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Todd Cochran
ACCLAIMED PIANIST, COMPOSER, ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN, CONCEPTUAL ARTIST
The more avenues an artist can draw upon, the more original their music will tend to sound. With years devoted to classical music study, followed by tutelage from American jazz masters, pianist, composer, conceptual artist Todd Cochran’s music reflects a wide-ranging musical palette. In his art, he has continued to build upon this foundation, incorporating diverse musical influences from the traditions of African and Asian diaspora, the blues aesthetic, global pop, and contemporary art music culture. Todd's happenstance was growing up in San Francisco during the peak of the civil rights era, a transformative time in America’s story. The city was multi-dimensional, and the echoes of being a child of the cultural revolution have never left him.
From The Vault: Notes For The Future
By Todd Cochran
Label: Blue Buddha Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Inseperable.
Automatic Man Legend Todd Cochran Releases 'From The Vault: Notes For The Future'
Notes for the future are the “imagined sometime in the past” tropes of a storyteller. Freed from every day “isms” of convention and released from the symbolic containment of the vault, the music is an allegorical exploration in futurism. The stream running throughout the musical narrative is a speculative commentary about our human search for meaning, ...
Then And Again, Here And Now
By Todd Cochran
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1 Softly As in a Morning Sunrise
2 A Foggy Day in London
3 I Got Rhythm
4 Verselet for the Duke
5 The Duke
6 Don't Get Around Much Anymore
7 Heretofore (Interstitial 1)
8 Fantaisie J.S. Bach Prelude XX WTC Book II
9 April in Paris
10 Between Spaces (Interstitial 2)
11 Invitation
12 You Must Believe in Spring
13 Bemsha Swing
14 Then and Again, Here and Now
15 Little B's Poem
Woody Shaw & Todd Cochran
by Joe Dimino
The 729th Episode of Neon Jazz begins with veteran pianist Todd Cochran and music off Then and Again, Here and Now and follow it with the legend who gave him his stellar beginnings in Bobby Hutcherson. From there we motor through an hour of music with modern musicians making 2021 a memorable year including Scott Reeves, ...
Basic Beauty: Arthur Blythe on Columbia
by Jakob Baekgaard
Back in 2016, BGO Records started reissuing the complete works of alto saxophonist Arthur Blythe (1940-2017) on Columbia. The first volume containing Lenox Avenue Breakdown (1979), In the Tradition (1980), Illusions and Blythe Spirit (1981) has already been reviewed on AAJ. The following two volumes complete the project of putting an important body of work from ...
"Worlds Around the Sun" Reissued by Omnivore Recordings March 11
The music world of the early 1970s was a time of experimentation and activism. When listeners heard Santana play “Free Angela” on their classic 1973 release Lotus, few, if any, knew the song was originally released by its writer, Todd Cochran, a year before. Worlds Around the Sun was recorded and issued on Prestige Records in ...
Bobby Hutcherson: Pushing The Vibes Forward
by Robert Iannapollo
Grachan Moncur III Evolution Blue Note 1963 John Coltrane / Archie Shepp New Thing At Newport Impulse 1965 Bobby Hutcherson Head On Blue Note 1971
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