From New York jazz clubs to Minnesota art houses, Ted Nash and Jeremy Walker have been friends and collaborators for more than two decades.

Nash is a two-time Grammy Award winning saxophonist and a longtime member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. Walker is a pianist and composer who has been featured on NPR’s Composers Datebook and just last year moved to Asheville. Nash and Walker are reuniting this Saturday for a one-night-only performance, June 27, at Mars Landing Arts Center in Mars Hill.

Matt Peiken talks with Nash and Walker about their shared history and musical connections, their creative arcs as composers and the program they’re cooking up at Mars Landing.