Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers

Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers
Compilation album by The Swingle Singers
Released	1987
Recorded	1965-1967
Length	60:24
Label	Mercury
Alternative cover / title
Universal (Japan) release

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

Track listing

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

• Daniel Humair – drums
• Guy Pedersen – double bass

The Modern Jazz Quartet:^[4]

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

References / external links

1. ^ Allmusic review
2. ^ ^{a b c} Arranged by John Lewis
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} Arranged by Ward Swingle
4. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} tracks from Place Vendôme
5. ^ ^{a b c d e f g} tracks from Getting Romantic
6. ^ ^{a b c d} tracks from Spanish Masters

• Mercury 830-701-2
• Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers at Allmusic.com