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Two-time Grammy® Award-Winning Artist Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger and educator. Born in Los Angeles, Nash was exposed to music and encouraged at an early age by his father, trombonist Dick Nash, and uncle, reedman Ted Nash.
He is a co-founder of the New York-based Jazz Composers Collective, a musician-run, non-profit innovative entity dedicated to presenting the original works of composers pushing the boundaries of their self-expression. Nash is also a long-standing member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, with Wynton Marsalis. In 2017, Nash received the Composer of the Year award by the Jazz Journalists Association.
Nash first came to New York at the age of eighteen and, soon after, he released “Conception,” (Concord Jazz), his first album as a leader. Since then, Nash has become one of the most significant jazz composers of the 21st century. His recordings have appeared on the “best-of” lists in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and The Boston Globe. Nash’s first commission by the JLCO, "Portrait in Seven Shades," was recorded by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and released in February 2010. This recording has been credited by Ted Panken in Downbeat Magazine as marking a new direction for the Orchestra and garnered two Grammy nominations. His following big band album, “Chakra,” received critical acclaim and charted on Billboard.
Receiving two Grammy® Awards in 2017, “Presidential Suite” is Nash’s most significant work thus far. Inspired by great political speeches of the 20th century dealing with the theme of freedom, it is rich with social and political awareness. It also involved a very creative approach: Nash transcribed the political speeches for their actual musical pitches and created themes, placing them into contexts that embraced the speakers and the location and era of the speeches.
Nash’s newest recording in collaboration with actor Glenn Close, “Transformation,” was release on May 7th and has received great accolades.
“A dazzling, powerful and beautifully written work.” JazzWise
“Ted Nash, Glenn Close, the gifted actors and the nothing-short-of exquisite musicians of the JLCO cement this recording as an artistic triumph.” The Whole Note
“Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance and Evolution is a musical ride through the human condition, astutely represented, compactly delivered and absolutely worth experiencing.” NYC Jazz Record
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The Four Corners of Jazz Improvisation
Thursday, January 4, 2024
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM CST