Ted Nash

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Ted Nash (born December 28, 1959 in Hollywood , Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz alto and tenor saxophonist and composer .

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Ted Nash is the son of West Coast jazz trombonist Dick Nash and the nephew of the big band tenor saxophonist of the same name (* 1922), who played in the bands of Les Brown , Bill Holman , Henry Mancini , Mel Lewis and others. Ted Nash played the piano and then the clarinet at the age of seven before switching to the saxophone as a teenager. In high school he studied jazz improvisation with vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake and at the age of 16 had the opportunity to play in the Lionel Hampton Band. He then worked in the orchestras of Quincy Jones , Louie Bellson , Toshiko Akiyoshi and Don Ellis . In 1978, at the age of 18, he recorded his first album under his own name ( Conception for Concord Jazz ) and moved to New York, where he became a member of the Gerry Mulligan Big Band. In the 1980s he worked on albums by Shelly Manne and finally became a member of the Mel Lewis orchestra, in which he was a soloist and arranger. Nash also became known for his activities in the New York Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra , which is directed by Wynton Marsalis .

In 1994 he recorded the album of the same name in France with his European Quartet consisting of Oliver Hutman , Thomas Bramerie and Jean-Oierre Arbaud ; In 1996 he was a member of the Joe Lovano Orchestra ( Celebrating Sinatra ) and recorded the album Rhyme & Reason with a string quartet , among others with Tomas Ulrich , in 1999 he was a member of the Herbie Nichols Project (Dr. Cyclop's Dream) and founded the formation Odeon , the in addition to the winds (Nash and Wycliffe Gordon on the Sousaphone ) strings (Miri Ben-Ali) and accordion (William Schwimmel) included. In 2004 the Latin album La espada de la Noche followed with standard themes such as Tico-Tico no Fubá , A Night in Tunisia , Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez .

He wrote the musical Portrait in Seven Shades , which is dedicated to painters from different eras such as Claude Monet , Salvador Dalí , Henri Matisse , Pablo Picasso , Vincent van Gogh , Marc Chagall and Jackson Pollock ; it premiered in New York in February 2007.

With his Ted Nash Big Band he was nominated for a Grammy in 2016 for the album Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom .

The musician is not to be confused with the swing saxophonist Theodore Malcolm "Ted" Nash (* 1922).

Discographic notes

  • European Quartet (Elabeth 1994)
  • Rhyme and Reason (Arabesque, 1996) with Wynton Marsalis , Tomas Ulrich
  • Sidewalk Meeting (Arabesque, 2000) with Wycliffe Gordon
  • Still Evolved (Palmetto, 2002) with Wynton Marsalis
  • La espada de la Noche (Palmetto, 2004) with Clark Gayton
  • Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom (Ted Nash Big Band, 2016)

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SURNAME Nash, Ted
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood