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Stillman studied classical saxophone with instructor’s Dan Goble and Harvey Pittell at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute in 1995. In studying with these well versed saxophonists, he gained a strong knowledge of Joe Allard’s approach to saxophone playing, emphasizing a natural and relaxed view to the instrument through the study of overtones and vocal manipulation of sound.
He has received 2 Outstanding Performance Awards and 2004 Rising Star Jazz Artist from Down Beat Magazine along with a scholarship to attend The Manhattan School of Music (1998) and the Zoot Simms Award to attend New School University (2002). In 2002, he was a semifinalist in the Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition and in 2005 received 2nd place in the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award.
Stillman has made six recordings as a leader for Soul Note (1996), Nagel-Heyer (2001) Fresh Sound (2003) (2005) and Steeplechase Records (2005). In 2003 his collaborative trio Jackalope; featuring guitarist John Abercrombie released Saltier than Ever on Challenge Records.
He has received notable acclaim for his performances and recordings from publications including: The New York Times, Cadence, Jazz Times, Jazziz Magazines and Downbeat Magazines. Stillman’s third album Gin Bon for Fresh Sound Records was voted “Album of the Year 2004,” by Jazz Review UK.
His most recent release It Could Be Anything, (October 2005, Fresh Sound Records), received critical acclaim from the New York Times, and artist features on WKCR, Weekend America and LIU Radio programming.
Stillman’s influences range from saxophonists Lee Konitz and Wayne Shorter to composers Frank Zappa and Bela Bartok. He also draws inspiration from traditional music from around the world, and makes compositional reference to “stream of consciousness writing,” expressed by the teachings of composer Ludmila Uhlela.
Stillman has toured Europe and Japan as a leader and sideman with performers like Andy Milne’s DAPP Theory, Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, Eivind Opsvik Overseas, The Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Vic Juris, Dave Liebman, and John Abercrombie. Past performances by his ensemble include the JVC, Verizon, Earshot and Edinburgh Jazz Festivals. Stillman lives in Brooklyn, NY and has an active career as an improviser, teacher and composer.
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Time and Time Again with Loren Stillman
by David Bixler
The last several years have brought about significant change for saxophonist Loren Stillman. A lifelong New Yorker, Loren and his family did a 180, and moved to Montana several years ago. With the time afforded to him by the pandemic, Loren, having made a name for himself as an alto saxophonist focused his energies on the tenor. The fruit of his labor is a new recording, Time and Again, released on Sunnyside Records featuring himself on the tenor along with ...
read moreRuss Lossing, Loren Stillman: Canto.
by Hrayr Attarian
Although pianist Russ Lossing and saxophonist Loren Stillman have collaborated on a handful of superlative releases in the past, the stimulating Canto is their first duo recording. The introspective and intriguing release consists entirely of originals which are at times mesmerizingly dark and, at others, warmly vibrant. The music is sublimely balanced between the emotive and the cerebral. Lossing opens Stillman's “Her Love Was Like Kryptonite ” with resonant plucking of the strings followed by sparse and hypnotic ...
read moreAlban Darche: Le Gros Cube #2
by Alberto Bazzurro
La passione di Alban Darche, quarantasettenne tenorsassofonista e compositore bretone, per i grossi organici è nota: ce ne siamo già occupati diverse volte, su queste colonne. Questo suo ultimo lavoro, edito come d'uso su Yolk Music, non fa eccezione: diciotto elementi, big band che più classica non si potrebbe. Per una volta (almeno rispetto al passato) anche in quanto a linguaggio espressivo-espositivo, che si riconnette mani e piedi alla grande tradizione orchestrale, inserendo i soli, che ovviamente non mancano, sopra ...
read moreRuss Lossing: Metamorphism
by Neri Pollastri
Registrato nel luglio del 2017, questo lavoro a firma dell'allora cinquantasettenne Russ Lossing, pianista della scena newyorchese originario dell'Ohio, vede all'opera un quartetto classico nella formazione, ma in equilibrio tra mainstream e contemporaneità negli stilemi. Il leader, infatti, ha alle spalle trentacinque anni di collaborazioni con artisti di primissimo piano, da Kenny Wheeler a Tim Berne, tra le quali spicca quella, continuativa, con Paul Motian, alla musica del quale ha dedicato un lavoro per piano solo. Qui tale ...
read moreCharlie Haden / Liberation Music Orchestra: Time/Life:Songs For The Whales And Other Beings
by Ian Patterson
Formed by bassist Charlie Haden in 1969 to protest America's war in Vietnam/Indochina, the Liberation Music Orchestra has reconvened roughly every ten years to record musical protest in the face of major injustices. Time/Life: Song for the Whales and Other Beings was inspired by concern at global ecological destruction, and to that end the music has a pervasive melancholy colored by the LMO's signature lyricism, and broken up by stirring collective and individual passages. The LMO's personnel has ...
read moreCharlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Time / Life
by Giuseppe Segala
Due anni dopo la scomparsa di Charlie Haden si pubblica questo ultimo documento della sua Liberation Music Orchestra, un lavoro che il compianto contrabbassista progettò ma che non ebbe modo di portare a compiuta realizzazione. Vessillo del suo impegno civile e umano, l'orchestra era nata nel 1969 raccogliendo una pletora di musicisti straordinari, molti dei quali oggi non sono più con noi: Don Cherry, Gato Barbieri, Dewey Redman, Paul Motian. L'album è forse diverso da quello che sarebbe ...
read moreLoren Stillman + Bad Touch: Going Public
by Libero Farnè
Evidentemente, come si può desumere da una serie di incisioni e concerti (vedi l'ultima edizione del festival di Saalfelden), ci troviamo di fronte ad una precisa tendenza estetica, in atto in America come in Europa: quella di rivisitare l'estetica e le modalità compositive e improvvisative del Cool storico (che era però più dinamico e spigoloso) e anche del West Coast (che rispetto al Cool era più pomposo, ammorbidito, ma sempre swingante). Quelle correnti storiche vengono decantate secondo l'ottica di oggi, ...
read moreLoren Stillman Shares a Killer Practice Routine and Much More
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A glitteringly inventive saxophonist and composer, Brooklyn's own Loren Stillman spins sonic worlds of wonder. With impressionistic shades of traditional jazz punctuating his utterly modern playing and compositional sensibilities, his multiple recordings have garnered rave reviews from publications such as The New York Times, Cadence, Jazz Times, Jazziz Magazines and Downbeat. Stillman comes armed with an dangerous array of skills acquired via intensive musical education including lessons with a list of legends which includes Dave Liebman, Lee Konitz, Ted Nash, ...
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Loren Stillman - Winter Fruits (Pirouet)
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Master of a Small House
Oranges in February? Not a likely find outside the confines of the local supermarket. Rare too are the jazz ensembles containing an organ that opt to work largely outside the ingrained soul jazz traditions of the instrument. Altoist Loren Stillman hits the challenge head-on, though it's not exactly a new avenue of expression in his discography. The instrumentation also has origins in The Brother's Breakfast, a Stillman disc for Steeplechase that also marked his first collaboration with organist Gary Versace ...
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Loren Stillman/Russ Lossing Duo Live at the Rubin Museum in New York City on June 18th, 2010.
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Loren Stillman/Russ Lossing DuoHarlem in the Himalayas
Friday June 18, 2010 @ 7:00 PM $18.00 in advance / $20.00 day of Member Price: $16.20
Rubin Museum of Art 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY 10011 212.620.5000
The music of Brooklyn-based saxophonist and composer Loren Stillman has found acclaimed reviews in such publications as the New York Times, Downbeat Magazine, Jazziz, and Jazz Times, marking him as an innovative voice in modern jazz.
With his training stemming from Lee Konitz ...
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An Alto Saxophonist Steps Modestly to the Fore
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Michael Ricci
The alto saxophonist Loren Stillman communicates great intensity but not a lot of drama. He’s an intuitive, self-regulating improviser, averse to any flourish that calls attention to itself. What you hear in his playing is the real-time synthesis of information, chiefly melodic and harmonic, and the rigorous subtlety of his response. At 29, he pairs uncannily mature instincts with the open-minded spark of youth. Well into his roughly 80-minute set at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday night, he ventured a ...
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Loren Stillman Alto Saxophonist Steps Modestly to the Fore
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Michael Ricci
The alto saxophonist Loren Stillman communicates great intensity but not a lot of drama. Hes an intuitive, self-regulating improviser, averse to any flourish that calls attention to itself.
What you hear in his playing is the real-time synthesis of information, chiefly melodic and harmonic, and the rigorous subtlety of his response. At 29, he pairs uncannily mature instincts with the open-minded spark of youth.
Well into his roughly 80-minute set at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday night, he ventured a ...
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Loren Stillman Group's New CD Release
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All About Jazz
Loren Stillman, saxophonist and composer, will br playing his original music with his group consisting of Gary Versace on piano, Scott Lee on bass, and Jeff Hirshfield on drums. The CD is being distributed by Fresh Sounds Records. The sets are from 8:30-11PM with an $8 music charge. The cafe is located on Cornelia Street just above Bleecker in Greenwich Village. The A,C,E,B,D,F,AND V trains to West 4th Street and the 1 and 9 trains to Sheridan Square will put ...
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Loren Stillman
Location: New York City
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
Born: June 14, 1980
