Jon Miller Quartet "3 Days in Winter" CD Release Tour: Parksville

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Friday, February 12th, 2016
7:00 PM

The Jon Miller Quartet tours Vancouver Island February 11th-13th, 2016 with upcoming performance dates across Central Vancouver Island.

Island residents can catch a performance of the top rated and gifted Victoria jazz quartet in Courtenay on February 11th at the McMillan Arts Centre at 133 McMillan Street in Parksville (250)-248-8185 at $15 and $12 for OCAC members.

As one of the BC’s premiere instrumental jazz groups, the gifted Jon Miller Quartet's new album "3 Days in Winter" was recorded in February 2015 and features nine original jazz compositions by producer, powerhouse drummer/bandleader Jon Miller and talented band members saxophonist Monik Nordine, guitarist Rob Cheramy, and bassist James Young. The quartet will perform music from the new release as part of their island tour.

This marks the group's second recorded album project following their debut release "Orchidology" (2009) which was nominated in the category "album of the year" in Monday Magazine's 2009 M awards. 3 Days in Winter has already spent 19 weeks on campus radio charts for jazz programming across the country. The group has appeared in several editions of Victoria Jazz Fest International as well as Vancouver, Victoria and Island music spots including the Pat's Pub, Northern Quarter, Crofton Hotel, Lasqueti Hotel, Hermann's Jazz Club and the City of Victoria's City Scene Concerts.

The Jon Miller Quartet continues to mine a mostly acoustic instrumental jazz vein while incorporating a host of outside influences including blues, fusion and other forms of improvised music. Covering a wide range of moods from meditative and introspective to raucous and freewheeling, this new recording teams the impressive upright bass and drums combo of talents Young and Miller with the dynamic playing of one of the country's top female saxophonists Monik Nordine and one of the area's finest jazz guitarists, Rob Cheramy.
 
With the excitement and the buzz about the upcoming island tour, talented Victoria bandleader and drummer Jon Miller says, "I am happy to bring this band to a wider audience across the Central Island area, the band members and I have a unique and special chemistry together and I look forward to sharing this quartet with others, we have a lot of fun performing together."

The new album 3 Days in Winter is available for streaming and download at bandcamp: https://jonmillerquartet.bandcamp.com/. Learn more at: [email protected].

View a recent show filmed at Hermann's Jazz Club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up06GWIbfCg