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Manhattan New Music Project

Now in its seventeenth year of programming, Manhattan New Music Project is a performing arts organization that is recognized worldwide for artistic excellence in jazz and contemporary music. Begun in 1990 by a group of like-minded composers with the aim of fostering the creation and presentation of new musical works, MNMP has sought to cross traditional musical boundaries and catalyze imaginative projects and collaborations involving the creation of new work through performances, recordings, educational and collaborative activities. With a talented core of highly respected musician composers, MNMP has presented music by dozens of composers from around the U.S

Jazz Cycles (The Music of Paul Nash)

By Manhattan New Music Project

Label: MNMP Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Passacaglia; Night Flight; Desire; Wind Over the Lake; Interlude 1; Strange Rife; Outside In; Ballad for T; Interlude 2; Interlude 3; It's Only a Dream; Tamalpais Night; Starlit Skylight; Night Flight (Reprise).

Manhattan New Music Project: Jazz Cycles (The Music of Paul Nash)

by Donald Elfman
January 8, 2008

Paul Nash--composer, teacher, and guitarist--learned in 2003 that he had a fatal brain tumor. He decided to leave a final legacy in a project that would remaster and reissue his earlier Paul Nash Ensemble recordings. This is the first of two discs--the proceeds of which will go to a fund to continue the promotion of further ...

Jazz Cycles (The Music of Paul Nash)

By Manhattan New Music Project

Label: MNMP Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Passaglia; Night Flight; Desire; Wind Over the Lake; Interlude 1; Strange Rife; Outside In; Ballad for T; Interlude 2; Interlude 3; It

Manhattan New Music Project: Jazz Cycles (The Music of Paul Nash)

by John Barron
September 9, 2007

In 2005, visionary composer/guitarist Paul Nash lost his battle with brain cancer. Some six weeks prior to his passing, Nash was able to complete production on Jazz Cycles, a suite orchestrated for his ensemble, Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP). The resulting disc is chock-full of intricate writing, spontaneous group interplay and staggering solos. Stylistically, Nash's music ...