Allison Miller Homepage
Interviews
- Jazz Notes Intel: Drummer Allison Miller’s Upswing Beyond Rising Star
- Ten Years of Drummer Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom
- Can you hear melody in the drums? | JAZZ NIGHT IN AMERICA
- Drum Tricks with Allison Miller: Using Alternate Percussion
- Drum Tricks with Allison Miller: Four Plus One
- Ladies Who Jazz: Allison Miller – Drummer & Composer (Part 1 of 2)
- Allison Miller All Access 360 (Boom Tic Boom)
- Allison Miller: A Life Soaked in Music
- Flexibility in Music and Life: Allison Miller
- In Demand Drummer Allison Miller Brings Boom-Tic-Boom to Bloomsburg
- Hot (and “out”) jazz drummer Allison Miller talks about making music
Electronic Press Kits
- Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom – GLITTER WOLF EPK
- Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom: The Making of Otis was a Polar Bear
Prince
- Around the World in a Day “Tamborine” (First CD)
- Sign o’ the Times (First Cassette Tape)
- “Condition of the Heart” is my anthem.
- “The Ladder” is my Church.
- “Temptation” is my subconscious.
- “Adore” became the soundtrack to my first love
- Slow Songs
Education
- Michael Carvin – Michael Carvin Experience – Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
- ALAN DAWSON – Sonny Rollins: Trading Fours and Drum Solo
- Madeline Eastman – All Of You
- Peter Erskine – Peter Erskine: The Groove Drum Solo
- Jazz Camp West
- Living Jazz Oakland -Because of You
- Adjunct teaching position at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in NYC
- Dion Parsons – Dion Parson & 21st Century Band – St. Thomas
- Al Rublesky [no link]
- Walter Salb
- John Santos – Improvisation with Rhythm and Melody
- Timber Mountain Music Camp [no link]
- Lenny White
- US State Department Jazz Ambassador
- Charles Wilcoxin
Lullabies Sung to Allison’s Children
- The Nearness of You (one of the lullabies Allison sings to her daughter), this version by Norah Jones
- Puff the Magic Dragon
- Slow Songs by Prince
Drumming Inspirations
- Ed Blackwell, : Ed Blackwell’s solo on Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” from the John Coltrane/Don Cherry album, “The Avant-Garde”
- Denis Charles
- Hamid Drake – William Parker & Hamid Drake // Live at Retromedia Sound Studios Pt I
- Roy Haynes – The 7-Decade Career of Drummer Roy Haynes [JAZZ STORIES]
- Billy Higgins
- Elvin Jones – Elvin Jones, Art Blakey – INTENSE drum solo
- Leon Parker: Drum Solo from “Perhaps”
- Prince – PRINCE ON DRUMS GEORGE CLINTON SINGS
- Max Roach (and his band M’Boom – part of the inspiration for the name “Boom-Tic-Boom”)
- Tony Williams
Late Night Talk Show Bandleaders Connected to the Monterey Jazz Festival
Because Allison Miller appeared on Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, David Letterman, and other talk shows.
- Stephen Colbert
- Jimmy Fallon
- Seth Meyers
- Fred Armisen and the 8G Band (guest – Allison Miller) [no link]
- Fred Armisen (5 Funniest Sketches From Fred Armisen’s SNL Season Finale)
- David Letterman
- Jay Leno – Jay Leno making Johnny Carson laugh circa 1989
- Johnny Carson
Allison Miller Performances
- Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom: Fuster-Live in Philly 5/13/16
- Allison Miller NPR Appearances
- Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom On JazzSet
Artists Who Recorded at Her Father’s Studio
Artists Mentioned in Interviews
- Melissa Aldana
- Tony Allen – “Na Poi” and “You Go No Go Die” from the Fela Kuti reissue “Yellow Fever/ Na Poi.”
