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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

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Freedom Right Now

By Timo Shanko

Label: Skycap Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: The Emperor Has No Clothes/ Freedom Right Now/ Shim/ Forever Recurring Image A.L.P./ The Crux/ Humunculus/ Goes Around Comes Around/ Hot City

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Timo Shanko: Freedom Right Now

Read "Freedom Right Now" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
December 29, 2004

Bassist and saxophonist Timo Shanko presents an exhilarating set of songs on Freedom Right Now. Taking a musical cue from the influential groups of Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry, the obscure Shanko is joined by an equally unknown set of musicians that include Taylor Ho Bynum on cornet, Keala Kaumeheiwa and Gary Wicks on bass, and ...

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Skull Session: Rise Above

Read "Rise Above" reviewed by Rex Butters

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 ...

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Skull Session: Rise Above

Read "Rise Above" reviewed by John Kelman

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 ...

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