While living inwards Paris, he played extensively amongst drummer Aldo Romano. This led to recordings together with European concerts together with jazz festivals. Miller afterward joined the faculty at Berklee together with recorded Sides amongst saxophonist George Garzone. He likewise played inwards a quartet amongst swain guitarist Mick Goodrick. In 2005, Miller released his outset solo recording, Trio, which has received critical acclaim.
Tim Miller's 3rd indie endeavor stands out yesteryear manifesting his influences equally an aural whole. Compositionally, the liberty together with openness inwards the music reflects the deep influence of Keith Jarrett, land sonically, the air-infused nevertheless electrical guitar audio dances amongst bass together with drums mixed inwards a pastoral acoustic style. Even amongst headphones, the listener hears the trio of instruments entwined inwards the air, coupled yesteryear intense playing together with musicianship.
From the perspective of guitar-related influences nosotros hear the chordal inspiration of a swain Bostonian, voicing-god Mick Goodrick. Linearity is Miller's calling card, seamlessly melding Allan Holdsworth's 21st Century legato technique amongst a non-guitar-centric, genuinely jazz vocabulary together with phraseology, amongst notes percussing from the fretboard inwards pianistic fashion.
Another facet that takes Trio upward a notch is the particular attending paid to tone together with articulation on the high end. Miller devoted requisite consideration together with fourth dimension to sonics, together with the dividends are sumptuous. An advocate of the ergonomically right Klein axes, Miller's functioning on "Untied sounds equally if he's playing 2 of them at once, electrical for the atmospheric chords of the intro together with acoustic for the quick sixteenth-note turn-backs constitute on high, doubled yesteryear the drums. Take Toriyama's tone is apart from the to a greater extent than athletic norms of the "fusion realm, amongst to a greater extent than of the room than the kit inwards the mix. His operate of slackened snare, coupled amongst bassist Josh Davis' booming upright sound, is specially effective on this track.
Miller employs a super-thick tone for his solo, alternating bop-legato mastery amongst sax-like repeated figures that belie the layout of the fretboard. Miller tin lay into a rock'n'roll repeating hyperspeed four-note figure akin to traditional Hendrix or Page twelfth-fret pentatonics, but inwards the middle of the neck, using iv notes at spread intervals of the harmony-of-the moment, something to a greater extent than out of Mike Brecker's vocabulary.
While the recording weighs inwards at the forty-minute mark, there's much to survive said for concentration together with self-editing. "Sparkle is 90 seconds of inspired melodic riffing against Toriyama's percussion arsenal together with volition solitary vantage consecutive listening surpassing the full of the disc's existent time. It would survive an interesting musical practice to map out hither where each of Miller's melodic phrases begins or ends, or to selection the midpoint of each. I am certain each roadmap would inwards plough contain alternate songs. Similarly, the 3 minutes of "MG, dedicated to mentor together with Berklee fellowman Goodrick, forge a successful wedlock of modern stone balladry amongst jazz.
"Straight Lines is the composition of the set, a mid-tempo cutting smoldering amongst the passion together with memorable tune commonly reserved for ballads, specially inwards Miller's opening solo salvo. The 2 "Density compositions, using minimal themes fashioned from rhythmic chordal materials growing out of together with into weaving strands of single-note improvisation, bring out substantial rewards unearthed yesteryear exploring repetition equally a agency of mining novel melodic together with improvisational territory.
The Generic Modality Compression method Tim Miller uses for his musical appear makes wonders to the listeners' feel of imagination. At to the lowest degree that is how I experience close his approach. It makes it fifty-fifty to a greater extent than adventurous for guitarists similar myself. But that is only a side outcome of Miller's music unique beauty.
Nothing should stand upward betwixt this ane getting heard together with Miller's justifiably meteoric rising on the worldwide guitar-watchers org-chart.
An first-class CD that showcases Tim's unique jazz vocalisation together with his incredible chops. Using a hybrid picking trend amongst fingers together with pick, his playing is aught brusk of amazing. Elements of Keith Jarrett, Allan Holdsworth, Chick Corea, together with Mick Goodrick tin survive heard equally influences on his playing. This is a cutting border CD for those interested inwards ane of the novel leaders inwards the progressive jazz scene. Highly recommended...also his novel CD Trio2 available on his website timmillermusic.com.
Track listing:
01 Intro 0:57
02 Untied 3:55
03 Shift 3:56
04 Paris 2:40
05 Sparkle 1:29
06 Straight Lines 4:33
07 The Trees, The Lord's Day 4:05
08 Density One 4:05
09 TR 4:47
10 Two View 4:09
eleven Density Two 2:29
12 MG 2:56
Total length: 40:01
Personnel:
Tim Miller: guitar;
Joshua Davis: bass;
Take Toriyama: drums.
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