The Junction | ||||
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Released | March 30, 2018 | |||
Studio | Leapyear Studio, Los Angeles | |||
Genre | Crossover jazz | |||
Label | BMG Rights Management | |||
Producer | Mervyn Warren | |||
The Manhattan Transfer chronology | ||||
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The Junction is the twenty-third studio album by The Manhattan Transfer, released on March 30, 2018. This is their first album in nine years since their last album; The Chick Corea Songbook .
It was the first album by the group to feature Trist Curless on bass following the death of Tim Hauser in 2014. [2]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Cantaloop (Flip Out!)" | Herbie Hancock, Rahsaan Kelly, Mel Simpson, Geoff Wilkinson | 4:43 |
2. | "Swing Balboa (Down on Riverside)" | Don Breithaupt, Alan Paul | 3:11 |
3. | "The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul" | Andy Partridge | 3:49 |
4. | "Blues for Harry Bosch" | Cheryl Bentyne, Grace Kelly | 4:24 |
5. | "Shake Ya Boogie" | Adam Dorn, Janis Siegel, Mervyn Warren | 4:23 |
6. | "Sometimes I Do" | Mervyn Warren | 4:54 |
7. | "Ugly Man" | Rickie Lee Jones | 4:48 |
8. | "The Junction" | Trist Curless, Christopher Harrison, Mervyn Warren | 4:56 |
9. | "Tequila/The Way of the Booze" | Daniel Flores, Alan Paul | 3:04 |
10. | "The Paradise Within (Paradise Found)" | Les Baxter, Alan Paul | 5:00 |
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