[1][2][3] Nash is a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra directed by Wynton Marsalis.

Both were big band veterans, jazz soloists and session musicians who worked regularly with Henry Mancini and Les Brown.

[5] Portrait in Seven Shades is a seven-movement suite dedicated to seven modern painters: Claude Monet, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, Marc Chagall, and Jackson Pollock.

[7] Nash's album Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom (Motéma, 2016) consists of Nash's compositions interwoven with historic political speeches by Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Aung San Suu Kyi.

The speeches are read by Sam Waterston, Wynton Marsalis, Joe Lieberman, and Glenn Close.