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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
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
Timo Shanko: Freedom Right Now
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
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 ...
