Artist description Dave Cosby plays jazz music heavily influenced by the sounds of Afro-Cuban, Brazillian, Funk, Pop, Rock, and Rhythm and Blues.

Music Style Jazz and World Beat Jazz

Musical Influences Wes Montgomery, Pat Metheny, Michel Camilo, The Yellowjackets

Artist History Guitarist and Composer Dave Cosby is a musician and educator whose work defies the bounderies of genre and style. While trained in traditional and mainstrem jazz at Rutgers University’s famed jazz program at the Mason Gross School for the Arts, his musical sensibilities as a performer and composer express interests and influences that traverse multiple musical catagories and musical cultures. Born and raised in Baltimore Maryland, Dave was exposed to the sounds of Jazz, Motown, and the British Invasion, from an early age. Upon Graduation from Rutger’s Unveristy in 1992, David began pusuing a career as a bandleader, sideman, and educator. Completing class work towards a Master’s Degree in Historical Musicology at the University of Virginia, Dave moved to the Northen Virginia area where he has been an active performer on the jazz, Hip-Hop, and alternative folk scene, as well as doing studio work, and maintaining an active teaching schedule. Dave has played many major concert venues and festivals including: The Kennedy Center, The Meyerhoff Concert Hall, Artscape, Blues Alley, The Maryland Wine Festival, The Corcoran Art Gallery, The Phillips Collection, and even Thomas Jefferson’s famous Rotunda at the Univeristy of Virginia. In 1996, Dave won a Jazz Study Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Although Dave currently teaches out of his private studio in Alexandria Virginia, he has taught at the Jazzmobile in Harlem, for the National Guitar Workshop, for National Music Workshop’s Day Jams, as well as for Mars Music, and Music and Art Centers.

Location Alexandria, Virginia - USA

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