Kenneth Nash

World-Renown Recording Artist and Performer

Kenneth Nash has performed or recorded on hundreds of recordings and productions with such artists as:

Herbie Hancock

Pointer Sisters
Weather Report
Sergio Mendes
Dizzy Gillespie
Ahmad Jamal
Freddie Hubbard
Grover Washington Jr.
B.B.King

Andy Narrell
Pharoah Sanders
Alice Coltrane
Bobby McFerrin
Roy Haynes
Ira Sullivan
Airto
Cannonball Adderly
John Handy
Kenny Burrell
Gary Bartz
Merle Saunders
Norman Connors

Bobby Hutcherson
Andre Crouch
Walter and Edwin Hawkins
Tramaine Hawkins
Art Pepper
Johnny Griffin
Michael White
Patrice Rushen
Raoul DeSouza
Mel Martin and Listen
John Lee Hooker
J.J. Johnson
Dexter Gordon
Kenny Clark
Woody Herman
Stan Getz
Lionel Hampton
Sadao Watanabe

Kenneth has written and performed music for films, television and theater including the following:

• NBC Special Events "Billion Dollar Movies" Soundtrack, Lee Mendelson, producer.
• NBC Affiliate (KRON) Television Drama "Tell Pharoah", Kenneth Nash, musical director.
• Jane Fonda's Caribbean Workout video.
• Black Stallion, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, Kenneth composed and
• performed four musical scores.
• Arrangements & performance of music for radio & TV commercials.
• Nash created special music for designer Laurel Burch.

Kenneth has done extensive teaching in the following areas:

• Principles of Percussion (performance and instrument making) National Endowment of the Arts grant for private instruction.
• Principles of Percussion, NEA, Artists in Residence, Arts-in-the-Schools Program, Rio Linda School District, CA
• Principles of Afro-Cuban Drumming, Laney College
• Principles of Hand-Drumming, Lone Mountain College,
• Private instruction
• Principles of Percussion, Mills College
• Principles of Percussion & Improvisation, Visiting instructor, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• Master classes and lecture demonstrations, USA, Germany, Spain, France and South Pacific.

Kenneth Nash has conceived and created eleven separate gospel album projects for Maranatha!/Word Records. Included are the I Am Messianic praise series (which has become the number one selling Messianic praise record of all times), as well as the Mehler/Nash Jazz Praise series.

Kenneth Nash endorses World Percussion by Remo, Paiste Cymbals and Gongs, Engelhart Bells and Percussion, Custom percussion by Rhythms, wireless microphones by Nady Systems and Po-Boy Drums and Percussion.

Kenneth is the author of Rhythms Talk, his current book, published in three languages by Advance Music, Rottensburg am Necker, Germany, with worldwide distribution. A gifted teacher, Rhythms Talk is a singularly unique concept Nash created to help students, at any level, learn how to create their own musical voice, stressing the aspect that music is a language.