This album presents a vocal jazz quartet singing tight harmonies in different styles - Featuring a swingin' rhythm section, blazing horns and a cappella numbers.

9 MP3 Songs
JAZZ: Jazz Vocals, LATIN: Brazilian Jazz

Details:
The Boston Globe calls Syncopation the âManhattan Transfer of the 21st Century,â and it is easy to see why. Like that legendary vocal group, Syncopation performs jazz and pop music that is both timeless and up-to-the-minute. These four young singer/musicians have performed across the U.S. at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, the Tri-C Vocal Jazz Festival, the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, the Meihou Music Festival, and the 2004 and 2006 International Association for Jazz Education Conferences in New York City. The group also regularly tours Japan.

The style of Syncopation includes bebop, latin, and pop influences. The group performs a cappella as well as with a band. Each of the four singers is also an instrumentalist and is occasionally featured playing trumpet, trombone, piano, and percussion.

Syncopation was formed in January of 2002 and mentored by Cheryl Bentyne of the Manhattan Transfer. Their first album, A New Dance, was released in 2003 and featured contributions from bebop trombone legend Phil Wilson, formidable jazz fusion trumpeter Tiger Okoshi, and Paul Stiller of the vocal group Vox One.

In 2004 the group signed a record contract with Geneon Entertainment in Japan, and their album Of Blue, recorded in Tokyo and featuring some of Japanâs hottest jazz musicians such as pianist Satoru âSaltâ Shionoya, was released in nationwide in Japan in November of that year.

On Syncopationâs 2008 album, Wonderful You, the group reinterprets pop songs from the past 30 years. R&B, soul, folk rock, fusion and electropop are transformed by jazz harmonies, rhythms and style. This recording features Syncopationâs touring band of Mark Shilansky (piano), Steve Langone (drums), and Greg Holt (bass).

Syncopation is

Aubrey Logan
Christine Fawson
David Thorne Scott
Tsunenori âLeeâ Abe

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