Poet Bern Porter once told me that all he asked in exchange for one of his poems was a loaf of bread. If you really liked the poem, he suggested, you might bake that bread with a few raisins inside.

“Miller is simply bolstering her reputation as one of our most exacting and exhilarating drummers now working in the jazz.” –WRTI Radio Allison Miller and her acclaimed group Boom Tic Boom—with ...