Microscopic Septet: Chance Meeting with the Future

The Microscopic Septet is interviewed:

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 charts move at the speed of the Coney Island Cyclone, incorporating all that grew out of the world’s first love affair with jazz, from Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker to Sun Ra and Albert Ayler.

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