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Winter Fruits

By Loren Stillman

Label: Pirouet Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Muted Dreams; Skin; Man of Mystery; With You; Like a Magic Kiss; A Song to Be Played; Winter Fruits; Puffy.

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Victoria (Live in Germany)

By Arthur Kell

Label: Bjurecords
Released: 2009
Track listing: Victoria And Her Sisters; Suomi Sanni; Papa Abba; Draco Arthur; Names & Spaces; There You Go; Dada.

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Article: Album Review

Ike Sturm: JazzMass

Read "JazzMass" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins

There are people who believe jazz, like the blues, is unholy or “devil's music." However, the spirituality of many jazz artists comes through in their writing, and bassist/composer/arranger Ike Sturm is one of them. Sturm is musical director for the jazz ministry at Saint Peter's Church in Manhattan. The institution has a tradition of ...

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Ike Sturm: JazzMass

Read "JazzMass" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

Because of its transcendent nature, listening to jazz is often considered to be a spiritual experience. Certainly listening to John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964) is a larger-than-life experience. Same can be said of bassist Ike Sturm's JazzMass, a 10-part construction for jazz septet, voices and strings that presents prayer and music as a sacrament. ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 5

Read "On Broadway Vol. 5" reviewed by Brandt Reiter

by Brandt Reiter

The brushes are out as drummer Paul Motian continues his ongoing disc series, On Broadway. This latest installment features Motian's less starry “2000" trio, with bassist Thomas Morgan and saxophonist Loren Stillman, plus a second saxophonist, Michaël Attias and pianist Masabumi Kikuchi (who also participated on Vol. 4). Two decades on, the recipe remains the same--loving, ...

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Article: Album Review

Loren Stillman: Winter Fruits

Read "Winter Fruits" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

Loren Stillman's Winter Fruits is an impressive follow-up to the saxophonist's stellar Blind Date (Pirouet Records, 2007). The increasingly visible altoist has been spotted on a number of recordings including Paul Motian's On Broadway, Vol. 5, (Winter & Winter (2009), yet found time to refine his own music. Through a couple of lineup changes with new ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

It's The Drummer, Stupid

Read "It's The Drummer, Stupid" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto

If you're a jazz misanthrope you probably think first to “shoot the pianist," a saying taken from the Francois Truffaut film of the same name, Tirez sur le pianiste. Truth be told, the most effective way to pull the plug on a jazz band, a very good jazz band, is to take out the drummer. An ...

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News: Interview

An Alto Saxophonist Steps Modestly to the Fore

An Alto Saxophonist Steps Modestly to the Fore

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 ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Loren Stillman Alto Saxophonist Steps Modestly to the Fore

Loren Stillman Alto Saxophonist Steps Modestly to the Fore

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol. 5

Read "On Broadway Vol. 5" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner

An unorthodox timekeeper and masterful drummer, Paul Motian's momentum has not waned since working with Bill Evans in the 1950s, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra and Keith Jarrett's American Quartet in the 1960s, and, more recently, younger artists including Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik and Mat Maneri in Two Miles a Day (Loyal Label, 2007). Among Motian's ...


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