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| 1. | Virgil
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| 2. | Down by the Glenside
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| 3. | Koan
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| 4. | Phrase 6
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| 5. | Spider's Web
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| 6. | Silent Knowledge
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| 7. | ZeroUno
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| 8. | Canto 1
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| 9. | Dexterity
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Jazz
Recorded by Paul Wickliffe at Charlestown Road Studios, New Jersey, on February 9, 2004
Russ Lossing (piano)
John Hebert (bass)
Jeff Williams (drums)
"Originally from Columbus (Ohio), Russ Lessing has been active on the New York scene creative jazz scene since 1986. He has working with some of the leading minds of the modern idiom, such as Dave Liebman, Paul Motian, John Abercrombie, Michael Formanek, and Mat Maneri.
R. Lossing's two previous CDs, "Dreamer" (Double Time) and "As It Grows" (hatOLOGY), included eloquent liner-notes tributes from Richie Beirach and Art Large, respectively. Itis humbling to join such esteemed company. It is also thrill to ponder at lenght the work of Russ had his trio companions, bassist John Hebert and drummer Jeff Williams. Their achievement on this new album, "Phrase Six", doesn't require the aid of words. But I'm happy to share a few thoughs on the backgroung of this extraordinary pianist, and the nine splendid tracks you are about to hear."
--- David Adler (contributing writer for Jazz Times, Down Beat)
"Add R. Lossing to the current list of jazz piano luminaries such as Jean-Michel Pilc, Jason Moran, and Frank Kimbrough., who deliver complex and progressive music. A veteran with a classical background, his new release shows discipline yet openness that challenges and engages the mind as well as the ear. The music is punctuated by the thundering lines of bassist Jon Hebert and insistent drumming by Jeff Williams that fit nicely with Lossing's interesting ideas. Lossing's playing is filled with exhausting and probing solos and the music for the most part plays around loose themes rather than straight melodies allowing the trio to freely intermingle. This is not your typical comfy piano trio but they do yield deep rewards for the progressive listener."
---Mark F. Turner (All About Jazz, January 2005)
"Fresh Sound launched its New Talent series in '95 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 his thinking is turned to mixing melody with strict forms and linearity with more open and abstract concepts.
Everything on Phrase 6 is a first take & the band creates music that leads you to the edge of a mysterious abyss. "Virgil" subverts the listener's expectations, and perhaps those of the players, by spinning long lines that never seem entirely to rest, ending phrases where a phrase would usually begin. "Down by the Glenside" taps into the collective lyrical unconscious of the musicians with an Irish folk melody, and on "Spider's Web," piano and bass play sinuously in unison over skittering drums, bringing Lossing's method into focus: each strand of an idea interlocks with and informs the other. "Canto 1" offers pure melody and wide open improv, freed from conventional beginnings and endings, while Charlie Parker's "Dexterity" gets a brief reading with fluctuating tempo, its bebop lyricism slowed down just enough to savor. The thrills on Phrase 6 derive from the riddles Lossing constructs for his partners. The trio navigates tricky forms with dense chords, daring bass arpeggios and sharp rhythmic patterns, and each musician is presented with a series of choices. Whether they join up with or harmonize around each other at any given moment demands quick decisions and sidemen able to make them-and here, Lossing has it all."
----Jeff Stockton (All About Jazz) |
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