Ted Nash Big Band: Portrait in Seven Shades
About This Event
Saxophonist, flutist and composer Ted Nash brings his big band to Dizzy's Club to perform his original compositions and arrangements. Raised in a working musician's family and long associated with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s orchestra under Wynton Marsalis until 2024, Nash—also a founder of the Jazz Composers Collective—favors structure and detail over display, qualities evident in the Ted Nash Big Band's ensemble work.
About Portrait in Seven Shades
“Portrait in Seven Shades” arrives at Dizzy’s Club as a live jazz set led by Ted Nash, performed with the Ted Nash Big Band. The piece works like a suite, moving through seven distinct tonal and rhythmic palettes to sketch character and atmosphere rather than plot. In a city where big-band writing has long been part of the jazz bloodstream, it reads as a contemporary entry in that lineage, shaped for the room and the musicians onstage. The writing favors clarity and restraint, letting ensemble color do the storytelling.
About the Artists
Ted Nash Big Band
The Ted Nash Big Band is a jazz ensemble led by saxophonist and composer Ted Nash, known for its performances of original compositions and arrangements in the big band style.
Ted Nash
Ted Nash is a jazz saxophonist, flutist, and composer with deep roots in a working musician’s family, shaped by the studio and bandstand traditions of his father, trombonist Dick Nash, and his uncle, saxophonist Ted Nash.