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Allison Miller: Driving the Balance
by John Pietaro
Allison Miller sits at the vintage Camco drumkit in her Brooklyn home, playing post-bop over a rolling samba. Within the shimmer of an age-darkened cymbal, she switches from sticks to brushes, filling the room with the shush of summer rain, then a sudden hailstorm as her arms, aerial, traverse snare, tom-toms and cymbals in a blurring, but loving assault. Just a release of Covid fallout frustration? Maybe for some, but Miller remains unstoppable: this time also marks the rising of ...
Continue ReadingWomen Be Wise - Celebrating Sippie Wallace, Allison Miller and More Jazz Scorpios
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast continues our celebration of Jazz Scorpios with birthday shoutouts to drummer Allison Miller, guitarist Amanda Monaco, pianist Andy Bey, vocalists Julie Kelly, Kristen Korb, Ethel Waters, Carmen Lundy and Sippie Wallace, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of lockdown. Playlist Posi-Tone Swingtet “Dry Clean Only" from One for 25 (Posi-Tone) 00:00 Kristen Korb “Here You Are" from Beyond the Moon (Doublek Music) 06:04 ...
Continue ReadingArtemis: Artemis
by Mike Jurkovic
It's truly exhilarating yet sadly mundane and reductive that a recording as vital and victorious as Artemis will be universally hailed as a first from an all-female supergroup. That it cuts across all generational, cultural, international, and ethnic planes. That Blue Note Records has expanded its ever legendary ranks to include, well, you know, a female group. It's like the more we think we've gotten past these worn, tired types of qualifiers we realize all the more we really haven't. ...
Continue ReadingJosh Deutsch/Nico Soffiato Trio: Redshift
by Dan Bilawsky
The longstanding partnership between trumpeter Josh Deutsch and guitarist Nico Soffiato, placed in flattering light on the ever- welcoming Time Gels (Self-produced, 2011) and Reverse Angle (Self-Produced, 2015), continues to bear fruit with Redshift, the pair's first album for the Italian nusica.org imprint. Focusing on the trio format by working alternately with two of the jazz world's most notable drumming forces--the irrepressible Allison Miller and the boundless Dan Weiss--Deustch and Soffiato create open windows into numerous worlds of sound and ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: Glitter Wolf
by Vincenzo Roggero
Sestetto di gran pregio quello allestito da Allison Miller sotto la denominazione Boom Tic Boom, forte di alcuni dei migliori rappresentati delle scene creative californiana e newyorchese, tutti a loro volo titolari di importanti progetti personali. Aggiungiamo una strumentazione non così canonica—clarinetti e cornetta per i fiati, contrabbasso e violino per le corde, piano e batteria per la sezione ritmica—la scrittura variopinta della Miller, ricca di suggestioni rock, lo swing implacabile della band, le invenzioni dei solisti e avrete alcune ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: Glitter Wolf
by Jennifer DeMeritt
Some jazz musicians dare you to follow them to the rarefied realm of their imagination, where you might discover paradise, or you might get lost in a forest of abstraction. Allison Miller says, “Hey, let's take a ride!" then revs the engine and takes you on a grand tour of a carnival of sounds. A masterful jazz drummer and composer, Miller has also performed with Natalie Merchant, Ani DiFranco, and Brandi Carlile, among others, and she brings a rock musician's ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller's Boom Tic Boom Live at BIMHUIS Amsterdam
by BIMHUIS
Allison Miller is regarded as one of the leading jazz drummers of today. With her Boom Tic Boom 'family' she presents her latest album Glitter Wolf, described by the band itself as 'a celebratory genre-busting organic mash up of Bach, clave, klezmer and Jazz Messengers.' American jazz magazine Downbeat includes her in the top 20 of current jazz drummers. Allison Miller is hailed for her melodic drum style, but also for her talent as a composer, songwriter and ...
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