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The Swingin' Nutcracker
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Studio album by
Released 1960
Recorded May 3, 17 & 26, 1960
Studio RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, CA
Genre Jazz, Christmas
Length 52:56
Label RCA Victor
LPM/LSP 2110
Producer Lee Schapiro
Shorty Rogers chronology
Shorty Rogers Meets Tarzan
(1960)
The Swingin' Nutcracker
(1960)
An Invisible Orchard
(1961)

The Swingin' Nutcracker is a 1960 RCA Victor album by American jazz trumpeter and arranger Shorty Rogers performing compositions adapted from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Track listing

All compositions adapted from The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky and arranged by Shorty Rogers.

  1. "Like Nutty Overture (Finale)" - 5:23
  2. "A Nutty Marche (Marche)" - 3:28
  3. " Blue Reeds (Reed Flute Blues)" - 5:27
  4. "The Swingin' Plum Fairy (Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy)" - 2:58
  5. "Snowball (Waltz of the Snowflakes)" - 3:03
  6. "Six Pak (Trépak)" - 2:44
  7. "Flowers of the Cats (Waltz of the Flowers)" - 3:28
  8. "Dance Expresso (Coffee)" - 2:55
  9. "Pass the Duke (Pas de Deux)" - 2:51
  10. "China Where? (Tea Dance)" - 2:09
  11. "Overture for Shorty (Overture in Miniature)" - 4:01

Personnel

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