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Todd Cochran is an American pianist, composer, keyboardist, electronic musician, and conceptual artist.
Early in his career he was also professionally known as Bayeté. Cochran started his career as a teenager with saxophonist John Handy.
Two years later he joined vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson’s Quartet and made his jazz recording debut composing and performing on a benchmark album for Hutcherson, “Head On” (Blue Note Records).
Cochran’s first solo project “Worlds Around the Sun” became a #1 jazz album. From the mid-1970s forward Todd has experimented with and incorporated synthesizers, electronic and mixed-media concepts in his creative projects while collaborating with a wide range of artists in the genres of jazz, art rock, pop, R&B, and twenty-first-century classical. Todd released two albums on Prestige Records in 1972 and 1973. He was keyboardist, principal composer, and lead singer of Automatic Man from 1976–1978 which also featured drummer Michael Shrieve and guitarist Pat Thrall.
He was also a member of Fuse One, a coalition of jazz musicians who released two albums on CTI Records in 1980 and 1981. The shortlist of his collaborations includes Peter Gabriel, Joan Armatrading, Maya Angelou and Stewart Copeland.
THE NEW ALBUM
BY
TODD COCHRAN
entitled
FROM THE VAULT:
NOTES FOR THE FUTURE
A Narrative Exploration and Foray Into Cochran’s Jazz, Classical, and Electronic Music Palettes.
Blue Buddha Productions Release Date: June 23, 2023
To pre-order: Bandcamp: https://bluebuddha.bandcamp.com/
Notes for the future are the “imagined sometime in the past” tropes of a storyteller. Freed from every day “isms” of convention and released from the symbolic containment of the vault, the music is an allegorical exploration in futurism. The stream running throughout the musical narrative is a speculative commentary about our human search for meaning, and we’re reminded that as a version of our ancestors’ vision, this quest never ends.
“From The Vault” is structured around a sequence of recurring themes and develops as an unfolding tour of references, hints, and clues. Moving from one perspective to another, we connect with how our planet is perpetually in a state of seeking solutions. Within the soundscape, without words, an underlying language is speaking. Nature evolves for the sum of us, not the few. We are in a continual state of becoming. We are connected. Love is passed along, as is happiness. Nevertheless, expressly for the listener, an implied sense of reasoning encourages us to feel free and let go of all things familiar. And then, “over there” in the distance, we get a passing glimpse of the sacred structure.
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DISCOGRAPHY
with AUTOMATIC MAN
Albums
1976: Automatic Man
1977: Visitors
with FUSE ONE
Albums
1980: Fuse One
1981: Silk
1984: Ice
Compilation albums
1989: Fuse One: The Complete Recordings
As solo artist
1972: Worlds Around the Sun (Prestige) 2014 Reissue
1973: Seeking Other Beauty
1991: TODD
1997: Secret Places
1998: Melrose Place Soundtrack, She Is Gentle Rain
1999: A Voice In The Forest, Colour Naturelle
2023: From The Vault: Notes For The Future
As collaborator
1971: Intensity - John Klemmer
1972: Head On - Bobby Hutcherson
1972: Iapetus - Hadley Caliman
1974: Love, Love - Julian Priester
1975: Rebirth Cycle - James Mtume
1976: Automatic Man - Automatic Man
1976: You to Me Are Everything - The Real Thing
1977: Visitors - Automatic Man
1977: Spellbound - Alphonso Johnson
1978: Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
1979: Slug Line - John Hiatt
1979: I Wanna Play for You - Stanley Clarke
1979: Betcha - Stanley Turrentine
1979: Touching You, Touching Me - Airto Moreira
1980: 1:PM - PM
1980: Aretha - Aretha Franklin
1980: Fuse One - Fuse One
1981: America's Greatest Hero - Joey Scarbury
1982: H.A.T.E. Don't Live Here Anymore - Staple Singers
1982: Hollywood - Maynard Ferguson
1983: Home Again - Stanley Turrentine
1984: Sunrise - Paulinho Da Costa
1985: Put Sunshine In It – Arthur Blythe
1986: Headed For The Future - Neil Diamond
1987: Strawberry Moon - Grover Washington Jr.
1988: Out of Control - Dynasty
1989: Through The Moving Window - Juan Martin
1989: Times Are Changing - Freddie Hubbard
1991: Animal Logic II - Animal Logic
1993: Now and Then - Ernestine Anderson
1995: What´s Inside - Joan Armatrading
2000: The Friends - Fishbone
2004: Trios: East River Drive/Schooldays/Live at the Greek - Stanley Clarke
2005: Blue Note Plays Sting - Freddie Hubbard
2005: Robbery - Teena Marie
2005: Very Best of George Howard - George Howard
2007: Moodo Records Presents Guitarra de Pasion, Vol. 3 - Juan Carlos Quintero
2008: Believe It or Not: The Billy Griffin Collection - Billy Griffin
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