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Phillip Johnston is an American jazz musician, composer, and producer. He is best known for his work with the Jazz Passengers, a band he co-founded in 1988. Johnston has also composed music for film, television, and theater, and has produced albums for other artists. Johnston was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the suburbs of the city. He began playing music at an early age, taking up the saxophone at age nine. He studied music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1977. Johnston moved to New York City in 1979, where he began performing with various jazz and rock groups. He co-founded the Jazz Passengers in 1988, and the group has since released several albums and toured extensively. Johnston has also composed music for film, television, and theater, including the score for the film "The Brothers McMullen" (1995). Johnston has produced albums for other artists, including the Grammy-nominated album "The Music of John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards" (1996). He has also released several solo albums, including "The Edge of Day" (1999) and "The Edge of Night" (2002). As of 2021, Phillip Johnston's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Occupation Musician, composer, educator, author
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 22 January 1955
Birthday 22 January
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Hilary Bell (m. 1998)

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Phillip Johnston Net Worth

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2005

In 2005, he moved with his wife, Australian playwright Hilary Bell, and their two children to Sydney, Australia. As of 2015 he lives and performs in Sydney, but travels regularly to New York and Europe to perform, collaborate and record. He also teaches film music history at the Australian Institute of Music.

2000

Throughout the 80s and 90s and early 2000s, he worked as a leader (The Microscopic Septet, Big Trouble, Transparent Quartet) co-leader and sideman (Mikel Rouse, Kitty Brazelton, Bobby Radcliff), and began a parallel career in composition for film, theatre, dance and the concert hall. He has a particular interest in contemporary scores for silent film.

1970

During the 1970s he met and formed relationships with some of his earliest musical associates (John Zorn, Joel Forrester, Dave Hofstra, Eugene Chadbourne), and moved often between San Francisco and New York City. In 1980 he settled in New York, and soon formed his first ongoing music groups, The Public Servants (with vocalist Shelley Hirsch) and The Microscopic Septet (with pianist Joel Forrester).

1955

Phillip Johnston (born January 22, 1955) is an American avant-garde saxophonist. 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.

Phillip Johnston was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 22, 1955, and raised in the New York City area.