Cercie Miller & Dominique Eade

CERCIE MILLER

Alto saxophonist Cercie Miller has been a dynamic presence on Boston’s jazz scene since 1986, when she founded the Cercie Miller Jazz Quartet and the avant-garde jazz collective, Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet.

The Boston Globe jazz critic describes Miller a “direct and commanding” performer whose solos can be “scorching.” The Boston Herald’s jazz writer calls her a “versatile stylist with a penchant for melody” and a “take-no-prisoners streak that shows itself in her slashing alto solos.”

Miller is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where she was mentored by jazz sax legend Joseph Allard. She is a composer who has released eight jazz recordings and she teaches music and performance at Wesleyan College and the Berklee School of Music.

DOMINIQUE EADE

Known for her radiant and evocative voice, Dominique Eade has been the featured artist at the Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Jazz in Toulon Festival in France, and the What Is Jazz? Festival in New York.

She has been honored as an outstanding jazz vocalist at Boston Music Awards and by Entertainment Weekly. Several of her recordings – When the Wind Was Cool, The Long Way Home, Open” and My Resistance is Low – have appeared on jazz critics’ top ten lists.

Eade studied at the New England Conservatory, where she is now a faculty member and a recipient of the school’s outstanding alumni award.

Heralded as one of the most intriguing singers to emerge on the jazz scene during the 1990s, Dominique Eade is a gifted, chance-taking alto with a very expressive voice. Her considerable abilities as a composer and arranger, and her desire to seek deserving but less frequently performed songs, along with surrounding herself with top-flight musicians add to her appeal.