Manhattan Transfer: Be-bopin' theTransfer Tradition
Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 6 September 1975
Manhattan Transfer don't like being classed as a nostalgia band, they feel they're urban folk singers, singing music of the ghetto. Jonh Ingham talks to the Transfer's Tim Hauser
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