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Les Swingle Singers (seit 2014 und schon in den 1970er Jahren auch kurz The Swingles) sind ein A-cappella - Oktett, das der US-Amerikaner Ward Swingle 1962 in Paris gründete. Ward Swingle lebte von 1951 bis 1973 in Frankreich und studierte dort drei Jahre bei dem Pianisten Walter Gieseking .
The Swingles are an a capella vocal group. The Swingle Singers originally formed in 1962 in Paris under the leadership of Ward Swingle. In 1973, Swingle disbanded the French group, and formed an English group known initially as Swingle II and later as the New Swingle Singers, before settling on the Swingles name.
The Swingles discography. The Paris-based Swingle Singers recorded regularly for Philips in the 1960s and early 1970s and the successor London-based group continued to record, for Columbia / CBS, Virgin Classics and other record labels from 1974 to the present.
Informations générales. The Swingle Singers est un groupe vocal formé à Paris en 1962 par Ward Swingle (en). Le concept initial est d'interpréter des airs instrumentaux classiques, arrangés par Ward Swingle en scat (jazz vocal).
American-born Ward Swingle first assembled a group of Parisian session singers (originally named Les Swingle Singers) to sing Bach’s music for the keyboard in 1962. The resulting album ‘Jazz Sebastian Bach’ was a huge hit, breaking new musical ground and launching The Swingles to fame.
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.
For more than half a century, The Swingles have pushed the boundaries of vocal music. The seven young singers that make up today’s London-based group are driven by the same innovative spirit that has defined the five-time Grammy® winners since they first made waves in the 1960s.
