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.
The Midnight Blues - Wynton Marsalis Quintet at Paris Jazz Festival 2007
You Don’t Know What Love Is - Wynton Marsalis Septet in Abu Dhabi
Embraceable You - Wynton Marsalis Quintet in New Zealand
Wild Stumming of Fiddle - Nutcracker Swing (Part 3)
Overture Miniature/Overture - Nutcracker Swing (Part 7)
The Magic Hour - Wynton Marsalis Quintet at Ronnie Scott’s 2011
Wynton Marsalis Septet at Umbria Jazz 1993
Just Friends - Wynton Marsalis Quintet in New Zealand
King Porter Stomp - Wynton Marsalis Septet in Berlin (1989)
Play The Blues And Go - Wynton Marsalis Septet in Warsaw (1994)
Think of One - Wynton Marsalis Quintet in Warsaw (1983)
Silent Night - Wynton Marsalis Septet with Kathleen Battle