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Rise Above
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
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
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 ...