Ted Nash

Ted Nash may refer to:

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Ted Nash (saxophonist, born 1922)

Theodore Malcolm "Ted" Nash (October 31, 1922 - May 12, 2011) was a noted jazz and studio musician who played saxophone, flute and clarinet and was a first-call session musician in the Hollywood recording studios for many years. He was the featured alto sax soloist on almost all of Henry Mancini's movie and television soundtrack projects beginning in the late 1950s.

Early Life and Career

Ted was born in the Boston suburb of Somerville, Massachusetts. His original goal was to become a classical flutist but he began playing saxophone in his early teens. His professional career began when he went on the road with a succession of dance bands finally landing the solo tenor chair with the Les Brown band in 1944 where he rapidly made a name for himself. His distinctive tenor solos are the high points of many of the old Les Brown records.

Ted's playing was notable for his mastery of the extreme altissimo register of the saxophone. He was the author of "Ted Nash's Studies in High Harmonics for Tenor and Alto Saxophone" first published in 1946 and still in print.

Ted Nash (saxophonist, born 1960)

Ted Nash (born December 28, 1960) is a jazz-composer and saxophonist, not to be confused with his uncle of the same name, who was also a saxophonist and first-call Hollywood studio musician.

Best known for his associations with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra directed by Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz Composers Collective, and his own inventive groups, composer and multi- instrumentalist Ted Nash enjoys an extraordinary career as a performer, conductor, composer, arranger, and educator.

His albums are Conception, Rhyme and Reason, Still Evolved, In The Loop.

He has written pieces such as Portrait in Seven Shades, a musical piece dedicated to the representation of seven different artists, each in their own movement. The artists were, in order of representation, Claude Monet, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, and Jackson Pollock. It debuted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at the Rose Theater in the Time Warner Center in New York City and the LP, released in 2010, was nominated for a Grammy.