The 2005
Philips boxed set
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, ''Swingle Singers'' is a compilation of all eleven of the Paris-based
Swingle Singers
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' recordings made for Philips between 1963 and 1972. Ten of the eleven disks included in this boxed set had also been re-issued previously by Philips (Emarcy) in five "two-fer" compilation sets over the preceding five years.
Contents
* Disk 1: ''
Jazz Sébastien Bach'' a.k.a. ''Bach's Greatest Hits'' (1963)
* Disk 2: ''
Jazz Sébastien Bach Vol. 2'' a.k.a. ''Back to Bach'' (1968)
* Disk 3: ''
Noëls Sans Passeport'' a.k.a. ''Christmastime'' (1968)
* Disk 4: ''
Going Baroque / de Bach aux Baroques'' (1964)
* Disk 5: ''
Swinging Mozart'' a.k.a. ''Anyone for Mozart?'' (1965)
* Disk 6: ''
Les Romantiques'' a.k.a. ''Getting Romantic'' (1965)
* Disk 7: ''
Swingling Telemann'' a.k.a. ''Rococo Á Go Go'' (1966)
* Disk 8: ''
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'' a.k.a. ''The Joy of Singing'' (1972)
* Disk 9: ''
Sounds of Spain: Concerto d'Aranjuez'' a.k.a. ''Spanish Masters'' (1967)
* Disk 10: ''
American Look
''American Look'' is a 1969 album by the Swingle Singers on the Philips Records label. All tracks from this album are also included on the 11 disk Philips boxed set, ''Swingle Singers''.
Track listing
Country Dances (invention for vocal ense ...
'' (1969)
* Disk 11: ''
Place Vendôme'' a.k.a. ''Encounter'' (1966)
Personnel
The Swingle Singers = 8 voices: 2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors and 2 basses (accompanied by only a drummer and double bassist
[except on 1966's ''Place Vendôme'' with the Modern Jazz Quartet])
*
Christiane Legrand – soprano
* Jeanette Baucomont – soprano (1963–1968)
* Nicole Darde – soprano (1969–1972)
* Claudine Meunier – alto
* Anne Germain – alto (1963–1965)
[except 1965's ''Les Romantiques'']
* Alice Herald – alto (1965–1966)
* Hélène Devos – alto (1967–1972)
*
Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
* Claude Germain – tenor (1963–1966)
* Joseph Noves – tenor (1967–1972)
*
Jean Cussac – bass
* Jean Claude Briodin – bass (1963–1964)
* José Germain – bass (1965–1972)
Rhythm section:
* Andre Arpino –
drums
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(1963)
* Gus Wallez – drums (1963–1964)
* Daniel Humair – drums (1965–1968)
* Bernard Lubat – drums (1968)
* Roger Fugen – drums (1969–1972)
* Pierre Michelot –
double bass (1963)
* Guy Pedersen – double bass (1964–1968)
* Jacky Cavallero – double bass (1969–1972)
The
Modern Jazz Quartet
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(on ''Encounter'' / ''Place Vendôme'' only):
*
John Lewis –
piano
*
Milt Jackson
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–
vibraphone
*
Percy Heath – double bass
*
Connie Kay – drums
Notes
References
* Philips 9826325
* ''Swingle Singers'' info at
Allmusic.com including
complete track listing
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