Results for "Skull Session"

Skull Session

Rise Above

By Skull Session

Label: Skycap Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Rashamatod; Ochre Moon; Genius Syndrome; Downward Chop; You in Mind; Open; Rind

Skull Session: Rise Above

by Rex Butters
September 7, 2004

The appropriately named Skull Session burns with the passion of a great jazz band. Leader/guitarist Jeff Plotz writes loose, gritty tunes that break wide open. The scent of Ornette lingers at times, but this quintet plays it a way all its own. His use of improvised melodic invention, rather than shock and noise, has Plotz superficially ...

Skull Session: Rise Above

by John Kelman
August 8, 2004

Do punk and free jazz cross paths? There are some who would argue unquestionably yes. Guitarist Nels Cline, for example, often combines a raw unschooled edge and sense of reckless abandon with a far more developed harmonic sensibility. So, too, does guitarist Jeff Platz, whose background in the late '70s in Cleveland, Ohio was with a ...

Rise Above

By Skull Session

Label: Skycap
Released: 2003

Skull Session

By Oliver Nelson

Label: Bluebird/Legacy
Released: 2002