Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom, with special guest Anat Cohen

You can tell a lot about an artist, in this case the ingenious drummer Allison Miller, by the company she keeps: pop chanteuses Ani DiFranco and Natalie Merchant, jazz organ legend Dr. Lonnie Smith, and avant-garde trailblazer Marty Ehrlich. Coming from the jazz tradition, she engages her deep roots in improvisation to explore all music. A charismatic and rhythmically propulsive drummer with melodic sensibility, Allison has been named “Rising Star Drummer” and “Top 20 Jazz Drummer” in Downbeat magazine’s acclaimed Critics Poll. And she’s toured the world three times on behalf of the U.S. State Department as a Jazz Ambassador delivering an “anything can happen” excitement coupled with locked-in-the-pocket grooves. Don’t miss the artist that LA Scene calls, “ . . . one of the most exciting percussive people on the music scene today.”