Russ Lossing

Russ Lossing (born 1960) is an American jazz pianist, composer, improviser, arranger, educator, and scholar.

Early life Lossing was born in Ohio in 1960, and is from Columbus, Ohio. He had classical piano lessons from the age of 5 and began studying jazz aged 13 The JazzTimes reviewer of Drum Music commented that "his two-fisted takes on 'Fiasco', 'Dance' and 'Drum Music' capture the great drummer's unpredictable and audacious rhythmic pulse. Lossing's stark re-imaginings of [... other Motian pieces] all vibrate with a new spirit of exploration."

Lossing has composed over 400 pieces of music.

Lossing said of his own style: "Much 20th century composition is about interval play, especially Bartok and Schoenberg's. The 12-tone thing helped him to get his ideas onto paper, but it was always about the intervals. I'm a jazz pianist but my harmonic approach is based on this concept – finding new sounds and new expressions among the intervals." 2019? Motian Music Sunnyside Trio, with Masa Kamaguchi (bass), Billy Mintz (drums) 2020? Metamorphism Sunnyside Quartet, with Loren Stillman (alto sax), John Hébert (bass), Michael Sarin (drums) 2019 Changes SteepleChase Trio with Michael Formanek (bass), Gerald Cleaver (drums) 2020 Mood Suite SteepleChase Trio with Mark Helios (bass), Eric McPherson (drums)

As sideman (partial list)