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Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom at Caplan Center for the Performing Arts
Courtesy of Michael Ricci | Posted on January 4, 2020
Where
Caplan Center for the Performing Arts
211 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA
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When
Sat, January 25, 2020
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Allison Miller
drumsJenny Scheinman
violinKirk Knuffke
trumpetBen Goldberg
clarinetTodd Sickafoose
bass, acousticMyra Melford
pianoAbout
Over the past ten years, Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom has established itself as one of the most consistently inventive and hardest working bands in modern jazz. Fronted by the extraordinary drummer and composer, the eclectic ensemble features violinist Jenny Scheinman, cornetist Kirk Knuffke, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, bassist Todd Sickafoose and pianist Myra Melford. Miller’s music for the sextet makes surprising and inventive use of the full palette of its unique instrumentation, simultaneously challenging and infectious, witty and emotional, joyous and richly layered, drawing on a range of inspirations embracing modern jazz, indie rock, and globe-spanning rhythmic traditions. Miller has been named one of the “Top 20 Jazz Drummers” in Downbeat Magazine and her composition, “Otis Was a Polar Bear,” was on NPR’s list of “The 200 Greatest Songs by 21st Century Women.”...