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The Swingle Singers are an internationally renowned vocal ensemble, known for their innovative and virtuosic approach to a diverse range of musical genres, from classical to jazz, pop, and contemporary styles. The group was originally formed in Paris in 1962 by French conductor and arranger Jeanette Baucomont, and initially billed as Les Swingle Singers. They were established as a vocal group that specialized in performing instrumental classical music in an a cappella style, giving complex orchestral compositions a distinctive choral twist.
Early Years and Founding (1962-1969)
Christmastime
Featuring the music of Swingle Singers
Duration: 31:51
This year's inductee is Christmastime by the Swingle Singers. First released by the Philips label in 1968, the album features the vocal group famous for singing notes and tones in counterpoint rather than lyrics. The a cappella group was formed by Ward Swingle in 1962 in France after his stretch as a member of Les Double Six, which included Mimi Perrin and Christiane Legrand, Michel Legrand's sister.
Known best for their interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque classical works, the Swingle Singers recorded this beautiful Christmas album in France with a jazz feel, produced and engineered by Pierre Fatosme. It's absolutely gorgeous, gentle and sophisticated with seasonal charm and grace.
Ennio Morricone: Fabled Hoard Of 1970s Library Music Reissued
by Chris May
Practically unobtainable since their release by RCA Italy in 1972, the ten albums which make up Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai's Dimensioni Sonore: Musiche Per L'Immagine E L'Immaginazione are being reissued by Dialogo on October 30 2020. The new release plugs a chasm in the availability of classic-era library music, which at its best is an ...
Various Artists: Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music
by Chris May
Library music--aka stock or production music--was first marketed in the 1920s, to be used by “picture palaces" showing silent movies. Its golden age came during the 1960s and 1970s, when it provided off-the-shelf incidental music for radio, television, film and advertising. Ever since Quentin Tarantino included recordings by one of that era's most prolific British library-music ...
Song Yi Jeon: Movement Of Lives
by Jerome Wilson
Song Yi Jeon is a vocalist from South Korea whose voice and music can be as ethereal as ectoplasm or as penetrating as a laser. She recalls the mystical flexibility of Sheila Jordan and the raucous improvisations of Patty Waters in her sound but comes up with her own brand of hypnotic beauty. On ...
Bill Cunliffe: A Day In the Life
by Tish Oney
Grammy award-winning arranger and pianist Bill Cunliffe has been on the cutting edge of large ensemble arranging and jazz trio performance for the past few decades. An avid composer, performer, film scorer, educator and author of several jazz piano books (and online workshops), Cunliffe is focusing his creative output these days around a few select projects. ...
Heather Cairncross: At Last
by Bruce Lindsay
At Last is named for singer Heather Cairncross' cover version of Harry Warren and Matt Gordon's classic love song, but it may equally well serve as an exclamation of relief. This is an album that Cairncross has been thinking about making for some years. In 2011, everything came together and Cairncross was finally able to record ...
Record-Busting 100+ Bassists Serenade Tivoli
by Fradley Garner
Record-Busting 100+ Bassists Serenade TivoliThe seeds were planted by Oscar Pettiford, the seminal American cellist and bassist who put down roots in Copenhagen in 1958, and by the homegrown virtuoso Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, who played his vintage Italian bass like the nimblest-fingered guitarist when he wasn't bowing like Giovanni Bottesini. In August, 2012, the ...
Mood Swings
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. So What
2. Surfboard
3. Insensatez
4. The Girl from Ipanema
5. Milonga del Angel
6. A Time for Love
7. A Timeless Place
8. What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
9. Have You Met Miss Jones?
10. My Funny Valentine
11. The Lady is a Tramp
12. Just One of Those Things
13. My Foolish Heart
14. All the Things You Are
15. It Don't Mean a Thing
16. Soul Bossa Nova
The Swingle Singers: Mood Swings
by Russell Moon
Ward Swingle is back. Swingle left The Double Six of Paris in 1963 to form his own vocal group, The Swingle Singers, which enjoyed success on both sides of the Atlantic. Forty years later, Swingle has assembled a group of eight (four women and four men) young and very talented singers to carry on.Mood ...
