In the '80s, "The Micros" mixed tradition and avant-garde jazz with impunity and almost got famous doing it. Today they're just playing the blues.
The Microscopic Septet, seen at a gig in 2017, will look like this: seven cats "of a certain age" (meaning cavorting over and around the age of 60), hair gray(ing) -- or fled -- fedoras worn without significant irony, suits and ties adorned. Four guys will have saxophones, one an upright bass, another at the acoustic piano only. That's a jazz group with charts before them. Shout the names “Don Redman” or “Jelly Roll Morton”…
