The Colors of My Life: A Cy Coleman Songbook

NEW YORK CITY: When The Manhattan Transfer performed its final concert at Los Angeles’ Walt Disney Concert Hall last December, the event brought to a close one of the most storied chapters in vocal jazz history. Several months later, founding member Janis Siegel described her mindset as, “a kind of mourning,” while pianist and longtime musical director Yaron Gershovsky admitted to a deep sense of sadness.

Not that the pair was at a loss for the next step on their musical journeys. Over drinks at the bar following a Transfer concert several years earlier, Siegel and Gershovsky discovered that both had worked with the revered songwriter Cy Coleman – Gershovsky as the vocal arranger for the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical City of Angels, Siegel as part of the all-star vocal ensemble for Coleman’s final collaboration with lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman at the Kennedy Center.

That conversation soon evolved into a full-fledged project: The Colors of My Life: A Cy Coleman Songbook, available now from the Club44 label, features the duo’s spirited interpretations of ten favorite Coleman compositions!

Come welcome Janis and Yaron to our show!