Janis Siegel

Janis Siegel ( born July 23, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York City ) is an American singer and is known as a member of the vocal quartet The Manhattan Transfer.

Life and work

Janis Siegel is a member of the Manhattan Transfer since 1972. From the early 1980s, she built parallel to a successful solo career. Her first solo album, Experiment in White, was published in 1981 and their second album, At Home was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Female Vocal Jazz category.

In 1985 Siegel along with Jon Hendricks, Bobby McFerrin and Dianne Reeves was a member of a group called Sing, Sing, Sing in the late 1980s began sealing a partnership with the pianist and composer Fred Hersch, with whom she modern songs by singer-songwriters such as Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye and other recorded. This was followed in 1994 Slow Hot Wind and 1999 The Tender Trap, which she recorded with renowned jazz musicians like Michael Brecker and Hank Crawford. The following year she moved to Telarc, where they brought out I Wish You Love and Friday Night Special in 2003.

On the album Sketches of Broadway, she took on their interpretations of lesser-known Broadway tunes. Except for Manhattan Transfer 's Siegel member of Bobby McFerrin 's group Voicestra.

Discography

  • Experiment in White (Atlantic, 1981)
  • Short Stories (Atlantic, 1989)
  • Slow Hot Wind (Varese / Sarabande, 1995)
  • The Tender Trap (Monarch, 1999) - with Russell Malone, Matt Wilson, Victor Lewis, Michael Brecker and Hank Crawford
  • I Wish You Love ( Telarc, 2002)
  • Friday Night Special ( Telarc, 2003) - with Joey DeFrancesco, and Houston Person
  • Sketches of Broadway ( Telarc, 2004)
  • Night Songs: A Late Night Interlude (2013 ), Dominick Farinacci with John di Martino and Martin Wind
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