Laurel Massé Fan Site: New photos in my web of laurel!

TOUR

February 4th 7:00 PM JaLaLa Laurel Massé , Janis Siegel & Lauren Kinhan at Gerald Veasley's Jazz Base$20.00Reading, PA(610)777-2310http://geraldveasleysjazzbase.com/

February 7th 2:30 PM JaLaLa at The Towne Crier Cafe $25.00130 Route 22Pawling, NY(845)855-1300http://www.townecrier.com/

February 6th JaLaLa at Jazz on the Vine Long Island Winter Festhttp://www.discoverlongisland.com/

February 26th 9:45 PM
February 27th 7:30 PM
Wendy Lane Bailey at The Metropolitan Room
with Michele Brourman
Music Director &
Laurel Massé
Special Guest
$2034 West 22nd St.New York, NY 10010(212)206-0440http://www.blogger.com/www.metropolitanroom.com

March 1st 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Wendy Lane BaileyatBlues Alley
with Michele Brourman
Music Director &
Laurel Massé
Special Gues
t$251073 Wisconsin Ave. NWWashington, DC 20007(202)337-4141http://www.bluesalley.com/

Saturday March 20th11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Words & Music: A Master Class for Singers
Taught By Laurel Masse' & Wendy Lane Bailey
With Tex Arnold
Edison Valley Playhouse$1652196 Oaktree RoadEdison, NJ 08820(646)831-0359parkroadmanagement@verizon.net

Laurel Massé, founding member of Grammy award-winning vocal group Manhattan Transfer, toured internationally for seven years with the group and recorded five albums. In 1979, a serious automobile accident forced her departure. After two years of convalescence, she began touring again both in the States and in Europe. She has released four solo CDs. The first two, Alone Together and Easy Living, both hit the Billboard Jazz charts; the third, Again, was a People magazine pick. Feather and Bone, her 2000 release, was picked by audiophile magazine The Absolute Sound as "a recording of extraordinary musical and sonic value". In 2002 she released Ballads.

COMING OUT/BRITISH BPI GOLD LP AWARD 1977

Coming Out sold millions of copies in Europe, where a single from the album, "Chanson D'Amour," hit #1 in France and in England, a chart-topper on both sides of the English Channel. On the strength of "Chanson D'Amour," the Manhattan Transfer toured Europe again, including a show at the MIDEM music business convention in Cannes. In a 1977 interview, Alan Paul remembered how that song was chosen and recorded. "The song was written in 1957. We'd been recording all day and we hadn't gotten that far. Just as we were about to leave, Laurel shouted, 'Hey wait a minute, I've got an idea.' She used an Edith Piaf sound in her voice and we recorded it in one take. She wanted to get a romantic French feel behind it."

Because of the lack of rehearsal time to learn new material, the Manhattan Transfer mined their catalog for over 30 different songs during the show's four-week run - they went through all their recorded material, the stuff that hadn't been recorded yet, enough music to record a new studio album every Sunday night. "We didn't want to get picked up for another season," said Tim, "because we knew that we couldn't do another season. These shows are put together in a week, and this is why television is what it is.

Pastiche (Atlantic 19163), lived up to its name - a mixture of various musical styles and genres. By this time, the Manhattan Transfer were experimenting with more open voicings and less block harmony, adding new depth to their vocal precision. Between Pastiche's list of Cole Porter and Duke Ellington songs, the Manhattan Transfer collaborated for the first time with JonHendricks, the vocal jazz legend and one-third of the Lambert, Hendricks and Ross vocal jazz group. The collaboration, "Four Brothers," was originally written by Jimmy Giuffre for Woody Herman's Second Herd. For this song, the Manhattan Transfer replicated - using only their voices and Jon Hendricks' lyrics - the melodies of Zoot Sims, Stan Getz, Herbie Steward and Serge Chaloff, Woody Herman's sax section.

Pastiche sold well in Europe, but could climb no higher than #66 on the American album charts. Tim, Alan, Janis and Laurel toured Europe, playing concerts in support of Pastiche, and listening to different music in anticipation of using some new ideas for a new album. "We had just come back from Europe," said Alan, "we were in Europe for a couple of months touring, and we were scheduled to open in the Roxy Theater in Los Angeles, and we had all these new ideas and things that we wanted to present to the public."

The Manhattan Transfer re-emerged as a four-piece, with Janis Siegel (alto), Laurel Massé (soprano), and Alan Paul (tenor), who found each other in a series of happy accidents. Tim Hauser was driving a cab at the time, and picked up passenger Laurel Masse; they got to talking. Tim met Janis Siegel through a drummer acquaintance. Janis had been performing at the Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene with a group called "Laurel Canyon." Alan Paul had been appearing in the musical "Grease!" (Laurel's boyfriend was a musician in the production, and referred him).

Laurel Massé Fan Site

30.6.09

New photos in my web of laurel!

LAUREL'S FAN CLUB

TOUR

FOUR BROTHERS

Laurel with the transfer's in the recording studios

LAUREL MASSÉ CONCERTS AND EVENTS

Laurel Massé - Metropolitan Room, NYC, NY - January 26, 2008 - Review

GHXPORT :: a digital download store for independent artists

European Tour - 1978

New web for Laurel !

Cabaret Conference at Yale University

JON BURR SESSION

Laurel Massé and Julie Gold

LAUREL MASSÉ, 2006 MAC AWARD NOMINEE - Photo by David Sokol.

LAUREL MASSÉ

THE 2004 MAC AWARDS

Laurel Massé,Rebecca Luker and Danny Burstein

Laurel Massé

LAUREL'S VIDEOS

Chicago Tribune

LAUREL MASSÉ WITH MARILYN MAYE

ALAN,JANIS,LAUREL,CHERYL AND TIM IN CONCERT

LINKS

Birdland

Musical Mallorca 1977

Musical Mallorca 1978

VIDEO/HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS CAFE

VIDEO/ LAUREL MASSE

VIDEO/THAT CAT IS HIGH

VIDEO/SUNDAY

VIDEO/GIVE ME SOME SKIN

Coming Out nº1 in Europe

COMING OUT/BRITISH BPI GOLD LP AWARD 1977

FEATHER AND BONE

Laurel Massé "One of the few perfect voices of her generation"

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER WITH LAUREL MASSÉ

THE CABARET CONFERENCE AT YALE UNIVERSITY~2006

PURCHASE IN LAURELMASSE.COM

LINKS

Manhattan Transfer en los estudios de grabación

Esta noche...fiesta

THE CABARET CONFERENCE AT YALE UNIVERSITY~2005

The Manhattan Transfer Show

The Manhattan Transfer Show/CBS TV

Janis Siegel,Laurel Massé and Lauren Kinhan

The Manhattan Transfer

THE LAUREL MASSÉ SHOW

Entrada

PASTICHE

Pastiche Nº10 in UK and nº 1 in Norway

Laurel Massé

THE BEGINNINGS

THE MANHATTAN TRANSFER WITH LAUREL MASSÉ

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Datos personales

"SHE HAS A MARVELOUS SENSE OF STYLE,A PURITY OF TONE DAZZLING".