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The Swingin' Nutcracker

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{{Infobox album

| name = The Swingin' Nutcracker

| type = Studio

| artist = Shorty Rogers

| cover = The Swingin' Nutcracker.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1960

| recorded = May 3, 17 & 26, 1960

| venue =

| studio = RCA Victor's Music Center of the World, Hollywood, CA

| genre = Jazz, Christmas

| length = 52:56

| label = RCA Victor

| producer = Lee Schapiro

| chronology = Shorty Rogers

| prev_title = Shorty Rogers Meets Tarzan

| prev_year = 1960

| next_title = An Invisible Orchard

| next_year = 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.[https://www.discogs.com/Shorty-Rogers-The-Swingin-Nutcracker/release/2814889 Discogs album entry] accessed October 2, 2016[https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/claudio-roditi/ Encyclopedia of Jazz: Shorty Rogers discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827143329/https://enciclopediadeljazz.wordpress.com/2014/02/06/claudio-roditi/ |date=2016-08-27 }} accessed October 2, 2016[http://www.jazzdisco.org/art-pepper/catalog/#rca-victor-lpm-2110 Art Pepper catalog] accessed October 2, 2016

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}

}}

Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars.{{AllMusic|class=album |id= mw0000537169 |title=The Swingin' Nutcracker – Listing |accessdate=March 23, 2016}}

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

References

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Category:Shorty Rogers albums

Category:1960 Christmas albums

Category:RCA Records Christmas albums

Category:Albums arranged by Shorty Rogers

Category:Christmas albums by American artists

Category:Swing Christmas albums

Category:The Nutcracker

Category:Arrangements of compositions by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky