Jeff Platz is a Boston area guitarist composer.
Born and raised in the industrial suburbs of Cleveland Ohio.
Platz began his musical career playing guitar in
local Cleveland area punk rock bands in the late 70’s.
Eventually he relocated to the East coast where he
began studying jazz music, writing and composing for
small groups and performing throughout New England.
In 2001, Platz toured Europe with the Boston based
band Lars Vegas. He has performed in various music
festivals world wide such as New York city’s “What is Jazz” festival, the “Heidelberg jazz festival” in Heidelberg Germany, and Amsterdam's” Crossing Borders” festival to name a few.
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”.
In November of 2005 he organized the first U.S. based
Skycap Music festival which featured recently recorded
Skycap artists such as Joe Morris, Steve Lantner and
The Fully Celebrated Orchestra. Currently Platz records
for the German based label Skycap Records and has
released recordings by his groups Skull Session,
and Bright Light group.