Ward Swingle, who has died aged 87, was the founding father of the Swingle Singers, the a cappella group that blended jazz rhythms with baroque and classical music in a distinctive, easy-listening ...

In 1962 the Swingle Singers, a mostly a cappella vocal group based in Paris, set the music world on its ear with their jazzed-up, be-bop arrangements of Bach’s instrumental works. The members were ...

Ward Swingle, who formed a singing group that reimagined Bach and Mozart with driving jazz rhythms and playfully scatlike vocals — and that put centuries-old classical masterworks on the pop charts ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Ward Swingle was the founding father of the Swingle Singers, the a cappella group that blended jazz rhythms with baroque and classical ...