Nutcracker Swing - Part 13 (March/Peanut Brittle Brigade)

[thornburybroncos1]

love how the strings just sit there!!!

[norcotony1]

I saw this concert on PBS when it first aired. Only Wynton Marsalis could have come up with the idea of merging the two music styles together. I wish it were available on DVD. Thanks for posting!!

[noahsdad61]

Love the expressions on the classical musicians' faces.

[Pandaonfire5]

Is Wynton crying?

[TheMel080710]

Jazz, jazz, jazz! I could hear this all day long! ♥

[cipote10]

This IS NOT a SWING (which is what I was looking for in the first place). This is a suite...thanks for the post, though

[joeyngv3]

@cipote10 Dude, the "Nutcracker Swing" is just a knockoff name. Just like how all the Ellington versions of Tchaikovsky's movements have knockoff names.

[hondarideralex]

@cipote10 did you listen all the way through the video when the Lincoln center jazz orchestra takes over and plays the same movement in a swing fashion?

[wonderplace14]

I can play this song on the trumpet, just a few notes lower. super easy......

[queekers]

@wonderplace14

spierrrrt spierrrt

[samskorach]

I agree, an excellent collaboration between Ellington and Strayhorn. I just wish there were some video recordings of the Ellington orchestra performing this suite.

[clskmstg]

@samskorach I don't know if there are any videos, sadly. I actually have found it difficult to find the recordings of the entire suite. It just swings like crazy...

[clskmstg]

The Ellington Suite - rarely heard. Brilliant positioning the original with the Ellington. *Fantastic* post.

[askers1]

Strepitosi!!