Todd Rhodes

Todd Rhodes’ career could be easily split into two parts. He researched early on in the Springfield College of Music (1915-17) as well as the Erie Conservatory (1919-21), not merely like a pianist but as a article writer. Rhodes was the pianist and something of the primary arrangers for McKinney’s Natural cotton Pickers from 1922-32 and 1933-34, showing up on most from the band’s most significant recordings. After departing The Natural cotton Pickers, Rhodes resolved in Detroit, playing locally for a long time. By 1946 he previously turned to R&B and documented extensively like a innovator from 1947-54 (mainly for Ruler) plus like a sideman on times by Dave Bartholomew and Wynonie Harris. After his R&B period finished, Rhodes slipped back to obscurity but he previously made his tag on music background twice.