Todd Cochran

Todd Cochran ( born September 3, 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 earned bachelor in 1970; Beginning of the 70 at the San Jose University. In the jazz scene, he was known for his two-year membership in the band of Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land. Under his own name he played 1972/73 two albums for Prestige Records a. In the '70s and '80s Cochran worked with Julian Priester ( Love, Love, 1974), Stanley Turrentine, Quincy Jones, Maynard Ferguson, Freddie Hubbard, and George Benson, as well as with Santana and Jeff Beck. As a member of the band Fuse One, he was 1981/82 on two albums for CTI Records with; while he played with musicians like 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, inter alia, with Stanley Clarke, Teena Marie and Billy Griffin.

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• Biography at Allmusic
• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings, 8th Edition, London, Penguin, 2006 ISBN 0-141-02327-9

• Jazz Pianist
• Fusion musicians
• Composer (Jazz)
• American musician
• Born in 1951
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