When the Manhattan Transfer formed in October 1972, singer Janis Siegel says she and the other three singers in the vocal quartet initially kept their day jobs. “I was waitressing at the time, at the ...

Collectively ten-time GRAMMY® Award-winning vocal group The Manhattan Transfer celebrates its 50th anniversary with a new studio album, aptly titled Fifty, which is set for release on September 23 ...

This is the year of the swan song tour. Manhattan Transfer is among the many groups that’s on its final jaunt. The vocal group, which was founded in 1969 will be history by Christmas and that’s just ...

Janis Siegel, 10x Grammy-winning founder of THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER, released her new album THE ART OF VOCALESE on Origin Records, featuring jazz ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Janis Siegel is no stranger to jazz aficionados. A founding voice of the iconic vocal jazz group Manhattan Transfer, the 72-year-old singer, arranger and producer helped retire that ...

With more than a dozen Grammy Awards to its credit, the Manhattan Transfer delighted an opening day throng at the Napa Town & Country Fair Wednesday night. The quartet’s well-received Napa Valley ...

Nearly four decades after the ensemble began currying favor and earning kudos for its sophisticated mix of jazz, big band and pop music styles, the Manhattan Transfer showed a full house at Napa’s ...

The musicianship is breathtakingly good – their intricate close-harmony singing is stunning, the arrangements top-notch. And they make it look so easy, which it isn’t. Melodically, harmonically, ...

Snowfall; Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow; Santa Claus Is Coming To Town / Santa Man (Medley); The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire); Silent Night, Holy Night; Caroling, ...

The always-cool Manhattan Transfer today: Cheryl Bentyne, Trist Curless, Alan Paul and Janis Siegel. Credit: Photo by MAD Ink PR A few years before the 1976 movie Taxi Driver came out—complete with ...

If there’s any additional sentimental reason to favor the Transfer for a Grammy this year, it may just lie in the fact that the group is using the occasion of turning 50 to slow things down a bit ...