Ted Nash is a Grammy-nominated and multi-instrumentalist who is about to release his twelfth solo recording - Chakra. Set for release on September 17, 2013, it features a 16-piece big band. Born in Los Angeles, Nash's interest in music started at an early age. He was exposed to music 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. One of Nash's most important associations is with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Nash has that uncanny ability to mix freedom with accessibility, blues with intellect, and risk-taking with clarity. His 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. Nash takes his creative expression to a new level with this pioneering recording, featuring New York's top musicians, including Tim Hagans, Anat Cohen, Charles Pillow, Martin Wind and Ulysses Owens, as well as talented new-comers trumpeter Alphonso Horne, baritone saxophonist Paul Nadzela and pianist Christopher Ziemba. ~ tednash.com
TRIFIELD GUITAR PROJECT - MONTANA SUITE
New
virtuoso trio Trifield Guitar Project is readying its debut album "Montana
Suite," a genre-defying guitar tour-de-force available worldwide Aug. 26,
2013 on Trifield Guitar Project Label. Canadian classical guitarist Karl
Marino, Israeli blues/rock guitarist Rami Halperin and American-born jazz/rock
guitarist Alexander Sill met by chance last summer in Montana at the Crown of
the Continent Guitar Festival, an invite-only workshop for guitarists. Excited by
their unique chemistry, the trio set to work on "Montana Suite" with
New Zealand-born bassist Ben Shepherd and drummer Wesley Ritenour, son of jazz
guitar legend Lee Ritenour. Grammy-winner Neil Citron recorded the album. The
centerpiece of "Montana Suite" is its title track, a 15-minute
longform composition written for the group's forthcoming performance at The
Crown of the Continent Guitar Festival on Aug. 27. Other performers at the
festival include Pat Metheny and Robben Ford. "Montana Suite" also features
other new compositions from the group’s members, and a rendition of Ralph
Towner and John Abercrombie’s formidable “Juggler’s Etude.”
New from Real Gone Music is Stan Hunter and Sonny Fortune's "Trip on the Strip" which is a rare and sublime Hammond/tenor date from Prestige Records, quite different from the label's usual groove. The set marks the first appearance on record of future Miles Davis electric band mainstay Sonny Fortune - who's already quite far-reaching and spiritual in his sound - paired here with organist Stan Hunter, who has a bit of Larry Young touch to his style. The complete 1966 release, with notes by Pat Thomas.
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