Loren Stillman

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Stillman at the Red Hook Jazz Festival in 2013

Loren Stillman (born June 14, 1980) is a jazz

saxophonist and composer. He has received two Outstanding Performance Awards (1996 and 1998) and the Rising Star Jazz Artist Award (2004) from Down Beat Magazine.[citation needed] and received the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award in 2005.[citation needed
]

Biography

Stillman was born in 1980 in

New School University
in 2002.

He received two Outstanding Performance Awards in 1996 and 1998 and the Rising Star Jazz Artist Award in 2004 from Down Beat Magazine. He was a semifinalist in the 2002 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition[citation needed] and in 2005 he received the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming and the ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award.

He is hailed as "a writer and a stylist that has found a previously unoccupied slot in the jazz spectrum." (

Samo Salamon
, Vic Juris and The Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.

It Could Be Anything (2005, Fresh Sound) and The Brothers’ Breakfast (2006, Steeplechase) received critical acclaim from The New York Times, and four star awards from BBC Jazz Review and Downbeat Magazine. Stillman has been a featured artist on WKCR, Weekend America and LIU Radio programming.

Discography

Loren Stillman at Tonspuren Irsee 2014, Germany

As leader

  • Cosmos (1997). Loren Stillman Quartet. Soul Note Records. OCLC: 41124309
  • Gin Bon (2003). The Loren Stillman Quartet with John Abercrombie. Fresh Sounds Records. OCLC: 53381154
  • How Sweet It Is (2003). Loren Stillman Quartet. Nagel-Heyer Records. OCLC: 56605789
  • It Could Be Anything (2005). Loren Stillman. Fresh Sound Records. OCLC: 63165502
  • Jam Session Vol. 15 (2005). Loren Stillman. Steeplechase Records. OCLC: 150290822
  • The Brother's Breakfast (2006). Loren Stillman. Steeplechase Records. OCLC: 156528260
  • Trio Alto Volume One (2006). Loren Stillman. Steeplechase Records.OCLC: 145151902
  • Trio Alto Volume Two (2007). Loren Stillman. Steeplechase Records. OCLC: 156859282
  • Blind Date (2007). Loren Stillman. Pirouet Records. OCLC: 172985775
  • Winter Fruits (2009). Loren Stillman. Pirouet Records. OCLC: 502281234

As sideman

Loren Stillman

With

Liberation Music Orchestra

With Paul Motian

With Chris Dingman

  • Waking Dreams, 2011

With Samo Salamon

  • 2 Alto, (Steeplechase Records, 2014)

References

Notes
  1. ^ "Loren Stillman: Blind Date". Critics' choice: New CDs. New York Times. 2007-11-26. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
Sources

External links

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