Manhattan New Music Project / Jazz Cycles: Mnmp Performs Paul Nash
| Album: | Jazz Cycles: Mnmp Performs Paul Nash | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Manhattan New Music Project | Added: | Sep 2007 | |
| Label: | Mnmp Records | |||
A-File Activity
| Add Date: | 2007-09-23 | Pull Date: | 2007-11-25 | Charts: | Jazz |
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| Week Ending: | Nov 25 | Nov 18 | Oct 14 | Oct 7 | Sep 30 |
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| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Aug 23, 2014: | Music Casserole
Night Flight, Passaglia |
4. | Oct 12, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum
Tamalpais Night, It's Only A Dream |
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| 2. | Nov 23, 2007: | Memory Select
Passaglia/Night Flight |
5. | Oct 06, 2007: | orangeasm
Night Flight (Reprise) |
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| 3. | Nov 16, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum
Night Flight, Passaglia |
6. | Sep 27, 2007: | RIpRidah Radio
Outside In |
Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2007-09-20
Reviewed 2007-09-20
MANHATTAN NEW MUSIC PROJECT: Jazz Cycles
MNMP, 2007
MODERN JAZZ – Composer/bandleader Paul Nash, who led the Bay Area Composers Orchestra in the 1980s, spent the final year of his life gathering his various compositions into a set of definitive documents. This disc is the first part of that legacy. It features not-quite mainstream pieces meant to reflect Nash’s 30-year musical journey, recorded by his final band. Very fine writing, crisp performances, a lovely disc.
Fo’s Picks: 1-2, 6, 11-12
Note: This CD is really a suite, but it can also be broken up as shown below...
1-2. 7:17 – guitar motif picked up by horns; impassioned sax, then becomes a hot bumping groove, solos for bass, guitar, sax
3-5. 9:43 – gentle ballad with some odd angles lurking inside, free segue into insistent theme, soft-edged piano & burning sax, solo bass
6. 2:55 – slurring group improv over sinister bass
7. 3:10 – uplifting chords, contemporary sound, warm round of solos
8. 2:40 – comfortable, soulful ballad, horns in unison, sax break
9-10. 1:06 – very brief interludes
11-12. 12:13 – cool midnight swing, very nice piano & upbeat sax; solo guitar interlude, drum solo, then gently propulsive with friendly solos
13. 2:13 – variation on #3, with a long pause in the middle
14. 9:57 – burgeoning ‘70s jazz sound, updated a bit; warm and pleasant
15. 1:13 – reprise of #2
[ Fo ] 20-Sep-07
MNMP, 2007
MODERN JAZZ – Composer/bandleader Paul Nash, who led the Bay Area Composers Orchestra in the 1980s, spent the final year of his life gathering his various compositions into a set of definitive documents. This disc is the first part of that legacy. It features not-quite mainstream pieces meant to reflect Nash’s 30-year musical journey, recorded by his final band. Very fine writing, crisp performances, a lovely disc.
Fo’s Picks: 1-2, 6, 11-12
Note: This CD is really a suite, but it can also be broken up as shown below...
1-2. 7:17 – guitar motif picked up by horns; impassioned sax, then becomes a hot bumping groove, solos for bass, guitar, sax
3-5. 9:43 – gentle ballad with some odd angles lurking inside, free segue into insistent theme, soft-edged piano & burning sax, solo bass
6. 2:55 – slurring group improv over sinister bass
7. 3:10 – uplifting chords, contemporary sound, warm round of solos
8. 2:40 – comfortable, soulful ballad, horns in unison, sax break
9-10. 1:06 – very brief interludes
11-12. 12:13 – cool midnight swing, very nice piano & upbeat sax; solo guitar interlude, drum solo, then gently propulsive with friendly solos
13. 2:13 – variation on #3, with a long pause in the middle
14. 9:57 – burgeoning ‘70s jazz sound, updated a bit; warm and pleasant
15. 1:13 – reprise of #2
[ Fo ] 20-Sep-07
Track Listing
| 1. | Passaglia | 8. | Ballad For T | |||
| 2. | Night Flight | 9. | Interlude 2 | |||
| 3. | Desire | 10. | Interlude 3 | |||
| 4. | Wind Over The Lake | 11. | It's Only A Dream | |||
| 5. | Interlude 1 | 12. | Tamalpais Night | |||
| 6. | Strange Rife | 13. | Starlit Skylight | |||
| 7. | Outside In | 14. | Night Flight (Reprise) |