The Offbeat Of Avenues was the twelfth album released by The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer is an American vocal music group. There have been two manifestations of the group, with Tim Hauser being the only person to be part of both...

 on August 13, 1991 on the Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

 label.

This album is the first of two albums for Columbia Records. This album is also the first Manhattan Transfer album where the majority of the songs were either written or co-written by the members of the group.

Awards

This album yielded the group a Grammy Award

Grammy Award

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, in the category of "Best Contemporary Jazz Performance" for the song Sassy. The lyrics for this song were written by Janis Siegel and Cheryl Bentyne; the music by composed by Janis Siegel and Bill Bodine.

Track listing

1. "The Offbeat of Avenues"
2. "Sassy"
3. "10 Minutes Till the Savages Come"
4. "What Goes Around Comes Around"
5. "Blue Serenade"
6. "Gentleman with a Family"
7. "Women in Love"
8. "A World Apart"
9. "Confide in Me"
10. "The Quietude (Encuentro De Animales)"
11. "Blues for Pablo"