{"id":264365,"date":"2023-01-30T19:43:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=264365"},"modified":"2023-01-31T13:46:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:46:31","slug":"jazz-and-art-with-ted-nash-in-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/jazz-and-art-with-ted-nash-in-havana\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz and art with Ted Nash in Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Nash needs no introduction among <\/span>jazz<\/b><\/a> lovers. Multi-instrumentalist, composer, conductor, arranger, producer, pedagogue, the American is a prominent figure on the contemporary jazz scene. He has been the winner of two Grammy Awards, has a vast discography and an applauded career on stage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Born into an eminently musical family, <\/span>Nash<\/b><\/a>\u00a0 (Los Angeles, 1960) was one of the founders of the <\/span>Jazz Composers Collective<\/span>. He has been in various formations throughout his career and is currently a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, directed by famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, he carries out several personal projects. One of them was delivered these days in the Cuban capital.<\/span><\/p>\n

He came to the island to participate in the <\/span>38th International Jazz Plaza Festival<\/b><\/a>, which ended this Sunday and brought together a wide range of Cuban and international musicians, including a large group from the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJazz x Art\u201d in Fine Arts<\/b><\/p>\n

Nash did not travel to Havana just to introduce himself to the Cubans as a musician \u2014 he plays different types of saxophone, clarinet, flute \u2014 and shares the stage with other artists; his stay also had an educational profile, in which he combined musical and jazz creation with another of his favorite manifestations: plastic arts.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cJazz x Art\u201d is the name of the project that the U.S. musician led last week in a privileged setting: the National Museum of Fine Arts, in Havana. In its Cuban Art building, he brought together about twenty young students from the National School of Art (ENA), with the collaboration of professors from this teaching center on the island, under a singular premise: to be inspired by works exhibited in the museum, to improvise based on them and compose a musical work.<\/span><\/p>\n

From Tuesday to Saturday, the participating students created their own pieces, both individually and as a team, in the halls of the institution. In addition, they participated in group work sessions \u2014 in a room that displays paintings by the notable Cuban artist <\/span>Wifredo Lam<\/b><\/a>, for whom Nash does not hide his admiration \u2014 in which they showed their progress and received guidance from the artist and other professors. The entire exercise, moreover, was recorded with the idea of leaving \u201cdocumentary evidence of how the workshop was held and how the pedagogical and creative process turned out,\u201d according to the musician.<\/span><\/p>\n