Robert Jospe

Robert Jospe Quartet: The Night Sky

by Jack Bowers
May 29, 2026

Virginia-based drummer Robert Jospe leads an able quartet on The Night Sky, the ninth recording under his name. The music, much of which was written or co-written by Jospe, is for the most part robust and rhythm-heavy with Jospe's assertive drum kit and Daniel Clarke's busy keyboards front and center. The mood changes abruptly--delightfully so--on Track 8, wherein bassist Paul Langosch takes the lead on Leonard Bernstein's wistful “Some Other Time" (from the 1944 Broadway musical On the ...