Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album)

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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

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.

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

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