Phalanx was a jazz quartet featuring guitarist

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, tenor saxophonist George Adams, and bassist

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. They released three albums: '' Got Something Good for You (1986), Original Phalanx'' (1987) and '' In Touch'' (1988). They've been described as "an ad-hoc supergroup that thrived and disappeared." While the quartet is said to have moved on after the 1980s, they played a show at the Museum of Natural History in 1991.

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