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Ted Nash

Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator, receiving high praise from both critics and audiences worldwide.

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DownBeat Magazine recognized Nash as a Rising Star in the alto and tenor saxophone categories in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008. Nash's recordings have appeared on many national “best-of” lists including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Village Voice, The Boston Globe, and New York Newsday. Nash accepted a SESAC National Performance Activity Award for the success of his CD Still Evolved for radio airplay -- it reached the #1 position on both the CMJ and JazzWeek charts.

Nash's most recent release, The Mancini Project (Palmetto Records), is receiving solid reviews and widespread radio exposure, firmly placing the multi-instrumentalist, as the Ottawa Citizen wrote: “...among jazz's elite.” The New York Sun says: “Mr. Nash's new project is by far the most dutiful and personal tribute that one could imagine.”

One of Nash's most important associations is with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, with whom Nash performs concerts throughout the year. Nash is also a contributor to the orchestra's repertoire as composer and arranger. A recent commission, “Portrait in Seven Shades,” premiered in 2007 and will be released in early 2009.

Time Out Magazine wrote: “One of our favorite jazz memories of the past few years came during saxophonist Ted Nash's intense, blistering solo in a recent Jazz at Lincoln Center performance here in Chicago. Born in L.A. to a family of Hollywood session players but currently living in New York, Nash has that kind of instantly identifiable talent that makes the distracted pay attention.”

Nash's eclectic group Odeon has garnered much attention in the jazz world. Los Angeles Times, after hearing this group at the Jazz Bakery, said: “You say jazz is having trouble these days finding a creative focus? Don't believe it. Go to the Jazz Bakery tonight to hear saxophonist Ted Nash's marvelous group Odeon, and any doubts will quickly be dispelled.”

Nash's collaborations include The Augusta Ballet, Zenon Dance Company, and the Orquestra Jazz Sinfonica in Sao Paulo, all for whom he has written original works as well as appeared as a featured soloist.