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3 apr 2011 · The Swingle Singers are a mostly a cappella vocal group formed in 1962 in Paris, France with Ward Swingle, Anne Germain, Jeanette Baucomont and Jean Cussac. Christiane Legrand, the sister of...
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Bach Hits Back 1994 The Swingle Singers. Tio Ngee Ping. 12.6K subscribers. 11K views 2 years ago. ...more. https://bit.ly/TioSwingleSingersSelected songs from this wonderful album. 1....
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27 ago 2020 · The Swingles perform 'Air On the G String' from J. S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, arranged by Ward Swingle. This performance was filmed as part of the Live From London...
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The eight session singers sang through Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier as a sight-reading exercise and found the music to have a natural swing. They recorded their first album Jazz Sébastien Bach as a present for friends and relatives.
Gli Swingle Singers sono un gruppo musicale nato in Francia nel 1962 e attualmente con base a Londra. Il gruppo è specializzato nell'interpretazione a cappella di brani di vari generi musicali, spaziando dal repertorio classico ai più recenti riarrangiamenti di brani jazz, folk e pop. Nei primi trentacinque anni di attività hanno organizzato ...
American-born Ward Swingle first assembled a group of Parisian session singers to sing through Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier as a vocal exercise in 1962. The resulting album ‘Jazz Sebastien Bach’ (recorded initially for friends and family), became a huge hit, breaking new musical ground and launching The Swingles to fame.
However, the best argument for Bach as a prototypical jazz musician has to be the music of the Swingle Singers. Ward Swingle and a group of fellow studio singers discovered that Bach’s music lent itself to jazz styles with very few modifications.
