Todd Cochran
Like his deliciously complicated mix of classical influences, free-jazz innovation, progressive fusion complexity, angular art rock, quiet-storming R&B, and Black consciousness, the zigs and zags in acoustic/electronic pianist/keyboardist/composer Todd Cochran’s life and work are no easy task to describe, let alone discuss with the enigmatic man himself.
Whether (too rarely) acting as leader—as he’s now doing again for the first time in decades with the release of the new Then and Again,—or working beside a wide range of musical collaborators, Cochran has been through so many diverse strands of art and thought, multicultural and multiracial, that it’s all become one amorphous, seamless genre, governed only by the Cochran Doctrine.
