American, Buffalo, New York-based pianist-composer-educator Michael McNeill’s projects range from reinterpretations of music by Thelonious Monk, the free improvising trio with veteran double bass player Ken Filiano and drummer Phil Haynes, and his Baltimore-based Allegories quartet with the untimely departed and sorely missed, innovative pedal steel guitar treasure Susan Alcorn (who passed away in January 2025), master trumpeter-educator Dave Ballou and vibes player-percussionist-educator Shelly Purdy.
McNeill founded the Allegories quartet in 2018, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, the quartet recorded its debut and only album at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore in June 2022 at the end of its first-ever week-long tour. Unfortunately, it
