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
Wednesday August 12
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.
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