RHODES, TODD WASHINGTON
(1900–1965)> JAZZ PIANIST
RHODES, TODD WASHINGTON. Jazz pianist (31 August 1900 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky; 1965 in Flint, Michigan). His family moved to Springfield, Ohio, when he was a child. He obtained his musical education at the Springfield School of Music and the Erie Conservatory in Erie, Pennsylvania. In 1921 he joined the newly organized Synco Septette, which later became McKinney's Cotton Pickers. After leaving the group in 1934, he was active as a soloist and, after 1946, with his own groups, with whom he…