Paul Nash (musician)

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Paul Nash (born February 19, 1948 in the Bronx , New York City , † January 27, 2005 in Manhattan ) was an American jazz guitarist , composer and music teacher .

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Nash, son of a classical pianist, played in rock bands in the mid-1960s, with whom he a. a. in the legendary Cafe Wha? performed in Greenwich Village . He studied at Berklee College of Music , moved to San Francisco and, after graduating from Mills College (1972) in jazz and composition, founded the 10-member Paul Nash Ensemble in 1977 . a. the trumpeter Mark Isham and the drummer Eddie Marshall belonged. Nash's band played mostly New Age music for the Windham Hill Records label . A soundtrack album was nominated for a Grammy and an Academy Award . He also worked in the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra , which fused jazz and classical music. Tom Harrell and David Samuels also played in this ensemble at the time . In 1979 his debut album A Jazz Composer's Ensemble was released .

In 1990 he returned to New York and founded the Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP), in which he a. a. worked with Tom Varner and Vic Juris and released two albums. As part of the MNMP project, from 1997 onwards Nash also wrote chamber music , orchestral pieces and avant-garde compositions that were influenced by John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen . After discovering a brain tumor, he launched a seven-album retrospective of his early compositional work.

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  1. ↑ Paul Nash at Allmusic (English)
  2. ↑ a b portrait at Musicdish.net
personal data
SURNAME Nash, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2005
Place of death Manhattan