JAZZ

Cosby Watch: Bill Cosby issues the first in a series of jazz recordings this month for Verve/Polygram Records on which he is composer and producer and plays percussion. But he said he won’t be surprised if the project is ignored by the folks at the Grammy Awards: “When you look at the way they set up the categories, you know from Jump Street that they don’t know anything about what they are doing and they certainly don’t know anything about what other people are doing,” Cosby said.