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Samuel Blaser's Triple Dip With Russ Lossing & Billy Mintz at Black Squirrel Club
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Wed, September 25, 2024
7:30 pm
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Pianist Russ Lossing has been a mainstay on the New York City jazz scene since the 1980s. Praised by Down Beat for “his singular playing and composing styles,” Lossing’s music is documented on more than two dozen albums. He regularly tours throughout North America and Europe.  Lossing was also a longtime colleague of Paul Motian, playing and recording with the legendary drummer for over 12 years, including celebrated week-long stands at The Village Vanguard.
Swiss virtuoso trombonist, Samuel Blaser plays with a sumptuous sound and confoundingly plastic phrasing. He is also an inspired composer, striving in the various ensembles he leads to balance a sense of form with the spontaneity of improvisation. By joining forces today with two prestigious representatives of the American school of jazz and improvisation, pianist Russ Lossing and drummer Billy Mintz, Blaser sets out to explore the register of the voice, common to all three instruments, in an asserted "chamber" context and from an entirely original repertoire. This intimate, resolutely lyrical music brilliantly plays on the richness and complementarity of timbres, elevating the "trialogue" to the status of a major art form....



