Todd Rhodes

Todd Washington Rhodes ( born August 31, 1900 in Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, † June 4, 1965 in Flint, Michigan) was an American pianist, arranger and bandleader of the swing and rhythm and blues.

Todd Rhodes founded after his studies in 1922 and then an orchestra in the early 1920s with Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller, Rex Stewart, Doc Cheatham, Don Redman at the McKinney 's Cotton Pickers as a pianist and arranger. Rhodes lived and worked following his departure from this formation in the 1930s in Detroit, where he played in the local clubs. In the late 1940s he founded his own formation, Todd Rhodes and His Toddlers, and played rhythm-and - blues arrangements for the record label King Records (Dance Music That Hits the Spot!, 1959). With the title Blues for the Red Boy, he reached # 4 on the R & B charts. He discovered the singer LaVern Baker, who appeared in his orchestra in 1952. Rhodes also accompanied the singer Wynonie Harris and Dave Bartholomew when shooting. In 1954 his contract with King; in the late 1950s, he was forgotten; Rhodes died of untreated diabetes.

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