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Recorded
  
1966

Place Vendôme (1966)
  
Spanish Masters (1967)

Release date
  
1966

Genres
  
Jazz, Vocal

Length
  
37:07

Artist
  
The Swingle Singers

Label
  
Verve Records

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Place Vendôme (1966)
  
Live at the Lighthouse (1967)

Similar
  
The Swingle Singers albums, Other albums

Place Vendôme (released as Encounter in the U.S.A.) is an album released by the Swingle Singers performing with the Modern Jazz Quartet. The album was a 1967 Grammy award nominee.

Contents

All tracks from this album are also included on the Mercury compilation CD Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers and the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers.

Track listing

  1. "Sascha" (Little David's Fugue) (John Lewis) – 4:18
  2. "Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major," (aka "Air on the G String") BWV 1068 (J. S. Bach) – 5:41
  3. "Vendôme" (Lewis) – 3:32
  4. "The Musical Offering" (Musikalisches Opfer), for keyboard and chamber instruments, BWV 1079 (Bach) – 6:34
  5. "When I am Laid in Earth" (from Dido and Aeneas), soprano aria ("Dido's Lament") (Henry Purcell) – 5:05
  6. "Alexander's Fugue" (Lewis) – 4:53
  7. "Three Windows" (Lewis) – 7:10

Personnel

The Swingle Singers:

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

    • The Modern Jazz Quartet:

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

    • Songs

    1Little David's Fufue (Sascha)Modern Jazz Quartet4:19
    2Air for G String (J S Bach)Modern Jazz Quartet5:42
    3Vendome (J Lewis)Modern Jazz Quartet3:32

    References

    Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album) Wikipedia
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