The Symphony Sessions
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 3, 2006
RecordedMarch 3, 4, 6 & 7, 2006
GenreVocal jazz, pop
LabelRhino
ProducerTim Hauser
The Manhattan Transfer chronology
An Acapella Christmas
(2005)
The Symphony Sessions
(2006)
The Chick Corea Songbook
(2009)

The Symphony Sessions is the twenty-first studio album released by The Manhattan Transfer on October 3, 2006.[1]

Track listing

# Song title Composer/Songwriter Length
1 "Route 66" Bobby Troup 3:31
2 "Candy" Alex Kramer, Mack David, Joan Whitney 3:20
3 "Embraceable You" Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin 4:14
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 Maschwitz 5:25
6 "Because You Are All Heart" (Movement 2: A Portrait of Ella) Alan Paul, Billy Strayhorn 5:01
7 "To You" Jon Hendricks, Thad Jones 3:44
8 "Vibrate" Rufus Wainwright 4:30
9 "Clouds (Nuages)" Jon Hendricks, Django Reinhardt 6:47
10 "The Quietude" Chuck Jonkey, Alan Paul 6:55
11 "The Offbeat of Avenues" Cheryl Bentyne, Don Freeman, Ian Prince 4:24
12 "Birdland" Jon Hendricks, Joe Zawinul 6:11

Personnel

The Manhattan Transfer

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


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