Swingle Singers (Philips boxed set)

Swingle Singers
Compilation album by The Swingle Singers
Released 2005
Recorded 1963-1972
Length ~5 hours 30 minutes
Label Philips
Swingle Singers,... ("two-fer" re-issue series)
Compilation album
Released 2000 - 2005
Recorded 1963 - 1972
Length ~5 hours (~1 hour per 2 CD release)
Label Philips / Emarcy

The 2005 Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers is a compilation of all eleven of the Paris-based Swingle Singers' 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

Personnel

The Swingle Singers = 8 voices: 2 sopranos, 2 altos, 2 tenors and 2 basses (accompanied by only a drummer and double bassist[1])

Rhythm section:[1]

The Modern Jazz Quartet (on Encounter / Place Vendôme only):

Notes / references

  1. 1 2 except on 1966's Place Vendôme with the Modern Jazz Quartet
  2. except 1965's Swinging Mozart
  3. except 1965's Les Romantiques
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