Ron Stabinsky

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Ron Stabinsky (born around 1980 in Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz pianist whom All About Jazz described as a "stylistic chameleon".

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Stabinsky received his first music lessons at the age of five from his grandfather Michael Hoysock. From 2000 he studied with Edna Golandsky in New York City, as well as classical piano with the concert pianist Ilya Itin . Stabinsky initially worked as a soloist from 2002; his mentor was Bill Dixon , who encouraged him to play more experimentally. 2007/08 played in a duo with saxophonist Jack Wright ; the sessions were released in 2015 on the alnum Just What You Need Today (Spring Garden Music). Occasionally during his career he has worked with David Taylor , Cris Kirkwood , Dave Liebman in the Ensemble Relâche , which is dedicated to contemporary music; so he can be heard on the album Comix Trips (2014). He has guested at international festivals such as the Newport Jazz Festival , North Sea Jazz Festival , moers festival and the Jazz and More Festival in Sibiu .

Stabinsky has played in the formation Mostly Other People Do the Killing since 2013, and can be heard on the albums Red Hot (2013), Blue (2014), Mauch Chunk (2015), Loafer's Hollow (2016) and Paint (2017). Since then he has also participated in the recordings of Charles Evans and the Peter Evans Quintet . After a solo album with his own compositions ( Free for One , 2015), he recorded in 2016 with the formation Talibam! (with Matthew Mottel and Kevin Shea as well as Matt Nelson ) on the album Hard Vibe ( ESP-Disk ). In the field of jazz, the discographer Tom Lord lists seven recording sessions by Stabinsky between 2013 and 2016. The chamber music- oriented production Wilderness (Mark Records, 2016) was created in a trio with Jonathan Fowler and Elizabeth Pfaffle .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Ron Stabinsky: Free for One Album Release Celebration // Tom Blancarte Solo. Roulette, October 4, 2016, accessed March 17, 2018 .
  2. Ron Stabinsky (TGI Symposium Guide). Golandsky Institute, 2017, accessed March 17, 2018 .
  3. Mark Sullivan: Ron Stabinsky: Free for One. All About Jazz , May 20, 2016, accessed March 12, 2018 .
  4. Relâche (ensemble)
  5. Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed March 12, 2018)