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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. and abroad through its New York City-based concert series. This has included venues such as Carnegie Hall, Knitting Factory, Sweet Basil, The Fez, and the Anne Goodman Recital Hall. MNMP has to date released two critically acclaimed CDs of works written by it's artistic associates, Mood Swing and The Soul of Grace (both released on Soul Note Records) and is currently preparing the release for two more CDs of works that our late founder, Paul Nash completed and recorded in the last year of his life (Avant Noir and Jazz Cycles). In early 2007, MNMP won the CMA / ASCAP award for adventurous programming by a jazz ensemble.

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

Read "Jazz Cycles (The Music of Paul Nash)" reviewed by Donald Elfman


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 work. The Manhattan New Project is the septet of colleagues and friends that Nash selected to record this extraordinarily rich collection ...

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

Read "Jazz Cycles (The Music of Paul Nash)" reviewed by John Barron


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 runs the gamut of contemporary jazz; from free-form, to post-bop to funk.

The ensemble work throughout the disc's fifteen tracks is stunning. In the ...

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