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 ...

Saxophonist Phillip Johnston founded The Microscopic Septet in 1980 when the group briefly counted John Zorn as one of its members. They recorded four albums and were a regular presence in New York's ...

A little more than a decade ago, there was a major New York City event titled “The Undead Jazz Festival.” The use of that term was a catchy way to respond to the naysayers who had been proclaiming for ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Near the end of an hourlong set at the Kitchen on Saturday, the Jazz Passengers worked their way into “We’re All Jews,” a playful and pungent original with a bawling melody. Saxophone, ...

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May 2: The Microscopic Septet. During its heyday, in the eighties and early nineties, the saxophone-heavy group drew on a cache of inspired improvisers and on two of the era’s most sophisticated and ...