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The Swingin' Jazz Nutcracker
Wed, Dec 11
|The Colonial Theatre
The Colonial Theater in association with The Pa Jazz Alliance & The Scranton Jazz Festival presents: The Swinging Jazz Nutcracker Suite performed by the Emmy-nominated Scranton Jazz Festival Big Band with music arranged and imagined by Milton “Shorty” Rogers and Duke Ellington.
Time & Location
Dec 11, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
The Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St, Phoenixville, PA 19460, USA
About the event
This exciting 17 piece jazz orchestra will take you on a holiday journey transporting you back to the Big Band era. You’ll be dancing in your seat while experiencing that swinging brassy sound with clever insightful story narration.
What do Peter Tchaikovsky, Shorty Rogers, and Duke Ellington have in common? Well, they are all innovators, composers, and arrangers. You will hear the incredible melodies of Tchaikovsky re-imagined by two great jazz master composers, arrangers Shorty Rogers and Duke Ellington. It was May of 1960 when both Shorty Rogers and Duke Ellington were hard at work creating jazz big band arrangements of this iconic ballet music. Interestingly, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn began recording their version of the Nutcracker on the very day (May 26, 1960) that Shorty Rogers finished his project. Both were only minutes from one another while recording these masterpieces. Duke at Radio Recorders in West Hollywood, CA,…