Peter Cincotti -][- METROPOLIS – [Heads Up, 2012] –

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Male Vocalist, Peter Cincotti

Peter Cincotti, METROPOLIS

Peter Cincotti -][- METROPOLIS – [Heads Up, 2012] –

With its hard-driving beats, funky rhythms and stellar pop-centric sensibility, vocalist, pianist and composer Peter Cincotti’s fourth album, Metropolis, might be perceived as a sharp left turn from the jazz-focused, boy-crooner sound that established his career a decade ago. But Cincotti sees Metropolis, for which he wrote all 12 songs, as more evolutionary than revolutionary, marking his continuance along a musical path that he started mapping as early as age three.

Pianist Jesse Stacken Releases Bagatelles for Trio Out June 12, 2012 on Fresh Sound New Talent

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Eivind Opsvik, JEFF DAVIS, Jesse Stacken

With EIVIND OPSVIK (bass) & JEFF DAVIS (drums)

Jesse Stacken, Bagatelles for Trio

Béla Bartók’s “Fourteen Bagatelles” (1908) were among the Hungarian composer’s earliest masterpieces. The collection of piano miniatures marked a formative moment in the young composer’s life, harkening back to the Romanticism of the century just ended, showing nascent traces of his exploration of his native country’s folk music, and taking bold new steps in the direction of the avant-garde.

At a similarly early stage in his own already-impressive career, pianist/composer Jesse Stacken has composed his own set of Bagatelles – one less in number than Bartók’s, but expanded for a piano trio and open to jazz improvisation.

Featured artist E. Peterson W. ‘THE LOOK’

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African American, E. Peterson W.

Greetings art and jazz enthusiast, I can’t believe the month of May is here already. Today, I’m featuring a stunning piece on charcoal paper by artist E. Peterson W. Enjoy!

E. Peterson W. -][- THE LOOK – [Graphite and charcoal on paper]

E. Peterson W., THE LOOK

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