Dick Nash Tribute
Dick Nash is one of my favorite trombonists. As an LA jazz and studio player, his career is unparalleled. Known for a beautiful sound, tasteful vibrato and soaring range, his improvisational skill is also prodigious. This page is a tribute to him and includes selected sound files of recordings made over a > 50 year career from a set of 8 CDs he gave to me after I met him at the 2008 International Trombone Festival. For more information see this link. Barabara, Dick’s wife of many decades died in 2010, but we wish Dick many more healthy years of inspiring trombonists.
Sound files below (some are large, Quicktime recommended)
See also You Tube videos including one on my Bone Videos page.
Classic Dick Nash Recordings
Nirvana (with Ken Hanna)
Encore (with Ken Hanna)
For Heaven’s Sake (Nash Brothers)
Theme from the Bad and the Beautiful (Nash Brothers)
Jealousie (Luis Aceraz Band, Don Paladino Trumpet)
Fascination (Luis Aceraz Band, Conrad Gozzo Lead Trumpet)
Melancholy Baby (Clebanoff Strings)
Serape (TV theme "Honey West" )
Emily (Andre Previn)
The Wonderfulness of You (from I Spy)
Yesterday (Percy Faith)
Farewell My Lovely (Main Titile)
Georgia (arranger Pat Williams from the sound track of The Cheap Detective)
Excerpts from Secrets of a Mother and Daughter Part 4
Isn’t It Romantic (arranged by Pete Rugolo)
Queen’s Sacrifice (Checkmate TV Show Album, Ted Nash reeds (bros), Jimmy Rowles Piano, Larry Bunker vibes, Conrad Gozzo lead trumpet, 1964)
The Way You Look Tonight (with Les Brown)
Call Me Irresponsible (from the movie Sabrina)
Katy (with Sammy Nestico)
Dick Nash with Trombone Section Work
Impossible (Solos: Joe Howard, Murray MacEachern, Eddie Kusby, George Roberts, Tommy Pederson, Dick Nash)
The Night we Fell in Love (Wayne King Orchestra)
Two Wild Hearts (Nelson Riddle chart, Tommy Pederson lead trombone, Nash solo, Ronnie Lang alto)
Everything I Have is Yours (Dick Nash arrangement and solo, Art Kane Piano)
Mancini Recordings
Soft Touch (from Hatari)
Big Band Recordings from Time-Life series. Dick emulating other players in parentheses.
Marie (Tommy Dorsey)
Moonlight on the Ganges (Tommy Dorsey)
Southern Scandal (Fred Zito with Stan Kenton)
Goosey Gander (Bill Harris with Woody Herman)
Chicago (Tommy Dorsey)
High on a Windy Trumpet (Don Boyd with Les Brown)
Bijou (Bill Harris with Woody Herman)
Peanut Vendor (Milt Bernhardt with Stan Kenton)
April in Paris (Henry Coker with Count Basie)
Combo Recordings
Body and Soul (live at Donte’s with son Ted)
Blues in F (live at Donte’s with son Ted)
Here’s that Rainy Day (with Bobby Knight’s Great American Trombone Company)
Body and Soul (with Louis Bellson)
Can’t we be Friends (“Friends” a family album with Billy Mays and Mel Lewis)
Regina (“Friends”a family album with Billy Mays and Mel Lewis)
A Sleepin’ Bee ("Friends" with wife Barbara on vocals, son Ted 25 on sax and as above)
How Much Do I Love You (Sue Raney vocals)
Taylor Talks (with Frank Comstock’s lab band)
It Ain’t Necessarily So (Bill Marks Octet)
I Remember You (Memorial Concert for Jules Stein at UCLA 1981, Helen O'Connell vocal)
Recordings on baritone or valve trombone, mostly TV or Movie Sound Tracks.
Night Flower (valve trombone)
The Sound of Silver (baritone)
An Umarried Woman (baritone)
Happily Ever After (baritone)
Something for Nash (valve trombone)
A Far Out Place (baritone)
I purposely left out the Tutti’s Trombones and Hollywood Trombones Christmas selections as those recordings are still easily available from commercial sources. The recordings above are difficult to access otherwise.
DIck Nash Links
British Trombone Society Interview by Sheila Tracy
