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RIP Tim Hauser
Oct. 21st, 2014 03:31 pmThe obituaries are here:
LA Times
The Guardian
He founded the Manhattan Transfer in both its iterations. I have loved their music since I was 13.
Their album Vocalese is one of my favorites. One day, while working in Germany, I came back from lunch and found the cassette of Vocalese in my in-box. I asked my colleagues who had left it (there were five desks in the office), and no one had seen anyone near my desk. I asked in every other office if anyone had lost it, and no one had. I consider it a gift from the gods (or whatever). I went home and listened and melted into the lush music.
I saw them live three times, and there was never a bad performance. Their music is tremendous, but it was his vision and, in the early days, his arrangements that made them what they are.
LA Times
The Guardian
He founded the Manhattan Transfer in both its iterations. I have loved their music since I was 13.
Their album Vocalese is one of my favorites. One day, while working in Germany, I came back from lunch and found the cassette of Vocalese in my in-box. I asked my colleagues who had left it (there were five desks in the office), and no one had seen anyone near my desk. I asked in every other office if anyone had lost it, and no one had. I consider it a gift from the gods (or whatever). I went home and listened and melted into the lush music.
I saw them live three times, and there was never a bad performance. Their music is tremendous, but it was his vision and, in the early days, his arrangements that made them what they are.
