Triple Dip with Russ Lossing and Billy Mintz

Swiss trombonist and composer Samuel Blaser regularly returns to the structural principle experimented with in various orchestral formulas by the great Paul Motian, namely to dispense with the double bass, making this vacant space both the driving force and the paradoxical pivot for the elaboration of an authentically collective discourse.

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  •  September 20, 2025
     8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Accompanied by New York pianist Russ Lossing and drummer Billy Mintz, Motian presents a series of themes based on this dynamic of emptiness, in a melodic, highly colorful music full of contrasts that links the abstract, lyrical chamber jazz of Jimmy Giuffre, with its sense of improvisation, and a harmonic vocabulary drawn from various sources of 20th-century art music, both European and American.

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Band members

Samuel Blaser, trombone
Russ Lossing, piano
Billy Mintz, drums

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