Bitter Ending
1972 studio album by The Swingle Singers
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| Studio album by The Swingle Singers | ||||
| Released | 1972 | |||
| Length | ~30 minutes | |||
| Label | Epic 80544 | |||
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Bitter Ending is a recording of a work for eight voices composed by Andre Hodeir as commissioned by Ward Swingle. The work is performed by the Swingle Singers with a jazz quintet. This was the last work by Hodeir and is inspired by James Joyce's Finnegans Wake[1]
Personnel
- Roger Guérin – trumpet
- Pierre Gossez – saxophone
- Jean-Louis Chautemps – saxophone
- Jacques (Jacky) Cavallero – double bass
- Marcel Sabiani – drums
The Swingle Singers:
- Christiane Legrand – soprano
- Nicole Darde – soprano
- Hélène Devos – alto
- Claudine Meunier – alto
- Ward Swingle – tenor, arranger
- Joseph Noves – tenor
- Jean Cussac – bass
- José Germain – bass
References / external links
- ^ Hodeir, Andre and Pautrot, Jean-Louis. The André Hodeir Jazz Reader (Google Books link)
- Epic 80544
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/ Les Swingle Singers
- Jazz Sébastien Bach / Bach's Greatest Hits
- Going Baroque / de Bach aux Baroques
- Swinging Mozart / Anyone for Mozart?
- Les Romantiques / Getting Romantic
- Swingling Telemann / Rococo Á Go Go
- Place Vendôme / Encounter
- Sounds of Spain: Concerto d'Aranjuez / Spanish Masters
- Operazione San Pietro
- Noëls Sans Passeport / Christmastime
- Jazz Sébastien Bach, Vol. 2 / Back to Bach
- American Look
- Berio: Sinfonia (1968 w/New York Philharmonic)
- Les Quatre Saisons / The Joy of Singing
- Bitter Ending
The Swingles
The (New) Swingle Singers
- Anyone for Mozart, Bach, Handel, Vivaldi?
- Compact Jazz: The Swingle Singers
- Jazz Sebastian Bach
- Swingle Singers (Philips boxed set)
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