Todd Barkan
Todd Barkan (born August 13, 1946 in Lincoln (Nebraska) , Nebraska ) is an American music producer and manager. He produced a total of more than a thousand albums, mainly in the jazz area .
Life
Barkan graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio and came to San Francisco in 1967 , where he initially worked as a pianist in blues bars. From 1972 to 1983 he was the owner, manager and programmer of the local Keystone Korner , which he converted into a jazz club that quickly enjoyed international recognition. There he produced some recordings by artists such as Red Garland , Dexter Gordon , Roy Haynes , Art Pepper , Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Bill Evans . On Kirk's albums Bright Moments (1973) and Kirkatron (1975) he also worked as a percussionist. From 1983 he worked in New York City as a music producer for labels such as Milestone , Prestige , Fantasy , Blue Note Records or CBS / Sony ; he produced u. a. Albums by the Toshiko Akiyoshi - Lew Tabackin Big Band , by Freddy Cole , Jerry Gonzalez , Freddie Hubbard , Joe Locke , Jimmy Scott , Ian Shaw , Grover Washington, Jr. , Barney Wilen or Denny Zeitlin . In 2000 he edited the last live recordings of Bill Evans from Keystone Korner ( The Last Waltz - His Final Recordings ) for Milestone on eight CDs . Between 1985 and 1990 he was also the manager of the Boys Choir of Harlem. Since it opened in 2004, he has been the programmer of the New York Dizzy's Club Coca Cola , where he also produced albums for the Japanese market. In 2010 he directed the Dizzy's Club Coca Cola Festival . From 2013 he has been organizing jazz concerts at the Iridium jazz club in New York . In 2019 he founded a jazz bar in Baltimore, which is also called Keystone Korner .
Web links
- Website (accessed July 27, 2010)
- Portrait of Andrew Velez via Fantasy Records and the Todd Barkan Era (accessed July 27, 2010)
- Report on Dizzy's Club Coca Cola Festival in the Wall Street Journal (accessed July 27, 2010)
- Interview (2011) in JazzTimes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview
- ↑ Jeff Tamarkin: Promoter Todd Barkan to Present Shows at NYC's Iridium - Barkan previously ran Keystone Korner in San Francisco (2012) in JazzTimes
- ^ The Scene: Keystone Korner Baltimore JazzTimes
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| SURNAME | Barkan, Todd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American music producer and music manager |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 13, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lincoln (Nebraska) , Nebraska |