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The Swingle Singers Homepage:
Over time this will become a comprehensive chronological archive, detailing the travelling, musical and social exploits of the group from its inception to the present day.
Contributions will come from many people; members of the swingle singers from throughout its history, those associated with the group and its activities and, of course, Ward Swingle himself.
Keep coming back to this section and you'll see it develop into an indispensable source of swingle singers info through the decades.
Read on and discover how the jazz/classical crossover went mainstream and how the swingle singers began, matured and continue to this day.
Happy listening! Vocal group homepage with group history, photos and sound samples.
Over time this will become a comprehensive chronological archive, detailing the travelling, musical and social exploits of the group from its inception to the present day.
Contributions will come from many people; members of the swingle singers from throughout its history, those associated with the group and its activities and, of course, Ward Swingle himself.
Keep coming back to this section and you'll see it develop into an indispensable source of swingle singers info through the decades.
Read on and discover how the jazz/classical crossover went mainstream and how the swingle singers began, matured and continue to this day.
Happy listening! Vocal group homepage with group history, photos and sound samples.
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Ward Swingle was the product of an unusually liberal musical education. In his hometown, Mobile, Alabama, he grew up with the sound of jazz and played in one of the great Big Bands before finishing High School. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Cincinnati Conservatory and studied piano with the celebrated Walter Gieseking in postwar France. In Paris in the sixties he was a founding member of the fabled Double Six of Paris, then took the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, hence The Swingle Singers, whose early recordings won five Grammies.
When the Paris group disbanded in l973, Ward Swingle moved to London and formed an English group, expanding the repertoire to include classical and avang-garde works along with the scat and jazz vocal arrangements. The 2003 touring schedule of the Swingle Singers (who are now celebrating their 40th anniversary as a vocal group!) will include trips to Europe, North America and the Far East.
In l984 Swingle returned to live in America. Though he remained as Musical Advisor for his London-based group, he devoted most of his time to workshops, guest conducting and the dissemination of his printed arrangements through his publishing company, Swingle Music ...
Biography of founder of jazz vocalese group The Swingle Singers.
When the Paris group disbanded in l973, Ward Swingle moved to London and formed an English group, expanding the repertoire to include classical and avang-garde works along with the scat and jazz vocal arrangements. The 2003 touring schedule of the Swingle Singers (who are now celebrating their 40th anniversary as a vocal group!) will include trips to Europe, North America and the Far East.
In l984 Swingle returned to live in America. Though he remained as Musical Advisor for his London-based group, he devoted most of his time to workshops, guest conducting and the dissemination of his printed arrangements through his publishing company, Swingle Music ...
Biography of founder of jazz vocalese group The Swingle Singers.
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The Swingle Singers Homepage:
Over time this will become a comprehensive chronological archive, detailing the travelling, musical and social exploits of the group from its inception to the present day.
Contributions will come from many people; members of the swingle singers from throughout its history, those associated with the group and its activities and, of course, Ward Swingle himself.
Keep coming back to this section and you'll see it develop into an indispensable source of swingle singers info through the decades.
Read on and discover how the jazz/classical crossover went mainstream and how the swingle singers began, matured and continue to this day.
Happy listening! Vocal group homepage with group history, photos and sound samples.
Over time this will become a comprehensive chronological archive, detailing the travelling, musical and social exploits of the group from its inception to the present day.
Contributions will come from many people; members of the swingle singers from throughout its history, those associated with the group and its activities and, of course, Ward Swingle himself.
Keep coming back to this section and you'll see it develop into an indispensable source of swingle singers info through the decades.
Read on and discover how the jazz/classical crossover went mainstream and how the swingle singers began, matured and continue to this day.
Happy listening! Vocal group homepage with group history, photos and sound samples.
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The Swingle Singers: Dedicated to the discovery, dissemination and celebration of the best a cappella vocal music from around the globe.
Ward Swingle now lives in semi-retirement near Paris, France. When he was a youngster in Alabama his father insisted that he learn all kinds of music, play all kinds of instruments and develop perfect pitch. It turned out to be the ideal background, many years later, when he founded the Swingle Singers, in Paris in the early sixties. The whole thing began as an exercise by eight free-lance singers. The group was bored by the simple fare available in the studios, for this was an era dominated by pop and early rock. One day he got out Bach's "Well Tempered Clavichord" and they tried them out, to find that singing them came naturally. In 1963 they released their first recording on Phillips. By word of mouth, DJ after DJ began playing it. After climbing the charts it hit the top ten and stayed in the top 100 for more than a year and a half! That one and their following two albums won Grammies for Best Performance By A Chorus, and Bach's Greatest Hits also won a Grammy for Best New Artist ...
(Primarily A Cappella: Swingle Singers - Biography and discography. )
Ward Swingle now lives in semi-retirement near Paris, France. When he was a youngster in Alabama his father insisted that he learn all kinds of music, play all kinds of instruments and develop perfect pitch. It turned out to be the ideal background, many years later, when he founded the Swingle Singers, in Paris in the early sixties. The whole thing began as an exercise by eight free-lance singers. The group was bored by the simple fare available in the studios, for this was an era dominated by pop and early rock. One day he got out Bach's "Well Tempered Clavichord" and they tried them out, to find that singing them came naturally. In 1963 they released their first recording on Phillips. By word of mouth, DJ after DJ began playing it. After climbing the charts it hit the top ten and stayed in the top 100 for more than a year and a half! That one and their following two albums won Grammies for Best Performance By A Chorus, and Bach's Greatest Hits also won a Grammy for Best New Artist ...
(Primarily A Cappella: Swingle Singers - Biography and discography. )
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