“Everybody knows the ‘Nutcracker’ music,” said Marcus Shelby, jazz bassist, composer, bandleader and artistic director of the annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival since 2020. “Once you hear the themes, you ...

Mr. Sun will perform Wednesday at Ent Center for the Arts. Courtesy Ent Center for the Arts Partake in a non-traditional holiday concert with Mr. Sun, a bluegrass group, as the four musicians put ...

This holiday season, Austin audiences will see a Nutcracker like never before. On Friday, December 19, 2025, ATX Artists for Social Impact and Sofar Sounds will present a one-night-only reimagining of ...

On his first LP, recorded in 1950, the great bandleader took to the possibilities of the longer new form with unbounded style and imagination.

San Francisco bandleader, composer, bassist and educator Marcus Shelby never gets tired of performing Duke Ellington's jazzy 1960 "The Nutcracker Suite" based on Tchaikovsky's classic ballet score. "I ...

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It’s a season of firsts for Saint Louis Dance Theatre. The contemporary dance company known for a decade as Big Muddy has a new name, a new look and a reenergized commitment to St. Louis dance ...

In 2006, Delfeayo Marsalis was recruited to play in a performance of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s version of Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker.” But the New Orleans trombonist didn’t love the ...