Todd Rhodes

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Todd Rhodes (31 August 1900–June 1965) was a talented pianist and arranger and was an important early influence in jazz and later on in R&B. He was born in 1900 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. In the early 1920s he played with Benny Carter, Coleman Hawkins, Fats Waller, Rex Stuart, Doc Cheatham, and Don Redman in McKinney's Cotton Pickers, a jazz group. Rhodes lived and played in Detroit in the 1930s. In the late forties he started his own group, Todd Rhodes and His Toddlers, and started doing more R&B arrangements.