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

01 Tuesday May 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Creative Music, Improvised Music, Modern Jazz, New Music, Press Release, What's New?

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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. Continue reading →

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