The Manhattan Project is a jazz fusion album, the only recording to be made by a band of the same name comprising Wayne Shorter, Michel Petrucciani, Gil Goldstein, Pete Levin, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White.

The arrangements were written by Lenny White and Gil Goldstein, and the album was recorded live before an audience at Chelsea Studios, New York, with Alec Head engineering.

The project was the brainchild of White, who proposed transforming traditional jazz standards based on saxophone/piano arrangements with multiple synthesizers.

The musicians invited for the project ranged from jazz traditionalist Petrucciani to longtime fusion experimenter Clarke.

[2] The performance included a seven-song set by Shorter, Petrucciani, Clarke, and White and featured Rachelle Ferrell on one track.