Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album)

Place Vendôme
Studio album by The Swingle Singers with the Modern Jazz Quartet
Recorded 1966
Length 37:07
Label Philips
The Modern Jazz Quartet chronology
Blues at Carnegie Hall
(1966) Blues at Carnegie Hall1966		 Place Vendôme
(1966) Place Vendôme1966		 Live at the Lighthouse
(1967) Live at the Lighthouse1967
Swingle Singers chronology
Rococo Á Go Go
(1966) Rococo Á Go Go1966		 Place Vendôme
(1966) Place Vendôme1966		 Spanish Masters
(1967) Spanish Masters1967
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Place Vendôme (released as Encounter in the U.S.A.) is an album released by the Swingle Singers performing with the Modern Jazz Quartet. The album was a 1967 Grammy award nominee.[1]

All tracks from this album are also included on the Mercury compilation CD Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers and the 11 disk Philips boxed set, Swingle Singers.

Track listing

  1. "Sascha" (Little David's Fugue) (John Lewis) – 4:18
  2. "Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major," (aka "Air on the G String") BWV 1068 (J. S. Bach) – 5:41
  3. "Vendôme" (Lewis) – 3:32
  4. "The Musical Offering" (Musikalisches Opfer), for keyboard and chamber instruments, BWV 1079 (Bach) – 6:34
  5. "When I am Laid in Earth" (from Dido and Aeneas), soprano aria ("Dido's Lament") (Henry Purcell) – 5:05
  6. "Alexander's Fugue" (Lewis) – 4:53
  7. "Three Windows" (Lewis) – 7:10

Personnel

The Swingle Singers:

The Modern Jazz Quartet:

  1. ↑ LA Times awards database
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