The Microscopic Septet - Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play the Blues (2017) {Cuneiform RUNE 425}
The Microscopic Septet - Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play the Blues (2017) {Cuneiform RUNE 425} (Phillip Johnston)
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© 2017 Cuneiform Records / Phillip Johnston | RUNE 425
Jazz / Progressive Jazz / Modern Creative / Jazz-Blues / Post-Bop / Saxophone
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, to their new release Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me: The Micros Play the Blues.
Johnston and pianist Joel Forrester, saxophonist Dave Sewelson and bassist Dave Hofstra were all members of the original group. However, drummer Richard Dworkin and saxophonist Don Davis followed closely, both coming on board in the early 1980s. Only tenor saxophonist Mike Hashim is a later arrival, having joined the band shortly after the reformation in 2007.
If any of their album titles crystalizes the essence of the The Micros, it is Surrealistic Swing: The History of the Micros, Vol. 2 (Cuneiform Records, 2006). Johnston and Forrester, who evenly divide the writing credits on this album, share an affinity—if not an outright insistence—for a swing-based criteria. Yet throughout their recordings, there is a progressive bent that makes the music feel neither nostalgic nor avant-garde but somewhere in-between. Each of fourteen compositions on Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me share that aesthetic sense but each with its own idiosyncrasy.
"Cat Toys" could be out of the 1940s save for an appealing—and technically modern—bass solo from Hofstra. "Blues Cubistico," with its swinging dance rhythm, is kept up to date with Hashim and Sewelson's low-end improvised saxophones. The down and dirty "Dark Blues" features Johnston, Hashim and Sewelson in some fine creative interplay, handing off to Forrester for an engaging piano solo. Dworkin has time to shine on the percussion driven "Migraine Blues," a blend of swing and jump blues. "PJ in the 60s" opens as close to free playing as the group goes but quickly returns to the concept; again, the three saxophones enter into some pleasing dialog with Forrester and Dworkin later getting some quality solo time.
The tracks on Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me are relatively compact, with one clocking in at under one minute; all having a contagious cheerfulness, modernly ostentatious and colorful textures. Like all of the compositions in the Microscopic Septet catalog, there is an unaffected and timeless quality to the music that will appeal to those who favor mainstream as well as the more exploratory listener.
The Microscopic Septet - Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play the Blues (2017) {Cuneiform RUNE 425}
The Microscopic Septet:
Phillip Johnston – soprano saxophone
Don Davis – alto saxophone
Mike Hashim – tenor saxophone
Dave Sewelson – baritone saxophone
Joel Forrester – piano
Dave Hofstra – bass
Richard Dworkin – drums
Track Listing
01 - Cat Toys
02 - Blues Cubistico
03 - Dark Blue
04 - Don't Mind If I Do
05 - Migraine Blues (for Wendlyn Alter)
06 - PJ in the 60s
07 - When It's Getting Dark
08 - Simple-Minded Blues
09 - After You, Joel
10 - 12 Angry Birds
11 - Quizzical
12 - Silent Night
13 - I've Got a Right to Cry
14 - Untitled
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The Microscopic Septet / Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play the Blues
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The Microscopic Septet - Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play the Blues (2017) {Cuneiform RUNE 425}
The Microscopic Septet - Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play the Blues (2017) {Cuneiform RUNE 425}
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