Jazz Articles about Nicola Miller

About Nicola Miller

Album Review

Nicola Miller’s Living Things: Spit!

by Mike Jurkovic
August 27, 2026

On the street, they would say that maritime Nova Scotia's rogue saxophonist Nicola Miller's rhizome-like way with her quintet, Living Things, or her prog jazz as a concept, is “some crazy sh*#!." But it need be said nicer at a global concern like All About Jazz. For as gentlemen and even gentler ladies, we are sworn to public service and to call a spade a spade. So Spit! is a spade. Hands down. Why? Well, the crickety landslide ...

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Mary Halvorson and Ambrose Akinmusire, Nicola Miller & Satoko Fujii

by Maurice Hogue
July 13, 2026

Consistent poll-winners, Mary Halvorson and Ambrose Akinmusire--have been getting together for several years, sharing musical ideas and thoughts. That time together comes to fruition in the release of their debut as a duo, Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings, which will no doubt also show up on many “best-of" lists. This edition of OMJ has a track from that album as it does from the latest release by Canadian saxophonist Nicola Miller who has German reed master Frank Gratkowski in tow, from ...

Album Review

Nicola Miller: Living Things

Read "Living Things" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
March 4, 2025

It is more than fair enough to say that Nova Scotia-based saxophonist/composer Nicola Miller's vision and understanding of things is peppered with oddly curious axioms and an astute ear for the undertow that pulls us all further out to sea or crashing into the breakers. At least that is what Living Things, Miller's first bold statement as a leader leads one to believe given the odd shapes and delineations that such serpentine wanderings of the lead-off “Barge"--its slippery, open ...