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Microscopic Sextet: Seven Men in Neckties & Surrealistic Swing

Read "Microscopic Sextet: Seven Men in Neckties & Surrealistic Swing" reviewed by Ty Cumbie


Microscopic Septet Seven Men in Neckties Cuneiform 2006 Microscopic Septet Surrealistic Swing Cuneiform 2006 The Microscopic Septet's founder Phillip Johnston frequently posits that the band's music, much ...

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Surrealistic Swing

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Brooklyn In The Fifties; Baghdad Blues; Crepescule With Nellie; In The Mission; March Of The Video Reptiles; I Saw You In Utah (Idaho); I Am The Police; By You, Do You Mean You Or Me?; Kelly Grows Up; Watching Television. CD2: Off Colour; Come From Behind; Rocky

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Seven Men In Neckties

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: CD1: Take The Z Train: Chinese Twilight Zone; Wishful Thinking; Take The Z Train; Mr Bradley Mr Martin; Kelly Grows Up; Pack The Ermines, Mary; I Didn't Do It; A Strange Though Entered My Head; Party At PJ's; Bee Beep; True; Fresh Air Theme. CD2: Let's Flip!: The Lobster Parade; Second Avenue; Why Not?; Let's Flip!; Lazio's Lament; Boo Boo Coming; Johnny Comes Lately; The Mirror; Hoftstra's Dilemma; Women In Slow Motion; Hey Wayne.

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The Microscopic Septet: Surrealistic Swing

Read "Surrealistic Swing" reviewed by Nic Jones


The two-disc set Surrealistic Swing, volume two of Cuneiform's “History Of The Micros reissue series, is something of an exercise in retrieval. Tracks 1-8 on the first disc are from Off Beat Glory, originally released in 1986 by Osmosis, whilst the remainder are drawn from a previously unreleased session. The second disc is made up of ...

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The Microscopic Septet: Seven Men In Neckties

Read "Seven Men In Neckties" reviewed by Chris May


A nearly brassless little big band and a guitarless R&B group all at the same time, the Microscopic Septet was to the 1980s New York Downtown scene something of what the Art Ensemble of Chicago was to its own home town. Both bands were steeped in and respectful of the jazz tradition, but both deconstructed, recalibrated, ...

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Beauty Based On Science! (The Visit)

Label: Stash Records
Released: 1988

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Off Beat Glory

Label: Stash Records
Released: 1986

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Let's Flip!

Label: Stash Records
Released: 1985

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Take The Z Train

Label: Stash Records
Released: 1983


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