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Microscopic Septet: Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues

by Troy Dostert
March 3, 2017

Since its inception, the Microscopic Septet has endeavored to uphold co-founder Phillip Johnston's motto to “break all the rules and respect all the saints." Coming out of New York's internecine jazz wars of the early 1980s, with avant-gardists and traditionalists each denying the other side's legitimacy, the Micros tried to bridge the divide: showing that respect ...

Microscopic Septet: Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues

by Karl Ackermann
February 18, 2017

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 downtown scene before disbanding in 1992. In 2006 Cuneiform Records re-released the four albums leading to the reformation of the group and presently, ...