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The Manhattan Transfer has also sung with many more “giants of the music business,” including Tony Bennett, Smokey Robinson, Bette Midler, Phil Collins, B.B. King, Chaka Khan, James Taylor, Laura Nyro, Ruth Brown, Boz Skaggs, Joe Zawinul, Stan Getz, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie and Frankie Valli of The Four Seasons.
The Manhattan Transfer closed out the decade by completing a ten-year sweep (1980-1990) as the “Best Vocal Group” in both the annual DownBeat and Playboy jazz polls.
The Manhattan Transfer This self-titled album is the first of four albums recorded by the second incarnation of The Manhattan Transfer: Tim Hauser, Janis Siegel, Alan Paul and Laurel Massé.
Tonin’ marked The Manhattan Transfer’s return to Atlantic Records. The term “tonin'” is associated with the vocal groups of the 1950’s and 1960’s and the songs here are favorites of the group from that era in time. The list of guest artists is impressive and lends an air of festivity to this wonderful collection of classic R&B songs.
Mecca For Moderns was the highest charting album for The Manhattan Transfer, peaking on Billboard’s Top Pop Album charts at #22. The album also helped The Manhattan Transfer make music history by becoming the first group to win Grammy Awards in both the pop and jazz categories in the same year.
2012 found Janis and her Manhattan Transfer partner Alan Paul representing America as teachers and judges for the very first online singing competition in China , “ ROCK THE WEB! ” The finals of this competition were televised from Beijing.