Todd Sickafoose

Artist Description

"A captivating improviser, imaginative composer, and master of collaboration."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"He builds grooves from the ground up, but that's no impediment to the flow or buoyancy of his music...nothing outshines the collective sound. Sickafoose achieves a band identity with a rigorously focused imagination"
-NY Times

"Hugely creative and utterly different. Put it this way ― I think Charles Mingus and Gil Evans would love this guy. In the world of postmodern jazz composition, there is no higher praise. (of 4)"
-Buffalo News

A Bay Area native, Sickafoose spent some years in Los Angeles studying bass with Charlie Haden and composition with the great, late Mel Powell.  Since then, he's been recording and performing with a ton of innovative folks and genre benders including Ani DiFranco, Don Byron, Trey Anastasio, Jenny Scheinman, Nels Cline, Ron Miles, Myra Melford, Adam Levy, Skerik, Stanton Moore, Bobby Previte, Scott Amendola, Will Bernard, Jessica Lurie, Erin McKeown, Anaïs Mitchell, Gina Leishman, Carla Bozulich, Noe Venable, Etienne de Rocher, James Carney, Erik Deutsch, Shane Endsley, Tony Furtado, and Darol Anger.

The consistency of his personal voice within wildly diverse collaborations prompted the LA Weekly in 2004 to call Todd "one of the most comprehensive musical minds of this coast".  Since 2005, Todd has been living in Brooklyn, NY.