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Vocalese by The Manhattan Transfer

Vocalese

Release Date: 7/20/1992

Recording Date: 1/1985

Tracks: 11

Length: 00:24:06 Hrs

Label: Atlantic

Type: CD,CS

Genre/Styles:
Pop/Rock, Jazz, Bop, Adult Contemporary, Vocalese, Vocal Jazz, Harmony Vocal Group

Album Tracks (11)

Song Title
Length
1.
That's Killer Joe
05:02
2.
Rambo
03:19
3.
Airegin
03:21
4.
To You
03:53
5.
Meet Benny Bailey
03:32
6.
Another Night in Tunisia
04:14
7.
Ray's Rockhouse
05:06
8.
Blee Blop Blues
03:01
9.
I Remember Clifford
03:45
10.
Sing Joy Spring
07:11
11.
Move
02:50

What the Critics Say

Many of the Manhattan Transfer's recordings up to the point of Vocalese showed off their diversity and covered a wide variety of music, including jazz. This set was quite a bit different, for it is dedicated to the vocalese of the great Jon Hendricks. The Manhattan Transfer (singers Cheryl Bentyne, Tim Hauser, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel) perform a dozen songs using Hendricks' lyrics, including "That's Killer Joe," "Rambo," "Ray's Rockhouse" and "Sing Joy Spring." Utilizing their regular band of the period (which includes guitarist Wayne Johnson), the Count Basie Orchestra (directed at the time by Thad Jones), the Four Freshmen (on "To You"), tenorman James Moody, Bobby McFerrin (guesting on "Night in Tunisia"), McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Gillespie (on "Sing Joy Spring"), altoist Richie Cole, and Hendricks himself, among many others, the Transfer give these boppish tunes definitive vocal treatments. This is one of their finest jazz recordings and a classic of its kind. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi

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