Duke Ellington Meets Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite

[456goalkane]

thanks for sharing. great clip

[MrBillotte]

Existe-t-il une video de cette oeuvre?

[pointillismjazz]

Exquisite! Jazzin' in the season! Thanks for the beautiful gift!

[kanato129]

I love this! My Nutcracker Suite CD has been a favorite for years now.

[LJlovestbone]

I love the Nutcracker Suite but this is definitely cool ;-)

[ozoneshack]

Why do three people dislike this? Who are these people???

[morderic]

Cool... the great Paul Gonsalves wasn't drunk on this date. lol

[mjsmcd]

to me it soesnt work 2 differernt forms of music Its like sinatra trying to sing the stones or Jagger trying to sing sinatra one not better than the other but 2 different wavelengths

[Belleepic]

Excellent

[Bryteraven]

Watch summon those colours woven in his sound..

[cleochic]

Fantastic! That trombone is awesome! so Jazzy!!!!!

[sdh74]

Actually I won the CD (have for years), but I had always wanted to see this film clip. Glad I was able to download it!

[JazzVideoGuy]

@sdh74 It's a very cool clip, no doubt about that.

[sdh74]

HEY!!! WHERE CAN I GET THIS?!?!

[JazzVideoGuy]

@sdh74 You can find the CD on Amazon.

[hremdldw]

I have seen little clips of this video most famously in Ken Burns wonderful Jazz Doc.I'm very happy too finally the watch entire video.Thank You also I'm so happy Dr Billy Taylor trusted you with his films.On in my humble opinion America greatest Art Form!

[JLZambianchi]

Fantastic!!!

[einoora]

Great! Got any more like that? Many thnaks

[4evernate28]

We just watched this in our American Music class last week. When he said, "like the people's people" and started off the song, I couldn't stop smiling. I still can't. :)

[ReminiscinginTempo]

Thanks thanks thanks to sharing this video! Wonderful

[daywalker48603]

Thank you for uploading this!

[Sterek100]

merveilleux quel show man

Je me rapelle avoir ecouter the suite nutcracker avec winston marsalis et seiji ozawa dans une emission.

Voir le duke est infiniment meilleur.

[qminusis]

What a show man!

Columbia records?

The all seeing eye?

A certain handshake with Lieberson?

Yeah as a free mason the world was vey nice to the duke ...

[TheInitialscb]

@qminusis Nowhere near as nice as the Duke was to the world...

[AndreNorbim]

sooo.. cool! thanks for the video man!

[Spook1906]

Amazing!!!

[bigmanwhitesaint]

nice..

[EnryOnTheKeys]

This is so beautiful! Thanks JVG.

[freesalute]

i wish tv was like this nowadays

[aammirr]

...Duke doing this to Tchaikovsky is what makes what Dr. John did to him; perfectly alright !

[amd77j]

This is absolutely wonderful!!! Thanks for posting!!!

[joe4jazz]

Oh, that was nice. What a musician, leader and showman. What a genius. Ellington was as good as it gets.

[ornleifs]

Wow this was Great, I ordered the 3 suites CD by Ellington last week from Amazon so this was a real treat.

[jackscruffy]

So very very great. Thanks Video Guy. Thanks Duke and all the great musicians who made Ellington Ellington. Sam Woodyard!

[GustavUppercut]

Love it! :D

[IMrDavidBoring]

Wow, magic.

[HuggumsMcgehee]

Look at him go.

[dirtdog792]

thanks for this!! Duke is the truth!!

[calcner]

i played this for my winter jazz concert (HS) twas hard.

[mikerudjazz]

Oh God, this is exquisite.