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Jazz Sebastian Bach
''Jazz Sebastian Bach'' is a compilation album/re-issue of music by the Paris-based Swingle Singers. It combines the tracks from two previous releases: * Tracks 1–13 from the 1963 album ''Bach's Greatest Hits'', also known as ''Jazz Sébastien Bach Volume 1. * Tracks 14–23 from the 1968 album ''Back to Bach'', also known as ''Jazz Sébastien Bach Volume 2''. Track listing All compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, J.S. Bach #"Fugue in D Minor" from The Art of the Fugue – 2:14 #"Prelude for Organ Chorale No 1" – 2:38 #"Aria" from Suite No 3 in D – 3:17 #"Prelude No 12 in F Minor" from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (WTC II)" – 2:12 #"Bourrée II" from The English Suite No 2" – 1:44 #"Fugue No 2 in C Minor" (WTC I) – 1:16 #"Fugue No 5 in D" (WTC I) – 1:38 #"Prelude No 9 in E" (WTC II) – 3:19 #"Sinfonia" from The Partita No 2 – 4:54 #"Prelude No 1 in C" (WTC II) – 1:56 #"Canon" – 1:53 #"Two Part Invention No 1 in C" – 1:22 #"Fugue No 5 in D" (WTC II) â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swingle Singers
270px, The Swingles at the Black Forest Voices Festival in Kirchzarten, Germany">Kirchzarten.html" ;"title="Black Forest Voices Festival in Kirchzarten">Black Forest Voices Festival in Kirchzarten, Germany on 29 June 2019 The Swingles are a vocal group formed in 1974 in England by Ward Swingle. The group replaced Swingle's earlier "Swingle Singers", formed in 1962 in Paris, France, with Anne Germain, Claude Germain, Jeanette Baucomont, Christiane Legrand, Claudine Meunier, Jean-Claude Briodin, and Jean Cussac. History The French group, directed originally by Ward Swingle (who once belonged to Mimi Perrin's French vocal group Les Double Six), began as session singers mainly doing backing vocals for singers such as Charles Aznavour and Edith Piaf. Christiane Legrand, sister of Michel Legrand, was the original lead soprano with the group. The ensemble sang some jazz vocals for Michel Legrand. The eight session singers sang through Bach's '' Well-Tempered Clavier'' as a sight-r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiane Legrand
Christiane Legrand (21 August 1930 – 1 November 2011) was a French soprano. Biography Legrand was born in Paris. Her father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned for hits such as ''Irma la douce'', and her mother was Marcelle Ter-Mikaëlian (sister of conductor Jacques Hélian), who married Legrand in 1929. Her maternal grandfather was of Armenian descent and considered a member of the bourgeoisie.Biography of Michel Legrand , Radio France Internationale, Retrieved 26 December 2009. Legrand studied piano and classical music from the time she was four. Jazz critic and composer discovered her in 1957, and she became the lead singer in the most notabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Swingle Singers Albums
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Drumkit
A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks, one in each hand, and uses their feet to operate a foot-controlled hi-hat and bass drum pedal. A standard kit may contain: * A snare drum, mounted on a stand * A bass drum, played with a beater moved by a foot-operated pedal * One or more tom-toms, including rack toms and/or floor toms * One or more cymbals, including a ride cymbal and crash cymbal * Hi-hat cymbals, a pair of cymbals that can be manipulated by a foot-operated pedal The drum kit is a part of the standard rhythm section and is used in many types of popular and traditional music styles, ranging from rock and pop to blues and jazz. __TOC__ History Early development Before the development of the drum set, drums and cymbals used in military and orchestral musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four, although occasionally five, strings. The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along with violins, viola, and cello, ''The Orchestra: A User's Manual'' , Andrew Hugill with the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the , and is featured in concertos, solo, and |
Jean Cussac
Jean Cussac (born 31 May 1922) is a French baritone and music director. Biography Born in Paris, Jean Cussac studied lyrical singing at the Conservatoire de Paris, and subsequently turned to jazz and joined The Swingle Singers at their creation in 1962, alongside , Jeanette Beaucomont, Christiane Legrand, , Claude and José Germain. Together, they recorded many albums and received several awards including the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1964 and the ''Grand Prix du disque'' of the Académie Charles-Cros. Also in 1964 he was chosen to be the singing voice of the prince during the redubbing of ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. After this he worked regularly with Walt Disney Pictures as a singer. His contributions included ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'', ''The Sword in the Stone (1963 film), The Sword in the Stone'', ''Mary Poppins (film), Mary Poppins'', ''The Jungle Book (1967 film), The Jungle Book'' and ''Pinocchio (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ward Swingle
