Featuring jazz interpretations of Tchaikovskys ‘The Nutcracker’, the album has come to be recognized as one of Duke Ellingtons most important albums of the 1960s. Award winning New York based conductor Steven Richman has done a great job with the winning combination of Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (the hippest cats of jazz-a-tooty) on the one album. 1. Overture 2. Toot Toot Tootie Toot (Dance of the Reed-Pipes) 3. Peanut Brittle Brigade (March) 4. Sugar Rum Cherry (Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy) 5. Entracte 6. The Volga Vouty (Russian Dance) 7. Chinoiserie (Chinese Dance) 8. Dance of the Floreadores (Waltz of the Flowers) 9. Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance) 10. Morning Mood 11. In the Hall of the Mountain King 12. Solvejgs Song 13. Ases Death 14. Anitras Dance
