneon under 25 when only 17 years old. Following that honour, he played with the late tango gian ...

– bandoneon (3) * Gil Goldstein – electric piano (4, 9), acoustic piano (7, 8),

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed ...

s (9) * John Yano – instrumental programming (6), guitars (6) * Thomas Baraka DiCandia – lead guitar (2), guitar (9) * Fats Kaplin – acoustic guitar (2),

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

(2) * Doug Livingston –

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

(2) *

Ramesh Mishra Ramesh Mishra ( hi, रमेश मिश्रा, surname also spelled Misra) (Varanasi, India, 2 October 1948 - New York, U.S., 13 March 2017) was an Indian sarangi player. Mishra comes from a family of sarangi players and studied from an ...

– sarangi (2) * John Pizzarelli – acoustic guitar (8), guitar (9) * Will Lee – bass (1, 2, 8, 9), fretless bass (4, 7) * Richie Goods – acoustic bass (3, 5), bass (6, 11) *

Steve Hass Steve Hass (born May 11, 1975) is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Island Park, New York, born to Greek immigrant parents from Athens. He is notable for his technical skill, time feel, and his musical versatility, hav ...

– drums (1, 2, 4-7, 9, 11), cowbell (1),

hi-hat A hi-hat (hihat, high-hat, etc.) is a combination of two cymbals and a pedal, all mounted on a metal stand. It is a part of the standard drum kit used by drummers in many styles of music including rock, pop, jazz, and blues. Hi-hats consist o ...

(2), tambourine (2), loop programming (4), additional percussion (11) * Frank Colón – percussion (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11) * Billy Hulting – percussion (7), marimba (7), vibraphone (7) * Svet Stoyanov –

bass marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

(7) * Lew Soloff – trumpet (1, 4) * Dave Eggar – cello (3, 8, 10) * Lois Martin – viola (3, 10) * Joyce Hammann – 1st violin (3, 10) * Laura Seaton – 2nd violin (3, 10)

References / Sources

The Manhattan Transfer Official Website
The Manhattan Transfer albums 2004 albums Telarc Records albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub