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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.