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Todd Mosby

Born: May 5, 1957

Instrumental composer, songwriter, and Imrat guitar innovator Todd Mosby is a storyteller and a landscape artist. He uses the guitar to whisk listeners away to a borderless realm where jazz, jazz fusion, North Indian classical, classical composition, bluegrass, bossa-nova, and folk-rock create transporting and transformative experiences. His latest album, Land Of Enchantment, is a gorgeous scrapbook of the visual, emotive, spiritual and cultural interactions Todd has personally experienced within the New Mexico region of the United States.

Todd is an acclaimed Indian and jazz guitarist influenced by St. Louis’s vibrantly varied cultural blend of Indian, African-American, and Americana traditions. He is one of the few musicians in America who has mastered three mountains of music; western composition, jazz improvisation, and Indian raga music, incorporating them freely as a part of his musical language. He attended Berklee College of Music as an undergrad, Webster University as a graduate student, and, for 13 years, studied classical North Indian music with Ustadt Imrat Khan in the most disciplined way. He has the distinction of being the only guitarist to become a member of the famed Imdhad Khani Gharana of musicians, India’s most prestigious family of sitar musicians dating back 500 to Tansen in the court of Mughal Emperor Akbar. From his years studying this rarified and sacred music, Imrat worked with Mosby to develop a unique guitar technique. This led to  an innovative bridge instrument, the Imrat guitar, which has been undergoing design upgrades since 1997. Built by luthier Kim Schwartz to the performance standards of Mosby and the overall sonic palette of Imrat Kahn, the resulting hybrid 18-stringed sitar-guitar instrument allows for a cross-cultural East-West musical dialogue right at your fingertips and integrated into his musical vocabulary.

Land of Enchantment

By Todd Mosby

Label: mmgmusic
Released: 2023
Track listing: Place in the Sun; Moonrise Samba; Native Dancer; A Distant Light; Georgia’s World; Norwegian Wood; Emerald Springs; By the Time I Get to Phoenix.

Georgia's World - single

By Todd Mosby

Label: MMG Records: Jeff Weber Producer
Released: 2023
Track listing: Georgia's World

Todd Mosby: Land of Enchantment

by Jack Bowers
October 25, 2023

As Land of Enchantment is New Mexico's state motto, it is not hard to ascertain the motive behind Missouri-bred guitarist Todd Mosby's latest album. As for its target, that would seem to be the light or smooth jazz market, as there is an abundance of rhythmic flow but a lack of what could be considered improvisational ...

Celebrating Citizen Wayne Shorter And New Releases

by Bob Osborne
September 28, 2023

There are all new releases on this show, with a great compilation of Wayne Shorter's music from the Posi-Tone label. In addition there are new albums from Francisco Mela & Jonathan Reisin, Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Todd Mosby, Hutchinson Andrew Trio, Itamar Borochov, Elina Duni with Rob Luft plus Matthieu Michel & Fred Thomas, Matt ...

An Olde Farewell

By Todd Mosby

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: An Olde Farewell (Auld Lang Syne)

Aerial Views

By Todd Mosby

Label: MMG Records: Produced by Will Ackerman
Released: 2020
Track listing: Gliding; Across America; Aether; Earth & Sky; Into Starlight; Sailing Sylphs; Between The Clouds; Blue Horizons; To The Sky; Aerial Views; Solo Flight; Shining Lights.

Open Waters

By Todd Mosby

Label: Produced by Will Akerman
Released: 2019
Track listing: DRIFTING ATLANTICA OPEN WATERS COMING ABOUT A NEW LAND WESTERN SKY DOLPHIN SONG WATER DANCER ISLAND SONG SO FAR AWAY WINDWARD SEA OF JONI

Guitar Innovator Todd Mosby’s New Album, ‘Open Waters’ Coming August 1

June 19, 2019

World-renowned, Indian, Jazz, New Age, Contemporary crossover artist and co-creator of the Imrat guitar, Todd Mosby, is releasing his fifth album Open Waters on August 1. Produced by Windham Hill Records founder, Will Ackerman, and with a sound described as “an album to daydream to," Open Waters finds Mosby once again embarking on a creative journey ...

World's Only Imrat Guitarist Todd Mosby Debuts Album With Six Grammy Winning And Nominated Artists

April 25, 2016

The Walking Cradle Co. presents acoustic and Imrat guitarist, composer and improviser Todd Mosby, who debuts his genre-defying music—On Eagle Mountain. A unique blend of new age, jazz, and world music, with hints of folk, bluegrass and classical North Indian flair—Mosby will kick-off the tour from the 'Focal Point' in St. Louis on Saturday, April 30, ...