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The Harlem Nutcracker

Label: Such Sweet Thunder
Released: 2006
Track listing: Overture; Attack of the Ghouls; Midnight Stroll; Snowflake Joys; Saturday Night Dance Party; Xmas Be de Place / Sing Out; You Take My Breath Away; Punch Bowl Espa

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David Berger and the Sultans of Swing: The Harlem Nutcracker

Read "The Harlem Nutcracker" reviewed by Budd Kopman


It is that time of year again, and David Berger's adaptation and extension of Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn's Harlem Nutcracker suite is one swinging way to enjoy music of this season. This release is a reissue of the original. The short story is that Berger, an expert on Ellington and a top notch transcriber, ...

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The Harlem Nutcracker

Label: Such Sweet Thunder
Released: 2002
Track listing: Overture; Attack of the Ghouls; Midnight Stroll; Snowflake Joys; Saturday Night Dance Party; Xmas Be de Place / Sing Out; You Take My Breath Away; Punch Bowl Espa?ol; Marquis Shuffle; Dance of the Floreadores; Peanut Brittle Brigade; Sugar Rum Cherry; Volga Vouty; Swingin' at Club Sweets (56:16).

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David Berger and the Sultans of Swing: The Harlem Nutcracker

Read "The Harlem Nutcracker" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Hearing The Harlem Nutcracker for the first time is akin to opening a Christmas present, expecting another drab necktie, and finding instead a silver-plated Swiss watch or 24-carat diamond bracelet.Composer / arranger / conductor David Berger has deftly assimilated and amplified Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn's luminous Nutcracker Suite, transposing Tchaikovsky's balletic themes into ...


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