Live performance @ The Blue Note Tokyo Japan, 2009. Gary Wicks (Bass) Steve Hass (Drums) Dr. Adam Hawley (Guitar) Yaron Gershovsky (Keys/MD) Tim Hauser (V) Alan Paul (V) Cheryl Bentyne (V) Janis Siegel (V)
I have not heard anything much for decades to leap over this high standard, for quality, fun, control, presentation, musicianship and the most actively, positively classy fun.
Oh! This is My big memories ... Because ... I met them in there... and got their messages, had big conversations with them... I love them forever...thanks big present for me...
Bugger me i think i have become a manhattan transfer fan.....cant get enough of them and it all started by hearing on a little street in singapore on the local radio,great stuff.
Yes Indeed. I do remember and appreciate the great tune Birdland composed by the great Joe Zawinul for Weather Report from 1967. This performance by the Manhattan Transfer in Birdland, Tokyo is truly amazing. In honor of April Jazz Appreciation Month, the Westside Community Band will perform this classic tune in concert on Sunday April 23 at Mt. Saint Joseph University Theater at 2 PM.
I was watching Soul Train in 1984 with my two boy cats, and I had to have this song. I jumped in my car, go to the record store and sure enough they have a copy of it. I got my new record album and the boys and I have a good time listening to it
@@waytoobiased it's a cover in the sensé that this is a tune composed and played by Weather report originaly. So they're covering the song But yes of course it's a live show here
Fantastic! I've never had the chance to see them perform live, and though I hope to at some point, I wish it would be with the entire group. May Tim always rest in peace.
Hass is a monster. Wicks and Hawley are right there too. The only part of this that feels good is 2:41-2:53 where there is no singing. What a groove. Why are you people talking about how fat they are? They're not obese or anything. Beside's they're in their 70s and late 80s. It's incredible that they can still perform. All things considered, this is one of their better live videos on YT.
I first became aware of Manhattan Transfer with their first rendition of this Weather Report's classic on a Seattle Radio station. I could not help but drop everything I was doing and immediately danced. Not long afterward, I purchased a cassette tape of the recording, eventually wearing it out. This 2011 performance is the closest vocally to its first performance by the MT. Manhattan Transfer: Birdland ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uUh0dV6cDEw.html
the choice of the tempo is a little too fast, the result gives an effect of tensed, not relaxed. Otherwise, bravo, it is excellently respected and interpreted.
What did the artists do different back in the day thats different now where todays artists need autotune and have to a prerecorded track u have singers in their 60s and 70s that will blow younger singers away why is that?
I LOVE QJ but what does he have to do with that song? (It sounds somewhat like him, true) It was composed by Austrian Jazz hero Joe Zawinul and originally performed by his band Weather Report; look it up here on YT. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdland_(song))
