{"id":18047,"date":"2016-01-18T13:38:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/featured-artist-jazz-at-lincoln-centers-ted-nash-on-wynton-marsalis\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:42:07","slug":"featured-artist-jazz-at-lincoln-centers-ted-nash-on-wynton-marsalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impactmania.com\/im\/featured-artist-jazz-at-lincoln-centers-ted-nash-on-wynton-marsalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist: Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Ted Nash on Wynton Marsalis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Featured Artist: Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Ted Nash on Wynton Marsalis<\/span><\/h1>\n
BY PAKSY PLACKIS-CHENG<\/h5>\n
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Each month we ask artists in the city we cover to share one of their favorite impact makers.<\/p>\n

Ted Nash<\/strong> is a Grammy-nominated musician and speaks to impactmania<\/em> about one of his impact makers.<\/p>\n

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Ted Nash<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cWynton Marsalis<\/a><\/strong> is my favorite impact maker.<\/p>\n

Not only is he one of the most diligent and dedicated musicians I have ever met, but he has embraced hundreds of musicians, inviting us into his creative circle, inspiring, organizing, exposing and employing us. His hard work has been extremely effective in preserving and advancing the jazz art form. He is a performer, composer, businessman, speaker, humanitarian and writer. I am continually inspired by his hard work.<\/p>\n

In 1979, shortly after moving to New York at age eighteen, composer\/bass player Chuck Israels<\/strong><\/a>, with whom I was working at the time, told me he heard a teenager in New Orleans playing the trumpet. He mentioned his name and said I would be hearing about him very soon. And that I did. I became an instant fan of Wynton\u2019s recordings.<\/p>\n

I dreamed I would someday play with him, a dream I assumed would remain a fantasy. Not only did that dream come true, playing with his band and soon after joining the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (probably my most important musical association) but it continues to grow. Being in the JLCO<\/a> for eighteen years has allowed me to see this visionary develop an institution with a 150 million dollar performance space that has reached over a million students and fans.<\/p>\n

But I think I am most impressed when, after a long day of traveling, rehearsing and performing he still finds the time to spend 30 minutes backstage with a young trumpet player, working on his sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

Listen to what Ted Nash thinks he sounds like \u2014
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“Why I think this is my fanfare<\/a><\/strong>.
\nThis piece (overture, 2:32 min into the video) addresses most of the aspects of what I think jazz represents – groove, swing, improvised solos, counterpoint and development. It sets the stage for the Suite, but also is a little slice of who I am.”<\/p>\n