Derek Nash (musician)
Derek Nash (born 28 July 1961) is a British jazz saxophonist, band leader and recording engineer.
For over thirty years, Nash has led Sax Appeal, which won the John Dankworth Award for Ensemble in the 1998 B.T. Jazz Awards, and subsequently the British Jazz Award for best small group in 2000. He also leads the funk/fusion band Protect the Beat.
He has been a member of the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra since 2004,
After studying electroacoustics at Salford University, Nash became a sound engineer at the BBC in 1982, leaving in 2002 to become a full-time musician and to set up his own Clowns Pocket Recording Studio.[1]
Nash has performed with David Sanborn, John Dankworth, Dick Morrissey, Spike Robinson, Humphrey Lyttelton, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Solomon Burke, Annie Lennox, Eddie Floyd, Madeleine Peyroux, Roger Daltrey, Eddi Reader, Tom Jones, Don Grusin, Dave Grusin, John Etheridge, Russell Ferrante, Nelson Rangell, Snake Davis, Bob Dorough, Oscar Castro Neves, Clare Teal, Jamie Cullum, Alan Barnes, Axel Zwingenberger, Dave Green, Charlie Watts, George Melly, Bob Dorough, Shakatak, Lulu, India Arie, Alison Moyet, Clark Tracey, Alec Dankworth, Ben Waters, Digby Fairweather and Jools Holland.[1][2]
The album he recorded with Spike Robinson, Young Lions, Old Tigers (2000), was named Best Jazz CD of the Year.,[2] a feat repeated in 2012 with his "Joyriding" album by the Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet. Both albums are released on JAZZIZIT Records and Nash is a co-director of the label.
Awards
- John Dankworth Award for Ensemble in the 1998 B.T. Jazz awards
- British Jazz Award (Small Group) for Sax Appeal (2000)
- Best Jazz CD of the Year for Young Lions, Old Tigers with Spike Robinson (2002)
- Best Jazz CD of the Year for Joyriding with the Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet (2012)
Nominations
- Nominated for Jazz Musician of the Year by the Global Music Foundation and voted in the Top 3 Alto Saxophonists in the 2010 British Jazz Awards.
Discography
As leader/co-leader
- 2012: "'Joyriding – with Dave Newton, Geoff Gascoyne and Sebastiaan de Krom
- 2009: Snapshot – with Jan Lundgren, Geoff Gascoyne and Steve Brown
- 2000: Young Lions, Old Tigers – with Spike Robinson, Pete Cater, Nick Weldon, Rob Rickenberg
- 1998: Setting New Standards – with Clark Tracey, Alec Dankworth and Graham Harvey
- With Sax Appeal
- 2014: "Funkerdeen"
- 2006: The Flatiron Suite
- 2000: Take No Prisoners
- 1997: Outside In
- 1994: Let's Go
- 1991: Flat Out
- With Protect the Beat
- 2002: It Ain't Dinner Jazz
- 2007: Intrepid
As sideman
- With the Jools Holland Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
- "The Golden Age of Song" 2012
- "Rockinghorse" 2010
- "The Informer" 2008
- "Best of Friends" 2007
- "Moving Out to the Country" 2006
- "Swinging the Blues, Dancing the Ska" 2005
- "Tom Jones and Jools Holland" 2004
- With Ben Waters
- Shakin' in the Makin'
- Hurricane
- Boogie for Stu