The Microscopic Septet: Surrealistic Swing: History of the Micros, Volume 2
Released October 10, 2006 via Cuneiform Records
The Micros are quirky and there are avant elements but it also very accessible. Their mixtures of swing, bebop, lounge jazz, trad jazz, New Orleans Second Line, tangos, you-name-it, are always intelligently and wittily put together and played with great gusto. Someone else observed that there is both “froth and substance” in the Micros’ music.
–John Henry (Audiophile Audition)
“A truly distinctive sound that pumps Basie boogies, zestfully shifts from tangoed unison to Dixieland discordance with Mingus precision and sax solos that reach Eric Dolphy free and Earl Bostic blue within the same tune; this is one band that can afford to be seriously original and share a playful humor”
– Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
“Posterity is going to remember the Microscopic Septet as one of the best bands of the 1980s.”
– The Philadelphia Inquirer
“…at once capriciously whimsical and deadly serious.”
– New York Sun