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Microscopic Septet: Chance Meeting with the Future
by Gordon Marshall
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 ...
The Microscopic Septet: Friday the Thirteenth - The Micros Play Monk
by Glenn Astarita
One of New York City's favorites, The Microscopic Sextet's 30-year run has seen a dormant period, but has been revitalized via its affiliation with Cuneiform Records. With its fourth release for the label, Thelonious Monk's influence and eternal spirit yields a wittily entertaining facelift via the septet's customary off-center expansions on bop and swing, to complement ...
Friday the Thirteenth - The Micros Play Monk
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Brilliant Corners; Friday the 13th; Gallop's Gallop; Teo; Pannonica; Evidence; We See; Off Minor; Bye-Ya; Worry Later; Misterioso; Epistrophy.
Lobster Leaps In
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Night Train Express; Disconcerto for Donnie; Lobster Leaps In; Got Lucky; Lies; Life's Other Mystery; Almost Right; Money Money Money; Lt. Cassawry; Twilight Time Zone; The Big Squeeze.
Phillip Johnston: Page Of Madness
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 ...
Microscopic Septet: Lobster Leaps In
by Joel Roberts
Under the co-leadership of pianist Joel Forrester and soprano saxophonist Phillip Johnston, the Microscopic Septet made their mark on the Downtown scene in the '80s with a boisterous, genre-busting blend of swing, bebop and avant-garde jazz, delivered with a healthy dose of offbeat humor. Now, after a hiatus of more than a decade-and-a-half, the group once ...
Lobster Leaps In
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Night Train Express; Disconcerto For Donnie; Lobster Leaps In; Got Lucky; Lies; Life's Other Mystery; Almost Right; Money, Money, Money; Lt. Cassawary; Twilight Time Zone; The Big Squeeze.
Microscopic Septet: Lobster Leaps In
by Mark Corroto
Sometimes being years ahead of your time is not a good thing. Take the Microscopic Septet, formed in 1980, a dour time in jazz history. They were the critics' favorites--that and fifty cents (Starbucks wasn't ubiquitous back then) would get you a cup of coffee. It just wasn't their time. The group's ...
Lobster Leaps In
Album: Lobster Leaps In
By Microscopic Septet
Label: Cuneiform
Released: 0
Duration: 4:09
The Microscopic Septet: Lobster Leaps In
by Troy Collins
"New York's Most Famous Unknown Band" is back after years of inactivity, with a new album every bit as rollicking and ebullient as those made in its prime. Although the band's genesis can be traced back to 1980, the Microscopic Septet was poised for the big time in the early nineties, but their big break never ...
