Robert Jospe Trio

Stanardsville, VA

$900-$2500

Travels up to 120 miles

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Overview

Jazz, all styles instrumental trio with piano/keys, bass and drums.


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Booking information

Price range: $900-$2500

Languages: English, French

Gig length: 60 - 180 minutes

Unions: AFM

What to expect

Robert Jospé Trio and Quartet offer an exciting instrumental mix of jazz, rock, pop and Latin styles. Featuring Robert Jospé on drums, the trio includes piano/keyboard and bass. The quartet includes guitar. Their repertoire consists of original works, standards from the American Song Book, pop and classic covers by Herbie Hancock, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Leonard Bernstein, James Taylor along with other well-known composers.

About

Robert Jospé is a jazz drummer, percussionist, composer, educator and band leader of Robert Jospé Trio, Express and the Inner Rhythm band. He is nationally known for his eight CDs as leader, receiving two four-star reviews in Downbeat Magazine, reaching #4 twice on JazzWeek national radio chart and being featured in Jazztimes Magazine and Modern Drummer. His latest album “Just Lookin’” was released in 2019. Robert has been a touring artist and educator with the Virginia Commission for The Arts for 30 years. Robert joined the University of Virginia's music department's faculty in 1989. Jospé teaches jazz drumming and a hand drumming / rhythmic fluency course “Learn to Groove”. He is a member of UVA's faculty jazz ensemble, The Free Bridge Quintet.
Throughout his career Jospé has played and recorded with many bands and in many musical styles including Tim Reynolds and TR3, (rock/reggae/fusion), John D’earth Quartet, pianists Hod O’Brien and Cyrus Chestnut, guitarist Stanley Jordan, vocalist Bobby McFerrin and John McCutcheon (folk rock),
Robert has been featured on the PBS TV series Charlottesville Inside Out and in 2012 was awarded artist/educator of the year by the Charlottesville Jazz Society.
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Additional booking notes

Appropriate lighting and sound systems.

Services offered

Past booked events

November 2024

03

Sunday

Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 7:00pm

October 2024

13

Sunday

Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 7:00pm

September 2024

27

Friday

Robert Jospe Quartet

6:00pm - 9:00pm

21

Saturday

Robert Jospe Quartet

6:30pm - 8:30pm

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Sunday

Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 7:00pm

August 2024

04

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5:00pm - 7:00pm

03

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Robert Jospe Trio

3:00pm - 5:00pm

July 2024

07

Sunday

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5:00pm - 7:00pm

June 2024

29

Saturday

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6:30pm - 8:30pm

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5:00pm - 7:00pm

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Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 8:00pm

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Friday

Robert Jospe Trio

6:00pm - 8:00pm

02

Sunday

Robert Jospe Trio

2:00pm - 4:00pm

May 2024

31

Friday

Robert Jospe Quartet

5:30pm - 8:30pm

30

Thursday

Robert Jospe Trio

6:00pm - 9:00pm

12

Sunday

Robert Jospe Quartet

1:00pm - 4:00pm

05

Sunday

Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 7:00pm

01

Wednesday

Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 8:00pm

April 2024

07

Sunday

Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 7:00pm

06

Saturday

Robert Jospe Trio

4:00pm - 6:00pm

March 2024

30

Saturday

Robert Jospe Trio

5:00pm - 8:00pm

23

Saturday

Robert Jospe Quartet

7:30pm - 9:30pm

16

Saturday

Robert Jospe Quartet

7:30pm - 10:00pm

February 2024

02

Friday

Robert Jospe Trio

8:00pm - 9:00pm

Set list

Sample mix of originals, jazz and pop classics.
Night Out-Jospe
Green Dolphin Street
Take The A Train-Duke Ellington
Wrapped Around Your Finger
Caravan
Peace Piece -Some Other Time
You Don’t Know What Love Is
Fire and Rain- James Taylor
Crooked Mile-Jospe
Southern Doodle Dandy-Clarke
The In Crowd
Autumn Leaves
Comin' Home Baby
Love For Sale
Softly As In A Morning Sunrise
Mercy Mercy Mercy
Cantaloupe Island

Influences and inspiration

Modern and classic jazz, R&B, Blues, Brazil-Samba Bossa Nova (Jobim), Beatles, Mowtown, Afro Cuban.

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