Phillip Johnston: Normalology
Released in 1999 via Koch Jazz
“…Johnston is a brilliant post-modern composer, combining such disparate genres as Latin groove and Eastern European klezmer in “Got Lucky”, and shifting from pensive piano introduction to lighthearted ragtime, to elegant swing, to funky riffs in “Things Happen”. The music is consistently inviting, surprising, accessible, intriguing, and great fun. The players are uniformly excellent, effortlessly swinging between styles while blowing up a storm and negotiating demanding charts. Post-modern, new- wave traditionalism at its best.” –Stan Dick, Spectator Magazine