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Richard Taylor Nash, for the best part of half a century Dick Nash has been 'first call' in the Hollywood studios, working with such great composers as Alfred Newman, Henry Mancini and John Williams, to name but a few. the well known studio musician, considered by composer, conductor Henry Mancini as his favorite trombonist, writing several arragments often featuring Dick as soloist on his soundtracks. Frank Capp also from the New England area, recommended Nash to conductor Ken Hanna who ran a regular Sunday afternoon rehearsal band. One of the trombone players couldn't make it so Dick sat in. Hanna pulled out a trombone feature which ended with a cadenza and Dick feeling a little frisky, went up to a double G and nailed it. Hanna's eyes light up saying "I want you to come back next week as I'm going to write something for you". It turned out to be Nirvana which was the very first thing he recorded in this town and it sort of put Dick Nash on the map. Dick was gaining a reputation as a high note player, having been invited to join in the weekly sessions at the famous Hoyt's Garage with the likes of Tommy Pederson, Lloyd Ulyate, Joe Howard, Harry Betts, Milt Bernhart and of course Hoyt Bohannon and it was Pederson who recommended him for the Freddy Martin Band. After 18 months, on the recommendation of his brother Ted, Dick found himself sitting beside Joe Howard on a Tennessee Ernie Summer Replacement TV show, followed by another TV show with Musical Director Frank DeVol. Nash was playing two or three solos, when he later went to work at Fox, Vince De Rosa said he used to listen and wait for Dick's solos. Stints followed with the bands of Les Brown and Charlie Barnet. Enter Ray Klein, the trombonist at Fox who had heard Dick play Nirvana on the radio and who with several other of the studio musicians at Fox, liked to get together for a blow. He invited Dick to join them for their informal sessions, with the end result he was asked to fill Ray Klein's chair when he stepped down at Fox in 1958. The Nash trombone has been heard soloing on so many Hollywood movies over the past four decades, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses, Sanctuary, not to mention innumerable television shows and record dates.
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The Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra West: Postcards from Hollywood
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by Jack Bowers
While many people have been excited or enraptured by the music scores accompanying Hollywood's most beloved films, few know (or perhaps even care) who wrote them. That's a shame, as these composers (and their contemporaries) were musical trailblazers whose names should be enshrined forever in the annals of artistic brilliance. One who does care is composer/arranger Scott Whitfield who has dedicated the latest album by his Jazz Orchestra West, Postcards from Hollywood, to their remarkable (and too-often overlooked) legacy.
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You're in for a huge treat, but you don't know it yet. Back in the 10-inch LP days, on February 14, 1955, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims was in Los Angeles cutting a four-track session for Jump Records, a Hollywood label founded by Clive Acker and Ed Kocher in 1944 just after the first AFM recording ban was settled. The leader of the Jump date was Hall Daniels, a top studio arranger who went on to score the Beach Party movies ...
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Dick Nash Receives 2008 ITA Award
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The ITA Board of Directors, Board of Advisors and Council of Past Presidents have voted Dick Nash, legendary trombonist of the Los Angeles recording industry, to receive the 2008 ITA Award.
Since his 1953 arrival to Los Angeles, he has been featured in countless recordings with artists that include Henry Mancini, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Nat King" Cole, Harry James, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis, Lena Horne and Jean-Pierre Rampal, to name just a few! In addition ...
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