Ted Kooshian is a New York jazz pianist and keyboardist who has performed with artists that include Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...

, Chuck Berry

Chuck Berry

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, Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton

Toni Michelle Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 60 million records worldwide...

, Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Hamlisch

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, Sarah Brightman

Sarah Brightman

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, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Kooshian has played in many Broadway pit orchestras, and is a member of the Ed Palermo Big Band

Ed Palermo Big Band

The Ed Palermo Big Band is a big band that has been active for nearly 30 years playing the compositions and arrangements of their leader and namesake Ed Palermo. They are best known for the arrangements of the music of Frank Zappa that Palermo has prepared for them...

. Originally from San Jose, California

San Jose, California

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, Kooshian has been actively performing since the 1980s. He has released three CDs: Clockwork (2004), Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet (2008) (on Summit Records

Summit Records

Summit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the dynamic large brass ensemble, Summit Brass in the late 1980s...

), and Underdog, And Other Stories... (2009) (on Summit Records

Summit Records

Summit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the dynamic large brass ensemble, Summit Brass in the late 1980s...

).

Discography

• Ted Kooshian's Standard Orbit Quartet “Underdog, And Other Stories...”
• Ted Kooshian “Ted Kooshian’s Standard Orbit Quartet”
• Ted Kooshian “Clockwork”
• Michael Andrew “A Swingerhead Christmas”
• Ed Palermo Big Band “Plays The Music of Frank Zappa”
• Ed Palermo Big Band “Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance”
• Ed Palermo Big Band “Eddy Loves Frank”
• Alexis P. Suter Band “Just Another Fool”
• Judy Barnett “Swingin”
• Judy Barnett “The Road to my Heart”
• Judy Barnett “Too Darn Hot”
• Rick Wald “Aural Hieroglyphics”
• Rick Wald 16NYC “Castaneda’s Dreams”
• Rick Wald 16NYC “Play That Thing”
• Scott Whitfield “Speaking of Love”
• Ray Marchica “A Different View”
• various artists “Welcome to the Jazz Café”

External links

• Kooshmania.com, Ted Kooshian's website
• PalermoBigBand.com, website of The Ed Palermo Big Band
• SummitRecords.com, website of Summit Records
  Summit Records
  Summit Records, Inc. is an internationally distributed record label that evolved out of the dynamic large brass ensemble, Summit Brass in the late 1980s...
  
  
• [ allmusic.com], Ted Kooshian listing and discography