Cercie Miller Quartet

Cercie Miller Quartet: Blue Vistas

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 1999

No, Cercie Miller isn’t another aspiring Jazz singer (something I half–expect when someone asks me to review a CD by a female–led group); she’s a saxophonist, and a damn good one too. Unlike baritone saxophonist Claire Daly, whose marvelous album, Swing Low, we reviewed a couple of months ago, Miller bounces merrily all over the map, playing alto on half a dozen numbers, tenor on two, soprano on “Blue Vistas” and sharing the podium on three tunes (recorded in concert) ...