Album of the Day

Emerging from New York City in the early 1970s, The Manhattan Transfer brought the sublime elegance of jazz vocals to a pop audience, winning armloads of awards and selling millions of records along the way. The quartet - Tim Hauser, Alan Paul, Janis Siegel and Laurel Massé, later replaced by Cheryl Bentyne – produced a string of sophisticated releases for Atlantic, the cream of which can be heard on THE VERY BEST OF THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER. The 16 tracks here include all the quartet's Billboard-charting singles (among them “Operator,” “Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone” and Top 10 “Boy From New York City”) along with Grammy-winners like “Birdland” and “Route 66.” Man Tran singer Alan Paul was born on this day in 1949; we'll cue up Rhino's THE VERY BEST OF compilation to wish him a happy birthday.