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Triple Dip with Russ Lossing and Billy Mintz

Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025
8:00pm to 10:30pm

Tickets are under $40

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Organized by: Yardbird Suite

Sept.
20

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.

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.

Band members

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

The City of Edmonton has taken away the Yardbird Suite's parking discount code; they will not install a kiosk, so scan the QR code in the parking & pay online lot to ensure you will not be ticketed. You can also use the new HotSpot application available for all smart phones. The parking rate will now be $6 maximum from 5 pm to 2 am (or $2.50 per hour).

Tickets will also be available at the door if not previously sold out online. Doors open at 7pm. Music starts at 8pm.

Anyone with mobility concerns wanting to reserve an accessible table please email ed@yardbirdsuitejazz.com

Yardbird Suite has cabaret seating: seats are available first-come, first-served. Please be aware that a couple seated at a table for four may be sharing the table with new friends if the performance is busy.