Allison Miller’s BOOM TIC BOOM
Date/Time
Date(s) - 08/12/2015
7:00 am - 10:00 am
Location
The Falcon
Categories
Featuring Jenny Scheinman/Violin, Carmen Staaf/Piano, Todd Sickafoose/Bass, and Allison Miller/Drums
“Miller’s craftiness as a percussionist is met by her ingenuity as a
composer and group conceptualist.” -The New Yorker
“One of the most promising drummers in the game” – LA Times
“Top 20 Jazz Drummer” – 2012 Downbeat Annual Critics Poll
www.facebook.com/AllisonMillerBoomBoom
Drummer/composer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom will be featuring music from her upcoming 5th release, “Otis was a Polar Bear”, highlighting the band’s chemistry and Miller’s development as a composer/arranger. The new material has been described as a genre-busting organic mash up of Bach, clave, klezmer, and the Jazz Messengers.
This leading-edge quartet—featuring Carmen Staaf on piano, Jenny Scheinman on violin, Todd Sickafoose on bass, and Miller on drums— thrives on surprises spawned from collective improvisation and projects a vast array of tonal colors, explosive dynamics, rhythmic and harmonic shape-shifts and rich emotions.
Hailing from a robust Washington DC Jazz tradition, she engages in
groove and improvisation to explore all music. Described by
critics as a charismatic and rhythmically propulsive drummer with melodic
sensibility, Allison has been named “Rising Star Drummer” and “Top 20
Jazz Drummers” in Downbeat Magazine’s acclaimed Critics Poll. Miller’s
band, Boom Tic Boom, features her compositions and is a 2014 recipient
of Chamber Music America’s “Presenter Consortium for Jazz” grant. All
three of her band’s commercial releases (No Morphine No Lilies, Live at
Willisau, and Boom Tic Boom,) have been met with critical acclaim winning
coveted placement in “Top 10 Jazz Album” lists, including, Downbeat, LA
Times, Jazz Journalist Assoc., and Something Else. The band has been
featured on NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concert” series with Bob Boilen, “JazzSet”
with Dee Dee Bridgewater, and “The Checkout: Live” with Josh Jackson.
Add to my iCal
