Nash was a member of the Tommy Flanagan Trio from 1990 to 2000 and was featured on six other CD recordings with the piano master. Nash's impressive discography also includes projects with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson and Benny Carter as well as Ron Carter, Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton and Roy Hargrove. Both Wynton Marsalis and Jon Faddis, in their capacities as orchestra conductors, have asked Lewis to be part of live performances and recordings by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, respectively. NEC's Jazz Masters Residency Program is funded with the generous support of Bruce Hauben and the Helen C. Hauben Foundation of Stow, Massachusetts.
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One of the original members of NEC's jazz faculty, legendary jazz composer and theorist George Russell has led jazz orchestra concerts at NEC every year for more than three decades, guiding student players deep into the sound world of his catalog of works. The program will include the NEC premiere of Uncommon Ground, commissioned by the New England Presenters in 1987, Stratusphunk, and All About Rosie. They will perform improvisatory world music. They will perform original compositions and music of Wayne Shorter, George Harrison, Stevie Wonder, and Charlie Parker. NEC's Jordan Hall, Tuesday, April 3 at 8pm.