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Todd Coolman

Upon graduating from the Indiana University School of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in Doublebass Performance in 1975, I had $30, a bass, a ’66 Volvo and a job offer from the Orquestra Symphonica Nationale de Mexico in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. Naturally, I took the job. Overall, it was a great experience. After a year I had saved a small nest egg and moved to Chicago (near where I was raised) and began a fledgling career as a free-lance bassist. Ironically, my first job offer was to play electric bass three nights a week with a Brazilian band in a Mexican restaurant! Over the course of the next two years, I gradually became more involved in the Chicago jazz scene and gained a great deal of valuable experience as a member of a "house trio" at a jazz club where a different "big name" would come to town and perform with us

Bill Charlap Trio at Jazz, TX

by Katchie Cartwright
November 21, 2023

Bill Charlap Trio Jazz, TX San Antonio, Texas November 14, 2023 Back in March 2020, the Bill Charlap Trio featuring Peter Washington and Kenny Washington was the last act hosted by Jazz, TX before the pandemic shut everything down. They made a deep impression, and--nearly four years later--the club was ...

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2023

by R.J. DeLuke
July 10, 2023

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, New York June 25-26, 2023 It seems routine over more than four decades to say that “this year's" edition of Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival was a good one. Maybe you said it last year, maybe you'll say it next year.

Hal Galper Trio: Invitation to Openness

by Paul Rauch
January 28, 2023

Two and a half hours outside of New York City, the tiny Delaware River town of Callicoon, New York is home to little more than three thousand people. On Upper Main Street, Rafter's Tavern has been a part of this upstate hamlet since the late nineteenth century. In current times, this local eatery, bar and music ...

Midnight Silence

January 16, 2021

Album: Doctone
By Noah Haidu
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 8:38

Doctone

By Noah Haidu

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Doctor Of Tone; Midnight Silence; Blasphemy; Steepian Faith; Dienda I; Dienda II; Mr. J.C.; The Tonality Of Atonement; Chambers Of Tain; Fushia; Chance.

Kenny Kirkland: un ricordo multimediale

By Noah Haidu

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2020

Noah Haidu: Doctone

by Dan McClenaghan
October 8, 2020

Pianist Kenny Kirkland never seemed particularly interested in attaining the high level of fame enjoyed by two of his early employers, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and saxophonist Branford Marsalis. He worked first for Wynton, playing on four of the trumpeter's albums between 1981 and 1985, before moving into Branford's orbit, for eight albums between 1983 to 1998. ...

Noah Haidu ricorda Kenny Kirkland

by Angelo Leonardi
October 5, 2020

Kenny Kirkland era chiamato dagli amici Doctone (ovvero Doctor of Tone) ed è questo il titolo del progetto multimediale elaborato dal pianista Noah Haidu a più di vent'anni dalla scomparsa. Un ricco tributo della Sunnyside Records consistente in un libro d'interviste, un film documentario e un album di suoi brani eseguiti da Haidu con Todd Coolman ...

Leonieke Scheuble: June 2019 Tour

by David A. Orthmann
July 29, 2019

Located right in front of a train station, the South Orange Gazebo is an uncommonly boisterous location for a jazz concert. Whistles blowing, brakes screeching, trains arrive and depart every ten minutes or so. Automobiles access parking lots via a rotary about fifteen feet away. Their horns and sound systems blare as drivers compete for space. ...