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Phillip Johnston (born January 22, 1955) is an American saxophonist, composer, and author. He came to prominence in the 1980s as co-founder of The Microscopic Septet and went on to write extensively for films, particularly new scores for classic silent films from the early 20th Century.
“Saxophonist/composer Phillip Johnston’s music embodies all that’s good about jazz. It’s honest, original, and inspired, above and beyond the typical. It’s also some of the very smartest and best-humored music to have found a home under the jazz banner.”
Learn how Philip Johnston, a former missionary and Navajo interpreter, created a code based on the Navajo language to help the U.S. Marines in World War II. See the dictionary and examples of the code and its impact on the war.
Feb 5, 2022 · Learn how Philip Johnston, a non-Navajo who spoke their language, created the unbreakable code for the Marines in WWII. Discover the story of the Navajo Marines who saved countless lives and received recognition decades later.
Growing collection of Philip Johnston's piano video recordings.
Bio. Phillip Johnston was born in 1955 in Chicago IL USA, and raised in New York. During the 1970s in New York City he met and began playing with a number of associates, many of whom would be come life long collaborators, such as John Zorn, Joel Forrester, Eugene Chadbourne, Bill Horvitz, Wayne Horvitz, Dave Hofstra, Richard Dworkin, Shelley ...
Phillip Johnston is a saxophonist, composer and arranger of both jazz and new music, Phillip has been a significant figure in the underground music scene of New York’s downtown since the beginning of the 1980s.
