The Symphony Sessions is the twenty-first studio album released by The Manhattan Transfer on October 3, 2006.[ All Music Guide entry]
Track listing
# Song title Composer/Songwriter Length1"Route 66" Bobby Troup 3:31 2"Candy" Alex Kramer, Mack David, Joan Whitney3:20 3"Embraceable You" Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin4:14 4"That's the Way It Goes" Raoul Cita, George Goldner, D. Parker 2:41 5"A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" Manning Sherwin, Eric Maschwitz5:25 6"Because You Are All Heart" (Movement 2: A Portrait of Ella) Alan Paul, Billy Strayhorn 5:01 7"To You"Jon Hendricks, Thad Jones3:44 8"Vibrate" Rufus Wainwright4:30 9"Clouds (Nuages)" Jon Hendricks, Django Reinhardt 6:47 10"The Quietude" Chuck Jonkey, Alan Paul6:55 11"The Offbeat of Avenues" Cheryl Bentyne, Don Freeman, Ian Prince4:24 12"Birdland" Jon Hendricks, Joe Zawinul 6:11
Personnel
The Manhattan Transfer Cheryl Bentyne – vocals, vocal arrangements (11) Tim Hauser – vocals, vocal arrangements (4) Alan Paul – vocals, vocal arrangements (6, 10) Janis Siegel – vocals, vocal arrangements (2, 6, 12)
Musicians and Arrangements Yaron Gervoshsky – grand piano, musical director, orchestral arrangements (6), orchestra director (6, 12) John B. Williams – bass Steve Hass – drums David Glasser – saxophone Scott Kreitzer – saxophone Cliff Lyons – saxophone Roger Rosenberg – saxophone Andy Snitzer – saxophone Randy Andos – trombone Michael Boschen – trombone Birch Johnson – trombone Jimmy Hynes – trumpet Robert Millikan – trumpet Dave Stahl – trumpet Scott Wendholt – trumpet Prague Symphony Orchestra – orchestra Corey Allen – orchestra director (1–5, 7–12), orchestral arrangements (3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11) Billy Byers – orchestral arrangements (1, 2) Charles Calello – orchestral arrangements (4) Gil Goldstein – orchestral arrangements (8) Joe Roccisano – orchestral arrangements (12) Al Capps – vocal arrangements (1) Fred Thaler – vocal arrangements (2) Gene Puerling – vocal arrangements (3, 5, 9) Dick Reynolds – vocal arrangements (7) Roger Treece – vocal arrangements (8) Ian Prince – vocal arrangements (11)
Production Tim Hauser – producer, mastering Corey Allen – orchestra producer (1–5, 7–12) Yaron Gervoshsky – orchestra producer (6, 12) Susumu Morikawa – executive producer Manfred Knoop – tracking engineer Hans Nielsen – orchestra engineer Michael Eric Hutchinson – vocal engineer, mixing, mastering Tom McCauley – additional engineer Tom Swift – additional engineer Takekazu Honda – A&R Lenka Dudova – assistant administration Juraj Durovic – orchestra management Kiyoshi Osada – artwork Junichi Yamashita – artwork coordinator Joan Allen – photography Michael Davenport – manager Juraj Durovic – orchestra manager Merlin Company – management company
Studios Recorded at Knoop Music (River Edge, New Jersey); Big Surprise Music (Encino, California); Smecky Music Studios (Czech Republic).
References
External links The Manhattan Transfer Official Website