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Allison Miller: Modern Jazz Icon in the Making
by Doug Collette
Every professional musician knows how crucial it is to work regularly. Not only does it pay the bills--a pragmatic aspect of the necessarily busy lifestyle we laypeople may overlook--but it also allows for networking to enhance the musician's internal and public profile. Perhaps most importantly of all, consistent activity on stage and in the studio can provide a direct conduit to prolific creativity as well as drummer/composer/bandleader Allison Miller activities attest. Unlike those mirror images of electric/acoustic ensemble work from ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller, Carmen Staaf: Science Fair
by Claudio Bonomi
La voglia di mettersi in gioco queste due brave jazziste non l'hanno mai persa, anzi ha sempre fatto parte del loro DNA. La batterista Allison Miller, veterana della scena jazz newyorchese e nota anche per le sue incursioni nella musica pop con Ani DiFranco e Natalie Merchant, incontra la giovanissima pianista Carmen Staaf nel 2015 quando era quasi alle prime armi. Il tutto avviene casualmente. La Miller deve suonare al Reykjavik Jazz Festival ed è alla disperata ricerca ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller & Honey Ear Trio: Lean; Swivel
by Doug Collette
Allison Miller may well be the renaissance woman of modern jazz. High-profile mainstream gigs like appearing with the band on Late Night with Seth Myers hardly hint at the diverse complexity of her collaborations and work under own name, most conspicuously including the band Boom Tic Boom. She parses out individual components of her artistry with equal measures of humility and ambition, so that her authority as a bandleader equals her generosity of spirit as expressed in tandem with other ...
Continue ReadingHoney Ear Trio: Swivel
by Mark Corroto
The opening track of Allison Miller's new Honey Ear Trio recording, “Arby," had me singing the lyrics to “Heavy Metal Drummer," the 2002 Wilco hit song ..."She fell in love with the drummer/Another and another/She fell in love/I miss the innocence I've known/Playing KISS covers, beautiful and stoned." That connection is made from the heavy, maybe better yet, HEAVY entrance the Honey Ear Trio makes with track one. Miller, saxophonist Jeff Lederer (Matt Wilson Quartet, Brooklyn Blowhards) and bassist plus ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller's Boom Tic Boom at the Philadelphia Art Alliance
by Asher Wolf
Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom Philadelphia Art Alliance Ars Nova Workshop Philadelphia, PA May 13, 2016 Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom plays jazz, but the woman herself is hardly a jazz drummer. Though she can swing and improvise like nobody's business, Miller seems equally at home with the grooves of funk and Latin, or even--God forbid--the fist-pumping, downbeat-loving attitude of rock and roll. To be sure, any jazz drummer with a shred of notoriety ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller's Boom Tic Boom: No Morphine No Lilies
by AAJ Italy Staff
No Morphine No Lilies è album che soddisferà palati eterogenei, trasversali, curiosi, esigenti. La batterista e compositrice Allison Miller ha frequentato nel corso della sua carriera ambiti e ambienti musicali i più disparati trovando nella formazione denominata Boom Tic Boom - qui al secondo lavoro discografico dopo l'omonimo, acclamato album di debutto - il tramite ideale per veicolare compiutamente la propria visione musicale. Non a caso la composizione stessa dell'ensemble mostra quanto ambiti stilistici e generazionali apparentemente distanti possano non ...
Continue ReadingAllison Miller: Boom Tic Boom
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel jazz, le presenze femminili non sono molto numerose. Ancora più raro, trovarle sedute dietro piatti e tamburi. Inevitabile dunque affrontare con particolare curiosità l'ascolto di questo album di Allison Miller, realizzato in trio con Todd Sickafoose e Myra Melford. La Miller vanta un curriculum di tutto rispetto, sia in ambito pop (le sue collaborazioni più note sono quelle con Brandi Carlile e Ani Di Franco - con cui peraltro ha collaborato anche il bassista Todd Sickafoose), che jazz (Erik ...
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