Ben Cosgrove (Fred Johnson & Michael Ross open) | Wednesday Feb. 12, 7 p.m. | Doors open at 6 p.m.
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Ben Cosgrove is a traveling composer, pianist, and multi-instrumentalist based in northern New England. He performs regularly all over the country, presenting a unique variety of original instrumental music that explores themes of landscape, geography, and environment while straddling a line between the folk and classical genres. “Geography is Cosgrove’s muse,” writes the Boston Globe. “Like a sonic plein-air painter, [he] uses his piano as a paintbrush — and he’s made a name for himself doing it.” Ben’s “electric and exhilarating” solo piano performances are at once dazzling and intimate: music that has been described as “stunning” and “compelling and powerful,” — Red Line Roots has called him “stupidly talented” — all presented with “warmth, humor, honesty, and the easy familiarity of a troubadour.” Throughout his career, the strongest forces guiding Ben’s composition and performances have been his deep and abiding interests in environment, place, and geography. For years, he has been fascinated and inspired by the different ways people understand and interact with the landscapes around them, and through songs with names like “Prairie Fire,” “Overpass,” “Champlain,” “Kennebec,” “Volcano,” and others, he seeks to explore those relationships and reflect them in sound. “I don’t think of my pieces as rendering places in music,” he once remarked during an interview with Harvard Magazine, “but more just as a way of responding to places musically. Writing music just turns out to be a great way for me to process the world.”
Michael Ross
A native of Harrisburg, Pa, Michael studied music at the University of South Florida and has studied privately with Cecil McBee, Dee Moses, and Jim Miller. He has led two long-standing Tampa Bay –area groups, Liquid Bebop and the Michael Ross Quartet, and has five recordings of original compositions- Giraffe(2023), Ginger,(2013), Year of the Dog (2004), Dog Eat Dog (2002),and Doghouse(2000). Michael’s sideman credits include Nat Adderley, Jimmie Cobb, Herbie Mann,Nathen Page, and countless other musicians throughout Florida and the south.
A dynamic jazz and world music vocalist, FRED JOHNSON has toured with, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Richard Elliot,and many others, and has been compared to greats such as Jon Hendricks and Al Jarreau. He was the most prominent jazz artist in the Bay Area for years, before devoting more time to working for peace and conflict resolution internationally through his artistry. A dynamic jazz and world music vocalist, FRED JOHNSON has toured with, Chick Corea, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Richard Elliot,and many others, and has been compared to greats such as Jon Hendricks and Al Jarreau. He was the most prominent jazz artist in the Bay Area for years, before devoting more time to working for peace and conflict resolution internationally through his artistry. “”The world needs to hear Fred Johnson’s music “ Chick Corea