Jazz at Lincoln Center’s newest project, Portrait in Seven Shades, composed by reedman Ted Nash has released a web-cast of Nash playing at the MoMA.  With each day dedicated to a different artist, Nash can be seen playing a piece from Seven Shades in front of the respective works of the artist du jour.

Portrait in Seven Shades tells a story about seven painters—not through words, as in a museum description, but through music. Many parallels can be drawn between art and music. Like painters, musicians talk of colors, layers and composition. Several stylistic descriptors—impressionistic, abstract, pop—are common to both fields. And of course there is the blues.

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