Career
He also leads the funk/fusion band Protect the Beat. After studying electroacoustics at Salford University, Nash became a sound engineer at the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1982, leaving in 2002 to become a full-time musician and to set up his own Clowns Pocket Recording Studio. Derek Nash"s Clowns Pocket Recording Studio has been used by many British musicians to record, mix and master albums including Jamie Cullum, George Melly, Stan Tracey, Tony Remy, Georgie Fame, Dave O"Higgins, Evelina De Lain, Geoff Gascoyne and many others
Nash has performed with David Sanborn, John Dankworth, Dick Morrissey, Spike Robinson, Humphrey Lyttelton, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Solomon Burke, Annie Lennox, Eddie Floyd, Madeleine Peyroux, Roger Daltrey, Eddi Reader, Tom Jones, Don Grusin, Dave Grusin, John Etheridge, Russell Ferrante, Nelson Rangell, Snake Davis, Bob Dorough, Oscar Castro Neves, Clare Teal, Jamie Cullum, Alan Barnes, Axel Zwingenberger, Dave Green, Charlie Watts, George Melly, Bob Dorough, Shakatak, Lulu, India Arie, Alison Moyet, Clark Tracey, Alec Dankworth, Ben Waters, Digby Fairweather and Jools Holland.
The album he recorded with Spike Robinson, Young Lions, Old Tigers (2000), was named Best Jazz Civil Defense of the Year., a feat repeated in 2012 with his "Joyriding" album by the Derek Nash Acoustic Quartet. Both albums are released on JAZZIZIT Records and Nash is a co-director of the label.
