title: Bitter Ending
text: # Bitter Ending
  
  Bitter Ending is a recording of a work for eight voices composed by Andre Hodeir as commissioned by Ward Swingle. The work is performed by the Swingle Singers with a jazz quintet. This was the last work by Hodeir and is inspired by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Roger Guérin – trumpet
  * Pierre Gossez – saxophone
  * Jean-Louis Chautemps – saxophone
  * Jacques (Jacky) Cavallero – double bass
  * Marcel Sabiani – drums
  
  The Swingle Singers:
  
  * Christiane Legrand – soprano
  * Nicole Darde – soprano
  * Hélène Devos – alto
  * Claudine Meunier – alto
  * Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
  * Joseph Noves – tenor
  * Jean Cussac – bass
  * José Germain – bass
  
  ## References / external links
  
  * ↑ Hodeir, Andre and Pautrot, Jean-Louis. The André Hodeir Jazz Reader (Google Books link)
  * Epic 80544
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