Ward Lamar Swingle (September 21, 1927 – January 19, 2015) was an American vocalist and jazz musician who founded The Swingle Singers in France in 1962. Life and career Born in Mobile, Alabama, Swingle studied music, particularly jazz, from a very young age. He learned clarinet, oboe and the piano as a child. He played in Mobile-area big bands before finishing high school. Swingle continued his music studies at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1950. He also met a French-born violin student, Françoise Demorest, and the couple married in 1952. Swingle then moved to France in 1951 on a Fulbright scholarship, where he studied piano with Walter Gieseking and also worked as a rehearsal pianist for ''Les Ballets de Paris''. In 1959, he was a founding member of Les Double Six of Paris, which specialised in scat singing of jazz standards. Swingle subsequently applied the scat singing idea to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard works such as the '' Goldberg Variations'' and '' The Well-Tempered Clavier''; organ works such as the '' Schubler Chorales'' and the Toccata and Fugue in D minor; and vocal music such as the '' St Matthew Passion'' and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach revival he has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music. The Bach family already counted several composers when Johann Sebastian was born as the last child of a city musician in Eisenach. After being orphaned at the age of 10, he lived for five years with his eldest brother Johann Christoph, after which he continued his musical education in Lüneburg. From 1703 he was back in Thuringia, working as a musician for Protest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vocal Jazz
Vocal jazz or jazz singing is an approach to jazz using the voice. Vocal jazz emerged in the early twentieth century, with its roots in Blues. Popular blues singers such as Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey had a great deal of influence of jazz vocalists such as Billie Holiday. Other characteristics of vocal jazz such as scat singing came out of the New Orleans jazz tradition. Louis Armstrong's 1926 recording of "Heebie Jeebies" is often cited as the first modern song to employ scatting. This later evolved into the complex vocal improvisation of the bop era that was adopted by Anita O'Day, Sarah Vaughan, Betty Carter, and Dizzy Gillespie. The Boswell Sisters were a vocal jazz trio originating from New Orleans that help popularize vocal jazz music among the general American public during the 1930s. Repertoire of vocal jazz typically includes the music of the Great American Songbook, however contemporary popular music is now often arranged for vocal jazz ensembles in addition to origina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back To Bach
''Back to Bach'' (released as ''Jazz Sébastien Bach, Vol. 2'' in France) is a 1968 album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers. All tracks from this album are also included on the CD re-issue / compilation, ''Jazz Sebastian Bach'' (combined with all tracks from 1963's Bach's Greatest Hits, ''Bach's Greatest Hits'' a.k.a. ''Jazz Sébastien Bach'' (Vol. 1)) and also on the 11 disk Philips box set, boxed set ''Swingle Singers (Philips boxed set), Swingle Singers''. Track listing :''all compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, J.S. Bach'' #"Vivace" from Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043 – 3:19 #"Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 10 in E minor" (WTC I), BWV 855 (BC L89) – 3:01 #"Choral" from Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174) – 3:28 #"Gavotte" from Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006 – 2:30 #"Prelude and Fugue, for keyboard No. 1 in C major" (WTC I), BWV 846 (BC L80) – 3:22 #"Fug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bach's Greatest Hits
''Jazz Sébastien Bach'' (released as ''Bach's Greatest Hits'' in North America) is the debut album released by the Paris-based Swingle Singers. The album was a 1964 Grammy award winner for " Best Performance by a Chorus" and the group also won the 1964 Grammy award for "Best New Artist". LA Timesbr>awards database/ref> All tracks from the album are included on the CD reissue / compilation '' Jazz Sebastian Bach'' (together with all tracks from 1968's '' Jazz Sébastien Bach Vol. 2'') and on the 11 disk Philips boxed set '' Swingle Singers''. Track listing :''all compositions by J. S. Bach'' Side 1: #"Fugue in D Minor", Contrapunctus 9 from The Art of the Fugue – 2:14 #"Prelude for Organ Chorale No. 1" (Choral-Prelude BWV 645 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme", from the Schübler Chorales) – 2:38 #"Aria" from Suite No 3 in D – 3:17 #"Prelude No 12 in F Minor" from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II" – 2:12 #"Bourrée II" from The English Suite No 2" – 1:44 #"Fugue N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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