Ted Kooshian’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American musician
Is Musician 
Composer 
Jazz musician 
Pianist 
From United States of America 
Type Music 
Gender male
Birth 8 October 1961
Age: 58 years

Ted Kooshian (born October 8, 1961) is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer, who has performed with Aretha Franklin, Chuck Berry, Marvin Hamlisch, Sarah Brightman, Il Divo, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears. Kooshian has played in many Broadway pit orchestras, and has been a member of the Ed Palermo Big Band since 1994. Originally from San Jose, California, Kooshian has been performing since the 1980s.
He has released four albums: Clockwork (2004), Ted Kooshian’s Standard Orbit Quartet (Summit, 2008), Underdog, and Other Stories… (Summit, 2009), and Clowns Will Be Arriving (Summit, 2015).

Discography

  • Clockwork (2004)
  • Ted Kooshian’s Standard Orbit Quartet (Summit, 2008)
  • Underdog, and Other Stories… (Summit, 2009)
  • Clowns Will Be Arriving (Summit, 2015)

With Ed Palermo Big Band

  • Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
  • Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance
  • Eddy Loves Frank
  • Oh No! Not Jazz!!
  • Electric Butter
  • It’s An Ed Palermo Christmas!
  • One Child Left Behind
  • The Great Un-American Songbook, Vol’s 1 and 2

With Judy Barnett

  • Swingin
  • The Road to my Heart
  • Too Darn Hot

With Rick Wald

  • Aural Hieroglyphics
  • Castaneda’s Dreams
  • Play That Thing

With others

  • Michael Andrew – A Swingerhead Christmas
  • Pete McGuinness – Voice Like a Horn
  • Swear and Shake – Maple Ridge
  • Art Lillard’s Heavenly Big Band – Certain Relationships
  • Christopher Saunders – Curtain Call
  • Alexis P. Suter Band – Just Another Fool
  • Scott Whitfield – Speaking of Love
  • Ray Marchica – A Different View
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