Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Nutcracker Suite - Duke Ellington

The Nutcracker Suite - Duke Ellington

Biography

Born: April 29, 1899 in Washington D.C.

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '20s, '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s

Duke Ellington was the principally important composer in the history of jazz like well as being a bandleader who held his big group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were connected; Ellington used his band as a dulcet laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his caligraphy specifically to showcase the talents of his bandmembers, frequent of whom remained with him in favor of long periods. Ellington also wrote thin skin scores and stage musicals, and diverse of his instrumental works...

Track desire

Overture
Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance Of The Reed-Pipes)
Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)
Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance Of THe Sugar-Plum Fairy)
Entr'acte
The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance)
Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance)
Danse Of The Floreadores (Waltz Of The Flowers)
Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance)
The Very Best of John Coltrane
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
The Duke: The Columbia Years (1927-1962)
Best of Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Three Suites
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
The Duke: The Columbia Years (1927-1962)
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane

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