Ward Swingle Ward Swingle is the product of an unusually liberal musical education. In his home town, 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 ...

Lambert, Hendrix & Ross Certainly one of the premier jazz vocal acts of all time, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross revolutionized vocal music during the late '50s and early '60s by turning away from the increasingly crossover slant of the pop world to embrace the sheer musicianship inherent in vocal jazz. Applying the concepts of bop harmonies to swinging vocal music, the trio transformed dozens of ...

Gloria Lynne Another vocalist whose style and songs blur the distinctions among popular singing, jazz, and blues, Lynne made both straight jazz and jazz-oriented material during the '50s and '60s and had some hits on the R&B scene. She has also done some acting and songwriting and has a good voice. Her strengths are expressiveness; she's a master at building tension in a song, telling a story, ...

Les Double Six The Double Six, 1962: Jean-Claude Briodin, Eddy Louiss, Ward Swingle, Claude Germain, Mimi Perrin, Claudine Meunier. Photo: J P Leloir For Lena and Lennie Rat Race Stockholm Sweetnin' Boo's Bloos Doodlin' Meet Benny Bailey Evening in Paris Count'em Tickle toe Early Autumn Sweets Naima Westwood Walk A Night in Tunisia A Ballad Scrapple From the Apple Boplicity Moanin' Fascinating ...