Complete Information About Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite in Cincinnati at Corbett Auditorium, CCM Village, University of ...

Jazz up December with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's swinging re-do of The Nutcracker Suite. Then, rev-up for the new year with two historic Ellington Orchestra dance dates: Fargo 1940 & Travis ...

Then, on July 7, 1956, Ellington headlined the Newport Jazz Festival, closing out a weekend jammed with such luminaries as Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, ...

The Auditorium Theatre lost its holiday staple when the Joffrey Ballet moved to the Lyric Opera House in 2021. But that beautiful, gold-trimmed venue in the Loop may have a new winner with “Sugar Hill ...

This holiday season, Austin audiences will see a Nutcracker like never before. On Friday, December 19, 2025, ATX Artists for Social Impact and Sofar Sounds will present a one-night-only reimagining of ...

Sugar Hill: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker is a true masterpiece that seamlessly blends the elegance of classical ballet with the vivacious spirit of jazz, creating an unforgettable and enchanting ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The world premiere of "SUGAR HILL: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker," the jazz-steeped reimagining of The Nutcracker, based on the genre-defying collaboration of Duke Ellington and ...

For bassist, composer, and arranger Marcus Shelby, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's Nutcracker Suite arrangements offer an ideal vehicle for his talent-laden jazz orchestra, an ensemble he modeled ...

Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky finished his music for the two-act ballet “The Nutcracker” in 1892. Although it took until the 1960s for the complete ballet to build the broad popularity it ...

Following their hugely successful SOLD OUT concert at Catalina's in Hollywood last month, The Hollywood Jazz Orchestra are performing Duke Ellington's “Nutcracker Suite" at the historic Dunbar Hotel ...

San Francisco bandleader, composer, bassist and educator Marcus Shelby never gets tired of performing Duke Ellington's jazzy 1960 "The Nutcracker Suite" based on Tchaikovsky's classic ballet score. "I ...