Loren Stillman & Haymaker

Name: Loren Stillman & Haymaker
Start: 2024-10-09T19:30:00-06:00
Location: Zootown Arts Community Center / ZACC

Schedule

Wed Oct 09 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Zootown Arts Community Center / ZACC | Missoula, MT

Wednesday, October 9 // Door at 7 PM // Show at 7:30 PM // $12 Advance // $15 Day of Show
To purchase tickets visit: https://showroom.zootownarts.org/event/loren-stillman-haymaker/zootown-arts-community-center/missoula-montana/

Haymaker is: Loren Stillman on Saxophone & Songs, Tommy Sciple on Bass, and John Wicks on Drums.

One of the greatest challenges in music is making complexity feel natural and effortless. Saxophonist Loren Stillman continues to push his compositional boundaries, creating free-flowing pieces that draw from the past 60 years of American jazz — embracing its wide range of styles and temperaments: soft and loud, fast and slow, in tempo and out, free and composed, cluttered and sparse, swinging and non-swinging. His compositions challenge musicians to navigate these intricate musical landscapes while driving the music forward. To bring this vision to life, Stillman partners with collaborators, bassist Tommy Sciple and drummer John Wicks, performing a dynamic repertoire of new works.

The 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, the melodic and harmonic, and the rigorous subtlety of his response. He pairs uncannily mature instincts with the open-minded spark of youth. – Nate Chinen, The New York Times

In this first hearing I believe that as a writer and a stylist, he (Stillman) has found a previously unoccupied slot in the jazz spectrum, which is a very rare thing indeed. – Anthony Troon, Jazz Review UK

The magic, that which entrances, is not technique, although Stillman obviously can play anything his mind hears. He is that special musician, one who is totally free. Stillman projects a searching intelligence far beyond his years with every note. – Budd Kopman, Cadence Magazine

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