Todd Cochran

Todd Cochran (* 3. September 1951 in San Francisco ) is an American jazz - and fusion - pianist , keyboardist and composer .

Todd Cochran, who later called himself Bayete and Umbra Zindiko , studied music at Trinity College (London) , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1970; At San Jose University in the early 1970s. He became known in the jazz scene through his two-year membership in the band of Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land . Under his own name he made two albums for Prestige Records in 1972/73 , including Worlds Around the Sun , on which musicians such as Oscar Brashear , Hadley Caliman and Bobby Hutcherson played. In the 1970s and 80s, Cochran worked with Julian Priester ( Love, Love , 1974), Stanley Turrentine , Quincy Jones , Maynard Ferguson , Freddie Hubbard and George Benson , as well as Santana and Jeff Beck . As a member of the band Fuse One, he worked on two albums for CTI Records in 1981/82 ; he played with musicians such as Tony Williams , Joe Farrell , John McLaughlin , Larry Coryell , Lenny White , Paulinho da Costa , Stanley Clarke and Eric Gale . In 1998 he became a member of Carl Palmer's short-lived band PM . In the 2000s he worked a. a. with Stanley Clarke, Teena Marie and Billy Griffin .

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• https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0001919585 Biography at Allmusic
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