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Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers

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Released
  
1987

Length
  
60:24

Release date
  
1987

Recorded
  
1965-1967

Artist
  
The Swingle Singers

Label
  
Mercury Records

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The Swingle Singers albums, Other albums

Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers is a compilation album of previously released tracks from 3 Philips Swingle Singers recordings: Place Vendôme (a.k.a. Encounter) (7 tracks / complete), Getting Romantic (a.k.a. Les Romantiques) (6 tracks) and Spanish Masters (a.k.a. Sounds of Spain) (3 tracks).

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Air for G String" (Bach) – 5:37
  2. "Zortzico" (Albéniz) – 2:05
  3. "Scherzo" ("Sonata op. 24 for violin and piano") (Beethoven) – 1:11
  4. "Three Windows" (John Lewis) – 7:09
  5. "Aranjuez" (after the "Adagio", 2nd movement of the Concierto de Aranjuez) (Vidre) – 4:18
  6. "When I am Laid in Earth" ("Dido's Lament") (Purcell) – 5:03
  7. "Tango in D Major" (No. 2 from "España" op. 165) – 2:12
  8. "Etude Op. 25 No. 2" (Chopin) – 1:27
  9. "Vendome" (Lewis) – 3:31
  10. "Le Marche de Limoges" ("Pictures at an Exhibition") (Mussorgsky) – 1:23
  11. "Little David's Fugue" ("Sascha") (Lewis) – 4:15
  12. "Andante" (Quartet op. 44 no. 1) (Mendelssohn) – 3:28
  13. "Ricercare à 6" (from "The Musical Offering") (Bach) – 6:29
  14. "Romance Espagnole" ("Jeux Interdits" / "Spanish Romance") (anonymous) – 2:34
  15. "Alexander's Fugue" (Lewis) – 4:50
  16. "Little Prelude and Fugue" ("Album for the Young") (Schumann) – 2:09

Personnel

The Swingle Singers:

  • Christiane Legrand – soprano
  • Jeanette Baucomont – soprano
  • Claudine Meunier – alto
  • Alice Herald – alto
  • Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
  • Claude Germain – tenor
  • Jean Cussac – bass
  • José Germain – bass

    • Rhythm section:

  • Daniel Humair – drums
  • Guy Pedersen – double bass

    • The Modern Jazz Quartet:

  • John Lewis – piano
  • Milt Jackson – vibraphone
  • Percy Heath – double bass
  • Connie Kay – drums

    • Songs

    1Air for G String5:39
    2Zortzico2:06
    3Scherzo1:13

    References

    Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers Wikipedia
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