Vocalese is the ninth studio album by Jazz band The Manhattan Transfer, released on September 3, 1985 on Atlantic Records. Recording sessions took place...

Vocalese is a style of jazz singing in which words are added to an instrumental soloist's improvisation. Vocalese uses recognizable lyrics that are sung...

was sung by The Manhattan Transfer on their 1985 Vocalese album, and by Bobby McFerrin on his 1986 album Spontaneous Inventions. The complex ostinato bass...

woman's part sung by Blossom Dearie. The song helped to popularize the vocalese jazz singing style. It has since been covered by many artists. Moody himself...

conversation between Lee Morgan and Rudy Van Gelder going over Morgan's solo. A vocalese version of "Moanin'" was later written by Jon Hendricks and recorded by...

an American jazz lyricist and singer. He is one of the originators of vocalese, which adds lyrics to existing instrumental songs and replaces many instruments...

City, performing music genres like a cappella, Brazilian jazz, swing, vocalese, rhythm and blues, pop, and standards. They have won eleven Grammy Awards...

the vocalese version on the album and Janis Siegel received a Grammy for her vocal arrangement of "Birdland". The New York Times wrote that the album "carries...

influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She pioneered the vocalese style of jazz singing, with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a...

language. Kidjo often uses Benin's traditional Zilin vocal technique and vocalese. Kidjo was born in Ouidah, French Dahomey, in what is now Benin. Her father...