Jazz Articles about Maci Miller

About Maci Miller

Album Review

Mike Boone Friends and Family: Confirmation

Read "Confirmation" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
April 2, 2025

Sometimes, a random listener intervenes to comment on music a reviewer is working on. “Who are those guys?" with a tone that means, “I should know this right?" Well, if you happen to be from Philadelphia, shame on you. This was some kind of party, maybe a party in a church, or as bassist Mike Boone comments, “a church in a party." Especially if you walk in on “Hymn," the idea that someone happened on a hip Sunday service is ...

Album Review

Maci Miller: Nine

Read "Nine" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
August 18, 2023

Philadelphia-based singer Maci Miller gives her audience a variety of looks, all of them good. On first hearing, Blossom Dearie, but then, Blossom Dearie was Blossom Dearie. No one ever sounded quite like her. Then again, there is some mid 1960s Nancy Wilson, hushed, clipped, all business. On reflecting that Dearie and Wilson an odd combination do make, one just listens and stops thinking influences, other than “eclectic." Or maybe Billie Holiday, if Miller is in the mood. A Philly ...