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- In just four years, Todd Gordon has established himself as "one of the country's most popular singers and entertainers" (The Scotsman). He was an avid Beatles' fan until the age of eleven when he first heard Sinatra. From then, he collected every album by Ol' Blue Eyes before broadening his interest in jazz to encompass many other renowned singers and instrumentalists. In 1975 he met Ella Fitzgerald prior to her show and during the concert she invited him on stage and sang specially to him. He was also fortunate enough to meet some of his other idols, including Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Count Basie, Woody Herman and George Shearing.
Spanning a 20 year period, Todd immersed himself in The Great American Songbook, resulting in a repertoire of over well over a thousand songs. His interest in music and singing was passionate, yet private. Then, in 2000, he participated on a Vocal Jazz Workshop run by Fionna Duncan and that changed everything. Todd's first time on stage came in 2001 at the famed Henry's Jazz Cellar in Edinburgh and, as the cliché goes, he's never looked back. In 2003, he was booked to open for Dionne Warwick during her UK tour visit which prompted him to give up his 'day job.'
Todd performs at many of the most prestigious venues, with frequent appearances at London's Pizza on the Park and now a regular at The 606 Club in Chelsea as well as Pizza Express (Dean Street), etc. He has performed at The Plaza and Algonquin hotels in New York - where he even did a duet with actor Christopher Walken, singing "I've Got You Under My Skin" - and also features in jazz festivals and concerts.
His audiences range from intimate jazz club settings to large-scale shows (he frequently comperes and performs in Jazz on a Summer's Day - the UK's biggest jazz event with an audience of 20,000) and he was also one of four nominees up for a national music award alongside Texas, Ilan Volkov and Annie Lennox. Jamie Cullum also personally asked Todd to dep for him whilst he was recording the ground-breaking 'Twentysomething' album.
December 2006 saw Todd record a new album, once again with award-winning Ian Shaw in the producer's chair, and featuring fantastic musicians including John Parricelli and Guy Barker, an arrangement by Richard Niles, and a duet with Jacqui Dankworth. The CD, entitled BALLADS FROM THE MIDNIGHT HOTEL has just been released and available through retailers and online stores including amazon, play, cdbaby, virgin, hmv, etc.
"Great performance!" - Dionne Warwick / "Todd's voice can really tell a story" - Jamie Cullum / "The consummate performer of the American songbook" - The Independent / "Doing it his way, Sinatra's ghost lives on in the work of one of his most polished admirers" - Clive Davis, The Times / "The words slip off his tongue drenched in charisma and class"
- Rick Finlay, Jazz Review / "Very enjoyable... tender voice and wonderful selection of songs" - Elaine Stritch / "Todd sings with wonderful feeling and time" - Sheila Jordan / "Leader in his field, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Great American Songbook" - Scottish Television / "Spine-tingling stuff of the classic kind" - Sinatra Music Society / "An individual voice in the current entertainment scene awash with imitations" - In Tune International / "The new King of Swing" - The Independent / "Impeccable choice of music... [Todd] and his musicians interact wonderfully" - Michael Parkinson CBE / "A really interesting choice of material - and such a good voice!" - Norma Winstone MBE / "Gordon has made the Great American Songbook his own" - The Guardian.
For more information, visit www.toddgordon.com or www.myspace.com/toddgordon
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