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Russ Lossing / Mat Maneri / Mark Dresser: Metal Rat

Read "Metal Rat" reviewed by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
May 17, 2007

Much has been said about brevity by men who were anything but. Now, art benefits from aesthetic and compositional purity--no unnecessary lines, no superfluous words, no ostentatious displays of skill--but it is usually a byproduct of a brilliant work, not the sole purpose. Pianist Russ Lossing, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser manage dexterously to combine deliberateness and improvisation in Metal Rat, an album of established collaboration. In the liner notes, Lossing reveals that the album was recorded in ...

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Russ Lossing: Metal Rat

Read "Metal Rat" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman
February 25, 2007

Metal Rat is a triumph from beginning to end. Along with pianist/leader Russ Lossing, violist Mat Maneri and bassist Mark Dresser have created a work of terrifying intensity and concentration of purpose that is engaging at many levels, simultaneously manifesting a steely ferocity that is nevertheless almost unbearably beautiful. The ten tracks have but two actual compositions ("Turn" and “Is Thick With"), which are easy to distinguish as such. The other tracks are a mix of trio ...

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Russ Lossing: All Things Arise

Read "All Things Arise" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
July 4, 2006

Stuart Broomer's ponderous liner notes to Russ Lossing's latest release correctly point out that the track sequencing suggests a “side one" and “side two," as would an old vinyl album ("the LP of tradition," as Broomer says). The first side is given over to a suite of freely improvised music with echoes (probably unwitting) of various moments in 20th Century classical piano. Side two replaces these with more deliberate jazz echoes as Lossing takes on an idiosyncratic set of standards ...

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Russ Lossing: Phrase 6

Read "Phrase 6" reviewed by Jeff Stockton

by Jeff Stockton
August 11, 2005

Fresh Sound launched its New Talent series in 1995 and has stayed true to its name by recording a stream of New York unknowns, including the debut of the Bad Plus. Continuing this established piano trio pedigree, composer and leader Russ Lossing (a typical jazz “newcomer, having arrived in town in 1986) works with his current trio (featuring bassist John Hebert and drummer Jeff Williams) with the adventurous intrepid sense of spelunkers coursing through a cave. He's heady, but here ...

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Russ Lossing: As It Grows

Read "As It Grows" reviewed by Ty Cumbie

by Ty Cumbie
October 14, 2004

Spacious, articulate, and artfully composed, the material heard on Russ Lossing's As It Grows --apparently some of it improvised and some composed--is consistently musical and satisfyingly rangy. Although there's a persistent strain of finespun moodiness that isn't for seekers of the heavy groove, there's enough heart-stopping beauty on this disc to make you forget, momentarily, that Keith Jarrett ever existed. This is the music Cecil Taylor might've made if he cared about conventional notions of musical pleasureability. All comparisons aside, ...

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Russ Lossing - Adam Kolker - John Hebert: Change of Time

Read "Change of Time" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
July 13, 2002

The respective musicians who comprise this trio inadvertently broaden modern jazz horizons, with this lovely outing inspired by Bela Bartok’s progressive piano pieces. In addition, these gents represent some of the younger and more successful New York based artists who frequently enjoy first call session status. Nonetheless, this production resides within avant/chamber jazz stylizations primarily due to the band’s delicately fabricated and thoroughly melodic treatments. On many of these pieces they abide by a doctrine founded upon intricately devised three-way ...