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JLCO with Wynton Marsalis March 2010 US tour reviewed
On March 2010, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis toured the US performing Ted Nash’s Portrait in Seven Shades.
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Wynton Marsalis and JLCO To Release New CD on February 2nd and Tour US In March 2010
Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will embark on the “Portrait in Seven Shades” U.S. Tour in March 2010. The band will perform selections from the suite as well as a repertoire to include tunes by Count Basie, Mary Lou Williams and others.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center announces the CD release of Portrait in Seven Shades, composed by jazz reedman Ted Nash and performed by the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis… -
Making Degas and Picasso Into Jazz Stars
Music is like a painting that exists in time; painting is like music that exists in space. Bringing them together was the worthy goal of “Jazz and Art,” a weekend concert series inspired by the collection at the Modern Museum of Art and presented this weekend at the Rose Theater by Jazz at Lincoln Center. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra was heard under the direction of multireed player — here called “guest conductor” — Ted Nash, who normally plays alto saxophone and flute with the band.
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Brush Strokes of Sound: Art That Keeps Changing
One morning last July, the saxophonist Ted Nash took a spin through the fourth- and fifth-floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art. It was a visit studded with small realizations, in the placid hour before crowds arrive. Ann Temkin, MoMA’s curator of painting and sculpture, was there to answer questions, of which Mr. Nash had a few. Keep reading »
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The World Premieres of Ted Nash’s Portrait In Seven Shades
The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will premiere saxophonist Ted Nash musical composition entitled “Portrait in Seven Shades” in a concert entitled Jazz and Art on February 22, 23, 24 at Rose Theater in Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City, depicting the influence of one art form on another.
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