The Swingle Singers are an internationally renowned vocal ensemble, known for their innovative and virtuosic approach to a diverse range of musical genres, from classical to jazz, pop, and ...

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 ...

Ward Swingle is back. Swingle left The Double Six of Paris in 1963 to form his own vocal group, The Swingle Singers, which enjoyed success on both sides of the Atlantic. Forty years later, Swingle has ...

Ward Swingle, who has died aged 87, first had the idea of singing the works of JS Bach to the scat syllables of jazz in the early 1960s, during a quiet moment as a backing singer for recordings in ...

Ira "Eb" Swingle, center, and Ward Swingle, right, are honored by then-Mobile Mayor Mike Dow at a "Swingle Celebration" held in Mobile in 2004. Ward Swingle passed away on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015.

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 ...