Results for "Phil Hilger"

Phil Hilger

The Nutcracker Remix

By Eric Lechliter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Overture; The Pistachio March; Sugar Rush; Everybody Digs Flowers; Caipiroska; Camel Capery; General Tso’s Gumbo; The Pine Forest; Toot Toot Toot-Tutti; Christmas Time Is Here; Merry Christmas Baby; Christmas This Year.

Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: The Nutcracker Remix

by Jack Bowers
December 10, 2025

For those who assumed that Duke Ellington may have had the last word when it came to jazz interpretations of Peter Tchaikovsky's memorable Nutcracker Suite, welcome to The Nutcracker Remix, an awesome new portrayal of Tchaikovsky's enduring work by the stellar Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. This is Tchaikovsky for the 21st century, saluting ...

The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: Storming Through the South

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2016

First, three hearty cheers and a laurel wreath for trumpeter Mike Vax who has kept the splendid Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra together (with some inescapable changes in personnel, not to mention name) for twenty-five years, supervised no less than eighteen annual road tours and produced half a dozen in-concert albums, the most recent of which, Storming ...