The Manhattan Transfer: Trist Curless, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel and Cheryl Bentyne
The Eisemann Center Presents continues its 2023-2024 season with Grammy Award-winning quartet The Manhattan Transfer’s 50th Anniversary Final Tour on Thursday, Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the Hill Performance Hall, 2351 Performance Drive in Richardson. The quartet will be joined for the concert by The DIVA Jazz Orchestra.
With their recording debut in 1975, The Manhattan Transfer was primarily known as an East Coast cult act, But their popularity quickly expanded their following the group starred in its own CBS-TV variety series in 1975. Now as the Grammy Award-winning vocal group celebrates its 50th anniversary, singers Trist Curless, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel and Cheryl Bentyne look back on a career that has spanned genres from pop to jazz to rock and roll and more.
In 1981, The Manhattan Transfer became the first group ever to win Grammys in both pop and jazz categories in the same year — Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for “Boy From New York City” and Best Jazz Performance for Duo or Group for “Until I Met You (Corner Pocket).” The dozen Grammy nominations they received for their Vocalese album in 1985 were second to Michael Jackson’s Thriller as the most nominated album in one year.
The Manhattan Transfer has been inducted into the East Coast Music Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame and has been nominated 20 times overall for Grammy Awards and has won 10 of the coveted awards. The group. With FIFTY, its current release from Concord/Craft Recordings, the group has earned its 21st Grammy nomination, this one for “Best Jazz Vocal Album.”
Tickets range from $62-$82 and are available at EisemannCenter.com online and by calling the Eisemann Center Ticket Office at 972-744-4650. Group discounts are available for 10 or more persons.
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— Tammye Nash
