Jazz Articles about Kent Miller

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Album Review

The TNEK Jazz Quintet: Plays the Music of Sam Jones

Read "Plays the Music of Sam Jones" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2020

The late Sam Jones is mainly remembered as an earnest craftsman whose perceptive bass lines undergirded the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Oscar Peterson, Cedar Walton, Barry Harris, Kenny Dorham, Bobby Timmons, Bill Evans and a host of other jazz masters. Jones, however, had another special albeit lesser-known talent, one that is addressed here, almost forty years after his passing in 1981, by the TNEK Jazz Quintet. Jones, as it happens, was a superb writer whose keen ear for a melody ...

Album Review

Kent Miller: Minor Step

Read "Minor Step" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 19, 2017

What you hear immediately from bassist Kent Miller's quartet is their fluency and propulsive, surely satisfying, button poppin,' finger-snappin' swing with both originals and standards that holds up extremely well with repeated listenings.I could go on and on about solos great and small and how each of these guys give, take, and stamp their signature talents on each turn, but “Minor Step" is all about ensemble playing. So Hank Mobley's rocket fueled “Work Out" and Paul Chambers' serpentine ...