Dick Nash
Richard Taylor "Dick" Nash (born January 26, 1928) is an American jazz trombonist most associated with the swing and big band genres.
He began playing brass instruments at ten. He became more interested in this after his parents died and he was sent to Kurn Hattin Homes for Children (www.kurnhattin.org) in Vermont. At Kurn Hattin Homes, the first instruments he studied were the trumpet and bugle.[1] His first professional work came in 1947 with bands like that of Tex Beneke. After time in the United States Army, where he served and played for a band, he joined Billy May's band. Later he became a first call studio musician in Los Angeles, California.[2] He was composer, conductor Henry Mancini's favorite trombonist and was featured soloist on several Mancini soundtracks beginning with Mr. Lucky and Peter Gunn. Nash's smooth and mellow trombone solo is featured on the Theme From Hatari! from the soundtrack for the John Wayne film (1962) or Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961) and The Days of Wine and Roses . In 1959 he played bass trombone on Art Pepper + Eleven – Modern Jazz Classics.
Discography
- The Music from Peter Gunn (1959)
- The Music from Mr. Lucky (1960)
- Combo! 1960
- The Blues and the Beat (featured on "Misty")
- Uniquely Mancini (1963)
- Concert Sound of Henry Mancini (1964)
- Latin Sound of Henry Mancini (1965)
- Big Latin Band of Henry Mancini (1968)
- Cop Show Themes (1976)
- Lincoln Mayorga & Distinguished (1974)
- Symphonic Soul
- Theme from Z and Other Film Music
- Theme Scene (1978)
- Mancini Touch (1996)
- Big Band Sounds (2000)
- Chances Are It Swings (RCA Victor, 1958)
- Rugolo Plays Kenton (EmArcy, 1958)
- 10 Trombones Like 2 Pianos (Mercury, 1960)
- The Original Music of Thriller (Time, 1961)
- Music from Mission: Impossible (Dot, 1967)
- More Mission: Impossible (Paramount, 1968)
- Mannix (Paramount, 1968)
- Kelly's Heroes (soundtrack) (MGM, 1970)
- Enter the Dragon (soundtrack) (Warner Bros., 1973)
- Jazz 'Round Midnight: Three Divas (1995)
- For the Love of Ella (1956)
- Complete Songsbooks (1956)
- Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book (1960)
- Essential: Great Songs (1994)
- Dancers Delight (1996)
- Music in the Miller Mood (2000)
- Harry James in Hi-Fi (1955)
- Anthology (2000)
- Anthology [Japan] (2001)
- Bursting Out With The All-Star Big (1959)
- Swinging Brass (1996)
- Louie Bellson's 7 (1976)
- Live at Concord Summer Festival (1995)
- Billy May Sessions (1951)
- Collection (1944)
- Finest Hour (2001)
- Best of June Christy (1949)
- Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (Prestige, 1968)
- Art Pepper + Eleven (1959)
- Jam Session at the Tower (1956)
- Hair (Capitol, 1969)
- 50th Anniversary Celebration (1991)
- Anything Goes (1990)
- Music from Other Galaxies
- South Rampart Street Parade (1963)
- Jazz Me Blues (1998)
- Tutti's Trombones (1983)
- Duets (1993)
- Hit Years (1986)
- Best of the RCA Years (1998)
- Blues Cross Country (1961)
- Close-Up in Swing (1961)
- You Brought a New Kind of Love (1963)
- Jazz 'Round Midnight (1954)
- Trav'lin' Light (1961)
- Ultimate Anita O'Day (1999)
- With Erroll Garner Night at the Movies Up in Erroll's (1999)
- Help Is on the Way (1976)
- 16 Most Requested Songs (1977)
- Four Corners of the World (1958)
- Other Worlds Other Sounds (1958)
- Everything Must Change (1980)
- Best of Randy Crawford (1996)
- 1100 Bel Air Place (1984)
- In Good Company (1990)
- Showstoppers (1991)
- Christmas Album (1992)
- Timepiece (1994)
Don Swan
- Hot Cha Cha
- Latin Obsession
Rudiger Gleisberg
- Arabesque
- King of the Olympics
- Smile (Tribute to Hollywood)
Sonny Criss Orchestra
- Sonny's Dream (1968)
Hollywood Trombones
- Christmas Songs & Carols (1992)
- Red Back Book/ Elite Syncopations (1992)
- Fascinatin' Rampal (1994)
The Palladium Orchestra
- Big Band Latin Heat (1998)
- Brass Nation (2000)
Various Artist
- All the Things You Are (1952)
- Jazz Giants Plays Horace Silver (1954)
- Gershwin Songbook: 'S Marvelous: (1994)
- Fine Romance: Jerome Kern Songbook (1994)
- Complete Gershwin Songbooks (1995)
- Gershwin Jazz Round Midnight (1998)
- West Coast Jazz Box: An Anthology (1998)
- Complete Jerome Kern Songbooks (1997)
- Scott Joplin Digital Ragtime/Wall Street Rag (1985)
- Rob Reiner Peter and the Wolf (1958)
- Nancy Nevins (1975)
Movie Soundtracks
- Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961)
- Charade (1963)
- Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
- Hatari! (1962) (featured soloist "Theme From Hatari!")
- Original Soundtrack The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings (1976)
- Quincy Jones Roots (1977)
- Original Soundtrack King of the Olympics (1988)
- Original Soundtrack Sabrina (1995)
- Planet of the Apes (2001)