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Vlad Miller and Notes from Underground
Diaghilev's Dance
ASC Records asc111
Those
familiar with pianist Vlad Miller from his live performances (he played
as part of the ASC piano festival at the Vortex last year), or from his
work with the Moscow Composers Orchestra, will perhaps be a mite surprised
to hear that this album with electric bassist Leslee Booth and drummer David
Rohoman finds him in relatively straightahead, rather than free-jazz, mode.
The eleven Miller compositions that make up Diaghilev's Dance are mostly lively, vigorous pieces lending themselves effectively and naturally not only to Miller's strengths – a sparkling, florid but carefully controlled soloing style underpinned by a knack for supplying himself with intriguingly rhythmically displaced comping in the left hand – but also to Booth's deft lyricism (his occasional solos little gems of understated tuneful sophistication) and Rohoman's unobtrusive yet artful propulsiveness.
With the odd ballad providing balance, this is an intelligently programmed, consistently absorbing set from a versatile, musicianly and subtly interactive band.
