Jesse Stacken

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Jesse Stacken (born June 28, 1978 in Minnesota ) is an American jazz pianist , composer and music teacher.

Stacken started playing the piano when he was ten; at the age of 16 he turned to jazz improvisation . After earning a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire , he continued his studies at the Manhattan School of Music , where he studied with Garry Dial and obtained a master's in jazz piano . In New York he worked with Michael Blake , Tyshawn Sorey , Peter van Huffel , Liam Sillery, Sherisse Rogers and Erica von Kleist . He performed in New York clubs such as the Jazz Gallery , Jazz Standard , The Stone, Cornelia Street Cafe and Barbès , and from 2005 worked with his own trio ( That That , Fresh Sound Records 2008), with Eivind Opsvik and Jeff Davis . Other projects include the formation No Truck (with Kirk Knuffke , Justin Keller and Ziv Ravitz ), the duo Stacken / Knuffke (album Mockingbird on SteepleChase Records 2009); he also worked with Darcy James Argue , Tony Malaby , Sean Conly , Tom Rainey , Rufus Reid , Mat Maneri , Gerald Cleaver and Chris Potter , in Germany with Tobias Christl . In the field of jazz he was involved in 16 recording sessions between 2001 and 2011. Stacken teaches at the Bloomingdale School of Music in Manhattan.

Discographic notes

  • Kirk Knuffke / Jesse Stacken: Orange Was the Color (2011)
  • Bagatelles for Trio (2012), with Eivind Opsvik, Jeff Davis

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/jessestacken
  2. ↑ portrait at NYSMF
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.motoki-kollektiv.de
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed July 17, 2014)
  5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bsmny.org
  6. ^ Review of the album (2011) in JazzTimes
personal data
SURNAME Stacken, Jesse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Minnesota