Janis Siegel – Booked for a private event

Appearing with:

Edsel Gomez, piano

Drew Gress, bass

Steve Hass, drums

As one of the founding members of vocal jazz legends The Manhattan Transfer, Janis Siegel’s voice has become part of the fabric of everyday life for most of us. The sheer ubiquity of this group’s output over the past 37 years has led to nine Grammy awards and seventeen nominations. Siegel’s unmistakable voice is not only one of the group’s most recognizable trademarks, her vocal arrangements have been featured on several of the Transfer’s greatest recordings.  In 1999 she and her Manhattan Transfer colleagues were awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Berklee School of Music, and they were (unsurprisingly) in the first class to be inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame.

Siegel has maintained a parallel solo career as well, recording nine excellent albums and performing regularly in solo and collaborative capacities.  Her second release, At Home, was nominated for a Grammy award in 1987.  Her subsequent recordings have been very different in style, but have been lauded equally by fans and media alike.  While her style can be considered “jazz” at all times, Siegel is a wonderfully dynamic performer.  Some of her favorite musical moments have come while working with Turkish composer Ilhan Mimaroglu and the Beaux Arts String Quartet, and she has performed at Alice Tully Hall with Nadja Solerno-Sonnenberg and the Concordia Orchestra.

Regardless of the musical path she takes when she hits the stage, rest assured that this evening with an American musical institution will be a special one.