"You can't really get further outside than where Stackpole are planted, on a jazz-ragged landscape strewn with scattered shrapnel, clouds of smoke, eerie shrieks after dark. The first, self-titled disc from this quartet of much-feared Seattle improvisers shows a band in full control of their chaos. Stackpole come on with an aggressive energy that keeps its musical direction even as it busts through every reasonable boundary."
— Seattle Weekly

Track Listing

1. Wheelhouse
2. Catbird Seat
3. Ignis Fatuus (Marsh Lights)
4. Krummholz
5. The Crocker Land Expedition
6. Spindrift
7. Polynya
8. Impasto

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #593689 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Album Description
Stackpole is an incendiary free-jazz quartet featuring four formidable Seattle-based improvisers: guitarist Dennis Rea (LAND, Axolotl), alto saxophonist Wally Shoup (Project W, Thurston Moore), Northwest drum legend Gregg Keplinger, and acoustic bass virtuoso Geoff Harper. Stackpole's totally improvised music-in-the-moment ranges from eerie, hovering sonorities to hurtling freebop to hurricane-force sonic gales - an invigorating and truly unclassifiable alloy of jazz energy, top-notch

musicianship, and startling sounds. The group's remarkable debut CD stands as a landmark of Pacific Northwest improvised music.

Earshot Jazz, February 2001
...a truly remarkable document of the fruition of post-free jazz in Seattle... a signal event in Seattle music.