Todd Coolman

Todd Francis Coolman (born July 14, 1954 in Gary (Indiana) ) is an American jazz musician ( bass , cello ); Author and professor.

Todd Coolman studied at Indiana University from 1972 to 1975 and then played in the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico. In 1976 he went to Chicago, where he worked as a freelance musician. He came to New York City in 1978 and played there with Horace Silver , Gerry Mulligan (1979/80), in the early 80s with Stan Getz , Al Haig , Lionel Hampton and in the orchestra of Mel Lewis .

In 1984 he worked on Bobby Watson's Enja album Advance ; In 1985 he began his long-term collaboration with James Moody and in 1986 he received his Masters at the Manhattan School of Music . From 1986 to 1989 he was part of the re-founded Jazztet by Benny Golson and Art Farmer . In 1988/89 he played in Terry Gibbs / Buddy DeFranco's band, in the trio of pianist John Campbell and with David Fathead Newman .

In the early 1990s he played in the Hal Galper trio ( Invitation to a Concert ), with Barney Kessel and Rob Schneiderman . During this time, Coolman recorded his first solo album Lexicon . In 1999 he received the Grammy Award in the Best Album Notes category for the liner notes of the Miles Davis Quintet edition 1965-1968 .

Todd Coolman is a professor of music and director of the Jazz Studies program at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College. At New York University , Coolman received his doctorate on Miles Davis in 1997 ( The Miles Davis Quintet of the Mid-1960s: Synthesis of improvisational and compositional elements ). He lives in New Jersey.

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• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .