| Hosted by | Firehouse 12 |
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| Details | NYC-based drummer/composer/teacher Allison Miller engages her deep roots in improvisation as a vehicle to explore all music. Described by critics as a “Modern Jazz Icon in the Making”, Miller won Downbeat’s 67th Annual Critics Poll for “Rising Star Drummer” and Jazz Times’s 2019 Critics Poll for “Best Jazz Drummer.” Boom Tic Boom, Allison’s longtime band, won Jazz Journalists Association’s 2019 award for “Mid-Sized Ensemble of the Year.” Her composition, “Otis Was a Polar Bear”, is included on NPR’s list of The 200 Greatest Songs by 21st Century Women+. She is also the first recipient of the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s Commissioning Grant. Miller, a three time Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, was Monterey Jazz Festival’s 2019 Artist in Residence, alongside bassist/producer Derrick Hodge. Simultaneously her band, Boom Tic Boom, celebrated its 10th anniversary with the release of their 5th album, Glitter Wolf, which was included in many “Best Jazz Of 2019” lists, including NPR, Rolling Stone and Jazz Times magazine. NPR’s Kevin Whitehead says, “All the parts fit together like clockwork on Allison Miller’s new album.” While breaking from leading Boom Tic Boom, Miller focuses on collaborations, co-directing Parlour Game with Jenny Scheinman and Science Fair with Carmen Staaf. Miller is also a proud member of the critically acclaimed Bluenote recording supergroup Artemis. Their debut release made many “Best Jazz of 2020” lists and Artemis has been named Jazz Journalists Association’s 2020 “Mid-Sized Ensemble of the Year.” Allison teaches at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music (where she is a Melba Liston Fellow), Stanford Jazz Workshop, Centrum, Geri Allen Jazz Camp, Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz, and is the Artistic Director of Jazz Camp West. She has been appointed Arts Envoy to Thailand for her work with Jazz Education Abroad and endorses Yamaha drums, Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks, Evans drumheads and Sunhouse percussion. For the past six months Wendy and Allison have been getting together regularly to improvise freely as a duo. Allison recorded the music made during these sessions and, from these recordings, a new body of work has been crafted. Through motivic development and collective improvisation the trio explores the mind/body connection and the mapping of the circulatory system. The music you will hear tonight is deeply conversational, improvisational, dynamic, polyphonic, and raw. |
| Admission | FREE |
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