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Rags and All that Jazz

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Released
  
1975

Release date
  
1975

Genre
  
A cappella

Artist
  
The Swingle Singers

Label
  
Columbia Records

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Producer
  
Ward Swingle & Terry Edwards

Rags and All that Jazz' (1975)
  
Lovin' You Words and Music Vol. 2 (1976)

The Swingle Singers albums
  
Words & Music, Love Songs for Madrigals, Spanish Masters, Swingle Singers

Rags and All that Jazz is the third album by the London-based Swingle II singers released in 1975 on the CBS label. All tracks from this album were also included in the 2009 Sony Classical compilation, Swing Sing. The original Paris-based The Swingle Singers recorded regularly for Philips in the 1960s and early 1970s and the successor London-based group (Swingle II) continued to record, for Columbia/CBS, Virgin Classics and other record labels from 1974 to the present.

Contents

Track listing

  • All lyrics by Tony Vincent Isaacs

    • Side 1

    1. "Hotshot” (Scott Joplin) - 2:25
    2. "The Wanderer (Solace)" (Scott Joplin) - 3:45
    3. "Movie Star (Kansas City Stomp)” (F. ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton) - 2:10
    4. "In a Mist" (Leon ‘Bix’ Beiderbecke) - 4:25
    5. ”Mr. Superman (Elite Syncopations)” (Scott Joplin) - 2:12

    Side 2

    1. "Alligator Crawl" (Thomas ‘Fats’ Waller) - 3:00
    2. "Heliotrope Bouquet” (Scott Joplin) - 2:48
    3. "Chicago Breakdown” (F. ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton) - 3:20
    4. "Grandpa’s Spells" (F. ‘Jelly Roll’ Morton) - 1:48
    5. "Weeping Willow" (Scott Joplin) - 3:48

    Singers

  • Olive Simpson & Catherine Bott – sopranos
  • Carol Hall & Linda Hirst – mezzo sopranos
  • John Potter & Ward Swingle – tenors
  • John Lubbock & David Beavan - basses

    • Musicians

  • Patrick Gowers – keyboards
  • Allan Walley – bass guitar and double bass
  • Tony McVey - drums

    • Production

  • Arrangements and adaptions: Ward Swingle
  • Producers: Ward Swingle & Terry Edwards
  • Engineer: Steve Taylor
  • Album art direction: Roslav Szaybo (CBS Records)
  • Album design/montage: Keith Davis

    • References

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