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Phillip Johnston: Page of Madness

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Questo progetto di Phillip Johnston, intimamente legato ad un lontanissimo film muto giapponese del 1926, intitolato “Kurutta Ippeiji" (A Page of Madness) e diretto da Teinosuke Kinugasa, è stato registrato nel 1998 e viene pubblicato su CD oltre dieci anni dopo la registrazione, a cura della Asynchronous, etichetta discografica personale di Johnston, qui all'esordio. Per l'occasione Johnston utilizza il suo quartetto da musica jazz da camera denominato The Transparent Quartet. Un piccolo gruppo molto coeso che può contare sulle eccellenti ...

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Album Review

Phillip Johnston: Page Of Madness

Read "Page Of Madness" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Saxophonist and composer Phillip Johnston has always been a step (or two) out of synch with trends in modern music. And that is a good thing. His eclectic '80s band Microscopic Septet was never given its due. Now, twenty years later, with the reissue of its Seven Men in Neckties: History of the Micros, Vol. 1 (Cuneiform, 2006) and Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros, Vol. 2 (Cuneiform, 2006), and its new recording Lobster Leaps In (Cuneiform, 2008) the group ...

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The Microscopic Septet: Lobster Leaps In

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L'ironia è sempre l'arma preferita di Phillip Johnston e dei suoi degni compari che lo affiancano da molti anni nell'avventura imperturbabile del Microscopic Septet. La storia del gruppo è piuttosto nota: dal 1980 al 1992 sono stati una delle band più amate dalla critica newyorkese, senza tuttavia mai riuscire a sfondare veramente. A quel punto hanno deciso di lasciare perdere e hanno continuato a suonare jazz in altri contesti, andando ognuno per la propria strada (anche se, per esempio, nel ...

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Phillip Johnston: Rub Me the Wrong Way

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By Ken Waxman

Dance music--or more accurately music for dance--is part of the answer to the question of what one pioneering New York downtowner, saxophonist Phillip Johnston, is up to these days.

While it's helpful to have Johnston's work preserved, and the seventeen tracks on Rub Me the Wrong Way are well-played and voiced so that the various four-piece ensembles express the textures usually found from an orchestra, these still are sounds meant to accompany dancers. It would seem that ...


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