Allison Miller, Jane Ira Bloom - Tues Days (2021)

Allison Miller / Jane Ira Bloom
Tues Days
2021 - Outline: OTL144
https://www.janeirabloom.com/recordings.html
https://allisonmiller./album/tues-days

* Jane Ira Bloom: soprano saxophone
* Allison Miller: drums, percussion

https://www.janeirabloom.com/
https://www.allisonmiller.com/

Recorded by Allison Miller & Jane Ira Bloom
on March 2, 9, 16, 25 & April 6, 2021 in NYC.

Reviews
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By Jim Macnie
https://lamentforastraightline./2021/11/26/allison-miller-jane-ira-bloom-tues-days-outline-records/

On paper, most improvised duets should have a natural sparseness – the fewer
the instruments, the more gaunt the music. But from Haden/Jones to
Blackwell/Cherry to Halvorson/Frisell, that “on paper” stuff often turns to
hooey. The wisest improvisers know how to sculpt their presentations to conjure
the impact of a full ensemble. This new duo exchange between soprano
saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom and drummer Allison Miller pulls off such a
trick. Agile, yes. But in an uncanny way, flush with gambits that bend sound
towards elaboration. The 11 fully improvised performances, cut remotely in
Brooklyn last spring during Covid down-time with no initial intention of being
shared with an audience, glow with a unusual heft. A lot of this victory has to
do with the breadth of sound that Miller’s percussion is capable of. On
“Technicolor” that means a parade of kinetics. Morse code on the toms, clanging
cymbals, circus press rolls, and metallic chatter – with her mate’s nimble horn
lines brocading the action, the drummer turns the piece into a poetic
flourish. Other tracks follow suit. The flutters that Bloom delivers in
“Crayola” accumulate nicely, their feathery swoops becoming part of a rich
foreground. “Upon Seeing JP” simmers and simmers, intermittently threatening to
boil over. And if you do wind up yearning for a hushed passage that still has
plenty of cool particulars, “Light Years Away” is right there waiting for you.

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By Mike Jurkovic
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tues-days-jane-ira-bloom-outline-supaphine

By James Hale
https://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/tues-days

By Jim Hynes
https://www.makingascene.org/jane-ira-bloom-and-allison-miller-tues-days/

By Brian Priestley
https://www.jazzwise.com/review/jane-ira-bloom-allison

Da Neri Pollastri (it)
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/tues-days-allison-miller-jane-ira-bloom-outline-supaphine

Par E. Lacaze / A. Dutilh (fr)
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/jazz-bonus-jane-ira-bloom-allison-miller-tues-days-2391292