Hartford
DETAILS
Sun, December 07, 2014
Hartford, CT
Show: 1:30 PM
Ticket INFO
Member Presale: 10/7/14 06 AM
Public Onsale: 10/9/14 06:01 AM
Sun, December 07, 2014
Hartford, CT
Show: 1:30 PM
Member Presale: 10/7/14 06 AM
Public Onsale: 10/9/14 06:01 AM
The New England Jazz Ensemble has a rich archive of original music, including two ‘live’ performances, as well as one CD of a historic nature, which is the subject of today’s concert. In 2003, the band released one of the first big-band recordings of the suite from the Nutcracker ballet, Tchaikovsky’s holiday favorite which was reinterpreted by Billy Strayhorn for Duke Ellington. In the first half of the band’s Infinity Music Hall debut, the band will perform this piece, which is more casually known as “Ellington’s Nutcracker.” The second half of the program will include the band’s original arrangements of other contemporary holiday tunes from its “Cookin’ Christmas” recording, plus other material from its extensive repertoire.