LA Times review
Don Heckman's review of the JALC Hollywood Bowl concert, July 9th, 2008.
Interview with NY Times' Nate Chinen
An interview wtih New York Times writer/critic Nate Chinen for Public Radio's "Weekend America" program. Mr. Chinen talks about Ted Nash's group Odeon, with a clib from their CD La Espada de la Noche.
Jazz and Art, "Portrait in Seven Shades"
NY TIMES:
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......(more)
New York Times
"The saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist Ted Nash contributed three of the most ingenious arrangements, packing each with incident and drama. His version of Wayne Shorter's "Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum" was especially memorable. It began at a low simmer, with a sinuous line for piano, bass and bass clarinet; then the band landed on a richly detailed chord, and the trombones played the melody in unison."
Kentucky.Com
Top honors, though, went to "an arrangement of an arrangement" -- specifically, Lincoln Center saxman Ted Nash's joyous expansion of John Coltrane's rich version of My Favorite Things that came to life with a persuasive front line of five dynamite soprano saxophonists.
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