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).
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Released | 1987 |
Recorded | 1965–1967 |
Genre | Vocal jazz |
Length | 60:24 |
Label | Mercury |
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
Track listing
- "Air for G String" (Bach) [2][3][4] – 5:37
- "Zortzico" (Albéniz) [3][5] – 2:05
- "Scherzo" ("Sonata op. 24 for violin and piano") (Beethoven) [3][5] – 1:11
- "Three Windows" (John Lewis) [4] – 7:09
- "Aranjuez" (after the "Adagio", 2nd movement of the Concierto de Aranjuez) (Vidre) [6] – 4:18
- "When I am Laid in Earth" ("Dido's Lament") (Purcell) [2][4] – 5:03
- "Tango in D Major" (No. 2 from "España" op. 165) [6] – 2:12
- "Etude Op. 25 No. 2" (Chopin) [3][5] – 1:27
- "Vendome" (Lewis) [4] – 3:31
- "Le Marche de Limoges" ("Pictures at an Exhibition") (Mussorgsky) [3][5] – 1:23
- "Little David's Fugue" ("Sascha") (Lewis) [4] – 4:15
- "Andante" (Quartet op. 44 no. 1) (Mendelssohn) [3][5] – 3:28
- "Ricercare à 6" (from "The Musical Offering") (Bach) [2][4] – 6:29
- "Romance Espagnole" ("Jeux Interdits" / "Spanish Romance") (anonymous) [3][6] – 2:34
- "Alexander's Fugue" (Lewis) [4] – 4:50
- "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
- Daniel Humair – drums
- Guy Pedersen – double bass
- John Lewis – piano
- Milt Jackson – vibraphone
- Percy Heath – double bass
- Connie Kay – drums
References / external links
- Mercury 830-701-2
- Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers at Allmusic.com
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