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The Push-Pull Quartet
Miller formed THE PUSH-PULL QUARTET in Spring, 2007 to record a soundtrack for The Mad Hatters' Review; an on-line multimedia webzine. The session was so successful, this NYC-based ensemble began to perform regularly, recording 9 tracks at Wombat Recording Studios in Brooklyn with Ross Bonadonna at the helm later that year. At The Stroke of Twelve was released on Tigerasylum records.
Ben Miller; alto and c-tenor saxophone
Chris Welcome; electric guitar
Shayna Dulberger; upright bass
John McLellan; drum kit
Miller's material works with semi-structured improvisations and pantonal composition using tone rows, interval rows, and graphic scores.
PPQ performed through 2008 and then disbanded.
Raised in Chicagoland, Welcome studied with Frank Portolese, Vic Juris and Brian Kershner. He has performed with Daniel Carter, Jack Wright, Blaise Siwula, Herb Robertson, and others. Welcome has received positive reviews in Cadence Magazine, All About Jazz, WNUR and others. He has toured extensively with Blaise Siwula and with the noise/rock/jazz group Mothguts. Welcome has recently recorded an album of his works for Tigerasylum Records, "The Chris Welcome Quartet".
Dulberger has performed with William Parker, Ras Moshe, Daniel Carter, Bill Cole, Paul Flaherty and others. She has performed in the Vision Festival XII, CMJ Music Festival, Performa07, Music Now, C.O.M.A. and The Phantom Ear Music Series. Dulberger performs with many other ensembles, including TheKillMeTrio, The Chris Welcome Quartet, The Young Equestrians and The E.R.A. Her albums have been reviewed by All About Jazz, Signal to Noise, Jazz & Tzaz, WNUR and others.
Born in Puerto Rico, raised in Massachusetts, McLellan has worked with Joe and Mat Maneri, Roswell Rudd, Bern Nix, Roy Campbell, William Parker, Ken Vandermark, Denman Maroney, and many others. He has performed at festivals throughout the country, including the Newport Jazz Festival, the Iowa City Jazz Festival, and New York's Vision Festival. McLellan's inventive drumming can be heard on his duo record with saxophonist Joe MCPhee, "Grand Marquis" on Boxholder records and Mat Maneri's latest release on Thirsty Ear Records, "Pentagon". He also plays with Trio Caveat, The Up, The E.R.A. and The Chris Welcome Quartet.
Contact Ben Miller at info@benmiller.info
© 2003 Ben Miller
