Allison Miller

Jazz Album Review: Singer Jo Lawry’s “Acrobats” — Pulling Off the Hardest Thing

February 7, 2023
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Left to her own devices for a change to pick the material, the format, and the musicians, singer Jo Lawry has chosen with grace and guts.

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Jazz Review and Conversation: Jane Ira Bloom’s Pandemic Duets

October 26, 2021
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Jane Ira Bloom responded to her pandemic isolation with a CD of duets with bassist Mark Helias and a CD of duets with drummer Allison Miller. These two sessions are unique projects in her discography and beautiful testaments to her ingenuity.

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Jazz Album Review: “Artemis” — Inter-generational Jazz That Expands the Tradition

September 23, 2020
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This is state-of-the art modern jazz, alternately hard swinging, contemplative, commercial, and abstract.

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