News - Jeff Cosgrove Music

Great preview of the Jeff Cosgrove Noah Preminger Quartet gig at Twins from Washington City Paper!

Great interview with Cindy McGuirl for Uncle Paul’s Jazz Closet…it was a lot of fun to talk about Paul Motian, Motian Sickness, and my other projects. Give it a listen!

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2nd Hour:

Conversations with Owls – Interviews, Reviews, & Mentions:

All About Jazz review #1 – 4 Stars!

All About Jazz review #2 – 4 1/2 Stars!

All About Jazz review #3 – 5 Stars!

All About Jazz Italia review – 4 Stars & CD of the week!

Avant Music News review – 5 Stars!!!

Bird is the Worm recommendation…”A real vibrancy to this session, one that evokes plenty of imagery and intrigue.”

Frederick News Post review…”Jeff Cosgrove reaches so far beyond the parameters of mere beats and time signatures and groove that calling him a drummer is barely the beginning.”

Gapplegate Music Reviews review…”Jeff Cosgrove once again impresses with his open-time creativity and melodic sense.”

Jazz.pt review – 5 Stars!

Jazz Weekly review…”Almost ambient in delivery.”

Musiq.fr review.

Percorsi Musicali review…Google Translate works pretty well.

The Selected Ballads review…”Conversations With Owls is a rewarding listen start to finish.”

SomethingElse! Reviews review…”Conversations With Owls isn’t really about birds, it’s about cats, and these cats are having musical conversations that are on a higher plane than most.”

The Step Tempest review…”Jeff Cosgrove, Frank Kimbrough and Martin Wind have created an album which draws one back again and again, back to get lost in its mysterious beauty.

tomajazz review…google translate works pretty well.

“Like very few drummers out there, Jeff Cosgrove is able to balance subtle textural work and drive, free space and multiple compositional settings. His Conversations with Owls finds him in a shadowy, reflective space with the superb pianist Frank Kimbrough and big-toned bassist Matt Wind. To say it’s low key doesn’t quite capture the power and the invention of tracks like “Stacks of Stars,” the incandescent “The Owl,” or the gorgeous “I Loves You, Porgy.” If you want a state of the art piano trio, somewhere between Fred Hersch and Marilyn Crispell, snap this album up with a quickness.” – Jason Bivins, Cadence

“Drummer Jeff Cosgrove’s Conversations with Owls is an ode to twilight and dark coming on dawn, a percussively melodic tone poem — thanks also to the sensitivity of pianist Frank Kimbrough and the sturdiness of bassist Martin Wind — in which the musicians’ curiosity, insight, originality and interactions address silence and secrets, arriving at unusual beauty.” – Howard Mandel, Jazz Journalist Association + DownBeat

Alternating Current – Interviews, Reviews, & Mentions:

JAZZ TOKYO interview.

All About Jazz review.

Something Else! Reviews review.

G Applegate Music Reviews review.

All About Jazz Italia review – 4 Stars!!!

Jazz Notes SDP review.

JAZZ TOKYO review in Five by Five column.

Avant Music News Pick of the week.

Avant Music News review.

Avant Music News best of 2014 so far…honorable mention.

All About Jazz review #2.

All About Jazz review #3, extended analysis.

All About Jazz review #4.

All About Jazz review #5.

All About Jazz review #6…”Alternating Current is a completely entrancing recording that captures three master players listening and responding in real time.”

Step Tempest review.

Step Tempest how “Alternating Current” came to be.

écho review.

Something Else! Reviews pick for best of the mid-year!!!

Something Else! Reviews has named Alternating Current one of the best recordings of the year!!!

Free Jazz Collective review…”In a setting where it can be easy to “over play”, this trio lets the music release while they play instead of forcing the notes.”

Percorsi Musicali review – google translate works great!

Enola review – google translate does a decent job.

Jazz.pt review – 5 Stars!!!

Tomajazz review

Jazz Weekly – Three musicians, three songs, sixty minutes. Worried? Don’t be!

el intruso review.

Brooklyn Rail review…“The trio consists of three distinct voices never competing but rather playing and building with and off each other.”

Frederick News Post review – “It’s impossible to question the passion these guys have for making sure the material at hand is done right by them.”

Washington City Paper review – Alternating Current, one of the great overlooked releases of the year.

Washington Post said some great things about Alternating Current…in a preview of our gig at Bohemian Caverns. “Cosgrove’s drumming doesn’t provide the music with an engine so much as a lighthouse.”

Writer Jason Bivins gave Alternating Current a great quote…”There are a lot of piano trio recordings out there, but this one is special. Listeners already know how intense the interaction between Shipp and Parker is, but here it’s taken to another level courtesy of the subtle, assured percussion of leader Cosgrove. Don’t sleep on this one.”

Motian Sickness – Interviews, Reviews, & Mentions:

Great interview with Cindy McGuirl for Uncle Paul’s Jazz Closet…it was a lot of fun to talk about Paul Motian, Motian Sickness, and my other projects. Give it a listen!

1st Hour:

2nd Hour:

The Jazz Session interview.

JAZZ TOKYO interview.

Four on the Floor interview.

Downbeat review – Four Stars! (p.78)

All About Jazz review.

All About Jazz review number 2.

All About Jazz review number 3.

All About Jazz article.

Something Else! Reviews review.

Audiophile Audition review – Four Stars!