Progressive Jazz Suite - Gary Powell Nash - Jeremy Smith | On the Stage Together

Jeremy Smith performs Gary Powell Nash’s Progressive Jazz Suite (2005).
Gary Powell Nash (1964) is a Professor of Music at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. At Fisk, Nash teaches music classes in theory, technology, and composition, as well as directing the Fisk Jazz Ensemble. Nash’s Progressive Jazz Suite is a three-movement work written for unaccompanied bass trombone. The first movement features jazz riffs similarly found in the music of the jazz fusion band Weather Report. The second movement allows for a soulful ballade to be heard in triple meter form while the third movement showcases the instrument performing grooves of salsa music.
Jeremy E. Smith is a doctoral student at Ohio State University, where he serves as the Graduate Associate for the Jazz Studies area and the Trombone Studio. He received music degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and Grace College. As an educator, Jeremy also teaches in the brass areas at Ohio Wesleyan University, Kenyon College, and Mount Vernon Nazarene University. In 2014, Jeremy founded Last Row Music, an online resource that contains auditions, news, links, and articles relevant to the brass musician and enthusiast. He currently lives in Central Ohio with his family and is a member of the International Trombone Association, Jazz Education Network, and the Jazz Journalists Association.
On the Stage Together is a RUclips series created by Ohio State’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota celebrating diversity and inclusion in music. Performances include works by female and BIPOC composers, while lectures and discussions surround topics of diversity and inclusion in music.