Mecca for Moderns
The Manhattan Transfer - CD
- Artist: The Manhattan Transfer
- Format: CD
- Year: 1990
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 075678148224
- Item Number: RHI60362
- Release date: 03/06/1990
- 1. On the Boulevard
- 2. Boy from New York City
- 3. (Wanted) Dead or Alive
- 4. Spies in the Night
- 5. Smile Again
- 6. Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)
- 7. (Word Of) Confirmation
- 8. Kafka
- 9. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
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Mecca for Moderns by The Manhattan Transfer on CD
After the deserved artistic, critical and popular success of Extensions, the Manhattan Transfer went back to ace producer Jay Graydon for Mecca for Moderns, which almost matches its predecessor in its contemporary energy while drawing selectively from the past. Outstanding is the handclapping treatment of the 1965 rock tune "The Boy from New York City" (a number seven hit single) and the happily swinging vocalese of the Count Basie band's "Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)," although their version of Charlie Parker's difficult "Confirmation" isn't nearly as assured. There is also an ample dose of the inventive weirdness that invaded Extensions: the African/Caribbean "(Wanted) Dead or Alive," with its checklist of dictators, that segues right into a tongue-in-cheek secret agent spoof, "Spies in the Night"; or the ambitious, wordless composition "Kafka." No longer a mere nostalgia act, the Manhattan Transfer had not only caught up with the times, they were now slightly ahead of them as well. ~ Richard S. Ginell, Rovi
- Artist: The Manhattan Transfer
- Format: CD
- Year: 1990
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 075678148224
- Item Number: RHI60362
- Release date: 03/06/1990
- Label: Atlantic
- Genre: Pop/Rock, Vocal, Jazz
- Style: Bop, Adult Contemporary, Contemporary Jazz, Vocalese, Mainstream Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Harmony Vocal Group
- Album Time: 36:12
- An Acapella Christmas
- An Acapella Christmas
- Bodies and Souls
- Bop Doo-Wopp
- Boy from New York City & Other Hits
- Brasil (Import)
- Coming Out
- Couldn't Be Hotter
- Extensions
- Man-Tora!: Live in Tokyo
- Manhattan Transfer Live [1978]
- Only the Best of the Manhattan Transfer
- Spirit of St. Louis
- Swing (Import)
- The Anthology: Down in Birdland (Import)
- The Definitive Pop Collection
- The Manhattan Transfer (Import)
- The Manhattan Transfer Live
- The Symphony Sessions
- The Very Best of the Manhattan Transfer
- Tonin'
- Vibrate
- Vocalese (Import)
- Composers:
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Performers:
- Don Roberts - Wind
- Tom Scott - Horn
- Abraham Laboriel - Bass
- Al Viola - Guitar
- Alan Paul - Vocals
- Alex Acuna - Percussion
- Andy Novell - Drums
- Cheryl Bentyne - Vocals
- David Foster - Keyboards
- Dean Parks - Guitar
- Greg Mathieson - Synthesizer, Keyboards
- Janis Siegel - Vocals
- Jay Graydon - Synthesizer, Guitar
- Jerry Hey - Trumpet
- Jon Hendricks - Vocals
- Michael Baird - Drums
- Michael Boddicker - Keyboards
- Milcho Leviev - Keyboards
- Richie Cole - Saxophone
- Steve Gadd - Drums
- Steve George - Synthesizer
- Steve Lukather - Guitar
- Tim Hauser - Vocals
- Victor Feldman - Percussion, Keyboards
- Yaron Gershovsky - Piano
- Credits:
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