The Swingin' Nutcracker

The Swingin' Nutcracker
Label: RCA Fs Imports
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 743214212127
EAN: 0743214212127
ASIN: B000027S8H


Release Date: 2004-11-16

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  1. Nutcrackers Sweet

Tracks:

  1. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Like Nutty Overdrive (Finale)
  2. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/A Nutty Marche (Marche)
  3. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Blue Reeds (Reed Flute Blues)
  4. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/The Swingin' Plum Fairy (Dance
  5. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Snowball (Waltz of the ...)
  6. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Six Pack (Trépak)
  7. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Flowers for the Cats (Waltz of
  8. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Dance Expresso (Coffee)
  9. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Pass the Duke (Pas de Deux)
  10. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/China Where? (Tea Dance)
  11. Swingin' Nutcracker (After Tchaikovsky)/Overture for Shorty ...

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Tchaikovsky in jazz, thanks to Shorty Rogers.......2006-09-03

Here's Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker put to a jazz setting and, for the most part, it works very well. That is primarily due to Shorty Rogers's excellent arranging skills and the top-notch musicians he's employed - with a saxophone section to kill for (Bill Holman, Richie Kamuca, Bill Perkins, Bud Shank, Art Pepper, and Harold Land, just to mention SOME of them). Solo space is limited and for the most part solos are incorporated into the arrangements, but all selections contain some solos (with the aforementioned sax players on hand it would be a crime not to let them solo). Highlights include the medium-up SNOWBALL, the Latin-tinged SIX PAK, the energetic PASS THE DUKE, and the exciting CHINA WHERE, which has a good Bud Shank flute solo and nice Lou Levy on piano. On the other side of the coin, FLOWERS FOR THE CATS is an up-tempo cooker, but gets locked up in a repetitive rhythmic pattern that the soloists have a hard time breaking out of, and THE SWINGIN' PLUM FAIRY is somewhat stiff and mechanical. A month after Shorty recorded this album Duke Ellington tackled the same music with his orchestra, and I think Rogers's results get the bigger eyes. That's no mean feat.

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