Real name: Todd Washington Rhodes

Effective period / Period of releases: 1960

American jazz and rhythm & blues pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader, born August 31, 1900 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, died June 4, 1965 in Detroit (or) Flint, Michigan.
Rhodes played and recorded with McKinney's Cotton Pickers (1928-1931), The Chocolate Dandies (1928), Jean Goldkette (1929) and led and recorded with his own rhythm & blues band from 1947 to 1954. He also worked with rhythm & blues singers such as Hank Ballard, Wynonie Harris and others.