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Article: Interview

Microscopic Septet: Chance Meeting with the Future

by Gordon Marshall
February 7, 2011

The Microscopic Septet is all about swing, but swing in a sense extrapolated from the stale, dated pages of the past. Its take on the music of the '30s and '40s is too scholarly to fall off the map as retro, and too deeply felt to be dismissed as a dusty trove of museum pieces. The ...

Article: My Playlist

Joel Forrester

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 4, 2010

01. Alban Berg - Wozzeck (Ingo Metzmacher and The Hamburg State Philharmonic) (Emi Classics - 1999) 02. Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli) (Emi Classics - 2000) 03. Meade Lux Lewis & Jimmy Yancey - Boogie Woogie (Membran Music Ltd - Box di 10 CD) 04. Alfred Deller - Music of Henry ...

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Article: Album Review

Joel Forrester and People Like Us: Ever Wonder Why

Read "Ever Wonder Why" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
January 13, 2005

Joel Forrester has had a fascinating career. He studied piano with Thelonious Monk, scored early Andy Warhol films, wrote the theme for the popular NPR show Fresh Air, accompanied silent films at the Louvre, and spent years as a principal member of the fondly remembered Microscopic Septet. He's also been the driving force between ...

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Ever Wonder Why

By Joel Forrester

Label: Ride Symbol
Released: 2004
Track listing: Ever Wonder Why; Bebop Cowpoke; Mother's Day; The Bubble; Bunny Boy; Serenade; As If You Were; Blue Mary Lou; Frank Strozier; No Question; Prayer for the Living

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Pre-Microscopic Music Circa 1980

By Joel Forrester

Label: KOCH International Jazz
Released: 1999

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Joel Forrester and the Illustrious Others: Pre-Microscopic Music Circa 1980

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 1999

Unlike its enigmatic description (what does “pre–microscopic music” mean?), the material performed by pianist Joel Forrester and the Illustrious Others is on the whole quick–witted, forthright and accessible. The “others” appear in various configurations from trio to septet with Forrester’s piano unaccompanied on “Mary” and “Dr. Real.” Forrester, Dellay and Dworkin make an auspicious start with ...