Jazz Articles about Russ Lossing

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Russ Lossing Trio: Oracle

by Mark Corroto
May 17, 2011

Pianist Russ Lossing's trio evokes a dreamlike state on Oracle, by communicating an atmosphere of unearthly elegance through trance-inducing energy. Lossing, bassist Masa Kamaguchi and drummer Billy Mintz commune at this level because they'd been a working trio for six years when this studio recording was made in 2007. Besides that, all three bring experience from the fertile jazz world: Lossing, as a member of bands led by Paul Motian, Dave Liebman, and Mat Maneri; Kamaguchi, with Frank ...

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Russ Lossing / John Hebert: Line Up

by Wilbur MacKenzie
September 14, 2008

The profound depth of the interactions between pianist Russ Lossing and bassist John Hebert on their new duo recording bears the mark of a shared history and mutual respect and enthusiasm. Hebert and Lossing have both worked with many great artists who have shaped the history of jazz, including Paul Motian, Andrew Hill, Dave Liebman and John Abercrombie, as well as many more recent innovators like Mat Maneri, Uri Caine, Fred Hersch, Greg Osby and Mark Dresser. There may be ...

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Russ Lossing / John Hebert: Line Up

by Budd Kopman
July 26, 2008

Pianist Russ Lossing and bassist John Hebert have known each other a long time and have played together on a number of projects, including Lossing's own Phrase 6 (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2005), and, most recently, on the phenomenal “quasi-debut" of Michael Adkins, Rotator (HatOLOGY, 2008). After talking for a long time about making a duo recording, the two players finally did it, and the exceptional Line Up, is the result. As a player, Hebert's wide-ranging musical ...

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Russ Lossing / John Hebert: Line Up

by Chris May
April 5, 2008

Modern bass playing, and the special relationship in jazz between bass and piano, could be said to have begun in the early 1940s, with the partnership of pianist Duke Ellington and bassist Jimmy Blanton.

In a series of duo recordings as impactful, among musicians, as saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's couplings a few years later, Blanton took his instrument beyond its role as a more or less lumpen metronomic device and, in intimate relationship with Ellington's ...

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Russ Lossing: All Things Arise

by Budd Kopman
August 10, 2007

Russ Lossing is a pianist of extreme depth and intensity whose music exists between jazz improvisation and modern classicism. All Things Arise will only cement this impression. His previous records include the marvelous Metal Rat (Clean Feed, 2006) with Mat Maneri and Mark Dresser, and the intense As It Grows (HatOLOGY, 2004) with Ed Schuller and Paul Motian. This time, however, Lossing is on solo piano, which only increases the intensity since every aspect of the sounds ...

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Russ Lossing - Mat Maneri - Mark Dresser: Metal Rat

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 27, 2007

Come riferito nelle note di copertina, il CD è il risultato di un'intensa seduta di registrazione di poche ore. Non si puo' che rimanere colpiti, quindi, dalla forte intesa tra i tre musicisti. Mark Dresser, con il suo arco trascinante e profondo, quando non percussivo, e con i suoi pizzicati solidi e incalzanti risulta essere il perno dell'opera per la bravuca con cui riesce a mettere in comunicazione la versatile viola di Mat Maineri e il pianoforte di Russ Lossing ...

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Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser: Metal Rat

by Troy Collins
June 13, 2007

A focused session of collective free improvisation conceived by pianist Russ Lossing, Metal Rat features the spontaneous interplay of three sympathetic musicians. Joined by violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser, Lossing booked a recording studio for a mere four hours to instill a “real sense of urgency" to the proceedings. The ensuing session benefits from this pre-imposed constraint by lending an air of palpable tension to the work. Full of simmering intensity and dramatic flair, this is dark, intuitive ...