title: Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers
text: # 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
  