# Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer … Video

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- Published: 2017-12-28T00:04:14+01:00
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**28.12. – Happy Birthday !!! Grammy-nominated artist Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary
career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Los 
Angeles, multi-instrumentalist Nash’s interest in music started at an early age.
He was exposed to music and encouraged by his father, trombonist Dick Nash, and 
uncle, reedman Ted Nash – both well-known studio and jazz musicians. Nash blossomed
early, a “young lion” before the term became marketing vernacular.**

During his first three years in New York Nash became a regular member of a variety
of ensembles. He worked with the Gerry Mulligan Big Band, the National Jazz Ensemble
and the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

One of Nash’s most important associations is with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis, for whom he composed Portrait in Seven Shades, a suite dedicated
to seven different iconic painters. This recording received two Grammy nominations,
including best arranger, and has been credited by Ted Panken in Downbeat Magazine
as marking a new direction for the Orchestra.

Nash’s other 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.

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, while always mindful of traditions, reaches well outside a “traditional” nexus.
His eclectic group Odeon has garnered much attention in the jazz world and received
features and in-depth mentions from publications such as The New York Times, Village
Voice, Boston Globe, and New York Newsday. Said the Los Angeles Times after hearing
this group at the Jazz Bakery, one of the area’s best clubs: “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. What this Los Angeles native is demonstrating with Odeon is
the fact that — far from being on a down slope — jazz is in a period of extraordinary
opportunity.”

In the most recent Downbeat Critics Poll (2011), Nash appeared in seven categories,
including Best Composer and Rising Star Best Jazz Artist.

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