Jazz Articles about Russ Lossing

About Russ Lossing

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Samuel Blaser has established himself as one of Europe's most compelling trombonists, a Swiss musician whose artistic identity has been shaped as much by formal study as by the Italian folk traditions that surrounded him in childhood. In recent years, he has spoken openly about reconnecting with those roots, particularly the songs his grandmother sang, simple melodies carrying equal measures of tenderness and resilience. Rosina, named in her honor, reflects that personal journey while filtering those influences through a contemporary ...

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Russ Lossing: Proximity Alert

Read "Proximity Alert" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 27, 2025

Is Russ Lossing's Proximity Alert more like football or baseball? The analogy works like this: Baseball is fathers and sons tossing a ball in the backyard, measured and casual; Football is a scrimmage, brothers running, grappling and tackling in the same yard. Throughout his career, Lossing has captained several exceptional trios. With bassist Ed Schuller, he had the rare honor of performing and recording alongside the legendary drummer Paul Motian. In the years that followed, he formed groups ...

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Russ Lossing: Alternative Side Parking Music

Read "Alternative Side Parking Music" reviewed by Maurizio Zerbo

by Maurizio Zerbo
December 7, 2023

Oltre a riflettere la musica del proprio tempo, i progetti dei jazzisti sono direttamente collegati alla quotidianità delle loro esistenze. Paradigmatica è in tal senso la scrittura per questo CD, pensata durante le ore impiegate da Russ Lossing per parcheggiare la propria automobile nei giorni in cui la sosta è consentita in un solo lato della strada. E non è un caso se lo spigoloso brano d'apertura, quasi monkiano, evoca con il suo andamento asimmetrico la strada percorsa ...

Radio & Podcasts

Russ Lossing, Artemis, Rudy Royston and More

by Jerome Wilson
August 30, 2023

This show features newer and older jazz from a great variety of players, such as Russ Lossing, Rudy Royston, the group Artemis, and the Frankfurt Radio Big Band which is heard in two contexts, with Julian Arguelles and with Jim McNeely. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Anne Mette Iversen Quartet +1 “Triangular Waves" from Racing A Butterfly (Brooklyn ...

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Russ Lossing: Alternate Side Parking Music

Read "Alternate Side Parking Music" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 26, 2023

Pianist Russ Lossing is not one to let imposed downtime go to waste. The imposition comes from New York City's regulations concerning alternate side parking which requires, only one day per week, that cars park on one side of the street, for street cleaning purposes. The evening car-moving causes jostling. Sometimes open spots are not readily available. Parallel parking is often required, as is (temporary, we can assume) double parking. Time in the driver's seat results. Lossing put this time ...

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Russ Lossing, Loren Stillman: Canto.

Read "Canto." reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
December 13, 2021

Although pianist Russ Lossing and saxophonist Loren Stillman have collaborated on a handful of superlative releases in the past, the stimulating Canto is their first duo recording. The introspective and intriguing release consists entirely of originals which are at times mesmerizingly dark and, at others, warmly vibrant. The music is sublimely balanced between the emotive and the cerebral. Lossing opens Stillman's “Her Love Was Like Kryptonite ” with resonant plucking of the strings followed by sparse and hypnotic ...

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Lena Bloch & Feathery: Rose Of Lifta

Read "Rose Of Lifta" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 28, 2021

Saxophonist Lena Bloch knows something about the pain of separation from one's homeland. Born in Russia, she emigrated to Israel in 1990, then to Europe and, finally, in 2008, to the United States, setting up shop in New York City's fertile jazz ground. In 2014, Feathery, (Thirteen Note Records), the album and her quartet of that name, came into being. The group's second album, Heart Knows (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2007), cemented her distinctive horn-and-rhythm-section approach, with bassist ...