Since its inception, the Microscopic Septet has endeavored to uphold co-founder Phillip Johnston's motto to "break all the rules and respect all the saints." Coming out of New York's internecine jazz ...

The music of The Microscopic Septet was the sound of jazz in 20th C. America: all of it, from Ellington to Ayler, bebop to Zorn, Dixieland to experimental, captured in a microcosm. It distilled the ...

Jazz band, The Microscopic Septet, are using the arts funding resource, http://www.kickstarter.com/ to fund the production of their new CD, "Friday The 13th: The ...

Active for a dozen years, the Microscopic Septet were widely recognized as "New York's Most Famous Unknown Band." The group started with a basic reeds-and-rhythm texture (soprano, alto, tenor and ...

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The theme music to NPR's "Fresh Air" is smart and accessible, its melody punctuated by tricky harmonies and unexpected overtones, its shuffling rhythm hard-swung. It suits Terry Gross's graceful and ...

Dec. 11: During its eighties and early-nineties heyday, the saxophone-heavy Microscopic Septet drew on a cache of inspired improvisers and two of the era’s most sophisticated and stylistically ...

Two decades after the Microscopic Septet s heyday, their carnival-esque take on jazz upside-down Monk and Dixieland Sun Ra, gutbucket R&B and oompah Latin still turns heads. Back in the 80s, when ...

I’m sorry to say I hadn’t heard the Microscopic Septet before although they were first established in 1980 by soprano saxist Phillip Johnson and pianist Joel Forrester. Described as a saxophone ...

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Musicians and composers Phillip Johnston and Joel Forrester of The Microscopic Septet have reunited for the release of their two-volume History of the Micros: Seven Men in Neckties & Surrealistic ...