Janis Siegel - The Art of Vocalese
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
7:00 PM
Dizzy's Club
Broadway at 60th Street, New York, NY 10019
$24
Scheduled
About This Event
Janis Siegel, a multiple Grammy winner best known for her long tenure with The Manhattan Transfer, brings her program "The Art of Vocalese" to Dizzy's Club. The set traces the practice of fitting lyrics to improvised instrumental lines and relies on Siegel's close‑harmony background and studio‑level precision; phrasing and blend are calibrated to match the contours of the original improvisations, favoring clarity and rhythmic exactness.
About The Art of Vocalese
At Dizzy’s Club, Janis Siegel brings her long New York performance history into focus with an evening devoted to vocalese, the jazz practice of setting lyrics to improvised instrumental lines. Best known for her work with The Manhattan Transfer, she traces how this technique translates horn phrasing, breath, and rhythmic nuance into language without flattening the music’s swing. The program functions as a brief oral history of a distinctly American jazz craft, shaped in clubs like these. Siegel’s approach is analytical, and that clarity is part of the point.
About the Artists
Janis Siegel - The Art of Vocalese
Janis Siegel is an American jazz vocalist and multiple Grammy winner, widely known for her long tenure with The Manhattan Transfer. At New York City’s Dizzy’s Club, she brings a working musician’s attention to vocalese, the practice of setting lyrics to established instrumental solos and lines.
Janis Siegel
Janis Siegel is an American jazz vocalist known for her long-running work with the vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, with additional credits as a solo and ensemble singer. In New York City she appears at Dizzy’s Club, where her program “The Art of Vocalese” traces the practice of fitting lyrics to improvised instrumental lines.