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Share One of the lesser-known holiday traditions at KUVO JAZZ is the yearly airing of “The Nutcracker Suite” on Christmas Day. It’s not just any Nutcracker. It’s the Ellington & Strayhorn version. To call it an arrangement doesn’t do the piece justice. There is composition involved in this jazziest of reimaginings. The Ellington Nutcracker was written and arranged in 1960 with the lion’s share of the arranging by Billy Strayhorn. On the original recording the album cover features three names as co-creators Tchaikovsky, Ellington and Strayhorn. It was the first time Strayhorn’s name and picture appeared on an Ellington album cover. At that time an openly gay black man born in 1915 would have been shunned if he rose to fame and prominence so he worked in the background. Ellington paid for Strayhorn’s expenses and supervised his work, but The Duke did not dictate Billy’s projects. Duke was famous and accepted as a “Black Genius” and showman and leader

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