Jamendo artist Bruce H. McCosar is a middle and high school science teacher residing in Sterling, VA, USA. He switched to teaching after a career in medicinal chemistry. He is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, a Native American tribe originally indigenous to the Southeastern United States.

As a musician, he plays bass, guitar, Hammond organ, keys, and various drums. Many of these appear on his first album, evolution (Nov. 2006). His second album, handmade (Feb 2007), featured jazz compositions backed by hand percussion instruments only (mainly conga drums).

Then came La vie sous la mer (Oct 2007). After a long and difficult summer, this album developed as a labor of love. Jazzier, cooler, and stranger than any work he'd released before, this album tells eight interconnected stories, and even features a freely-available PDF companion book (for more details, see this page). Points of Departure (April 2008), his fourth Jamendo album, focused more on progressive rock, although with a heavy jazz influence.

In 2008, Bruce moved from Gainesville, Florida to Sterling, Virginia. Building a life is hard; giving it up and starting over somewhere else is even more so. Against this background, Bruce composed his fifth album, Martian Winter. Like Points of Departure, it focuses on a jazz-influenced rock sound; however, like La vie sous la mer, it is almost exclusively built using odd time signatures (such as 5/4 and 7/8). In this way, although it was born in a different world, it retains its connection to the past.

One more move: this time to a new house. It was a difficult change, and out of the struggle was born a new sound. In Unexpected Places is just that: a collection of jazzy, funky, cool -- and most of all, original -- compositions.

In addition to the works above, Bruce is also on ccMixter, where he releases raw (unmixed) tracks from his albums and other works for use by remix artists.