Stacy Dillard

Stacy Dillard (* around 1975 ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Dillard grew up in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, where he initially focused on athletics before moving on to music. He attended Central State University College in Wilberforce, Ohio. During a performance in Dayton, Wynton Marsalis noticed him and encouraged him to move to New York. After graduating, he lived in Cincinnati, where his first recordings were made in 2001 with Mike Wade (trumpet), Melvin Broach (drums) and William Menefield (piano) ( The Broach Approach ). In New York he finally worked with musicians such as Winard Harper , Cindy Blackman , Lenny White and Norman Simmons, Frank Lacy , Wycliffe Gordon , Eric Reed , Roy Hargrove , Stefon Harris , Ernestine Anderson , Terrell Stafford , Herlin Riley , John Hicks , Frank Wess , Mulgrew Miller , Clark Terry , Victor Lewis , Steve Wilson , Antonio Hart , Russell Malone , Lewis Nash , Mark Whitfield and with the Mingus Big Band . In addition, he led his own band projects such as cPhyve, cPhour and The Other Side , the latter more R&B / funk and hip-hop- oriented. He also leads a quintet with Greg Glassman (album Live at Fat Cat , 2012). In the field of jazz he was involved in 44 recording sessions between 2001 and 2018.

Discographic notes

• Tarbaby: Tar Baby (2006) with JD Allen , Orrin Evans , Eric Revis , Nasheet Waits
• Elite State of Mind (MIH, 2006)
• cPhyve (MIH, 2006)
• One (Smalls, 2009)
• Good and Bad Memories ( Criss Cross Jazz , 2010), with Orrin Evans, Craig Magnano, Ryan Berg, Jeremy "Bean" Clemons
• Dezron Douglas : Live at Smalls (Small Live, 2012), with Josh Evans , David Bryant, Willie Jones III

Web links

• Web presence
• Stacy Dillard at Allmusic (English)
• Stacy Dillard at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Stacy Dillard. Smalls, November 10, 2018, accessed November 10, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 11, 2018)