Loren Stillman News
New Releases 2005-2006
It Could Be Anything, Fresh Sound Records, Ocotber 2005
Loren Stillman, alto saxophone/composer
Gary Versace, piano
Scott Lee, bass
Jeff Hirshfield, drums
www.freshsoundrecords.com
The Brothers Breakfast, Steeplechase Records, February 2006
Loren Stillman, alto saxophone/composer
Gary Versace, hammond b-3
Vic Juris, guitar
Jeff Hirshfield, drums
www.steeplechase.dk
"...in jazz music where players carry on into their 80's, Loren Stillman at 23 is like a ten year old playing major league baseball. But what an arm (so to speak). It Could Be Anything features the leader's sweet tone matched with fluid soloing, satisfying melodies, clever countermelodies, and taut rhythmic interplay."
-Jeff Stockton, AllAboutJazz, November 2005
"Still, one need only look to the plethora of independent labels to realize that jazz is hardly on its death bed. It's thriving and, if not seeing grand developmental leaps, there are inescapable steps forward day-by-day, release-by-release. That a twenty-something musician like saxophonist Loren Stillman can release an album as mature, well-conceived and personal as It Could Be Anything is clear evidence that creative jazz with a difference is still being made and that it's premature to be ringing its death-knell."
-John Kelman, AllAboutJazz, December 2005