The Manhattan Transfer was an American vocal group founded in 1969 in

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, performing music genres like

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, Brazilian

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, swing,

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, and standards. They have won eleven

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. There have been several incarnations and formations of the Manhattan Transfer, with each edition having different styles. The first and original rendition was in the 1960s, consisting of a mostly a cappella-tinged style; it featured Tim Hauser, Erin Dickins, Marty Nelson, Pat Rosalia, and Gene Pistilli. The second version of the group, formed in 1972, incorporating a more vocal jazz approach, consisted of Hauser, Alan Paul,

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, 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 s ...

. The third, and most commercially perceived, formation of the group happened in 1979, because Massé had to leave the group after being badly injured in a car crash and was replaced by

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. This edition of the Manhattan Transfer performed electronic-styled pop, soul, funk, and rhythmic music, having success in the 1980s. The group's fourth edition, since the 1990s, originally consisted of Hauser, Paul, Siegel, and Bentyne, and performed mostly cool and

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. It also had several rotating touring members, and longtime pianist

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accompanied the group on tour and served as

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. 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 the novel by

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. The group consisted of Hauser, Erin Dickins, Marty Nelson, Pat Rosalia, and Gene Pistilli. This group made one album, ''

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'' ( Capitol, 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. Erin-Dickins-photo-by-Neal-Marshad

Shortly thereafter, Hauser met

while he was a cab driver and she was his passenger. Soon after, he met

. During this time, session drummer Roy Markowitz, who had played with

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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, Alan Paul (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

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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 The Manhattan Transfer was an American vocal group founded in 1969 in New York City, performing music genres like a cappella, Brazilian jazz, Swing music, swing, vocalese, rhythm and blues, Pop music, pop, and standards. They have won eleven G ...

'' (

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, 1975) eschewed the condescension of the previous album, presenting instead serious

renditions of " Java Jive" and "

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" and scoring a

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top 25 hit with the gospel-tinged "Operator." During the month of August 1975, the group hosted a four-week variety series on

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. 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 " Chanson d'Amour," which was a number one hit in the UK and Ireland.

Bentyne and "Birdland"

In 1978, Laurel Massé was in a car crash and dropped out of the group. She was replaced by

. 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

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'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

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 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group. Both of these songs appeared on the group's fifth album, '' Mecca for Moderns'' (Atlantic, 1981). In 1982, the group won another Grammy, for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group, for its rendition of "

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". The song was featured on the soundtrack to the

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film ''

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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

'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 ''

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''. 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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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 '' Tonin''' (a collection of R&B and popular successes from the 1960s), '' The Manhattan Transfer Meets Tubby the Tuba'' (a children's album), and their 1997 album '' Swing'' which covered 1930s-era swing music. Their final album for Atlantic was '' The Spirit of St. Louis'' 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 '' The Spirit of St. Louis''. In 2004, the group released '' Vibrate'', another one of their ''pastich'' albums, blending original tunes with older ones,

, jazz and

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. ''Vibrate'' featured notable musicians such as bassist Will Lee 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 Atlantic Records period. 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'', which was broadcast by PBS. '' The Chick Corea Songbook'', a tribute to the works of that American jazz musician, 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

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, Scott Kinsey, Steve Hass,

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, John Benitez, 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 Alan Paul 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 originally been slated for the '' Swing'' album.

Substitutes and fourth line-up

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Original member Pat Rosalia died from cancer in July 2011. 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

. In September 2013, one of the original members of the group, Erin Dickins, started a

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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. 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.

Retirement and final concert

The Manhattan Transfer performed their final concert on December 15, 2023, at the

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in Los Angeles.

Awards and honors

* 1980 "Birdland",

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, Janis Siegel * 1980 "Birdland",

* 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)", Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Performance, Duo or Group * 1982 "

", 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 ''

'', 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

Discography

Albums

Compilations *'' The Best of The Manhattan Transfer'' (Atlantic, 1981) – ARIA: Platinum * '' Anthology: Down in Birdland'' (Atlantic, 1992) CD* '' The Very Best of The Manhattan Transfer'' (Atlantic, 1994) * '' Boy from New York City and Other Hits'' (Flashback, 1997) * ''The Definitive Pop Collection'' (Rhino, 2005) CD

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 * ''

'' OST (1981): "

" *

, ''

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'' (Columbia, 1983): "Where the Moon Goes" * ''

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'' OST (1992): "

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" and "

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" * ''

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'' (1992): Sing " Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" and " It Came Upon The Midnight Clear" as part of a ''Tool Time'' Christmas special ("I'm Scheming Of A White Christmas", Season 2). * ''

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'' OST (1993): " Bei Mir Bist du Schön" was sung by Janis Siegel * Various artists, '' Tapestry Revisited: A Tribute to Carole King'' (Atlantic, 1995): " Smackwater Jack" *

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, '' A Pentatonix Christmas'' (RCA, 2016): " White Christmas"

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. There is also a Stand in the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure named: "Manhattan Transfer".

References

External links

Official site

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