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Jeff Platz
Jeff Platz, New York, Boston area guitarist composer, has toured extensively for the past decade throughout the U.S. and Europe. He has performed in various music festivals worldwide such as New York City’s What is Jazz? festival, the Heidelberg jazz festival, Amsterdam Crossing Borders festival, the Munster International Jazz festival in Munster Germany and most recently the Bia Jazz Festival in Milan Italy. The Berlin based music journalist Wolf Kampmann writes, “Platz’s music is generous although never accidental. The secret of its uninhibited quality lies more in Platz’s playful use of the familiar where intuition, feeling, and memory are the most important navigational instruments”. Jeff Platz received a grant from the city of Muenster Germany for Werkstadt Tage, a multi media arts festival. Platz collaborated with visual artists to present a musical score for live improvisation featuring German bassist Meinrad Kneer and veteran jazz drummer Bill Elgart.
In May of 2010 Jeff released his quartet cd “Panoramic” featuring New York City legend Daniel Carter on reeds and trumpet. Free Jazz.com writes, “The ensemble is a wonderful example of cohesive playing and total sound, full of lyricism”. In a recent live review Downbeat magazine said “Platz's group was truly amazing, on fire!” Jeff has been working in Italy with ensembles featuring bassist Sylvia Bolognese, multi reeds player Achille Succi, pianist Giancarlo Tossani and alto saxophonist Fabio Delvò. Platz has recorded for a variety of jazz music labels including Skycap Records, Evil Rabbit, Konnex, Glitch, and Setola di Maiale records. In 2015 Jeff performed solo electric guitar improvisations in collaboration with choreographers Janet Aisawa and Beth Soll in the Spring Forward dance festival in New York City.
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Jeff Platz / Max Goldman / Brendan Carniaux: With Orbit
by Mark Corroto
If we had to categorize the sounds of Jeff Platz, Max Goldman, and Brendan Carniaux, we might call it sneaky music. Not sneaky as in deceitful, more like wily or sly. Partly composed, mostly improvised, With Orbit trades in the art of sleight of hand. For instance the opening track Lost To History" leads off with a bit of a funk groove via Platz's raucous guitar before Carniaux's saxophone counters with some outward bounding notes and Goldman turns his pulse ...
read moreDifferential Equations: Jeff Platz / Kit Demos / Fabio Delvo / John McLellan
by Dave Wayne
Those drawn to free improvised music can attest to the appeal of the style: the constant flow of ideas and the crackling energy of instantaneous musical interactions. When an improvising band is on," you know it. What you're hearing is the sound of others listening intently and responding in the moment. Heavily dependent on group chemistry, the success or failure of a free improvising group hinges on the ability of its members to participate in a sort of give-and-take that ...
read moreJeff Platz - Kit Demos - Fabio Delvò - John McLellan: Differential Equations
by Vincenzo Roggero
Da una parte l'elettricità--la chitarra di Jeff Platz, il basso di Kit Demos--dall'altra la componente acustica--la batteria di John McLellan, il sax contralto di Fabio Delvò-. Che Differential Equations sia un album dai ruoli definiti e dalle sonorità equamente ripartite come ogni buona dimostrazione matematica? Niente affatto perché le rasoiate, le tangenti alle curve musicali, spesso oblique e sfuggenti, gli accidenti di percorso, le fulminee illuminazioni, arrivano da più punti di origine, da fuochi che cambiano continuamente ...
read moreDesign 4 Music gives Jeff Platz an Impressive Makeover
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Chris Rich
Design 4 Music works closely with All About Jazz to help make it the ultra helpful jazz locus that it is. They have to be one of the few web shops mainly focused on making a solid web presence for a notably disadvantaged sub idiom, free jazz, and they do it beautifully. The recent launch of a site makeover for Boston area guitarist Jeff Platz is merely the most recent example of work that marries high function to aesthetic majesty ...
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Kevin Frenette 5 with Joe Giardullo & Jeff Platz 4 with Daniel Carter @ The Lilypad on 4/4
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All About Jazz
Saturday April 4, 2009 The LilyPad 1353 Cambridge Street - Inman Square Cambridge, MA 02139 7:00 PM (sharp!) The Kevin Frenette Quintet (featuring Joe Giardullo) Kevin Frenette (guitar) Joe Giardullo (saxophone) James Rohr (piano) Ryan McGuire (bass) Eric Rosenthal (percussion) and The Jeff Platz Quartet (featuring Daniel Carter) ...
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Jeff Platz Quartet / Dan Levin-Croix Galipault 28 April, Zeitgeist @ Space 186
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All About Jazz
s u b c o n s c i o u s c a f e @ ZEITGEIST / SPACE 186 186 Hampshire St. Inman Sq. Cambridge, Mass. 02139 617.876.6060 ~ ALL AGES ~ www. zeitgeist-gallery.org
Friday, 28 April 2006 8:30-11:30pm $10 or b/o
rob chalfen & subconsciouscafe new chamber music presents
JEFF PLATZ QUARTET opening : DAN LEVIN-cello/CROIX GALIPAULT-drums
JEFF PLATZ - guitar SCOTT GETCHELL - trumpet ...
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"Platz's group was smoldering, on fire!" DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE
"Platz makes a statement that at times zeros in on the incendiary heart of the free jazz avant garde, elegant, contemplative, and skronking!". BOSTON PHOENIX.