Scott Cossu's a laudable pianist, and his compositions have a playful precision to them. While his lite jazz isn't for everyone, in some circles, Cossu's type of music is seeming less and less like a guilty pleasure, and more like an unexpected muse - the last sacred temple of musical artistry, the ultimate unmolested fount of sample-able material and inspiration. Given enough time, even Franzia box wine will age into something tolerable, just as Cossuian soft rock has been reappraised as strangely subversive in its anachronistic cheesiness. 

Scott Cossu performs on Saturday with the violinist and mezzo-soprano vocalist Jessica Blinn. It's going to rock. Softly.

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[Traditions Café, Scott Cossu with Jessica Blinn, Saturday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m., $12, All ages, 300 5th Ave. S.W., Olympia, 360.705.2819]