Jazz Articles about Ted Nash

Ted Nash Big Band: Presidential Suite (Eight Variations on Freedom)

by Karl Ackermann
August 25, 2016

As we live through the most contentious and divisive political cycle in US history, the Ted Nash Big Band Presidential Suite: Eight Variations On Freedom couldn't be more relevant. The significance hits home quickly and pointedly as former Connecticut State Senator Joe Lieberman follows the opening “Overture" with words of JFK that say, in part: ..."civility is not a weakness...." Nash is well known for his role in Wynton Marsalis' Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, an association that ...

Ted Nash Big Band: Chakra

by Maurizio Zerbo
February 26, 2014

In Chakra, oltre alle già note doti strumentali, Ted Nash mette in risalto la sua originalità di compositore ed orchestratore. Le sette composizioni riunite in forma di suite regalano all'ascoltatore una grande cornucopia di suggestioni. Esse costituiscono l'ammaliante traduzione musicale dei sette centri energetici che, secondo le tradizioni indiane inerenti lo yoga e la medicina ayurvedica, governano funzioni organiche e mentali. Trait d'union del disco è l'asserzione di un'attitudine culturalmente inclusiva nella vita umana come primo passo ...

Ted Nash: The Goal Is Creativity

by R.J. DeLuke
October 2, 2013

A New York City morning often starts early, sometimes 6 a.m., for this musician who is trying to elongate the hours available in a day. There's a lot to get to. Practicing the saxophone or flute. Sitting down to go through the elusive and demanding task of writing music worthy of the plateau, which these days seems to be a lot about commissioned work.Ted Nash is in demand.On the heels of his striking, and Grammy nominated, ...

The Ted Nash Quintet at Dizzy's

by Nick Catalano
June 5, 2010

It seems just yesterday that Wynton Marsalis filled the chairs in the new Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with young unknown musicians. But here it is 2010 and most of the initial personnel have gone on to become important jazz figures leading their own groups and recording prolifically.

Among the most notable of these is Ted Nash. Born and raised in L.A. under the early tutelage of his father trombonist Dick and his uncle reedman Ted, young Nash played piano at ...

Ted Nash: Portrait in Seven Shades

by David Adler
February 7, 2010

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) is often derided as a bastion of conservatism, although it's not clear what is conservative about an epic like trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' Congo Square (Blue Note, 2007), with its volleys of Ghanaian percussion and ensemble-singing in the Ga and Fante dialects. For that matter, the JLCO accommodates boundary-pushing musicians like Ted Nash, who holds a multi-woodwinds chair while still doing offbeat work with the likes of bassist Ben Allison and pianist Frank Kimbrough--not ...

Ted Nash: The Mancini Project

by AAJ Italy Staff
November 24, 2008

Il fine di The Mancini Project, come il titolo suggerisce, era quello di rendere omaggio al genio compositivo di Henry Mancini ed alle sue celeberrime colonne sonore da film, che sono per il sassofonista Ted Nash 'di casa', dal momento che sia suo padre (il trombonista Dick Nash) che suo zio (il sassofonista Ted Nash) hanno lavorato direttamente con Henry Mancini a molte di esse. Il risultato, tuttavia, non rende giustizia alla classe dei quattro musicisti coinvolti. Se si giudica ...

Ted Nash: The Mancini Project

by Douglas Payne
November 13, 2008

While Henry Mancini (1924-1994) borrowed plenty from jazz, he returned in kind by contributing a large body of fine, memorable music worthy of the melodic jazz tradition. Much of Mancini's best film music--particularly those scores from the early 1960s--sprang from the “cool jazz" of the 1950s West Coast Scene and featured some of the era's best players. Aside from insanely catchy music, Mancini brilliantly fused instrumental colors and devised some of the cleverest musical patterns imaginable. Oddly, though, Mancini never ...