The Nutcracker Suite

Album by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra

The Nutcracker Suite is an album by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, released in 1960. The album presents jazz arrangements of music from the ballet suite and turns orchestral themes into a big band setting with swing rhythms, blues inflections and extended solo passages, and it was part of Ellington's body of work that brought jazz into dialogue with classical repertoire.
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  1. 1.
    Overture
    3:22
  2. 2.
    Toot Toot Tootie Toot (dance of the Reed-Pipes)
    2:31
  3. 3.
    Peanut Brittle Brigade (March)
    4:38
  4. 4.
    Sugar Rum Cherry (dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)
    3:06
  5. 5.
    Entr'Acte
    1:54
  6. 6.
    The Volga Vouty (Russian dance)
    2:54
  7. 7.
    Chinoiserie (Chinese dance)
    2:46
  8. 8.
    Danse of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers)
    4:04
  9. 9.
    Arabesque Cookie (Arabian dance)
    5:41

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