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Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album)

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Place Vendôme
Studio album by
Released1966
RecordedSeptember – October 1966
in Paris
GenreVocal jazz
Length37:07
LabelPhilips
ProducerPierre Fatosme
Swingle Singers chronology
Rococo Á Go Go
(1966)
Place Vendôme
(1966)
Spanish Masters
(1967)
Modern Jazz Quartet chronology
Blues at Carnegie Hall
(1966)
Place Vendôme
(1966)
Live at the Lighthouse
(1967)
alternative cover
U.S. LP cover
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic (link)

Place Vendôme (released as Encounter in the U.S.) 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:

  • Jeanette Baucomont – soprano
  • Christiane Legrand – soprano
  • Alice Herald – alto
  • Claudine Meunier – alto
  • Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
  • Claude Germain – tenor
  • Jean Cussac – bass
  • José Germain – bass

The Modern Jazz Quartet:

  • Philips PHM 200-225 (Mono LP) / Philips PHS 600-225 (Stereo LP)
  • Place Vendome at allmusic.com