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Phillip Johnston's Transparent Quartet - The Needless Kiss (1998) {Koch Jazz - KOC CD 7898}
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© 1998 Koch Jazz | KOC CD 7898
Jazz / Progressive Jazz / Modern Creative / Post Bop / Saxophone

The Needless Kiss was the first CD by Phillip Johnston's Transparent Quartet, the drummerless quartet he formed in the late 1990s after leading The Microscopic Septet and Big Trouble. It was released in 1998 on Koch Jazz, but is now out-of-print, due to the corporate downsizing of that label. In addition to originals by Johnston and pianist Joe Ruddick, the group played distinctive arrangements of tunes by a variety of composers, for instance on this CD, Frederic Chopin & Raymond Scott.