Jesse Stacken and Kirk Knuffke + Ben Holmes and Patrick Farrell

Pianist Jesse Stacken and trumpeter Kirk Knuffke, longtime collaborators and highly sympathetic duo partners, celebrate Five, the latest in a series of fascinating SteepleChase CDs that finds them delving into jazz repertoire both familiar and obscure. If the disc is any indication, expect to hear spare, romantic readings of pieces by Carla Bley and Bill Evans at this release gig. Also on board is the duo of trumpeter Ben Holmes and accordionist Patrick Farrell.