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| Russ Lossing : All Things Arise Hatology released Russ Lossing,s new album All Things Arise. In this album famous pianist plays solo, performing "Alabama Song" by Kurt Weil, "Azure" by Duke Ellington, "Kathelin Gray" by Ornette Coleman, "Pent-Up House" by Sonny Rollins and his own compositions. For Lossing, improvisation is clearly a special act, a study in transparence and transformation, a creative exchange amongthe elements. One hears fresh relations of time and space. His acute sense of time connects inevitably to its absence. Space is heard in his sense of density, the room he can make around a note even at high speed, the contrasts between counterpoint and elegant strings of single notes. Space is also vertical in Lossing's music--in the ways that wide and tight intervals interact in his chords. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |