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Music > Albums > Janis Siegel - I Wish You Love (2006) Retail CD
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Vocalist Janis Siegel is a member of the world-famous Manhattan Transfer, but she has also released several satisfying records as a solo artist. I Wish You Love features Siegel paying tribute to the New York hit-making institution of the 50s and 60s known as the Brill Building, and to female singers. A top-flight band accompanies Siegel, including pianist Cedar Walton, tenor saxophonist and flautist David "Fathead" Newman and trumpeter Tom Harrell. The singer and her soulfully syncopated crew work their magic by recasting tunes such as the Barry Mann-Cynthia Weil gem "Just a Little Lovin'" and Toni Fisher's "The Big Hurt". Siegel's sophisticated and sensitive vocals also do justice to Dakota Staton's "The Late, Late Show", Etta Jones's "Don't Go to Strangers" and Nancy Wilson's "(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over". Throughout this project, Siegel unveils her own distinctive voice in a number of genres from mainstream swing and ballads to doo-wop. --Eugene Holley Jr

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