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Jazz At Wolfson To Feature Drummer/Composer Allison Miller

Drummer and composer Allison Miller, who serves as a jazz and contemporary music professor at the New School for Jazz, headlines the next Jazz At Wolfson Presents series event at Wolfson Campus, 300 N.E. Second Ave., Room 1261.

The performance, which is free and open to the public, will be on Jan. 17. at noon.

Miller is a New York City-based artist and a three-time jazz ambassador for the U.S. State Department. 

She won the title of Rising Star Drummer in Downbeat 67th Annual Critics Poll and was honored as a Monterey Jazz Festival Artist-in-Residence in 2019 for her guidance of young musicians.

Miller has performed with the likes of Ani DeFranco and Natalie Merchant and leads a modern jazz sextet, Boom Tic Boom, which has released five albums and toured throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. 

Their most recent album, Glitter Wolf,  was released in 2019 and received acclaim in outlets such as NPR, Rolling Stone and JazzTimes.

The Jazz at Wolfson Presents event will be available on the Miami Dade College livestream webpage.

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