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Guitar Player Magazine
"…pure melody consciousness... [with] remarkable control, a
breathy, violiny tone [and] bell-like consistency."
Minor 7th
"Tim Miller's current release, "Trio," is quite
possibly one of the most groundbreaking and enthralling collections of
contemporary jazz guitar music recorded in the last decade."
AllAboutJazz.com
"In fact, Miller's work throughout should garner him
well-deserved notoriety. His lines are executed with a legato virtuosity,
springing off the fingerboard as if they are tapped out by mallets, not
fingertips. More importantly, they are extremely non-guitarcentric and have a
rhythmic sensibility and motion found at the highest echelons of the music. In
other words, you simply won't hear Miller run a scale throughout, and when he
plays you get a sense of movement akin to a kick-returner weaving through an
entire defense on a 110 yard runback. The phrasing and melodic contour on “Time”
in particular are exemplary-not many guitarists can blow in inside territory
with as many novel ideas as Miller who, at 31, provides a fresh, promising new
voice in jazz guitar. "
--Phil DiPietro
20th Century Guitar
"Trio is [...] a
40 minute set of superbly recorded instrumental guitar jazz that
stretches the parameters of the musical imagination."
AllAboutJazz.com
"Compositionally, the freedom and openness in the
music reflects the deep influence of Keith Jarrett, while sonically, the
air-infused yet electric guitar sound dances with bass and drums mixed in a
pastoral acoustic style. Even with headphones, the listener hears the trio of
instruments entwined in the air, coupled by intense playing and musicianship."
--Phil DiPietro
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