Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Nutcracker Suite is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded for Columbia Records in 1960 featuring jazz interpretations of the 1892 ballet "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky, arranged by Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. [1]
The Swingin' Nutcracker is a 1960 RCA Victor album by American jazz trumpeter and arranger Shorty Rogers performing compositions adapted from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
In 1960, the two collaborated on arrangements for the album The Nutcracker Suite, recorded for Columbia Records and featuring jazz interpretations of "The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky. [12] The original album cover is notable for the inclusion of Strayhorn's name and picture along with Ellington's on the front.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Conductor Steven Richman's highly varied repertoire spans classical, jazz, and more for orchestra, chamber orchestra, symphonic jazz, big band, chamber- and wind ensemble. Richman and Harmonie Ensemble/New York are recipients of a GRAMMY Award nomination , [ 1 ] as well as winners of the Lincoln Center Community Arts Award, [ 2 ] WQXR Action ...
The Swingin' Nutcracker (RCA Victor, 1960; with Holman, Perkins and Art Pepper, Kamuca was part of the saxophone section on Rogers' big-band jazz version of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite.) With Frank Rosolino. Frank Rosolino Quintet (Mode 1957) With Zoot Sims. Hawthorne Nights (Pablo, 1977) With Cy Touff. His Octet & Quintet (Pacific Jazz, 1956)
In New York, a production some consider the quintessential American “Nutcracker” opened minutes after musicians agreed to a contract. Playing live, 'Nutcracker' musicians bring unseen ...
The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик [a], romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪɫˈkunʲt͡ɕɪk] ⓘ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll.