For bassist, composer, and arranger Marcus Shelby, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's Nutcracker Suite arrangements offer an ideal vehicle for his talent-laden jazz orchestra, an ensemble he modeled after Ellington's. His band breathes new life into the singular cultural fusion of Tchaikovsky with the orchestral language of Ellington.
For bassist, composer, and arranger Marcus Shelby, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's Nutcracker Suite arrangements offer an ideal vehicle for his talent-laden jazz orchestra, an ensemble he modeled after Ellington's. His band breathes new life into the singular cultural fusion of Tchaikovsky with the orchestral language of Ellington.
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