December 3, 2006
at All Souls at Sundown:

Stacy Dillard, saxophones
Craig Magnano, guitar • Ryan Berg, bass Jeremy Clemons, percussion
and the poetry of Czeslaw Milosz

 

“A young saxophonist of serious promise” (Ben Ratliff, The New York Times), Stacy Dillard exploded onto the New York jazz scene in 2002, capturing widespread attention with his large and rich tone, developed ideas, accurate technique, and musical patience. Dillard has played with renowned jazz leaders such as Roy Hargrove, The Mingus Big Band, Wycliffe Gordon, Eric Reed, Stefon Harris, Clark Terry, Mulgrew Miller, Victor Lewis, as well as expanding into different genres of music with Shirley Caesar, Alex Bugnon, Stephanie Mills, Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth. Dillard is currently leading three bands of his own: cPhyve, cPhour, and The Other Side.

A master of blending simple truths with fundamental insights into human dilemmas, the brilliant Polish-born poet and essayist Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) struggled against both Nazism and Communism in Eastern Europe before emigrating to the U.S. in 1960. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980, his work is “one of the monumental splendors of poetry in our age” (The New York Times).