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The Harlem Nutcracker
The Harlem Nutcracker "The Harlem Nutcracker" cast recording jumps with the fabulous swing music of "The Harlem Nutcracker" dance production that tours nationally each holiday season. The new, original tracks by David Berger complement beautifully the included selections from "Nutcracker Suite" by Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn to epitomize the timelessness of swing.
composed by Duke Ellington Billy Strayhorn David Berger
recorded by David Berger & The Sultans of Swing
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- Posted: Dec-06-2008
Ellington's Three Suites is a better choice
This is based on Duke Ellington's confusingly-named album, "Three Suites," which is a brilliant interpretation of the Nutcracker Suite. Only here David Berger has re-arranged a portion of the material from "Three Suites" and added his own material to the composition. Problem is, the material...
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- Posted: Nov-02-2006
The Harlem Nutcracker
An excellent variation of Ellington's arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker. Sound quality was excellent also.
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- Posted: May-02-2006
Setting the record straight on Billy Berger's arrangement .
As I understand it, Billy Berger was commissioned by the choreographer Donald Byrd, who wanted to create an evening-length ballet called Harlem Nutcracker. (As you may know, Tchaikovsky composed two scores -- a full-length Nutcracker, which is used in the evening-length ballet, and a shorter...
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- Posted: Dec-15-2005
buy the original please
david berger's entire career is almost completely based on transcribing other musician's genuis - most notably Duke Ellington. to any of those who think that these are new "jazzy" arrangements of the nutcracker you should be interested in picking up the original, scored and arranged by Ellington...
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- Posted: Jul-17-2005
Great!
The arrangements and performances are outstanding!I'll put this up against any swing music, now or from the 40's, it really swings, and it's excellently written and the musicianship is great.Oh, and it includes some jazz-arranged Nutcracker Suite tunes.If you like good swing jazz, you'll like this!
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- Posted: Aug-06-2002
A nutcracker that swings ...but still has the enchantment
I am afan of the play and i have the cd playing all the time. Than during the christmas holiday i saw the metro...perform the harlem nutcracker and let me tell you my entire family enjoyed it....it swings but it still has the enchantment of the play....this is a must have...
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- Posted: Dec-15-1999
A Nutcracker that swings
My family saw this performed live at The Brooklyn Academy of Music last year. My five year old daughter enjoyed it more than the classic version we had seen on stage just a few weeks earlier. We were very disappointed to find there wasn't a soundtrack CD out, but now there is. This is an...
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