- Ben Allison – Live at the HavenJoey Arias – Know Your gAy-B-Cs – The Legendary Joey Arias
- Louis Armstrong – Rock in Chair
- Artemis – Artemis at Newport Jazz Festival – part 16
- Sheryl Bailey
- Patricia Barber – Use Me
- Sara Bareilles – Armor
- Kenny Barron – Kenny Barron discusses Dizzy Gillespie and MJF
- Fred Begun – Fred Begun Oral History Interview
- Steven Bernstein – Hipmotism – “Ode To Billy Joe” Pt. 1
- Art Blakey – I Remember Clifford by Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers (feat. Lee Morgan)
- Paul Bollenback
- Dee Dee Bridgewater – Memphis to Mali to Memphis
- Camille A. Brown “New Second Line”
- James Brown – I Feel Good
- Josh Cantor – The Listener (For Josh Cantor)
- Brandi Carlile – Hallelujah
- Steve Cardenas -The Circle Game
- Hoagy Carmichael – Rockin Chair
- Anat Cohen – Anat Cohen Quartet – Festival de Jazz de Vitoria Gasteiz 2015
- Kim Clarke – DEFUNKT feat. Kim Clarke – Everybody wants one
- Andrew Cyrille -Lebroba
- Pino Daniele – Resta quel che resta
- Jami Dauber – FIVE PLAY: Struttin’ With Some Barbeque
- Miles Davis – Miles Smiles
- Jack DeJohnette – Jack DeJohnette, Larry Grenadier, John Medeski & John Scofield – Hudson
- Michelle Dorrance Performs Tap With Jon Batiste & Stay Human
- Ray Drummond – Kenny Barron & Ray Drummond Live at Mezzrow [SET EXCERPT] August 18th, 2017
- Earth, Wind and Fire – That’s the Way of the World
- Sheila E –
- Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus and Max Roach – Money Jungle
- Marty Ehrlich – Marty Ehrlich & Myra Melford – Hymn
- Phil Fiani
- Dizzy Gillespie – Dizzy Gillespie – Improvisation & Blues (Monterey, 1975)
- Ben Goldberg – Ben Goldberg’s Orphic Machine: Care
- Herbie Hancocks solo on “Oliloqui Valley.” And then all of Tony Williams Comping, and Freddie Hubbard’s solo.
- Joel Harrison – Free Country – This Land Is Your Land
- Billy Hart – THE BROADER PICTURE
- Rene Hart – Lieven Venken / Rene Hart / Anat Fort Trio – Minnesota
- Jeff Lederer – Jeff Lederer & Animal Mother @ Saxquest – June 16, 2018
- Lindsey Horner: Susan McKeown & Lindsey Horner – Through the Bitter Frost & Snow
- Michael Jackson “Billy Jean” (First song she learned)
- Ingrid Jensen (2018 MJF Artist-in-Residence)
- Elvin Jones – Different Drummer: Elvin Jones Produced and Directed by Ed Gray
- Norah Jones – Don’t Know Why
- Ron Kearns – Wade in the Water
- Cliff Korman – The Cliff Korman Ensemble performs “Tarde” by Milton Nascimento
- Virginia Mayhew – Virginia Mayhew on NJ TV – State of The Arts
- Kit McClure Band on Joan Rivers Show
- Erin McKeown BlackBirds
- Natalie Merchant
- Rachna Nivas – Rachna Nivas in dynamic kathak dance solo – NCPA Mumbai
- William Parker
- Lisa Parrott
- Nicki Parrott
- Roberta Picket
- Toshi Reagon
- Martha Redbone Roots Project – The Garden of Love
- Max Roach – Duke Ellington & Charles Mingus & Max Roach – Fleurette Africaine
- Harvie S
- Cécile McLorin Salvant
- Dr. Lonnie Smith
- Jill Sobule – I Kissed a Girl Video by Jill Sobule
- Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards: The Rise and Fall of Miss Thang
- Art Taylor- NYPL jazz oral history
- Henry Threadgill
- Noriko Ueda
- Roseanna Vitro & Southern Roots – “Tell Me the Truth” Album EPK (She’s also from Texarkana)
- Kenny Wessel – Bemsha Swing (Thelonious Monk) Performed by Thunk!
- Mary Lou Williams – It ain’t necessarily so
- Steve Wilson
- Rachel Z (YouTube Playlist)
Favorite Composers
