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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Trickle Trickle
2. Gloria
3. Operator
4. Helpless
5. Ray's Rockhouse
6. Heart's Desire
7. Zindy Lou
8. Mystery
9. Baby Come Back to Me (The Morse Code of Love)
10. Route 66
11. Java Jive
12. Chanson d'Amour
13. Foreign Affair
14. Smile Again
15. Spice of Life
16. Speak up Mambo, The (Cuentame)
17. Soul Food to Go (Sina)
18. So You Say (Esquinas)
19. Boy From New York City
20. Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone
DISC 2:
1. Four Brothers
2. Blee Blop Blues
3. Candy
4. Gal in Calico, A
5. Love For Sale
6. On a Little Street in Singapore
7. Tuxedo Junction
8. That Cat Is High
9. Body and Soul
10. Meet Benny Bailey
11. Sing Joy Spring
12. To You
13. Down South Camp Meetin'
14. Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)
15. Why Not! (Manhattan Carnival)
16. Another Night in Tunisia - (with Bobby McFerrin)
17. Capim
18. Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, A
19. Birdland
Album Notes
From their origins as a retro-themed vocal-jazz quartet (the cover art features an Art Nouveau caricatured silhouette of the group) to their experiments with vocalese, Latin music, pop, and R&B, the Manhattan Transfer was an adventurous and distinctive outfit. Few groups in the 1970s and '80s kept the tradition of vocal jazz alive with as much talent and vitality as the Transfer, and this two-disc set features an excellent sampling of its work.
Naturally, there is plenty of the group's swing- and be-bop-influenced material (such as their simmering vocal interpretation of the Hendricks/Zawinul classic "Birdland"), so fans of that sound will not be disappointed. Comprehensive and well-compiled, this is a great introduction to the Manhattan Transfer's oeuvre, and is a must-buy for fans of vocal jazz.
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