Russ Lossing
New York City
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.
Lossing has 21 albums as leader on European and American record labels hatOLOGY, Ezz-Thetics, Sunnyside, Cleanfeed, Fresh Sound, Double Time, Steeplechase and OmniTone labels. Lossing was named “Rising Star” in the Down Beat Magazine Critics Poll from 2015-2021. Lossing played with master drummer Paul Motian over a period of 12 years performing and recording including a week-long stint at the Village Vanguard as a member of Motian’s Quintet. He has toured world-wide playing major jazz clubs and festivals both as leader and side-man. In 2015, he founded his label Aqua Piazza Records.
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