For a verbose or simple progress `cp` equivalent I tend to use RSync. Both RedHat/CentOS/etc and Debian/Ubuntu all come with RSync as standard. The only caveat is that I find RSync to be slightly slower than coreutils cp; however you do gain all the advantages of RSync if you then need to sync files across the network for example.
> rsync --progress <source> <destination>
> rsync --progress /home/me/music/*.mp3 /mnt/shared/music