Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers
# Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers

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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 (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).

## Track listing

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

* Daniel Humair – drums
* Guy Pedersen – double bass

The Modern Jazz Quartet:

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

## References / external links

* ↑ Allmusic review
* 1 2 3 Arranged by John Lewis
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Arranged by Ward Swingle
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 tracks from Place Vendôme
* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 tracks from Getting Romantic
* 1 2 3 4 tracks from Spanish Masters
* Mercury 830-701-2
* Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers at Allmusic.com
