December 13th, 2001
This is a Live From Lincoln Center special called “Nutcracker Swing” featuring both the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Slatkin, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis that originally aired on PBS in December, 2001
The NY Philharmonic played a section from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker followed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra playing the Ellington/Strayhorn arrangement of the same section.
The special started with four sections from Wyton Marsalis’ “All Rise,” introduced here by Leonard Slatkin.
Just Friends - Wynton Marsalis Quintet in New Zealand
Excerpts from Nutcracker Swing (Part 6)
March/Peanut Brittle Brigade - Nutcracker Swing (Part 13)
Jungle Blues - The Wynton Marsalis Septet in Japan
Expressbrown Local - Nutcracker Swing (Part 4)
The Passionate Music of Sidney Bechet - Wynton Marsalis Sextet at Jazz in Marciac 2009
Down Home With Homey - Wynton Marsalis Septet in Berlin (1989)
Go Slow But Don’t Stop - Nutcracker Swing (Part 2)
Wynton Marsalis In Conversation with Elliott Forrest at The Greene Space, NYC
Outro with C-Jam Blues - Nutcracker Swing - (Part 14)
Up Close and Personal - Wynton Marsalis Live from The House of Tribes (2003)
Cherokee - Wynton Marsalis Quintet in New Zealand