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Russ Lossing

Born: February 18, 1960

A“master of the moment”, pianist, composer and improviser Russ Lossing electrifies audiences worldwide. A deeply intellectual and emotional improviser, he casts a spell over the room and gives audiences an unforgettable musical experience. Equally at home playing “time and changes' as well as freely improvised music, Lossing's imagination knows no bounds; drawing from a seemingly bottomless well of ideas and expression. All About Jazz hails him as:"…an iconoclast in the best sense of the word, a true innovator."

Pianist, composer and improviser Russ Lossing, based in New York City for over 35 years, is at the forefront of creative jazz performing and recording with Paul Motian, Mark Helias, Billy Hart, Dave Liebman, Samuel Blaser, Michael Formanek, Eric McPherson, Tim Berne, Billy Mintz, Cameron Brown, Gerry Hemingway, Ralph Alessi, Mat Maneri, Drew Gress, Oliver Lake, Kirk Knuffke, Gerald Cleaver, Gordon Grdina and many others

Juanma Trujillo, Ziv Taubenfeld’s Full Sun & Caleb Wheeler Curtis

by Maurice Hogue
August 8, 2022

This edition features music from new releases by guitarist Juanma Trujillo, bass clarinetist Ziv Taubenfeld & Full Sun, Memplex from Austria, France's Hubert Dupont & Sirocco, saxophonist Caleb Wheeler Curtis and four of Finland's finest, bassist Ville Rauhala, trumpeter Antero Priha, guitarist Julius Heikkila & drummer Alf Forsman, plus a preview of a release to-come from ...

Gunter Baby Sommer, Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe & Linda Sikhakhane

by Maurice Hogue
July 13, 2022

This edition of OMJ is all over the place when it comes to new recordings—drummers Gunter Baby Sommer (with Lucaciu 3), Pierre Favre (with Samuel Blaser) and Tyshawn Sorey; saxophonists Linda Sikhakhane from South Africa and Germany's Charlotte Greve (with the Lisbeth Quartet), pianist Russ Lossing, Austria's AHL-6, and Belgian guitarist Kobe Van Cauwenberghe and his ...

Twice

By Russ Lossing

Label: Aqua Piazza Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Yellow Light, Keeping Still,In What is Small,Earth Mother,The Gentle,Hidden Spirit,Water Above and Below.

Canto.

Label: Aqua Piazza Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Her Love Was Like Kryptonite; Don't Be Too Nice; P; Channel; Canto; Whispers; Move In; Turn.

Rose Of Lifta

By Lena Bloch

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Promise Of Return; Mad Mirror; New Home; Climbing Rose Of Lifta; Old Home; Mahmoud Darwish; Wintry Mix.

Paula Shocron, Nendo Dango & Steven Bernstein

by Maurice Hogue
November 10, 2021

Following up on music by Argentinean pianist, Paula Shocron, led me to Nendo Dango Records, the Buenos Aires label run by Shocron and her partner, drummer Pablo Diaz. This episode features very forward-thinking music from several Nendo Dango releases. There's also more piano from a new recording by Australian Alister Spence and Japan's Satoko Fujii. Their ...

Promise of Return

October 23, 2021

Album: Rose Of Lifta
By Lena Bloch
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 10:24

Lena Bloch & Feathery: Rose Of Lifta

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 ...

Herbie Hancock, Hilary Kole & Dave Miller

by Joe Dimino
September 26, 2021

From a musician who has been at it for decades, though a relative newcomer to the jazz scene—we start the 718th Episode of Neon Jazz with pianist and attorney Dave Miller with a song off his new ode to the pandemic with “The Mask-erade is Over." We also profile the impressive New York City singer Hilary ...